At the end of May 2015, the general director of Scartel (Yota brand) Anatoly Smorgonsky leaves his post, said the operator’s representative Lina Udovenko. This is a mutual decision between Smorgonsky and the shareholders - the contract with him expires at the end of April, and it was decided not to renew it. After Smorgonsky’s departure, Mikhail Dubin, Deputy General Director of Megafon, will be appointed acting as his responsibilities, says Udovenko.

Regulator suspects bank of dubious operations / E. Egorov / Vedomosti The license was revoked on May 13, and a temporary administration was appointed to the bank, the regulator's press service reported. The reason was non-compliance with legislation in the field of combating the legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and the financing of terrorism, the report said.

In April, ruble deposits of the population in Russian banks grew by more than 3%, foreign currency deposits by 4.3%, said Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Mikhail Sukhov. “Banks are restoring their main resource - household deposits. High interest rates have led, perhaps, to a slightly greater than expected increase in household deposits,” quotes Interfax him as saying. According to the Central Bank, in April depositors brought 430 billion rubles to Russian banks.

May 14, 2015, 11:53 / Finance / News Transactions on Visa cards were completely transferred to NSPK processing by 36 banks out of 75 undefined Vedomosti As of May 13, half of the Russian banks that have begun pilot operation - 36 out of 75 - have completely transferred the processing of transactions on Visa cards to the National Payment Card System (NSCP), the transfer of domestic Russian Visa processing will be completed by the beginning of June. The NSPK press service reported this to TASS.

May 14, 2015, 00:06 / Business The European Union introduced a protective duty on NLMK steel According to the European Commission, the Russian manufacturer of transformer steel dumped on the European market Vitaly Petlevoy Europe stopped steel / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti The only producers of transformer steel in Russia are the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works and VIZ-Stal, both enterprises are part of the NLMK group .

May 14, 2015, 11:08 / Economics Kazakhstan is planning a transition to inflation targeting Vedomosti The National Bank of Kazakhstan announced on Thursday its monetary policy until 2020, which provides for the gradual introduction of an inflation targeting regime in order to ensure sustainable growth of the country's economy in the long term. Inflation targeting is the preferred monetary policy regime for Kazakhstan, the document says.

May 14, 2015, 19:52 / Economy / News The Russian Ministry of Finance forecasts inflation at 10.5% for the year. undefined Vedomosti The Russian Ministry of Finance expects a further slowdown in inflation - at the end of 2015 it could be about 10.5%, in May inflation in annual terms could drop below 16%, Deputy Head of the Ministry Maxim Oreshkin told RIA Novosti.

May 14, 2015, 12:54 / Economics The EBRD predicts a decline in Ukraine's GDP by 7.5%, Russia - by 4.5% Vedomosti The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) predicts a reduction in Ukraine's GDP in 2015 by 7.5%, in Russia - by 4.5%, follows from the bank's press release. In January of this year, he estimated the decline in Ukraine at 5%.

May 13, 2015, 23:02 / Finance The Central Bank extended the moratorium on revaluation of securities for banks Bankers expect the regulator to soon announce the continuation of all anti-shock measures Marie Mesropyan The Central Bank proposes to extend the moratorium on revaluation of the securities portfolio until the end of 2015 / A.

May 14, 2015, 14:35 / Business / News The Parliament of Ukraine allowed Naftogaz to cut off gas to debtors undefined Vedomosti On the second attempt, the Parliament of Ukraine adopted a government law that allows limiting the supply of natural gas to debtors and carrying out forced collection of debts to NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine. This decision was supported at a meeting on Thursday by 243 parliamentarians with the required minimum of 226 votes.

A theft of 1 billion rubles worth of diesel fuel from an oil depot has been uncovered in Novosibirsk Oblast, TASS reports . According to the press service of the regional FSB department, the fraudulent operation was uncovered by this department together with the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The stolen diesel fuel was intended for units of the Arctic group of the Russian armed forces. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of fraud on an especially large scale.

May 14, 2015, 12:59 / Finance / News The deputy chairman of the Central Bank called Gref's proposal to limit insurance payments on deposits worthy of discussion undefined Vedomosti Medvedev’s meeting was attended by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, representatives of the Central Bank, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economy, the DIA and heads of major banks, including Sberbank, VTB , Bank of Moscow, VTB 24 , as well as Gazprombank, Alfa Group and " Opening of a holding

Artistic Director of the Gogol Center Kirill Serebrennikov / M. Stulov / Vedomosti A request from deputy Yevgeny Fyodorov (United Russia) to the Accounts Chamber with a proposal to inspect the Gogol Center theater has once again made it into the internal mailing list of deputies. Although this proposal was announced by the deputy back in March, now the initiative to collect signatures comes from above, several Duma interlocutors believe.

Before the May 12 crash, the Amtrak train was going around a curve at twice the speed limit, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigating the crash said, Reuters reported . The NTSB said the train was traveling at 106 mph (171 km/h), while the speed limit was 50 mph (80 km/h). The train's engineer applied the emergency brakes, but the speed only dropped to 102 km/h. All seven passenger cars then derailed.

Vimpelcom ltd will not pay dividends while Russia is in economic crisis / E.