VKontakte founder Pavel Durov reported today that Bullion Development Limited (an offshore company owned by Mail.ru Group) filed a lawsuit against Ilya Shcherbovich's UCP fund (which owns 48% of VKontakte) in London arbitration. Bullion holds 11.99% of VKontakte. Until March of this year, Bullion belonged to Megafon CEO Ivan Tavrin. He sold it to Mail.ru Group, whose share in VKontakte increased to 51.99%.

April 07, 2014, 18:51 / Finance WSJ: Iran cannot achieve unfreezing of banking assets Iran's problems in obtaining funds could create difficulties in negotiations between it and the Six countries on concluding a nuclear agreement Lawrence Norman Nour Malas Benoit Faucon About $100 billion of Iran's oil export revenues have been frozen in foreign bank accounts due to economic sanctions imposed on it.

On Friday, the Pension Fund clarified its statistics on the transfer of citizens to non-state pension funds ( NPFs) in 2013. In the results published a week earlier, the agency did not take into account the 2.5 million people who during 2013 transferred to NPFs under the state program for co-financing savings.

April 07, 2014, 03:48 / Finance Ruble devaluation accelerated inflation in March to 6.9% The main driver of price growth was food; Another “accelerator” was services due to higher prices for gas supplies and foreign tourism Olga Kuvshinova M. Stulov / Vedomosti Price increases are picking up speed. According to Rosstat, in March inflation accelerated to 1% versus 0.7% in February and 0.6% in January.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing populist Fidesz party, which has ruled since 2010, retains a constitutional majority in parliament after nearly all votes were counted in Sunday's election, the National Electoral Authority said.

07 April 2014, 17:34 / Politics Senator Viktor Ozerov ruled out the deployment of Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine without a decision of the UN Security Council undefined Vedomosti Russian peacekeepers can be introduced into the territory of another state only in accordance with international standards, and not at the request of local authorities, Chairman of the Committee on Defense and Security of the Federation Council Viktor Ozerov told Interfax, commenting on a possible appeal from

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal and Procedural Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov (United Russia faction) believes that it is necessary to systematically change the legislation, rather than conduct frequent amnesties. Today, former ombudsman Vladimir Lukin presented his 2013 report at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin and proposed a larger prisoner amnesty in 2014.

RIA Novosti The Art Newspaper Russia magazine presented its annual award. It turned out to be the most artistic and spectacular show of all the awards in the visual arts: since the magazine's prizes have no monetary value, they did not economize on the award ceremony. The best exhibition was named "Natalia Goncharova. Between East and West" by the Tretyakov Gallery. The best museum was the "Multimedia Art Museum", once nobly called the Moscow House of Photography.

Famous Singaporean billionaire Peter Lim, interested in working in the football market, tried to acquire a controlling stake in the Italian football club AS Milan. This was reported on the official Twitter page of the football club. The report says that the Singaporean offered 300 million euros for 51% of the club's shares. Despite the fact that AS Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi is looking for an investor for the club, he refused the billionaire.

Sergey Porter / Vedomosti Price growth is picking up speed. According to Rosstat, inflation accelerated to 1% in March against 0.7% in February and 0.6% in January. In annual comparison (compared to the same months last year), the consumer price index jumped to 6.9% against 6.2% in February and 6.1% in January. The data matched analysts' expectations: according to Rosstat's weekly summary, the average daily rate of price growth accelerated in March.

Vladimir Putin has issued a decree dismissing Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, deputy director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS). According to Kommersant, the document on Dzirkaln's dismissal, with the wording "at his own request," was sent from the FSVTS to the Kremlin several weeks ago. A source in the presidential administration says that Putin granted the request at the end of March. The decree has not yet been officially published.

Arkady Rotenberg will now also engage in the media business / Valery Sharifulin / ITAR-TASS Rotenberg acquired 51% of shares in the authorized capitals of Krasny Kvadrat LLC, Mandarin LLC, Granat LLC, and Izyum LLC from Larisa Sinelshchikova, representatives of the businessman and TV content producer reported on Friday. These four companies make up the Krasny Kvadrat Group.

RIA Novosti It is assumed that the share of regulated contracts for the Boguchanskaya HPP will be reduced to 5%, one of Vedomosti's sources reported. The average value for power plants in Siberia is currently 13%, says Gazprombank analyst Natalia Porokhova.

07 April 2014, 00:00 The first client of the national payment system is the budget State Duma deputies propose transferring public sector employees' salaries to the national payment system. This can pay for the project in a year Daria Trosnikova Dmitry Kazmin Bloomberg On Friday, the State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to the law “On the National Payment System” (NPS).

vk.com/id1 ​ Even people who are not professionally connected with the Internet remember the recent story of the resignation and almost immediate return to the chair of the CEO of VKontakte, Pavel Durov. On April 1, the founder of the largest social network in Runet announced that he was leaving the company, and two days later he informed that it was a joke. Strictly speaking, it was not a joke - Durov wrote a real letter of resignation, and then another one, canceling the previous one.