April 16, 2012, 13:14 / Business Russia exported about 24 million tons of grain Julia Yarosh M. Stulov / Vedomosti According to the Institute of Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR), Russia exported about 24 million tons of grain, including 18.5 million tons of wheat, during the partial agricultural year - from July 1, 2011 to mid-April 2012.

At the request of Onexim, the RBC board of directors on Friday removed the company's CEO German Kaplun from his post and appointed Lavrukhin in his place, the media holding and Mikhail Prokhorov's group reported.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin believes it may be possible in the future to abandon the mandatory examination of design documents for housing construction. He recalled that developers have already received the right to submit design documents not only for state but also for private expertise. This, according to him, was done in order to de-bureaucratize the industry.

More than a third of online store orders in 2011 were placed in Moscow (33%) and St. Petersburg (5%), 13% in other cities with a population of over a million, 18% in large cities (0.5–1 million people), 2% in small cities (up to 100,000 people), and 30% in medium-sized cities (100,000–500,000), experts from the logistics company SPSR-Express found out after analyzing the statistics of online store order delivery (more than 3 million parcels).

VTB Bank has extended by three years (until 2015) the terms of loans previously issued to enterprises of the Mechel Group, for a total of 13.6 billion rubles (about $462 million at the current exchange rate), the company said in a statement. At the end of March, Mechel began negotiations with banks to change the loan covenants.

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In Makhachkala, one person was killed in an explosion on Akushinsky Avenue. This was reported to the agency by the Investigative Committee for Dagestan. The explosion occurred at 1:30 Moscow time near one of the entrances of house No. 94. The charred body of an unknown person and a pistol were found at the site of the explosion. At approximately 9:30 p.m., a woman was injured as a result of an explosion near a men's clothing store at the intersection of Radishchev and Krokmasova streets.

Shareholders of Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft , approved a discount of $1.5 per barrel on oil supplies to China at an extraordinary meeting held in absentia on April 10, the company reported on Monday. Last fall, agreements were reached on changes in the price of oil supplies to China by Rosneft and Transneft . The Chinese side was supposed to fully repay the debt of $134 million.

Sverdlovsk Region Governor Alexander Misharin has nominated Vladimir Vlasov, former first deputy chairman, for the post of government chairman, the regional governor's information policy department reported on Monday. "The relevant documents will be submitted to the Legislative Assembly of Sverdlovsk Region," the statement said.

Not everyone likes running on a track in a crowded gym, doing dance steps that knock your knees against your neighbors in the group, or asking to give up a lane in the pool. In the early 1990s, an annual membership to a fitness club documented the owner’s high social status. Twenty years later, going to the club is a routine for anyone who cares about themselves. And many, as the “How to Spend It” survey showed, are tired of it.

In anticipation of the inauguration, politics has strangely evaporated from the capital. All systemic forces have frozen in nervous anticipation of the formation of a new government. Non-systemic forces are giving them the opportunity to regroup - it is too late to fight Medvedev, too early to fight Putin, they have to practice in the regions. The regrouping in the Kremlin and the White House really promises to be spectacular.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. sold 3.55 billion shares of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC) to Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings for $2.3 billion, MarketWatch reported, citing a source familiar with the matter. According to the source, Temasek acquired the Hong Kong-traded shares of ICBC, the world's largest bank by market value, at HK$5.05 per share, down 3.1% from their closing price on Friday.

A.Kurov One of the most spectacular programs of the festival was called “Tribute to Mstislav Rostropovich.” Its peculiarity was that it featured only cellists – a dozen soloists and an entire orchestra made up of cello groups from Moscow orchestras. The motley program consisted of arrangements, most of which were made by composer Artem Vasiliev and edited by cellist Denis Shapovalov. The amazing thing about these arrangements is that the music, often familiar, sounds new.

Ukrainian cheese will be able to return to the Russian market without hindrance after producers eliminate the violations identified by the Rospotrebnadzor inspection, Interfax reports, citing the head of the agency, Gennady Onishchenko. "Now everything depends on Ukrainian producers," said the chief state sanitary doctor of Russia. According to Onishchenko, a delegation of the Ukrainian government will visit Moscow early this week, and the "cheese problem" will be discussed, among other things.

The leader of the movement "In Defense of the Khimki Forest" Evgenia Chirikova became a laureate of the Goldman Environmental Prize. This was reported by the official website of the prize. The prize was established in 1989 by American philanthropists Richard and Rhona Goldman. It is awarded annually to six outstanding ecologists. The prize is $150,000. The award ceremony will take place on April 16, 2012 in San Francisco.