Chairman of the Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov denied reports about the possible introduction of a ban on early repayment of mortgages. “This is a lie, there are no such amendments, we specifically checked today,” TASS quotes him. “Early repayment is not any kind of violation, and that is obvious,” he added.

April 19, 2016, 16:40 / Business X5 reduced the gap from Magnit by one and a half times The retailer was helped by the updated “Pyaterochka” Natalya Ishchenko Revenue of the Pyaterochka chain increased by 32.3% in January-March 2016 / E.

The State Duma has approved in the first reading a bill that equates major Internet news aggregators with mass media, TASS reports. The State Duma Committee on Information Policy stated that the text of the bill will be substantially revised by the second reading; in particular, legislators plan to exclude the provision on the liability of the aggregator for reprinting media materials.

Former Petrozavodsk Mayor Galina Shirshina has challenged her removal from office in the Supreme Court of Karelia. She told TASS that she filed a cassation appeal to overturn the decisions of the first and second instance courts. According to Shirshina, the Supreme Court of the Republic had previously considered the appeal, but did not satisfy the petition to provide documents from the city administration that would confirm the exercise of authority.

The State Duma will consider the appointment of a new human rights commissioner on Friday, April 22. On Tuesday, United Russia members decided at inter-faction groups who they would vote for. The vote will be secret, and the faction will cast its votes for the candidate from the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Tatyana Moskalkova, sources in United Russia told Vedomosti.

April 19, 2016, 12:22 / Economics 89% of Russians save on essentials The older a Russian citizen is and the smaller his city, the more he saves on food, Romira sociologist Lyudmila Koval found out. Only every tenth Russian was able to “not tighten his belt” / Sergey Bobylev / TASS Over the past 12 months, since March last year, only every tenth Russian was able to live without saving, and 89% of the population had to cut expenses on essentials.

Bankruptcy lawsuit filed against advertising agency Global Point / Global Point Communication Agency Russia On April 18, Zelensky Corporate Travel Solutions LLC filed a bankruptcy claim against Global Point LLC, according to the files of the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. It has not yet been possible to obtain comments from the companies.

Verizon Communications' chances of buying Yahoo's Internet business have increased significantly after several serious bidders dropped out / Paul Sakuma / AP The deadline for preliminary bids to buy all or part of Yahoo's business expired on Monday. Initially, about 40 companies expressed interest in the deal, but now the number of contenders has sharply decreased. In particular, Alphabet, AT&T, Comcast, InterActiveCorp (IAC) and Time Inc. have dropped out of the race.

April 18, 2016, 23:22 / Business Evraz has restored a five-day working week Throughout the first quarter, administrative and management personnel worked for four days Vitaly Petlevoy Evraz has returned to ZSMK a five-day working week for administrative and managerial employees, said the company’s employees and was confirmed by a company representative / Evraz “The return to a five-day work week is due to seasonal growth in demand from the construction sector, as well as rising prices for

The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice will submit documents to Russia within two days to transfer Nadezhda Savchenko, convicted in Russia in the case of the murder of Russian journalists, to Kiev, the head of the department Pavel Petrenko said. "We will submit the relevant documents literally, I think, within the next two days.

April 18, 2016, 23:41 / Business The agricultural complex of the family of Minister Tkachev entered the top 10 owners of agricultural land Igor Khudokormov remains the largest latifundist Irina Skrynnik For the first time, the Agrocomplex named after Agrocomplex entered the top ten largest owners of agricultural land in Russia. N. I.

A passenger wounded two security officers with a gas pistol in the Moscow metro, TASS reports . As the head of the press service of the Metro Police Department, Alexey Myshlyaev, told the agency, this happened on Monday. The drunk man was going to go to the Bagrationovskaya station without a ticket. Security officers tried to stop him, but he pulled out a pistol and "sprayed the officers twice in their faces," the Moscow agency quotes a police representative as saying.

April 19, 2016, 15:03 / Finance / Real estate The Russian Ministry of Finance does not support the idea of ​​banning early repayment of mortgages Vedomosti The Russian Ministry of Finance does not support the idea of ​​banning early repayment of mortgage loans, Deputy Head of the Department Alexey Moiseev said at the April International Scientific Conference of the Higher School of Economics.

Nikolai Polozov, the lawyer for Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who was convicted in Russia, met with his client on Tuesday and said that she had agreed to temporarily end her hunger strike and had started drinking water. He wrote about this on his Facebook page. Now, according to the lawyer, the health condition of the convicted woman has been stabilized by intravenous infusions. He expressed hope that the issue of Savchenko's return to Ukraine will be resolved soon.

April 19, 2016, 17:59 / Business / Technology The "Steve Jobs in a Skirt" startup is being checked for criminal violations Theranos medical laboratory may have misled investors and officials Christopher Weaver John Carreyrou Michael Ciconolfi Until recently, Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos were very popular among investors and fans of new technologies / Mike Blake / Reuters US authorities have launched a criminal investigation into blood testing startup Theranos, people familiar with