January 12, 2016, 00:24 / Business State banks once again met Mechel halfway The company can postpone the repayment of debts to them for $4 billion for another three years - until 2023 Vitaly Petlevoy To enter into force the agreement with the banks, Mechel has one step left to take - to sell Elgaugol / Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg Details of negotiations on the restructuring of Mechel's debt to the largest creditors - Sberbank, VTB and Gazprombank were revealed at the end of December by the

January 12, 2016, 11:19 pm / Business WTI oil price fell below $30 per barrel Some regional grades of oil already cost less than $20, but companies do not want to stop production Mikhail Overchenko The excess oil on the market is not reducing, which is why prices are falling lower and lower / Bloomberg The price of February futures for American WTI oil briefly fell below $30 per barrel on Tuesday evening.

The board of directors of Ilyushin Finance Co., 48.4% owned by the United Aircraft Corporation, approved the purchase of an additional issue of Red Wings shares. As a result of the transaction, the leasing company will become the owner of 74% of the air carrier. This was said in a statement. "The Board of Directors decided to purchase an additional issue of Red Wings shares in the amount of 74% of the airline's authorized capital to offset IFC's requirements for Red Wings.

German Ambassador to Warsaw Rolf Nickel gave clarifications to the Polish Foreign Minister on Monday / Czarek Sokolowski / AP German Ambassador to Warsaw Rolf Nickel on Monday explained to Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski the "anti-Polish statements by German politicians" who have repeatedly criticized legislative initiatives by the conservative Polish government.

Two militants who attacked the Bella Vista Hotel in Hurghada on January 8 intended to attack Russian tourists, the Egyptian publication Al Masry Al Youm writes , citing the Egyptian State Security Prosecutor's Office. One of the detainees said this during interrogation. In this way, they wanted to protest against Russia's military operation in Syria. As the investigation showed, the militants tried to join the jihadists outside Egypt, but they failed.

As early as next week, Iran may receive about $30 billion in assets previously frozen as a result of Western sanctions, Interfax reports, citing a statement by Waliullah Saif, Chairman of the Central Bank of Iran. “The Central Bank of Iran has begun preparations for the long-awaited unfreezing of a total of $30 billion in assets belonging to the republic, but blocked in foreign banks as a result of sanctions,” he told Press TV.

The commercial contract for the supply of electricity to Ukraine in 2016 will not be extended, Kommersant writes , citing a source in the Ministry of Energy. Moscow "is not negotiating the supply of electricity from Russia to Ukraine. We will not extend it, since it was initially linked to the contract for the supply of electricity from Ukraine to Crimea," the Russian ministry said.

Another criminal case has been opened against former Yoshkar-Ola Mayor Pavel Plotnikov. The investigation believes that he was engaged in illegal entrepreneurship. This is stated on the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

agricultural holding The Razgulay is ready to buy back shares from shareholders at 9.4 rubles. for the paper, the group said in a statement. This is a mechanism provided by law to protect the rights of shareholders who may, for example, disagree with the alienation of assets, says Mark Karetin, partner at Yukov and Partners.

The prosecutor's office must remember the rights of entrepreneurs, said today the head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov at a ceremonial meeting in the Prosecutor General's Office dedicated to the Day of the Prosecutor's Worker. "Special attention should be paid to the problem of criminal prosecution of entrepreneurs. You know - there are still abuses in this area.

Former Petrozavodsk Mayor Galina Shirshina appealed her resignation in court – deputies removed her for failure to perform her duties / Igor Podgorny / TASS Former Petrozavodsk Mayor Galina Shirshina has appealed in court the decision of the City Council, which dismissed her on December 25. The statement, in which Shirshina demands that the decision be declared illegal, was filed with the Petrozavodsk City Court, she told Vedomosti.

Russia is ready to cooperate with the G7 countries and develop relations with NATO if this interest is mutual, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Bild, the second part of which will be published on January 12.

“Not a single flight at Moscow airports has been canceled due to weather conditions, with the exception of those that Aeroflot informed about in the morning. Airports in the Moscow air zone are operating as normal despite the bad weather,” he explained.

January 12, 2016, 12:01 / Finance DIA initiates control of bankers according to the Chinese scenario Vedomosti Amendments to the legislation, which significantly limit the rights of owners and top managers of banks, were presented at a meeting of the interdepartmental commission on combating illegal financial transactions by DIA General Director Yuri Isaev. According to Kommersant , the DIA believes that measures that are being actively implemented in the East will be more effective.

China's central bank has intervened in the offshore yuan market, narrowing the gap between the Chinese currency's exchange rates in Hong Kong and Shanghai and generally stabilizing the situation on China's stock market, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The offshore yuan (traded outside mainland China and traded more freely) rose 0.7% in Hong Kong on Tuesday, nearly closing the gap with the Shanghai exchange.