April 28, 2017, 20:51 / Finance Rosgosstrakh received 33 billion rubles of net loss according to IFRS The company's report for 2016 is missing an important page Tatyana Lomskaya The reporting of Rosgosstrakh has not been published in full / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti The net loss of Rosgosstrakh according to international reporting standards in 2016 increased sevenfold - to 33 billion rubles, according to the company’s disclosure.

Group's revenue Mail.ru in the first quarter of 2017 increased by 24.4% compared to the same period in 2016 to RUB 12.6 billion, EBITDA by 10.7% to RUB 4.8 billion, net profit increased by 25.4% to RUB 3.5 billion. EBITDA margin amounted to 38.6%. Mail.ru Group's revenue exceeded the expectations of analysts surveyed by Interfax: they predicted that this figure would grow by 21.7% to 11.8 billion rubles, EBITDA by 0.8% to 4.5 billion rubles, profitability EBITDA will be 38.5%.

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron from the En Marche! party has called on the European Union to impose sanctions on Poland. He said he would insist on this if elected president. "Three months after my election, a decision will be made on Poland... We cannot afford a country that has such serious differences with the EU on taxes and social policy," Macron said in an interview with the Ouest-France newspaper.

The Safmar group of Mikhail Gutseriev and Mikail Shishkhanov offered the minority shareholders of M.Video to buy shares from them at $7 per share, reports RBC , citing a message from the retailer. In December 2016, the main owners of M.video - Alexander Tynkovan, founder and president of M.video, Pavel Breev and Mikhail Tynkovan - agreed to sell 57.7% of PJSC M.video for $726 million to the Safmar group Gutseriev family.

The defense of the former head of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Sugrobov filed an appeal against the verdict. As lawyer Eduard Isetsky told TASS, the defense of the convicted person is asking for the sentence to be overturned.

North Korea is US President Donald Trump's biggest global challenge, he told Reuters on the eve of his 100th day in office. “There is a possibility that we could have a serious, very serious conflict with North Korea. Absolutely,” he said. This is due to the US opposition to the DPRK nuclear and missile program. “We would like to resolve the issue peacefully, but it is very difficult,” Trump said.

The Ministry of Justice has prepared amendments to the law on NGOs, tightening control over organizations that perform the functions of foreign agents / M. Novikov / Vedomosti The Ministry of Justice has prepared amendments to the law on NPOs, tightening control over organizations that perform the functions of foreign agents. This is stated in the annual report on the activities of such NPOs, which the department submitted to the State Duma (Vedomosti has a copy).

April 28, 2017, 01:00 / Finance Exclusively by subscription The exchange will reduce corporate governance requirements for bond issuers This is necessary in order to replenish the top quotation list - some companies have long outgrown it Emma Terchenko The exchange gave the green light to issuers to enter the top quotation list without good corporate governance / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Previously on the topic: Banks operating under a simplified scheme will still be able to lend to large

WikiLeaks has released a new, sixth, batch of classified documents belonging to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The publication, called Vault, follows the previous batch of classified documents, which was named "Weeping Angel" and was released on April 21.

Rostelecom's advancement in Moscow is noticeable – the operator is actively offering its services in new buildings / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Rostelecom's broadband user base in Moscow grew by just over 4% in January-March 2017 to 0.87 million, according to a report by Telecom Daily. MGTS's broadband user base grew by 1.5% to 1.36 million over the same period. Rostelecom and MGTS's net subscriber base growth in Moscow for the quarter was 35,000 and 20,000 subscribers.

April 28, 2017, 14:10 / Finance / News The ruble began to rise against the dollar and the euro following the Central Bank’s decision to cut rates undefined Vedomosti After a local decline, the ruble began to rise against the dollar and the euro due to the decision of the Central Bank of Russia to lower the key rate by 50 basis points - to 9.25% per annum. The US dollar exchange rate at 13.31 Moscow time was 57.19 rubles/$1, which is 17 kopecks.

April 28, 2017, 15:25 / Business The head of Rosselkhoznadzor proposed returning to Soviet product quality standards Vedomosti The head of Rosselkhoznadzor, Sergei Dankvert, proposed returning to Soviet product quality standards. As TASS reports , he suggested this on Rossiya 24. “Why do we say that the standards of the Soviet Union were bad? They were not bad, they were correct, because then we had guaranteed quality,” the official recalled.

Ukrainian Oschadbank has begun confiscating the seized money of former President Viktor Yanukovych and his associates. This money is being transferred to government accounts, UNIAN reports .

April 28, 2017, 15:59 / Economics US GDP growth slowed to a three-year low in the first quarter Vedomosti US GDP growth in the first quarter of 2017 amounted to 0.7% in annualized terms, slowing from 2.1% in the fourth quarter of last year, according to preliminary data from the US Department of Commerce. Wall Street analysts on average expected a 1% rise. The growth rate of the American economy was the weakest since January - March 2014, when a decline in GDP was recorded.

Social networks “VKontakte”, “Odnoklassniki” and “My World” are introducing a paid subscription to music from today - 149 rubles. per month, said a representative of Mail.ru Group (owns all three social networks). The subscription will work both in desktop versions of social networks and in mobile applications - both in VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and My World on iOS and Android, and in the Boom application created by Mail.ru together with United Media Agency (UMA) Oleg Butenko.