E.Razumny / Vedomosti The arrest of Sakhalin Governor Alexander Khoroshavin is not an accident, but a manifestation of a general pattern. Experts have recorded a sharp increase in law enforcement claims against regional and municipal officials. This is stated in the latest issue of the regional sustainability rating, which is published today by the Petersburg Politics Foundation.

A. Rudakov / Bloomberg VEB is considering the possibility of buying out KAMAZ bonds worth 35 billion rubles, issued for new production; the bank received the corresponding application “literally recently,” VEB Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev said on Friday at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. His words are quoted in the transcript of the meeting (published on the website kremlin.ru). A KAMAZ representative declined to comment on this.

Coalco owner Vasily Anisimov is again interested in building logistics parks / Mikhail Metzel / TASS The Velyaminovo industrial park and the Kuzminskoye industrial and logistics complex are to be built on 239 hectares and 331 hectares plots in the Domodedovo District of the Moscow Region, located 45 km from the Moscow Ring Road, according to the report “Industrial and Investment Potential of the Moscow Region,” prepared by the regional government.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pointed out the need to maintain anti-Russian sanctions in connection with the situation in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Kyodo news agency. Merkel, who is on a two-day official visit to Japan, noted the need to find ways of diplomatic dialogue.

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Bloomberg Last Friday, the international organization FairSearch announced its support for Yandex in the fight against Google. FairSearch is an association of Internet and IT companies that initiated an investigation into Google's activities in the operating systems market in Europe back in 2013. Microsoft, Oracle, Nokia, Expedia, Tripadvisor and others participate in FairSearch.

Valentina Matvienko “I don’t rule out that in some time, in terms of the share of women in politics, we will be, if not ahead of the rest of the world, then close to it.” The Chairperson of the Federation Council reported that Russia has taken first place in the world in terms of the share of women in management positions in companies (43%).

In 2015, the Moscow city video surveillance system will cost 3.85 billion rubles. budget money, which is less than the 4.2 billion rubles spent on it in 2014. Representative of the Moscow Department of Information Technologies (DIT) Elena Novikova told Vedomosti about this. According to her, expenses for 2015 were reduced by about 15% through competitive procedures at the end of 2014, increasing the contract period from three to five years.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov (left) and Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev must agree on how to save the budget / M. Stulov / Vedomosti The revised draft budget for 2015 must be submitted to the government by the Finance Ministry by March 12, the Cabinet of Ministers said in a statement. The government generally approved the document on Thursday.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the procedure for excluding non-profit organizations from the register of "foreign agents." The text of the document was posted on the official legal information portal on Monday. The document stipulates that in order to exclude an organization from the register, it is necessary to submit a corresponding application to the Russian Ministry of Justice.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law ratifying the protocol on the restructuring of the Cyprus loan, according to the official legal information portal. The intergovernmental agreement on the provision of a state financial loan to Cyprus dated December 23, 2011 provides for the repayment of a debt of 2.5 billion euros in a lump sum payment on July 1, 2016, the interest rate for using the loan is 4.5% per annum.

The government intends to popularize engineering and blue-collar jobs. A wide range of measures has been planned: organizing competitions for the best professionals, forums for young professionals, school Olympiads in specialized subjects, and construction team gatherings. The program is not limited to the revival of Soviet practices; it also provides for “career guidance work in social networks” and incentives for participants in the WorldSkills international blue-collar jobs competitions.

36.9% This is how much imports from non-CIS countries decreased in January-February compared to the same period in 2014 (to $23 billion), according to preliminary data from the Federal Customs Service. In 2015, imports of goods amounted to almost $22 billion, including $13 billion in February, and increased by 32.5% compared to January 2015. Supplies of food products decreased by 44.3%, textiles and footwear by 35.3%, engineering products by 33.5%, and chemical products by 26.3%.

Kidzania The first pool of partners of Moscow Kidzania is Alfa-Bank , Medsi Group, STS Media holding, MTS , AlfaStrakhovanie , Invitro, Perekrestok trading house and MasterCard. Representatives of all companies confirmed their participation in the project; they declined to comment on the financial component. Negotiations with other participants are currently underway, and there will be “many times more” of them, Sargsyan added.

March 09, 2015, 22:52 / Business There is no money for the construction of power plants in Crimea Ministries and banks cannot determine a financing scheme for the construction of stations due to sanctions and crisis Alina Fadeeva Simferopol Thermal Power Plant in Crimea may for a long time be one of the few own sources of energy on the peninsula / Alexander Ryumin / TASS Due to international sanctions and the crisis, problems arose with financing the construction of power plants in Crimea, three