April 21, 2016, 14:04 / Finance The MICEX index broke an absolute record But only for a few minutes Marie Mesropyan The MICEX index broke the absolute record for several minutes / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti The MICEX index on Thursday morning reached its absolute maximum: by 10.04 Moscow time it reached 1976.69. The previous record was in December 2007 - 1970.46 points.

In 2015, Mail.ru increased its revenue by 11% to RUB 36.3 billion, EBITDA was RUB 18.12 billion. The net cash position (cash minus debt) was RUB 0.57 billion. This year, the company will have to repay RUB 4.9 billion of the RUB 22 billion Gazprombank loan at 11.5% per annum, which was taken out in September 2014 to consolidate VKontakte. Mail.ru complies with all covenants on this loan, the report says.

April 20, 2016, 10:57 pm / Finance The Housing Mortgage Lending Agency wants to replace the Ministry of Finance AHML intends to support the mortgage market when the state program for subsidizing interest rates ends Anna Eremina AHML intends to support the mortgage market when the state program for subsidizing the rate ends, expecting to reduce it by 0.8–1.2 percentage points / E.

In February 2016, Mikron submitted an application to VEB to finance about 80% of an investment project to create a serial production line for microcircuits using 55-45 nm technology with a total cost of 14 billion rubles, TASS reports. “We submitted the documents in February and sent them to VEB and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Since then, work has been going on to further clarify this application,” stated Mikron.

April 21, 2016, 11:12 / Finance / News The MICEX index updated its December 2007 maximum and turned downwards undefined Vedomosti On Thursday morning, the Russian stock market, on an externally positive note, updated the historical maximum for the MICEX index, recorded earlier in December 2007, but then turned down after oil due to profit-taking by players, Interfax reports.

April 21, 2016, 00:09 / Business IKEA will invest 700 million rubles in the construction of an interchange near the Mega Dybenko shopping center The road will help increase traffic to the center and relieve traffic congestion Evgeniy Fedorov Nadezhda Zaitseva Last year, IKEA negotiated the purchase of a site for the construction of a third shopping center in the Leningrad region / E. Egorov / Vedomosti Swedish retailer IKEA is ready to invest up to 700 million rubles.

Drivers caught drunk driving will have to pay a deposit equal to the fine for the violation to get their car back / TASS On Wednesday, the government submitted a bill to the State Duma that would require a deposit for the return of a detained vehicle if the driver was drunk. Once it is adopted, such drivers will have to pay a deposit equal to the maximum fine for the violation they committed when they receive their car, making it inevitable that they will have to pay the fine.

President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Ministry of Health to resolve the issue of allowing relatives to visit patients in intensive care. The department will have to "provide methodological support" to the regions to organize "if possible, visits by relatives of patients undergoing treatment in the anesthesiology and intensive care units of medical organizations," the press service said in a statement on the instructions given following the direct line with the president on April 14.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a law banning the showing of Russian films that were made after January 1, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada website reports . The bill was adopted by the Ukrainian parliament on March 29. The ban concerns "the broadcast of films produced by individuals and legal entities of the aggressor state that do not contain popularization or propaganda [of the aggressor state's agencies and their individual actions].

April 20, 2016, 23:43 / Business Rostransnadzor demanded that aircraft be equipped with video cameras The costs of cameras to transmit images from on board and prevent terrorist attacks will be enormous Alexander Vorobyov Rostransnadzor demands that aircraft be equipped with cameras, transmit images from on board and prevent terrorist attacks / E.

In order for high-speed Internet to appear in every village, the Ministry of Communications wants to protect the Universal Service Fund from misuse of funds / A. Astakhova / Vedomosti The universal service fund, to which all Russian operators contribute 1.2% of their revenue, should be targeted, and its funds should not be spent on other budget items, said Nikolai Nikiforov, Minister of Communications and Mass Media.

Chinese CNPC is interested in the privatization of Rosneft, the first vice president of this company, Wang Zhongcai, told reporters. According to Interfax, he added that the possible share that CNPC could buy would be discussed at the level of the heads of state of Russia and China. CNPC was not interested in the privatization of Bashneft, added Wang Zhongcai. would like to participate in the privatization of Bashneft Lukoil and the Independent Oil Company of Eduard Khudainatov .

April 20, 2016, 23:32 / Economics Excise taxes on gasoline should go to both the center and the regions The State Duma asks the Ministry of Finance to change the bill according to the word of the President Ekaterina Mereminskaya Half of the proceeds from the increase in excise taxes on gasoline will go to the regions - the State Duma asks the Ministry of Finance to redo the bill / E.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered changes to the legislation relating to fisheries before the end of the spring session of the State Duma, according to the list of instructions following the results of the direct line on April 14, published on the Kremlin website.

April 21, 2016, 13:10 / Economy / News Medvedev: $40 remains the base oil price for three years undefined Vedomosti Basic version of the economic development forecast for 2017-2019. calculated based on oil at $40 per barrel, conservative - at $25, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a government meeting. “At the moment, this forecast assumes that the oil price remains in the base version at $40 per barrel of Urals oil.