Also joining the board of directors was Marcus Rhodes, a member of the board of directors of Cherkizovo, PhosAgro and Qiwi . Alistair Ferguson, who previously oversaw the gas business at TNK-BP, has been elected as a member of the board of directors of Zoltav, a company affiliated with businessman Roman Abramovich's son Arkady, ITAR-TASS reports, citing a company statement. Zoltav Resources Inc.

Google-owned YouTube has reached an agreement to buy the popular video game streaming service Twitch, Variety reports , citing an unnamed source. The deal, according to Variety, is worth more than $1 billion. It may be announced soon. Representatives of the companies are not commenting on the information. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing its sources, wrote that negotiations on the deal are indeed underway, but are at an early stage.

The newcomers are Alfa-Bank CEO Alexey Marey and X5 Retail Group Executive Director Stefan Ducharme. At the same time, Rosvodokanal CEO Igor Udovichenko is not on the updated board. Alfa Group has expanded its supervisory board from 12 to 13 people, according to data on the group’s website.

In the coming months, the growth rate of the German economy will slow down, support is possible mainly due to internal factors, says the monthly report of the Bundesbank. The influence of external factors on GDP dynamics will be moderate, the Central Bank believes.

Political pressure in Russia to preserve capital in the country has significantly influenced the dividend policy of Russian companies, writes the Financial Times, citing a study by Henderson Global Investors. The company's data analysis showed that in the first three months of this year, payments by Russian companies fell by more than half compared to the first quarter of 2013.

Two Russian citizens who were preparing to film a video about the murder of Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine are currently being interrogated in Kyiv, said the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Valentin Nalyvaichenko. "Both Russian citizens with documents and video files recording the brutal murders of Ukrainians are now in Kyiv, and their interrogations are beginning," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.

May 19, 2014, 21:34 / Finance Pensions burned in "Lights of Moscow" pension money from the NPF Stroykompleks disappeared from the deprived bank Lights of Moscow, which was headed by the daughter of the former first vice-mayor of Moscow Yuri Roslyak. Natalia Biyanova's Denis Abramov / Vedomosti The fund works with four management companies - Capital, Ingosstrakh Investments, Uralsib and Dominion.

Sergey Porter / Vedomosti The crisis around Ukraine has made business leaders much more wary of the impact of political risks, according to the FT and The Economist Global Business Barometer. For 41% of respondents, this factor is the biggest concern. In the fourth quarter of 2013, this figure was 35.5%, and a year ago, it was 30.2%.

SSTL (operating under the MTS brand) minority shareholders are not going to sit idly by / Keith Bedford / Bloomberg Minority shareholders of AFK Sistema 's Indian subsidiary SSTL have asked India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to postpone a decision on increasing Sistema's stake in SSTL until the court makes a decision on their lawsuit against SSTL, according to a report from the company's Minority Shareholders Association.

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On May 15, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, which on February 5 decided to collect 2.3 billion rubles of debt on a loan from OAO Tunnelny Otryad No. 44 in favor of VTB, the case materials report. The court dismissed the complaint of OAO Tunnelny Otryad No. 44. The company was building a two-level interchange for the Olympics in Sochi.

Kazakhstan plans to sell up to 100,000 cars of its own production on the Russian market by 2020, First Deputy Prime Minister Sakytzhan-agintayev announced at a meeting of the national coalition of democratic forces of the country. “We are talking about the products of local car assembly enterprises, more than 50% of the components for which will be produced within the republic,” he said.

American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has raised the price of its offer to buy Anglo-Swedish company AstraZeneca . According to a statement from Pfizer, the company is ready to buy AstraZeneca at a price of £55 ($92.53) per share. Thus, the entire Anglo-Swedish company is valued at £69.4 billion ($117 billion). Pfizer has increased the amount of cash payment for the deal to 45%. The offer is valid until 26 May at 17:00 London time (20:00 Moscow time).

Bloomberg The Open Internet Project, a group of around 400 European digital content providers, has spoken out against the European Commission's pending settlement with Google. The Open Internet Project is calling on the regulator to reconsider the terms of the "minimalist" agreement that clears the US company of unfair competition and abuse of its dominant position in the internet search market.

In 2013, the income of the Chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court Anton Ivanov was 13.029 million rubles. This follows from the declaration of property and income of the judge, published on the website of the Supreme Arbitration Court. Ivanov owns an apartment with an area of ​​82.3 square meters and a Mercedes-Benz passenger car (jointly owned). His wife earned 2.316 million rubles last year. She owns an 84.5 sq. m apartment in Russia and a 161.9 sq.