Law on expelling truants from the Duma to be passed in April / E. Razumny / Vedomosti The Duma's Constitutional Legislation Committee has finalized the bill on absentee deputies. On Tuesday, at a committee meeting, it was recommended for adoption in the second reading, and the bill could be finally adopted at a meeting on April 22, the chairman of the committee, United Russia member Vladimir Pligin, did not rule out.

The Goloseevsky District Court of Kyiv sentenced Russians Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Aleksandr Aleksandrov, who were detained in Ukraine in May 2015, to 14 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property, finding them guilty of terrorist activity. The sentence will come into force ten days after the announcement. "Erofeev and Aleksandrov are found guilty...

April 18, 2016, 10:35 / Finance / Real estate Banks: Amendments to the Civil Code will deprive citizens of the right to pay off mortgages early Vedomosti The adoption of the new edition of the Civil Code will deprive borrowers of the right to early repayment of mortgages without the consent of creditor banks. So far this right is spelled out in the Civil Code. As RBC writes , this is stated in a letter from the Association of Russian Banks (ARB) to the presidential administration.

April 17, 2016, 23:31 / Economics State-owned companies face increased dividends for another three years The Ministry of Finance proposes to extend the rule on the payment of dividends at 50% of net profit Alexander Prokopenko Elizaveta Bazanova Finance Minister Anton Siluanov figured out how to replenish the budget in the next three years / M. Stulov / Vedomosti Back in 2014, Putin was unhappy that state-owned companies were circumventing the rule of giving 25% of profits to shareholders.

April 18, 2016, 18:12 / Business / News Rosselkhoznadzor is ready to ban the import of eggplants from Turkey undefined Vedomosti Russia is ready to ban the import of eggplants from Turkey, head of Rosselkhoznadzor Sergei Dankvert told TASS. “We have grounds to close [imports of] eggplants,” he said, answering the question whether the agency had decided to expand the list of products prohibited for phytosanitary reasons from Turkey.

April 17, 2016, 23:33 / Economics Negative rates of the Central Bank of Japan gave an unexpected result Foreign investors began to actively trade Japanese government bonds, and the yen rose Mayumi Negishi Eleanor Warnock The experiment of the Central Bank of Japan led to unexpected results / Eugene Hoshiko / AP In January, the Bank of Japan surprised markets by setting the interest rate on bank deposits at -0.1% from mid-February.

April 18, 2016, 14:00 / Finance Alfa Bank's net loss under RAS increased 65.5 times in January–March 2016 Vedomosti net loss Alfa Bank's for January - March 2016 increased 65.55 times and amounted to 11.931 billion rubles. versus RUB 0.182 billion. for the same period last year. This is evidenced by calculations based on the bank’s turnover sheet published on the Bank of Russia website. The loss before tax amounted to RUB 10.405 billion. against a profit of 3.776 billion rubles.

April 17, 2016, 23:09 / Business "Bean Express" will appear at gas stations Metro Cash & Carry began cooperation with the General Fueller gas station network Polina Gritsenko Metro has been working with small formats in Russia since 2012 / M. Stulov / Vedomosti Trading at gas stations is very attractive for sellers of consumer goods, notes General Director of Infoline Analytics Mikhail Burmistrov.

Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama discussed the situation in Syria by telephone, the Kremlin website reported. Read also: Vladimir Putin held a direct line In the conversation, Putin noted the need to close the Syrian-Turkish border to stop arms supplies to extremists. The Russian leader also stated the need to quickly distance the "moderate" opposition from ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra (terrorist organizations banned in Russia).

Combat vehicles of the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system will not take part in the Victory Parade in Moscow due to cost savings, the press service of the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern reported on Monday. In the last jubilee parade for the 70th anniversary of the Victory, the concern put 24 combat vehicles on display, including S-400 systems and Buk-M2 and Tor-M2U air defense missile systems.

Although the situation in the Russian economy has not yet shown any noticeable signs of improvement, the foreign policy climate around our country seems to be starting to change. Personally, however, this only causes deep and sincere bewilderment for me. The most notable issue is the sanctions. For several months now, voices have been heard in Europe that their regime should be revised.

Teachers of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy and officials have different views on the efficiency of using the university's property / A. Gordeev / Vedomosti "We agreed that Timiryazevka should be left alone," President Putin responded on the direct line to a question about whether it was really necessary to take away land from the Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.

Fifteen people were injured in a bus explosion in Jerusalem, the Israeli ambulance service said. "Ambulance medics are providing assistance to 15 victims. One of them is in serious condition, seven are in moderate condition, and the same number are slightly injured," the service said in a statement. Israeli police are investigating the causes of the incident, and the main version is a technical malfunction.

Russian and Ukrainian Presidents Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko discussed the conflict in southeastern Ukraine and Savchenko's fate during a telephone conversation, the Russian leader's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said, TASS reports. "During the conversation, the settlement in the south-east of Ukraine and current issues in bilateral relations were discussed. The issue of Nadezhda Savchenko was also touched upon, as well as the fate of Russian citizens Aleksandrov and Yerofeyev.

Gazprombank paid 81 million euros (5.575 billion rubles) for a 50% stake in Nevskaya Pipeline Company LLC (NTK, which owns an oil terminal in the port of Ust-Luga), according to the bank’s report. In November last year, the FAS granted the request of Tradescan Consultants Limited LLC (a Cyprus company of Gazprombank) to purchase 50% of NTK. Earlier, the main owner of Gunvor, Torbjorn Tornqvist, reported that the trader intends to sell his stake in Russian terminals.