April 28, 2015, 14:10 / Business Mechel suffered a $4.3 billion loss in 2014 The company's revenue amounted to $6.4 billion Vitaly Petlevoy Mechel is one of the most heavily indebted mining and metallurgical companies in Russia / Andrey Rudakov Mechel, one of the most heavily indebted mining and metallurgical companies in Russia, reported for 2014.

Vladimir Putin at the media forum / Alexey Druzhinin / RIA Novosti One of the speakers at the media forum in St. Petersburg appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a request to increase advertising time on regional TV channels to 30% of the airtime and to allow the use of a running line for advertising, Interfax writes.

If the antennas of the Kurs rendezvous system of the Progress cargo ship launched into space fail to open, the ship may be docked to the ISS manually, a TASS source in the rocket and space industry said . According to him, the backup docking system TORU - "teleoperator control mode" - may be used for this. However, it is too early to talk about manual docking, he emphasized. Progress M-27M was launched from Baikonur with the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle.

April 28, 2015, 10:19 / Business / News Crimea asks for 9.5 billion rubles for the Kuban-Crimea gas pipeline undefined Vedomosti In mid-April, the Ministry of Crimea sent to the relevant departments amendments to the Federal Target Program for the development of Crimea until 2020.

April 28, 2015, 23:59 / Auto Ford received $185 million in losses in Europe in the first quarter due to problems in the Russian market Vedomosti Ford Motor's net income fell 7% in the first quarter of 2015, due in part to lower vehicle production in North America, the company said. Net income in January-March was $924 million, or $0.23 per share, compared with $989 million, or $0.24 per share, in the same period a year earlier.

April 27, 2015, 23:13 / Economics Pension savings can be used for infrastructure projects NPFs consider this a payment for maintaining the mandatory savings system Margarita Papchenkova The Ministry of Finance sent proposals to the government obliging non-state pension funds to invest in securities issued for infrastructure projects / E.

The government nominated Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and Minister for Development of the Far East Alexander Galushka to the Alrosa supervisory board, an order signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. In addition to them, the list of candidates includes Andrei Zharkov (nominated as deputy head of Gokhran, elected president of Alrosa at the end of April), as well as the head of the Development Fund of the Far East and Baikal Region JSC Alexey Chekunkov.

April 28, 2015, 15:34 / Finance McKinsey Director Emeritus Kraljic will not join the Supervisory Board of Sberbank due to sanctions The bank decided to make changes to the list of candidates for the supervisory board Yulia Orlova Peter Kraljic / fdi.si Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Bella Zlatkis explained the reasons why McKinsey Honorary Director Peter Kralich refused to be elected to the bank's supervisory board.

The international rating agency Standard & Poor's has placed Uralkali's long-term foreign and local currency ratings of "BBB-" on the CreditWatch "negative" list, the agency said in a statement. The company's long-term national scale rating of "ruAAA" has also been put under review.

Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko has been transferred to the 20th city hospital, Kristina Belousova, a representative of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, told Interfax. They decided to transfer her there from the pretrial detention center because her blood sugar level dropped sharply. Civilian doctors will monitor her condition and, as expected, develop a treatment strategy.

April 28, 2015, 18:06 / Business Sistema will receive another 12.9 billion rubles from Ural-invest The asset structure consists of bank deposits and trust management agreements Maria Kiseleva Sistema will receive another 12.9 billion rubles from Ural-invest / E.

April 28, 2015, 10:25 pm / Business Rosinter's revenue fell to the level of the crisis year 2009 The company is close to insolvency, analysts fear Yulia Gribtsova Last year was difficult for the entire hospitality industry / E. Razumny / Vedomosti The consolidated revenue of Rosinter Restaurant Holding (it manages 343 establishments under the brands IL Patio, Planet Sushi, Planet World Cafe, Costa Coffee, etc.) decreased by 9% to 8.47 billion rub. in 2014, the company said.

April 28, 2015, 18:07 / Business / News Italian Saipem is ready to work on Turkish Stream undefined Vedomosti The Italian company Saipem is ready to work on the project of the new Turkish Stream gas pipeline when a corresponding request is received from the client, that is, the Russian Gazprom, said Saipem General Director Umberto Vergine. Saipem was hired to lay the pipeline as part of the South Stream project.

$10 billion Nepal may need 50% of its GDP to rebuild. At least $5 billion will be needed to actually rebuild the country over the next five years, according to Rajiv Biswas, chief economist for the Asia-Pacific region at IHS. According to rough estimates, the number of earthquake victims has exceeded 5,000 and could reach 10,000, the BBC reported. According to the country's Interior Ministry, half a million people were forced to relocate due to the disaster.

Spain will be represented at the Victory Parade in Moscow on May 9 by its ambassador, Jose Ignacio Carbajal. He told Interfax about this. Referring to a letter from a representative of the Spanish government to President Putin, the diplomat explained that the prime minister and other members of the cabinet will have to be in Spain next week, since regional and municipal elections will be held there in May and the situation will be tense.