Ukraine should become a bridge between East and West, not a pawn in someone else's game, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday before bilateral talks in Paris. "We would like Ukraine to be a peaceful and stable state, so that all its citizens feel equal and their rights are respected," Lavrov said.

Mikhail Zurabov / ITAR-TASS Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov will take part in the inauguration ceremony of the elected President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, he is returning to Kyiv, said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Grigory Karasin. "A decision has been made that Russian Ambassador Mikhail Zurabov will take part in the official inauguration ceremony of the elected president of Ukraine, which is scheduled to take place on June 7 in the Verkhovna Rada," he said.

05 June 2014, 00:00 Sechin slows down the maneuver The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Energy are ready to carry out a tax maneuver in the oil industry in four years, but Rosneft President Igor Sechin is categorically against the changes. The tax system in the industry will still have to be changed, experts warn Margarita Papchenkova Oil refining will lose from the tax maneuver / A.

The euro exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange fell below 47 rubles. following decisions of the European Central Bank ( ECB ). By 16.38 Moscow time , the euro exchange rate for tomorrow calculations decreased by 60.5 kopecks. up to 46.99 rub. By 16.47 Moscow time, the European currency rebounded slightly upward, losing 54 kopecks, to 47.05 rubles. By this time, the dollar exchange rate was falling by 20 kopecks. up to 34.79 rub. The bi-currency basket lost 33 kopecks. up to 40.33 rub.

Andrey Makhonin / Vedomosti "Uniastrum Bank" commercial bank. Owners: Bank of Cyprus - 80%, Gagik Zakaryan - 20%, Georgy Piskov - 20%. Financial indicators (RAS, MAY 1, 2014): assets - 65.8 billion rubles, capital - 7.03 billion rubles, profit - 296.8 million rubles. Bank of Cyprus CEO John Houriken told the Financial Times that the Cypriot bank would get rid of the loss-making UniCredit Bank as part of its restructuring. "I am pursuing a scorched earth policy with regard to foreign assets.

Expansion on credit The IFC Board of Directors has approved a €250 million loan to French Groupe Auchan. IFC plans to provide AuchanSuper, the group's supermarket division, with funds for expansion into emerging markets in 2014-2016. The first two projects that could be financed with IFC assistance are the expansion of supermarket operations in Russia and entry into the Vietnamese market, according to the corporation's materials.

The causes that gave rise to the revolution have not been eliminated, which means that a new revolution is just around the corner / A. Astakhova / Vedomosti A little over a month and a half ago, on April 13, Kyiv announced the start of the "anti-terrorist operation" (ATO) in Slavyansk. A little over a month ago, on May 2, a new, more decisive stage of the ATO began in the south-east of Ukraine, marked by the third assault on Slavyansk.

The world's largest online retailer Amazon.com plans to introduce its own smartphone in June, Bloomberg reports, citing a source. The day before, Amazon wrote on its Twitter that it was planning an event in Seattle on June 18, which will be hosted by CEO Jeff Bezos and where the new product will be presented. The tweet included a picture showing part of a thin black gadget with the Amazon logo. A company representative did not answer Bloomberg's call.

Pavel Nefedov "Friday. House" continues to publish a series of articles by cultural scientist and architectural historian Vladimir Paperny "Architecture and Exhibitions". This special project for the "History" section is dedicated to how the changing political situation in the USSR was reflected in the architecture of local and international exhibitions. Today we publish the last of three articles. About the author Vladimir Paperny was born in Moscow in 1944.

group The will gradually stop servicing its clients - American taxpayers, the press service of the group reported. “ The press service confirms that we have registered with the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS) in order to comply with the American FATCA law and are ready to independently work in accordance with it. At the same time, in order to minimize risks, management ordered the group’s divisions to gradually abandon servicing clients—American taxpayers.

The assortment of "Belaya Dacha" includes more than 30 types of green salads, vegetables and mixes / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti Belaya Dacha Trading CJSC producer of vegetable products. Co-owners (Unified State Register of Legal Entities data as of 14.10.2008): Alexander Kashirin - 74%, Yuri Lapshin - 26%. Financial indicators (RAS, 2012): Revenue - 3.12 billion rubles, net profit - 592 million rubles.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has declared the people's governor of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Pavel Gubarev and the prime minister of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic Vasily Nikitin wanted. According to reports on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, posted in the section "Persons Hiding from Authorities", Gubarev and Nikitin are hiding from the Investigative Department of the Security Service of Ukraine.

A financial boundary has been drawn between long-time partners Igor Sechin (Rosneft president, left) and Robert Dudley (BP CEO) / Olivia Harris / Reuters British Lloyds Bank has refused to participate in the deal between BP and Rosneft, Reuters reported.

The Belgorod agroholding Agro-Belogorye plans to invest 2-2.5 billion rubles in the construction of a meat processing plant, Interfax reports, citing Agro-Belogorye CEO Vladimir Zotov. The capacity of the new enterprise will be up to 900,000 pigs per year. Belgorod companies will be engaged in design and construction, the equipment will be supplied by Monolithic Power Systems, Zotov specified.

Russia may build generating capacities of 600 MW to supply Crimea with energy outside the peninsula, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with the Russia 24 TV channel. "The total amount of generation that needs to be built is 1,370 MW, of which 770 MW will be built in Crimea - in particular, such sites as Simferopol and Sevastopol are being considered, and possibly Dzhankoy. In addition, it is planned to build about 600 MW in the Krasnodar Territory," he said.