April 01, 2015, 15:22 / Economy / News Draghi: ECB's goal is to stabilize inflation around 2% undefined Vedomosti European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the central bank aims not only to bring inflation closer to its 2% target, but also to stabilize it around that level, according to Draghi's comments published on Wednesday.

April 01, 2015, 16:31 / Business / News Workers were allowed to leave the Lipetsk Roshen factory undefined Vedomosti Workers of the Lipetsk Roshen factory were allowed to leave the territory, TASS reported, citing a source at the enterprise. In the morning, the building was blocked by law enforcement officers, the personnel were gathered in the assembly hall. “People leave the factory in small groups, none of them comment on the event.

01 April 2015, 12:33 / Business Urals oil fell in price by 49% over the year Vedomosti The average price for Urals oil, the main Russian export, fell by 49% in March compared to March last year to $54.53 per barrel, RIA Novosti reported, citing Finance Ministry expert Alexander Sakovich. In March 2014, the average price of Urals oil was $106.68 per barrel. In January-March of this year, the average oil price was $52.76 per barrel compared to $106.83 for the same period last year.

March 31, 2015, 11:58 pm / Finance The Central Bank equated the loan portfolio of the collapsed SB-Bank to almost zero Of the 32 billion rubles of loans, the regulator considered 200 million rubles repayable Daria Borisyak While the banking supervision committee was deciding whether to revoke the license of SB-Bank, there were practically no documents left on loans / D.

The Moscow City Duma has adopted in the first reading a bill introducing amendments to the city law "On the tax on the property of organizations" that provide tax benefits for hotels, Interfax reports. Amendments providing for tax benefits for enterprises in the hotel industry were introduced by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on March 25. According to the document, large Moscow hotels will receive a 65% tax benefit from January 1, 2015.

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Aeroflot intends to reduce tariffs for air transportation on main routes, especially in the summer, said Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked the Ministry of Economic Development to support the air carrier. “Aeroflot is making attempts and intends to significantly reduce tariffs for transportation on key routes, especially in the summer season. This refers to the Far East, Kaliningrad, Crimea.

01 April 2015, 14:59 / Auto The Russian car market could have shrunk by almost 44% in March. This follows from AvtoVAZ’s preliminary assessment of its own sales and market share Vladimir Shtanov Based on AvtoVAZ’s assessment, about 137,120 cars were sold in Russia in March 2015 / E. Razumny / Vedomosti AvtoVAZ , according to preliminary estimates, sold 27,423 cars (-26%) on the Russian market in March and occupied more than 20% of the market.

The president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov was unable to comment on the refusal to allow Finnish investor Seppo Remes to enter Russia. "I don't even know who he is, so I can't answer your question," TASS quotes the official as saying. He was asked whether this case would affect the investment climate in Russia. As Vedomosti has learned, the FSB has banned Remes from entering the country for five years.

AK Transneft announced two tenders for the purchase of large-diameter pipes for a total amount of 8.4 billion rubles. According to the company’s materials, as part of one of the purchases it is planned to purchase 15,851 tons of pipes for 1.7 billion rubles.

April 01, 2015, 00:38 / Finance It is still unclear what part of card transactions will be transferred to NSPK Bankers are not sure that the national system will cope with all the traffic Tatyana Voronova Anna Eremina Card transactions have become a little Russian / M.

April 01, 2015, 10:27 / Real estate / Business The largest owner of retail real estate in the United States refused to buy a competitor Vedomosti The largest owner of shopping complexes in the United States is Simon Property Group Inc. abandoned plans to acquire its longtime competitor, Macerich Co., Bloomberg reports. Simon Property Group's "improved and final" proposal has once again been rejected by Macerich executives.

The growth of the Russian economy in the fourth quarter of 2014 at 0.4% was the smallest for the entire last year, according to Rosstat data. The department confirmed the preliminary estimate for GDP growth for 2014 as a whole, but updated the quarterly data. Thus, according to a new estimate from Rosstat, in the first quarter the economy grew by 0.6% compared to the same period last year, in the second quarter - by 0.7%, in the third quarter - by 0.9%.

01 April 2015, 15:55 / Business The “take or pay” principle continues to apply in the gas contract with Ukraine from April 1 - Novak Vedomosti The “take or pay” principle continues to operate from April 1 under the existing contract for gas supplies to Ukraine, but this will not affect the prepayment regime and payment for gas supplies in the prepayment regime, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said.

Yuri Sapronov will independently manage Russian World Studios / Ilya Pitalev / RIA Novosti Yuri Sapronov increased his stake in Russian World Studios (RWS) from 49 to 70% of shares, AFK Sistema now directly owns 30% of this production company. Previously, Vladimir Yevtushenkov's holding controlled RWS through its subsidiary Sistema Mass Media (SMM), which reported the restructuring yesterday. Sapronov confirmed this information to Vedomosti.