UC Rusal to postpone repayment of $700 million debt for two years / M. Stulov / Vedomosti Aluminum company UC Rusal has agreed with holders of a $5.15 billion pre-export loan that it will repay part of the $700 million debt, which the company was supposed to repay in 2016 and the first quarter of 2017, in 2018-2020, according to an announcement from the company.

Throughout the performance, the actors stand in the same places, sometimes they sit down / Leysan Faizullina The text seems to be overheard and edited at random. Teenage schoolchildren are riding a bus, in the subway, walking down the street. “Vitalik: It’s cooler on the platform! Olya: Cooler, huh? Dima: Cooler in general! Nastya: Awesome! Olya: Sad, sad! It probably won’t happen today!” They are talking about the underground hum, which is loudest in the metro, but can be heard outside as well.

At the autumn elections to the State Duma, the LDPR intends to save on television campaigning / M. Stulov / Vedomosti On Monday, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) celebrated the 70th birthday of its permanent leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky in central Moscow. The celebrations were combined with an unofficial start to the election campaign: public festivities were organized near the Manezh and a buffet for 5,000 guests.

The application with legal music "Vkontakte" is currently only available to users of Apple devices / E. Razumny / Vedomosti VKontakte has launched its first application with legal music for iPhone and iPad – Music VKontakte. It was published in the Apple AppStore on April 22, and the author is listed as United Media Agency (UMA).

Eleven people have died in three years during the construction of Olympic facilities in Rio de Janeiro, AFP reports, citing the press service of the regional labor department. Three workers were reported killed while building a new metro line, and two more were killed in the Olympic Park, where most of the competitions will take place. "It's a scary number. It's practically the roster of a football team," said Rio de Janeiro state labor bureau inspector Robson Leite.

By 8:25 Moscow time, June Brent crude futures were trading on the London ICE Futures exchange at $44.73 per barrel, while the price of June WTI futures in New York was at $42.88 per barrel. On Monday, oil fell by 2.5%, and is rising on Tuesday in anticipation of the publication of data on fuel reserves in the country by the US Department of Energy, Interfax reports . Analysts polled by Bloomberg expect that reserves in the US grew by 1.5 million barrels last week.

64% of Russians consider it extremely unlikely that an accident with the same severe consequences as the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant will happen again in Russia, according to a poll conducted by VTsIOM. 20% of respondents chose the option “quite likely,” 8% - “quite likely.” The poll was conducted on April 9-10, 2016, by telephone using a stratified two-frame random sample of landline and mobile numbers among 1,600 people.

In Russia, the actual wage arrears are significantly higher than the official data from Rosstat, according to the report of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika on the work of his department in 2015. As Prime reminds us , the report will be presented on April 27 in the Federation Council. "According to Rosstat, as of January 1, 2016, wage arrears amounted to 3.572 billion rubles (as of January 1, 2015 - 2 billion rubles).

Bashneft is asking for an economic assessment of the additional conditions for the privatization of its state-owned stake, proposed by JSC NNK of former Rosneft President Eduard Khudainatov, believing that they do not comply with antitrust legislation. This is stated in a letter from Bashneft President Alexander Korsik to the Federal Property Management Agency, the text of which was reviewed by the Oil Information Agency (ANI).

Alibaba's financial unit raises $4.5 billion in funding The financial arm of Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group Holdings has raised $4.5 billion in its latest funding round, Bloomberg reports. Ant Financial Services Group, formerly Zhejiang Ant Small & Micro Financial Services Group Co., had previously expected to raise about $3.5 billion, but investor demand exceeded its expectations. The investors included sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp.

From the sky-high crisis heights, Sberbank deposit rates have gradually dropped to European levels / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti Since Monday, Sberbank has sharply reduced the rates of retail currency and ruble deposits. A deposit in euros for a term of less than a year, as promised by the bank's deputy chairman of the board, Alexander Morozov, in an interview with Bloomberg, will bring in significantly less than 1% - the rates are now 0.01-0.1% per annum.

The stadium construction completion date under the contract is December 2016 / E. Egorov / Vedomosti The stadium under construction in St. Petersburg on Krestovsky Island, which will host matches of the Confederations Cup in 2017 and the World Cup in 2018, will be called "Krestovsky", the same name as its geographic location, the city's toponymic commission decided. As a result of a sociological survey of residents, 30.3% of St. Petersburg residents supported this name.

In Russia in 2015, the volume of cash withdrawal transactions decreased by a third and amounted to about 400 billion rubles.

The Main Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP) refused to approve the indictment in the case of Valery Puzikov, the son-in-law of former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. According to Kommersant, the court returned the case materials to the supervisory agency, and the prosecutor's office asked the investigation to give a legal assessment of the tax violations that the defendants in the case may have committed, and to recognize the Defense Ministry as the injured party.

Purchases of capital repair funds, in which budget funds are used, should be equated to state funds, the Ministry of Economic Development believes / A. Astakhova / Vedomosti By July 2016, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) must amend the law on public procurement – ​​extend it to funds and autonomous organizations. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed them to do this in March.