The Israeli government has approved the construction of a new settlement near Nablus, the first in the West Bank in 25 years. The Jerusalem Post reports that the Israeli security cabinet announced the decision late on March 30. The settlement will be built in the Emek Shilo area. It will house people who were previously evicted by the court from the Amona settlement, which was deemed illegally built.

March 31, 2017, 01:37 / Business Exclusively by subscription A new terminal worth 77 billion rubles will appear in the port of Primorsk Investor - co-owner of the Factor timber terminal in Ust-Luga Ramis Deberdeev Valeria Lebedeva A new cargo terminal will appear in Primorsk / Evgeny Egorov / Vedomosti The interdepartmental commission for the deployment of production forces of the Leningrad Region has agreed on a project for the development of a transshipment terminal in the port of Primorsk,

The Federation Council has developed amendments to the trade law, which provide for limiting the operating hours of hypermarkets in Russia. The first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Agricultural and Food Policy and Environmental Management, Sergei Lisovsky, spoke about this. “We have already prepared amendments: this is a restriction on work on weekends.

According to an investigation by Mediapart , the leader of the French National Front, Marine Le Pen, tried to get a loan from the Russian bank Strategy in June 2016. The party planned to use the 3 million euro loan for Le Pen's presidential campaign. Bank Strategy lost its license in July 2016. The publication does not specify whether the National Front received a loan. Le Pen herself said that she did not receive money in Russia.

When 16-year-old Boston high school student Alex Pace wants to hang out with her favorite young musician, Zach Clayton, she connects her smartphone to the musician's daily live broadcast on his channel, watches his performance for 10-15 minutes, and then sends his idol a few virtual dollars. tips. Aspiring comedian and musician Clayton calls his fans by name in gratitude and performs a few dance moves for them. Live broadcasting on the Internet helps budding musicians make money.

Moscow authorities have allowed the New Opposition to hold an anti-crisis rally on April 8. This was reported by the organization's press secretary Roman Kovalev. The rally will begin at 2:00 p.m. near the Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station, on the square near the monument to the Heroes of the Revolution of 1905-1907. According to Kovalev, the event is intended to tell citizens about the causes and consequences of the crisis in Russia and to formulate an anti-crisis plan.

Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was hospitalized in the United States, his wife Maria Novikova reported. "Yevgeny Aleksandrovich was hospitalized in serious condition, I can't talk about the details yet. I can only say that this is not a planned examination," TASS quotes her as saying. The poet is 84 years old. Yevtushenko's first poem was published in the newspaper "Soviet Sport".

Sergei Nikitin resigns from his position as head of Amnesty International's representative office in Russia. this Nikitin reported on his Facebook page . “May 2017 is approaching, and, among other things, it is in this month that I will celebrate my sixtieth birthday. The time has come to tell wider circles of friends and acquaintances that in May 2017 I intend to retire, that is, to leave my post as head of Amnesty International in the Russian Federation,” he wrote.

When Igor Sechin, despite Western sanctions, agreed to sell a 19.5% stake in Rosneft to Glencore and the Qatar Investment Authority in December, many hoped that the deal would revive the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Russian economy. It didn’t work out: from the point of view of attracting funds to projects from scratch, investments in which are monitored by fDi Markets (a division of the Financial Times), Russia remains an uninteresting place for investors.

The Director General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Ingrid Delentre warned the Ukrainian authorities that some countries may refuse to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 due to Russia being barred from entering. As reported, the Security Service of Ukraine has banned Russian participant Yulia Samoylova from entering the country.

March 31, 2017, 13:16 / Finance FC Otkritie Bank increased its stake in Rosgosstrakh to 19.8% The insurer's shareholders borrowed money from the bank as collateral for their shares Tatyana Lomskaya FC Otkritie Bank increased its share in Rosgosstrakh to 19.8% / S. Nikolaev / Vedomosti FC Otkritie Bank acquired a package of 72 billion shares of Rosgosstrakh as part of a repo transaction, increasing its share in the authorized capital of the insurer from 4.4 to 19.8%, the bank reported.

March 31, 2017, 00:51 / Real estate A third of tenders in road construction in 2016 were declared invalid - FAS In addition, there are many cartel agreements in the industry Ekaterina Mereminskaya Tender collusion undermines cost-effective spending of funds / Alexandra Astakhova / Vedomosti 30% of road construction tenders were declared invalid in 2016, writes the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) in the draft national plan for the development of competition.

15 criminal cases In Russia and the CIS, cases were opened in 2016 following Tricolor TV's appeal about the violation of the operator's copyright, and guilty verdicts have already been issued for seven of them, the company reported. This is more than the year before (specific figures for 2015 were not indicated in the report). Law enforcement agencies also opened 19 administrative cases, and 1,070 Internet resources were blocked.

Heads of structural units are required to stop the equipment, then ensure its safety, as well as ensure minimal consumption of all types of energy resources. Shift personnel are transferred to a daily work schedule. Plant employees will clean workplaces, production sites and areas. At the moment, employees are paid wages in full.

March 31, 2017, 15:53 ​​/ Business / News Rospotrebnadzor told where sanctioned products are sold in Russia undefined Vedomosti Small volumes of embargoed products in Russia are sold not by large retailers, but by small shops, said Natalya Andriyashina, head of the legal department of Rospotrebnadzor.