The attack in Grozny on the member of the Human Rights Council and head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture Igor Kalyapin is not being considered in the Kremlin in the context of the issue of extending the powers of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. This is how the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov commented on the situation. "I would not link this situation to Kadyrov's powers. This is connected with the crime situation," he said.

Alexander Ordzhonikidze does not like public statements / PhotoXPress National Media Group (NMG) may soon announce a change of CEO, three sources close to the holding told Vedomosti. Alexander Ordzhonikidze has been heading NMG since 2009. Vedomosti's sources were unable to name the reason for Ordzhonikidze's possible departure. According to them, he may be replaced by Olga Paskina. She currently heads a joint venture between NMG and the American Discovery.

US President Barack Obama has imposed additional sanctions on North Korea, freezing the property of the North Korean government and the Workers' Party of Korea and prohibiting certain types of transactions. A statement about this was posted on the White House website. "The tightening of sanctions is part of our response to North Korea's nuclear test on January 6 and launch using ballistic missile technology on February 7," the statement said.

March 17, 2016, 17:08 / Business Mechel's executive director leaves his post Alexey Ivanushkin has worked with Igor Zyuzin since the company was founded in 2003 Vitaly Petlevoy Alexey Ivanushkin leaves Mechel / E. Stetsko / Vedomosti One of the key managers, the executive director of Mechel , the former general director of the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant, Alexey Ivanushkin, left the Mechel company, two sources close to the company told Vedomosti.

March 17, 2016, 19:50 / Business The government asked Gazprom and Tatneft to stop fuel supplies to Belarus Both companies sharply increased the export of petroleum products to this country Galina Starinskaya Gazprom and Tatneft are recommended to suspend fuel supplies to Belarus / Laszlo Balogh / Reuters Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, at a meeting of the government commission on the fuel and energy complex in mid-February, raised the question of why the subsidiaries of Gazprom and

March 16, 2016, 23:47 / Business Danish Carlsberg presented investors with a new strategy The company may drop some of Saabir Chaudhuri's brands Danish Carlsberg presented investors with a new strategy. The company intends to abandon some brands and restructure its business in Russia / PIXABAY Danish Carlsberg, which ranks 4th on the list of the world's largest brewing companies, has presented a new development strategy.

The dollar exchange rate to the Russian national currency on the Moscow Exchange at the opening of trading on Thursday, March 17, decreased compared to the closing level of previous trading by 0.577 rubles. and at 10.14 Moscow time amounted to 68,546 rubles. This is evidenced by data from the trading platform. The euro also weakened against the Russian national currency. Compared to the closing of the previous day, it fell in price by 0.594 rubles.

9.46 billion rubles The outdoor advertising operator Russ Outdoor is worth its money, according to the 2015 financial statements of one of the company's shareholders, VTB Bank. A year earlier, the bank's stake in Russ Outdoor (it controls 26.43% of the shares) was worth 17% more. The bank's financial statements do not contain any financial indicators for the operator's performance.

March 17, 2016, 00:02 / Business Mechel owner Igor Zyuzin proposes closing coal mines Almost half of the operating mines in Russia are extremely dangerous, says Vitaly Petlevoy , the Ministry of Energy. The tragedy at the Severnaya mine of Severstal forced officials and market participants to think about the transition to open-pit coal mining / D. Grishkin / Vedomosti On Wednesday, March 16, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich held the first meeting on safety in coal mines in four years.

March 16, 2016, 23:37 / Finance Banks ask the Central Bank to reconsider its policy regarding foreign currency loans In any case, they believe, it is worth reconsidering this approach for companies with foreign currency earnings Anna Eremina Daria Borisyak German Gref (right) tries to convince Elvira Nabiullina that currency does not always harm banks / E.

President Vladimir Putin confirmed the death of a fifth Russian serviceman, Fyodor Zhuravlev, in Syria. On the Kremlin website, in the transcript of Putin's meeting with participants in the operation in Syria, the president mentioned Zhuravlev's widow, Yulia. The authorities had not previously commented on the death of the Russian serviceman.

About 500 security forces entered the settlement / Sergey Starikov In the Tula region, riot police have cordoned off the village of Plekhanovo, where on March 16, gypsies staged a riot, protesting against the removal of illegal taps into gas pipelines.

March 16, 2016, 23:24 / Business The meeting of oil producing countries will be held on April 17 in Doha It is necessary to freeze production until the end of this year, says Russia Galina Starinskaya Major producers will try to agree not to increase production in a month / Athit Perawongmetha / REUTERS About 15 states confirmed participation in the meeting of oil-producing countries in Doha on April 17, Interfax quotes Energy Minister Alexander Novak: “As part of the consultations, somewhere

Russia has begun the first tests of the sea-based hypersonic cruise missiles "Zircon", Prime reports , citing RIA Novosti and its source in the military-industrial complex. "The hypersonic missiles "Zircon" are already in the metal, and their tests have begun from a ground-based launch complex," he said. It is assumed that these missiles will be able to develop a speed of approximately five to six Mach (the Mach number indicates the speed of sound).

The United States does not recognize the self-proclaimed federation in northern Syria. This was stated at a briefing by State Department spokesman John Kirby, Interfax reports. "I would also like to note that we do not recognize self-government and autonomy in the territories inside Syria," he said. The head of the Syrian Kurdistan office in Moscow, Rodi Osman, told the agency that the Syrian Kurds do not plan to separate from Syria.