The Central Bank approved credit lines worth about 600 billion rubles to a number of systemically important banks. to comply with the short-term liquidity ratio (LCR, see inset), Central Bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina said in an interview with Reuters. “We will be ready to consider the issue of providing [such] credit lines to other banks if they contact us,” she added. The short-term liquidity standard came into force this year.

The French tax authority has demanded that the American company Google pay 1.6 billion euros, AFP reported. The matter concerns compensation for Google's tax debt to the French treasury. Earlier, in June 2011, the French police conducted several searches in the Paris office of the Californian company as part of this case. The French Finance Ministry refused to confirm these figures.

Former BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has apologised to the producer he attacked a year ago and then lost his contract with the television company after the incident. According to the BBC, he said he wanted to publicly apologise again to Oisin Tymon for the incident itself and its consequences, and reiterate that Tymon was completely innocent of what happened. According to the corporation, he agreed to pay the offended producer £100,000 in compensation.

A. Taranin Today, many Russian top managers focus on the company's stability in the market when applying for a job; even career and professional growth prospects have faded into the background, according to a survey of top managers conducted in January 2016 by the recruiting agency Unity. Stability was ranked first in 2016 by 40% of top managers, compared to 20% in 2014–2015. Guaranteed official salary came in second place (30% of respondents in 2016 compared to 20% in 2014–2015).

February 24, 2016, 16:19 / Business / News Manufacturer prices for gasoline in Russia fell by 10% in January undefined Vedomosti Manufacturer prices for motor gasoline in Russia fell by 10% in January, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) reported on Wednesday.

February 24, 2016, 12:22 / Business Sberbank filed a claim against Uralvagonzavod for 2.3 billion rubles. Vedomosti Sberbank wants to recover more than 2.3 billion rubles. debt from the research and production corporation Uralvagonzavod (UVZ). The claim was filed with the Arbitration Court of the Omsk Region and accepted for proceedings, a court representative told TASS. The first meeting is scheduled for March 17.

February 24, 2016, 10:57 / Politics / News The CEO of Premier Estate was found guilty in the Bank of Moscow case undefined Vedomosti On Wednesday, February 24, the Moscow Meshchansky Court found Svetlana Timonina, General Director of the Premier Estate company, guilty of major embezzlement in a case involving the theft of more than 12 billion rubles. at the Bank of Moscow. this . reports TASS The verdict notes that the defendant’s guilt was established by the court.

February 24, 2016, 21:47 / Finance The English court agreed with the decision of the Russian courts to recover 75.6 billion rubles from Pugachev Now the businessman's assets worth $2 billion are under arrest around the world Natalia Biyanova Anna Eremina Tatyana Bochkareva Now Sergei Pugachev’s assets worth $2 billion around the world are under arrest / D.

PSA Peugeot Citroen Turns Profitable / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti The recovery of the European market and active cost cutting allowed PSA Peugeot Citroen to earn 1.2 billion euros in net profit last year, compared to a loss of 555 million euros the year before. The operating profit of the automotive division was 5%, which Evercore ISI analyst Arndt Ellinghorst called an outstanding result – it was supposed to be achieved only in the period from 2019 to 2023.

In the film "Garbage Mandala" volunteers clean up Nepal / ecocup.ru The seventh EcoCup festival will open with a concert by the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation at the Illusion cinema, and the musical theme will continue with a story about completely different musicians – the film Landfillharmonic by director Brad Allgood about how musical instruments made from garbage changed the lives of children living in the largest landfill in South America.

The terrorist group Islamic State (the organization is banned in Russia and a number of other countries) briefly seized the center of the city of Sabratha, located on the shores of the Mediterranean Gulf of Greater Sirte in western Libya and a hub for migrants crossing into Europe, senior military officer Taher al-Gharabili told the AP news agency on Wednesday, February 24. He also noted that his troops had already driven Islamic State militants from their positions.

Representatives of the state on the supervisory board of Alrosa will be re-elected for a new term, follows from the government order.

February 24, 2016, 12:04 / Business / News Airbus increased revenue by 15% in 2015 undefined Vedomosti Aircraft manufacturing corporation Airbus increased revenue by 15% in 2015 amid increased demand from carriers for A320 and A330 aircraft. this on Wednesday, February 24, AP reported citing information from the company. Last year, Airbus revenue amounted to 2.7 billion euros ($3 billion) versus 2.3 billion euros a year earlier.

Magomedov’s Summa group (Forbes estimated his fortune at $800 million) is changing its leader for the second time in a year and a half. As Vedomosti learned, company president Vladimir Kayashev and vice president for finance and economics Evgenia Tyurikova will leave their posts in March. This was reported by two sources familiar with Summa’s top managers, and was confirmed by a representative of the group.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appointed Dzhambulat Khatuov as Deputy Minister of Agriculture. A copy of the relevant order is posted on the official government website . “To appoint Dzhambulat Khizirovich Khatuov as Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation,” the document says. In October 2006, Khatuov was elected head of Armavir, and in 2008 he was appointed acting mayor of Sochi.