Horses on rails Photo: Myroslav Robka Photo: Night rehearsal of the passage of trams from different depots to the exhibition site on Chistoprudny Boulevard will be held on Chistoprudny Boulevard trams On April 12, an exhibition of Mosgortrans in honor of the 115th anniversary of the opening of tram traffic in Moscow . A procession of 17 cars in chronological order will arrive at the celebration at 11 am.

Toyota has announced another large-scale recall - about 6.4 million cars worldwide, writes WSJ. The recall affected 27 models, including the Corolla, Yaris and RAV4. In total, global automakers BMW, Fiat-Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen have recalled about 15 million cars for various reasons. Industry experts say that recalls are increasing because automakers have faced fines from regulators and criminal prosecution of executives of a number of companies, the publication reports.

At a meeting on April 10, the Transneft Board of Directors took note of, but did not approve, the level of dividends for 2013, since a directive from the Federal Property Management Agency was not received, the company's First Vice President Maxim Grishanin said during a meeting with analysts. According to him, the management's proposal for dividend payments in 2013 is 5 billion 143 million rubles. According to the company's charter, 10% of the net profit under RAS is paid on preferred shares.

Low inflation in the United States worries Fed directors, according to the published minutes of the monetary policy committee meeting, which took place on March 18-19. The committee discussed the possibility of not raising interest rates while inflation remains low, but chose to maintain a wait-and-see approach.

Moscow's Lyublinsky Court has ruled that the blocking of Alexei Navalny's blog on LiveJournal is legal, rejecting his complaint against the actions of Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General's Office. As reported by RAPSI, Judge Yulian Lebedev has found the departments' documents, on the basis of which access to the politician's blog was blocked, to be justified.

Andrey Kostin does not consider it necessary to seriously consider the stress scenario / Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg However, even 160 billion rubles of net profit seem to be an overly optimistic plan to analysts interviewed by Vedomosti. Denis Poryvai from Raiffeisenbank believes it is extremely ambitious to expect a 60% increase in profit with an increase in the loan portfolio of less than 40%.

All the paintings in "Chinese Literacy" are replicas of Chinese originals Desserts at Soluxe Club are served on a "tree" Tom Yam in "Sorry, Grandpa" Luxury in Chinese Agate bar counter, Indian and Italian marble, silk chairs, a table made of Karelian birch root in the VIP, onyx sinks in the toilet, Philippe Starck taps and rock crystal hangers.

Builders of Olympic facilities in Rio de Janeiro have announced that they will continue the strike they started a week ago until at least April 14, ITAR-TASS reports. We are talking about such major projects of the capital of the 2016 Olympics as the "4th southern metro line", the reconstruction of the Olympic stadium "Engenian", the construction of high-speed highways to the competition sites, the reconstruction of the city port area and the construction of the Olympic Park itself.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The bulk of the outflow came from Sberbank - its depositors took 68 billion rubles (-1.7%). A representative of the state bank linked this to strong fluctuations in the ruble exchange rate: clients bought currency and durable goods with their savings. According to a representative of VTB 24 , deposits decreased by about 13 billion rubles (-1%). At Promsvyazbank, the outflow was 2%, at Uralsib - 2.3%, at Home Credit - 3% of term deposits.

American communications equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems does not undertake to predict the possibility of economic sanctions against Russia, but monitors the likely consequences. This was stated to RIA Novosti by the corporation's representative Alison Stokes. This is how she responded to a question about the impact of possible sanctions on the company's business. A number of other US-based transnational corporations did not respond to a similar request on Thursday.

Russia is not yet going to collect $35.4 billion from Ukraine; this amount is "simply an illustration of the contradictory nature of the situation," Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Kommersant. This is how he commented on the president's words that Russia has provided Ukraine with $17 billion in discounts on gas supplies and has not collected $18.4 billion in fines for under-delivery of gas. Putin wrote about this in a letter to 18 European countries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's letter to 18 European leaders about the situation in Ukraine has been delivered to the addressees and was taken seriously, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a meeting of the Russian Security Council. "We promised to study it promptly and prepare a response. We hope it will be constructive," he added (quoted by Interfax).

Tickets for trains running between Russia and Ukraine are being sold for trains departing up to and including May 25.

April 11, 2014, 15:58 / Finance M&A deal of the week: The emergence of a new cement giant will entail a number of transactions Swiss Holcim and French Lafarge agreed to merge, transaction size - $50 billion Natalya Lapotko Buyer: Holcim Ltd. Object of purchase: Lafarge SA . Deal size: $50 billion . On April 7, two largest cement producers, the Swiss Holcim and the French Lafarge, agreed to merge. The parties will receive equal shares in the new company, whose head office will be in Switzerland.

Russia has no plans to annex the southeastern regions of Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "We cannot have such desires, it contradicts Russia's interests," Lavrov said on the air of a special edition of the "Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" program on the Russia 1 TV channel.