March 16, 2015, 10:04 / Business Operators ask Dvorkovich to prevent deregulation of the carriage part of the Russian Railways tariff Vedomosti The Council of Railway Operators (SOZHT, unites the largest owners of freight cars) asks Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich to prevent deregulation of the carriage component of the Russian Railways tariff , allowing the monopoly to set fees for the provision of cars for the transportation of goods.

The website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has published a draft resolution defining the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that fall under a “special management regime” / Mikhail Pochuyev / TASS The website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has published a draft resolution submitted by President Petro Poroshenko defining the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that fall under a “special governance regime.” According to the Minsk agreements signed on February 12, this

The volatility of the ruble exchange rate increased sharply soon after the Central Bank in November let the ruble float freely and abandoned the currency corridor and planned interventions / E. Razumny / Vedomosti The Central Bank is studying the possibility of introducing discrete auctions on the currency market during exchange rate fluctuations, said Dmitry Tulin, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank, yesterday.

AvtoVAZ wants to fire not only managers, but also some workers / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti AvtoVAZ will pay three average salaries to workers who are ready to leave by mutual agreement from March 16 to April 3, Interfax reported and a company representative confirmed. The corresponding order was signed last week. There are 42,000 workers at the plant.

Still, there were portraits / E. Egorov / Vedomosti The title "Serov is not a portraitist" sounds polemical: if not a portraitist, then who? Serov left more than two hundred portraits, preferring large paintings in the classical sense to them. In order to declaratively bypass part of the artist's legacy, curators must have good reasons. The exhibition can be considered a cutting-edge one for the Russian Museum, already due to its anti-spectacle nature.

On March 13, the Bank of Russia recognized the Multicard and Rexpay payment systems as nationally significant, according to information in the register of payment system operators on the Central Bank website . The operator of the Multicard payment system is VTB 24 Bank, the functions of the settlement center are performed by VTB Bank, and Geobank is the operator and settlement center of the Rexpay system, Interfax notes.

TV presenter and editor-in-chief of L`Officiel magazine Ksenia Sobchak has been forced to leave Russia for a while due to threats against her following the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, Kommersant writes . Last Friday, Sobchak's friends and acquaintances came to the Central House of Writers restaurant to congratulate her on the first issue of L`Officiel that she had published and to see her off during her forced departure.

The Ministry of Construction is considering reducing the mortgage interest rate by another 1% in connection with the Central Bank's reduction of the key rate. This was announced at the RSPP conference "Russian Business Week - 2015" by the Minister of Construction and Housing and Utilities Mikhail Men, Interfax reports. "We are thinking about reducing the interest rate - this is an arithmetic problem, we will try to implement it, we mean a reduction of 1%," said Men.

March 16, 2015, 15:30 / Economics Ulyukaev: The new macro forecast is based on the scenario of maintaining sanctions for several years Vedomosti The head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev, believes that sanctions against Russia may remain in place for the coming years. According to TASS, he said this at a meeting with the presidium of the Duma faction of United Russia.

March 16, 2015, 10:26 / Finance / News The ruble retreated against the dollar and euro at the beginning of trading, winning back falling oil undefined Vedomosti The ruble fell slightly against the dollar and euro on the Moscow Exchange at the beginning of trading amid falling world oil prices. The dollar exchange rate increased by 3.2 kopecks by 10.09 Moscow time. up to 62.28 rubles, euro - by 14 kopecks. up to 65.44 rub.

2% By this much, Belarus's GDP will decrease this year, according to the IMF forecast, said David Hoffman, head of the IMF mission in Belarus. In 2016, the fund expects the economy to recover, but without "deep structural changes, growth will be low," Hoffman noted. According to him, if the Belarusian authorities pursue a tough macroeconomic policy, move to a flexible exchange rate and begin deep structural reforms, then in the medium term the Belarusian economy could grow by 4-5%.

Mortgage borrowers are set for late payments / E. Egorov / Vedomosti Overdue mortgage debt for a term of 90 days or more in the first two months of 2015 grew by 16.9% to 53.9 billion rubles with the mortgage portfolio growing by 1.9%, according to data from the collection agency Sequoia Credit Consolidation. Overdue debt grew faster only in 2009: by 25% in January-February.

March 16, 2015, 18:17 / Politics / Interviews and profiles Rustam Temirgaliev: “If it had a certain direction, the director needs to give it an A+” Rustam Temirgaliev on the development of events leading to the referendum in Crimea Petr Kozlov Former First Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Rustam Temirgaliev / A.

March 16, 2015, 09:41 / Auto Kamaz received 423.6 million rubles of net loss according to RAS in 2014 Vedomosti The net loss of Kamaz according to RAS in 2014 amounted to 423.55 million rubles. against net profit of RUB 2.056 billion. a year earlier, according to the company’s reporting. “Despite the fact that the results of the main activity (sales of cars) generated a profit in the amount of 2.371 billion rubles, the financial result of the year was a (net) loss.

March 16, 2015, 19:56 / Politics Kapkov: “We have never carried out transactions of such a volume” The Moscow Department of Culture will report on “dubious” expenses of 4.3 billion rubles Bela Lyauv Ilya Usov Former head of the Moscow Department of Culture Sergei Kapkov / E.