May 02, 2017, 00:50 / Business Kirill Shamalov sold 17% of Sibur He could have earned about $100 million from the purchase and sale of this stake. Alexander Terentyev Kirill Shamalov profitably invested in Sibur shares / Kirill Kallinikov / RIA Novosti Mikhelson agreed to purchase 100% of Sibur from Gazprombank at the end of 2010. And almost immediately he began to attract partners. In 2011, 37.5% of the company's shares went to Timchenko.

Politics The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday is unlikely to allow the parties to overcome broad geopolitical differences read on FT.com National Front leader Marine Le Pen is trying to win over far-left voters.

Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel met in Sochi / Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Who and how earns money on food supplies to the DPR and LPR Business / Trade and Services Russian President Vladimir Putin received German Chancellor Angela Merkel at his residence in Sochi. The main topic of the visit was to be a discussion of preparations for the July G20 summit in Hamburg, German government and chancellor press secretary Steffen Seibert noted earlier.

“The agreement on bridge financing regulates the obligations to provide a bridge loan to Nord Stream 2 AG (up to 70% of the total project costs, or up to 6.65 billion euros) at an interest rate of 6.0% per annum,” the statement says. Russian company. The parties to the transaction are Engie, OMV, Shell, Uniper and Wintershall.

Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan will discuss the situation in Syria in Sochi on May 3, said Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “The Syrian issue will, of course, be discussed during the negotiations,” Peskov said. Earlier, the Turkish side officially announced that during the talks between the presidents of Russia and Turkey on May 3, Russian proposals on four de-escalation zones in Syria would be discussed.

Roskomnadzor began to limit pirate distributions by limiting access to the auxiliary service of torrent trackers - “announcers,” the agency reported on its official Facebook . Read on vedomosti.ru “Announcers collect the data necessary to organize sustainable file sharing, for example: who downloads and distributes what files, at what stage users are downloading a particular file.

The customer held a competition for the development of documentation a year and a half ago / Evgeny Egorov / Vedomosti The Presidential Property Management Department (UPD) has announced a closed tender for the development of working documentation for the construction of a judicial quarter. The notice was published on Friday on the state procurement website. Applications will be accepted until May 29. The review of applications is scheduled for June 1.

At the annual meeting, shareholders of PJSC Sibur Holding elected a new board of directors of the company, which included a representative of the group's new shareholder, the Silk Road Fund. This is the fund's executive vice president, Wang Dan. In January, Sibur shareholders and the Chinese investment fund Silk Road closed a deal to sell 10% of Sibur shares to the fund after receiving all regulatory approvals. The deal was completed at the end of 2015.

May 02, 2017, 21:56 / Business / News Alitalia placed under emergency administration undefined Vedomosti Alitalia airline, on the verge of bankruptcy, has been placed under emergency administration. As Transport and Infrastructure Minister Graziano Delrio said on Tuesday, the government has issued a corresponding decree. Earlier, the board of directors of the company, which is 49% owned by Etihad Airways, approved a formal request for a procedure for launching emergency management.

German officials close to Angela Merkel tell Bloomberg privately they have no doubt the Kremlin is behind a spate of misleading media reports aimed at undermining the chancellor's re-election prospects. Officials in Berlin said they had so far seen no evidence of direct Russian interference in the election campaign, although intelligence officials warned of possible attempts to influence the vote through hackers.

May 02, 2017, 01:12 / Personal account State employees without a Mir card may be left without a salary To prevent this from happening, they need to have time to issue a card before July 1, 2018 Anna Eremina The Mir card is becoming increasingly necessary for state employees / Evgeniy Egorov / Vedomosti If the bank receives funds for a public sector employee without a Mir card, there will be no difficulties, Alexander Petrov, director of card technologies at Promsvyazbank, is sure.

The increase in subscription fees in VimpelCom’s new package tariffs for Moscow subscribers ranged from 10 to 40% compared to the previous line of tariffs, as follows from the operator’s materials. The amount of Internet traffic in most tariffs has also increased. Thus, the second most expensive tariff in the line increased in price by 10% to 551 rubles.

May 02, 2017, 10:48 / Business / News The annual net loss of Pharmacy Chain 36.6 increased 8 times undefined Vedomosti In 2016, the net loss according to IFRS of Pharmacy Chain 36.6 amounted to 9.345 billion rubles, which is 8.1 times more than a year ago, the company reported. The net loss of the network in 2015 amounted to 1.16 billion rubles, recalls Prime.

Leaders Pull Away / David Goldman / AP Quarterly results from Amazon and Google parent Alphabet show their growing dominance in the tech industry. Alphabet’s net profit rose 29% to $5.43 billion, despite a boycott by some advertisers over online ads appearing next to extremist content. Amazon’s profit rose 41% to $724 million, marking its eighth consecutive quarter of profit despite investments to expand its business, and its shares have risen 53% in the past year.

The Naftogaz of Ukraine concern plans to reduce transit tariffs after the end of contracts with the Russian Gazprom in 2019, Prime reports citing the DPA agency, which, in turn, refers to one of the directors, Yuriy Vitrenko. “Starting 2020, tariffs will be reduced by about one tenth, and this will make the Ukrainian gas transmission system significantly cheaper than Nord Stream 2,” he said. Vitrenko criticized the Russian project as “economically unjustified” construction.