05 May 2016, 09:46 / Business Alrosa's Supervisory Board recommended spending 15.4 billion rubles on dividends for 2015 Vedomosti The Supervisory Board of Alrosa recommended that shareholders at the annual meeting approve the payment of dividends based on the results of 2015 at the rate of 2.09 rubles. per ordinary share, the company said in a statement. The total amount of payments will be 15.393 billion rubles.

04 May 2016, 23:45 / Finance Financial start-ups are increasingly crowding out banks in the UK is a conservative client and it is not easy to change them Tatiana Bochkareva Barclays didn’t come out with a new product because of a good life / Matt Dunham / AP Barclays has started offering mortgages without a down payment, writes FT. Provided that the borrower's family opens a three-year deposit in the amount of 10% of the cost of housing.

There was a failure in the search system in the App Store / A. Astakhova / Vedomosti The App Store has experienced a global failure in the search system - it is impossible to find applications by keywords. For example, applications from the YouTube video hosting service, Instagram photo service, Candy Crush Saga game, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki social networks and others have "disappeared" from the store, a Vedomosti correspondent found out.

04 May 2016, 22:34 / Management How large Russian companies can develop innovation Businesses will first have to overcome four major obstacles Gulnara Bikkulova , Deputy General Director of the Russian Venture Company (RVC) Lack of staff. To develop innovation, employees atypical for large businesses are needed—entrepreneurs within large corporations.

Read also: Another millionaire has been found - a friend of Vladimir Putin On May 5, a Russian government delegation headed by Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky visited Syrian Palmyra. As a Vedomosti correspondent reports, the delegation, in particular, included the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky and the artistic director of the St. Petersburg House of Music, cellist and friend of Vladimir Putin Sergei Roldugin.

"Media Alliance" - a joint venture of "National Media Group" and Discovery Communications - has closed a deal to purchase the Russian portfolio of Turner TV channels. As a result of the deal, Media Alliance will be engaged in the distribution and marketing of children's channels Cartoon Network and Boomerang, as well as the news channel CNN in Russia, the company said in a statement. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

transport group The Fesco committed a technical default on Eurobonds maturing in 2018 ($415 million in circulation, according to the company’s website) and a coupon on bonds maturing in 2020 ($219 million in circulation). The company was supposed to pay the coupon on May 4, but announced that it would not do so.

The general director of the Kommersant publishing house, Maria Komarova, is moving to work on the board of directors of the television holding company UTV. This was reported on the website of the Kommersant newspaper. The position of general director of the Kommersant publishing house will be taken by Vladimir Zhelonkin, who is the chairman of the board of directors of the publishing house.

The total volume of the reserve fund as of May 1, 2016 amounted to 2.892 trillion rubles, which is equivalent to $44.96 billion, the national welfare fund (NWF) - 4.752 trillion rubles, which is equivalent to $73.86 billion, the Russian Ministry of Finance said in a statement. The reserve fund as of April 1 amounted to 3.421 trillion rubles. ($50.60 billion), National Welfare Fund - 4.947 trillion rubles. ($73.18 billion).

Some of the migrants detained in Moscow by FSB officers will be released or deported. Only four have been arrested, Interfax reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. "There are no grounds for criminal prosecution of the rest - they will be released or deported if their presence on Russian territory is illegal," he said. According to him, some of those detained will be used as witnesses in the criminal case.

Russian mobile OS to be developed by Grigory Berezkin's company / M. Stulov / Vedomosti Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov announced on his Twitter account the opening of the Russian Mobile Operating System Development Center in Innopolis, Tatarstan. Moscow smartphone market close to saturation Technologies / Personal technologies The development will be carried out by the company "Open Mobile Platform", follows from the minister's statement.

In the first quarter of 2016, 74% more tourists from China visited Russia than a year earlier, said Dmitry Gorin, vice-president of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR). For the entire 2015, according to Rosstat, 28.4% more Chinese visited Russia than in 2014. But since the total number of tourists from China is relatively small, their share in the total tourist flow is growing only slightly, says Gorin.

05 May 2016, 18:27 / Business Belgium will soon have a beer pipeline Its owner has found an unusual reason to finance the construction, which will appeal to every beer lover Matthias Verbergt The pipe under the streets of Bruges will transport 5,700 liters of beer per hour / WSJ / Mahaux Xavier Vanneste, owner of the brewing company De Halve Maan (Half Moon), is close to realizing his dream of building a beer pipeline.

05 May 2016, 16:38 / Economics Inflation in Russia in April amounted to 0.4% Vedomosti Inflation in Russia in April 2016 was 0.4%; since the beginning of the year, consumer prices have increased by 2.5%, as stated on the Rosstat website . In April 2015, inflation was 0.5%. Food prices increased by 0.4% compared to March, and by 5.3% in annual terms.

The ceasefire declared in Syria on February 27 is constantly being violated. What has happened in Aleppo, Syria's most difficult region, in the last two weeks could put an end to this strange fiery truce. A UN Security Council meeting was supposed to be held on Wednesday evening to discuss the situation in Aleppo. According to UN officials, 279 civilians in the city have been killed in airstrikes since April 22: 155 in opposition-controlled areas and 124 by government forces.