Alexei Kudrin's return to power has been truncated. He is not returning to power exactly, but becoming its adviser, strategist. At the Center for Strategic Research (CSR), which was the forge of the program for Vladimir Putin's first term (let's call it "Putin-1"), Kudrin will be engaged in preparing reforms. That is, probably the "Putin-4" program. But the reforms that German Gref's team prepared at the CSR were later implemented by the government.

Sberbank sharply reduced rates on retail foreign currency and ruble deposits. Rates for retail deposits in euros for investments for up to a year, as promised by the bank’s deputy chairman of the board Alexander Morozov in an interview with Bloomberg, fell “well below 1%” to almost zero and now amount to 0.01-0.1% per annum. The yield on deposits for a period of one year was reduced by 0.5 percentage points.

There is still no answer to the question of who shot down the Boeing 777 over Donbass / Lai Seng Sin / AP A trailer for BBC Two's The Secret Files appeared late on 24 April on the network's website. The investigation promises to answer the question "Who shot down MH17?" (the Boeing 777 that exploded in eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur). The tragedy killed 298 people. British viewers will see the film on 3 May at 9pm local time.

April 25, 2016, 16:34 / Finance / Technology The Central Bank recommended banks to monitor employees In the future, the fight against information leaks from within banks may become mandatory Pavel Kantyshev Anna Eremina From May 1 of this year, the recommendations of the Bank of Russia on combating internal violators will come into effect for Russian banks / M.

April 25, 2016, 16:33 / Business Lukoil will allocate 25% of profits according to IFRS for dividends Vedomosti The Board of Directors of Lukoil decided to develop and approve a new version of the dividend policy regulations by the end of this year.

US President Barack Obama will announce today the deployment of 250 military specialists to Syria to help fight the Islamic State (IS, banned in Russia) terrorist group, The Wall Street Journal reported. The decision will be announced at a meeting between the US president and leaders of several European countries in Hanover.

Michael Shannon (left) and Kevin Spacey did not strive for portrait resemblance to the characters, but they copied the gestures perfectly / KINOPOISK.RU In December 1970, Elvis Presley met with US President Richard Nixon at the White House. The meeting took place at the initiative of Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter. The singer (whom most fans simply addressed as the King) dreamed of becoming a special agent in the FBI's drug enforcement agency.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky's press secretary, Külle Pispanen, has not heard from Interpol representatives that the organization might reconsider its decision to refuse to put her boss on the wanted list. She told the radio station "Moscow Speaks" that she is not inclined to trust media sources. "I don't know these sources. It all looks like another canard and a fabrication by the Investigative Committee.

Meanwhile, on Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry told The New York Times about the preparation of a new system of Russian-American monitoring of the situation in Syria: “We proposed to draw a line, an absolute line: you don’t go there, and we don’t go here, and everything in the middle will be fair game” / Alexander Nemenov / AP The opposition High Negotiations Committee said on Friday it wanted to "take a break" from the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva.

Latvian nationalists are demanding an apology from Riga Mayor Nils Usakovs for a joke he posted on social media. The mayor published a cartoon on the topic of Soviet occupation. He ridiculed the extent of the damage allegedly suffered by Latvia from the actions of the USSR leadership. The apology is being demanded, in particular, by the nationalist association "Everything for Latvia! - For the Fatherland and Freedom/Movement for the National Independence of Latvia", TASS reports.

As a result of the reform, the special unit of the Drug Control Service "Thunder" will most likely transfer to the service of the National Guard. This was reported to Interfax by a source in the security agencies. According to him, in the Drug Control Service, the special forces performed tasks as part of the department of special and forensic support.

April 24, 2016, 10:48 pm / Finance The Central Bank has drawn up rules for the rehabilitation of banks The main requirement for “doctors” is to have a capital of at least 10% of the “patient’s” liabilities, including DIA money Anna Eremina Daria Borisyak The Central Bank wants its money to go towards the health of the patient, not his doctor / E.

The Far Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk has decided to hear the case of embezzlement during the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome in a closed session. According to TASS, this was reported to journalists by court secretary Anna Eroshchenkova. The preliminary hearings, which began on April 25 and will last at least two days, had been decided to be held in a closed session even earlier.

In 2016, retail lending will decline by approximately 5%, according to the government-approved macro forecast (Vedomosti has a copy). The restoration of lending will begin only next year with “insignificant growth rates”, in 2018–2019. the increase could be 7–9%, the document says. This forecast is based on the fact that this year inflation will be at the level of 9% (conservatively), labor costs will be contained, which means that household demand will continue to fall, the report says.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the observance of the ceasefire in Syria by telephone. They also agreed to continue cooperation within the International Syria Support Group.