The shortage of small change that arose in connection with the final transition of Crimea to the ruble will be eliminated on Tuesday, First Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Rustam Temirgaliev told reporters on Monday. According to Temirgaliev, he discussed the issue of the shortage of small rubles with the Central Bank of Russia, where they promised to help him resolve this issue as soon as possible.

The process of forming the Public Chamber for 2014-2017 has been completed: on Saturday night, the working group for organizing the elections of 43 members summed up the results of the first Internet voting in the history of the chamber. More than 2.3 million votes were cast for 259 candidates in 14 nominations, more than 350,000 voters took part in the elections, estimated Rostelecom representative Vladimir Antonenko.

Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg “To start developing [the Nepa deposit] and exporting the products, colossal investments are needed,” Vladislav Baumgertner, then CEO of Uralkali, said in an interview with Kommersant in 2012. Nepa is located in the Irkutsk region, and it is one of the last large undeveloped deposits in the world: reserves are 505 million tons of potash salts (for comparison: all of Uralkali’s reserves are 1.7 billion tons).

Finance Minister Vladimir Delba will be acting Prime Minister of Abkhazia, said Acting President of the Republic, Speaker of Parliament Valery Bganba. "Prime Minister Leonid Ivanovich Lakerbaya has written a letter of resignation, the decree is already ready. Vladimir Delba will act as Prime Minister," Bganba told journalists in Sukhum on Monday. He added that Delba would remain finance minister concurrently.

02 June 2014, 09:03 / Business FIFA may revoke Qatar's right to host the 2022 World Cup This will happen if the fact of bribery during voting at the executive committee of the organization in 2010 is proven Maria Solovichenko Kin Cheung / AP Vice-President of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Jim Boyce announced his readiness to hold re-elections for the host country of the 2022 World Cup if it is proven that the decision to hold the tournament in Qatar was made after bribery.

The agreement with BNP Paribas , which involves the Department of Justice , the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department , could become unprecedentedly tough. “If BNP Paribas agrees to pay more than the $10 billion currently in question, it will be the largest payout in history for criminal charges,” Bloomberg reports .

Skippers 02.06.2014 Technical support is provided by the largest organizer of international sailing competitions, Istanbul Sailing Academy, which provides a professional team of skippers. Przemyslaw Tarnaski, 36 8th place in the ISAF world match ranking of professional skippers. Multiple champion of the world, Europe and Poland in yacht races of various classes.

Vincent Mundy / Bloomberg Naftogaz and Gazprom are revising retroactively the prices of gas supplies in April and May 2014, European Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger announced following the latest round of trilateral negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the EU. He added that an agreement had been reached on Ukraine paying off its November and December gas supplies. Ettinger expressed the wish that an agreement on the price be reached by at least June 2015.

Kamchatka Krai Governor Vladimir Ilyukhin signed an order to dismiss First Vice-Governor Alexander Potievsky from his post, the regional government press service reported on Monday. Potievsky wrote a letter of resignation of his own free will. It has not yet been announced who will take the post of first vice-governor. The candidacy of the new first deputy will be submitted to the session of the Legislative Assembly of Kamchatka Krai, which will take place on June 24.

Aidan Crawley / Bloomberg Hilton Worldwide is launching a new chain of four- and five-star boutique hotels, Curio. The company expects the chain to become one of its main sources of income in the future, Hilton CEO Christopher Nasetta was quoted by The Financial Times as saying. In his opinion, the demand for boutique hotels is so huge that the new brand could make its first money as early as 2015. Curio's development strategy assumes that boutique hotels will operate under a franchise.

Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has discovered that the Cypriot company Intellectico Holdings Limited has had a new shareholder. Navalny's foundation previously claimed that 12.75% of this company belongs to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow, head of the capital's transport department, Maxim Liksutov.

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PhosAgro has appointed Vladimir Davydenko as acting CEO of its subsidiary OJSC Apatit, PhosAgro said in a statement. Davydenko previously held the position of first deputy CEO of Apatit. "Despite the tragedy that occurred on May 31 with the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter, on board of which was the management of JSC Apatit, the enterprise continues to operate in the normal mode," the press release notes.

Sergey Porter / Vedomosti The low quality of domestic legislation in recent years and the amendment of laws for immediate reasons worries professional lawyers. The ease with which the principles of electoral law, the system of tax collection, pension calculation or traffic rules are changed is caused not only by the peculiarities of the current political management and the deputy corps.

The budget austerity measures developed by the Portuguese government are unconstitutional, the country's Constitutional Court (CC) has ruled. Portugal is awaiting the final tranche from the "troika" of creditors. The IMF, EU and ECB are to transfer 3.5 billion euros from the 78 billion euro aid package. But to do so, the Portuguese government must determine how to reduce the budget deficit to 2.5% of GDP by 2015, compared to 4.9% in 2013.