D. Abramov / Vedomosti The global currency derivatives market, which stagnated in 2012–2013, grew by 3.6% last year, with 1.8 billion contracts concluded in 2014. The growth was mainly driven by stock exchanges in Russia and India, which accounted for 76% of the global currency derivatives market’s growth, according to the annual review by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).

Ukraine has significantly reduced its energy dependence on Russia, thanks to which in 2015 it will purchase natural gas at $245 per 1000 cubic meters. m, said President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. “We survived the winter, we purchased only 2 billion (cubic meters of gas), the last purchase was below $300 (per 1 cubic meter), and in the end this led to the fact that Russia was forced to make a request for an increase of 68% volume of pumping, which collapsed the gas market.

On March 10, the Presidium of the Moscow Government approved a bill establishing a two-year tax holiday for businesses. As TASS reports , this was announced by the head of the capital’s department of economic policy and development, Maxim Reshetnikov. According to him, the issue of tax support for the city’s hotel chain is also being discussed. Despite the general situation, economic activity in Moscow remains at a good level, the official said.

March 10, 2015, 10:34 / Business Russian Railways decided to place 69,807,037 shares at a price of 1,000 rubles Vedomosti The Board of Directors of OJSC Russian Railways (RZD) approved the price for placing shares in favor of the state. As the company said in a statement , Russian Railways will place 69,807,037 shares at a price of 1,000 rubles. for paper. Thus, the company will receive up to 69.8 billion rubles.

March 10, 2015, 15:21 / Business Procter & Gamble fined $1 million for advertising whitening toothpaste Vedomosti Chinese authorities have fined Procter & Gamble's Crest unit nearly $1 million for advertising whitening toothpaste. According to Reuters , the Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce announced in a blog post on Weibo that the commercial was misleading to consumers. According to the regulator, the manufacturer exaggerated the effectiveness of its paste.

A. Taranin At one of her previous jobs, Olga Smirnova, now the HR Director of the NPF "Sun. Life. Pension", once worked with a lady CEO who had a habit of wearing the same suit for weeks. At first, her colleagues tried to gently find out what other suits the boss had in her wardrobe. They gave her perfume sets with shower gels and tried to persuade her to go shopping. But the answer was always: "I'm too busy, I don't have time for myself.

Foreign shareholders disappointed in Russian risks / E. Razumny / Vedomosti The share of non-resident banks in the total authorized capital of the banking system was diluted mainly due to the conversion of VEB subordinated loans into preferred shares by three state banks ( VTB , Gazprombank and RSHB ), explains Fitch analyst Alexander Danilov. In real terms, non-residents are not reducing their authorized capital, he points out, but they are not replenishing it either.

The fragments from the documentary film "Crimea. The Path to the Motherland", shown on March 8 on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, did not seem convincing to the US State Department, the official representative of the department Jen Psaki said during a regular briefing.

David Hansen is virtuosity and hassle-free / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti Baroque, classicism, opera seria – these are complex, dramatic matters. In any case, they definitely lack a clear positive. The situation was corrected by a professional sportsman-surfer, and now a professional countertenor, who cuts through the expanses of opera music as radiantly as he used to furrow the ocean waves near the Australian coast.

March 10, 2015, 16:29 / Business / News Shokhin: The RSPP, following Manturov, saw an improvement in the situation with Mechel undefined Vedomosti The situation with Mechel has changed for the better, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) noted, said the organization’s president, Alexander Shokhin. this . reports Prime “There is clearly a positive trend. Mechel's problem is that they acquired a lot of assets, and at fairly high prices.

March 10, 2015, 16:06 / Auto New car sales plunged 38% in February BMW enters the top ten best-selling car brands for the first time Yulia Gribtsova E. Razumny / Vedomosti Sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) fell by 37.9% to 128,298 vehicles in February, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) automakers committee said. In January - February, 243,826 cars were sold (-32.1%).

The MICEX index fell below 1,700 points for the first time in a month, following oil trading below $58 per barrel in Brent, Prime reports . By 11.30 Moscow time on Tuesday, the MICEX fell by 1.8% to 1696.90 points, the RTS - by 1.9% to 886.45 points.

Due to strong competition and the crisis, cinemas are finding it increasingly difficult to fill their halls / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti The Moscow Department of Culture and the Cinema Park chain of movie theaters have agreed on a special program to attract low-income viewers to movie theaters, the now former head of this department, Sergei Kapkov, told Vedomosti (he resigned yesterday). Olga Chirikhina, deputy general director of Cinema Park, confirmed this.

March 10, 2015, 10:46 am / Business The fall in Mechel quotes exceeded 10% Vedomosti The fall in Mechel's quotes continued on Tuesday morning, shares fell by more than 10% and reached the levels of two weeks ago due to VTB's intention to bankrupt the company. The company's ordinary shares by 10.41 Moscow time fell in price by 4.92% to 73.68 rubles, preferred shares - by 5.64% to 50.39 rubles.

Russia's actions towards Ukraine threaten the security of Eastern European countries, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond is preparing to say. "President Putin's actions in illegally annexing Crimea and now using Russian troops to destabilise eastern Ukraine fundamentally undermine the security of states in Eastern Europe," the diplomat said in a widely circulated summary of his speech at the Royal United Services Institute in London on Tuesday.