March 07, 2018, 15:03 / Business BlackBerry sues Facebook for intellectual property infringement Vedomosti Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry has filed a lawsuit in California against Facebook , which it accuses of violating intellectual property rights, reports The Verge defendants in the complaint subsidiaries, the operators of the WhatsApp messenger and the Instagram application, will also be . Facebook's .

Ivan Popov, CEO of Krasavia Airlines, has been detained as a suspect. The issue of a preventive measure is being considered, Interfax reports, citing the press service of the Transport Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The case, initiated under Article 160 of the Criminal Code (embezzlement committed using one’s official position on an especially large scale) against Popov, is being handled by the transport police.

About 10 billion rubles have been allocated for the design of metro stations and lines that will be built from 2021 to 2025, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Development Policy and Urban Development Marat Khusnullin told reporters. “We are already working on the design of new metro lines and stations that will be built from 2021 to 2025. About 10 billion rubles have been allocated for these purposes,” Khusnullin said.

Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak does not intend to demand criminal prosecution of former Moscow City Duma intern Alan Dzutsev, who pushed her and doused her with water. Sobchak wrote about this on Instagram. An administrative case for petty hooliganism under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses has now been opened against Dzutsev. "I want to state that regardless of the decision on this case, I do not intend to appeal it and will not demand criminal prosecution.

Sergei Petrov said that he is primarily interested in the radio station "Iskatel" / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Since December 2017, Sergei Petrov has owned 49.5% of shares in Bianka-Media LLC, according to data from the Kartoreka.ru service. Petrov confirmed to Vedomosti that he had become a co-owner of the company and specified that he had bought out part of the package from Tatyana Bubentsova, who retained a controlling stake in the project.

Helmut Maucher died at the age of 90 In Germany, former CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nestle . This was said in a statement . Maucher died in Bad Homburg at his own residence. “Maucher dedicated a large part of his life to Nestle ... Much of what we have now is the merit of Helmut Maucher,” the message quotes current chairman Paul Bühlke. Maucher began his career at Nestlé in Germany. In 1980, he moved to Switzerland and became vice president of the company.

March 07, 2018, 09:13 / Business / News The media learned about Sechin’s appeal to the Kremlin for tax benefits worth 145 billion rubles undefined Vedomosti Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a request for a tax incentive of 145 billion rubles. in year. about this writes Kommersant with reference to a letter from the head of the company dated February 8.

March 07, 2018, 09:23 / Business The media reported on illegal landfills at the fields of Rosneft and Lukoil undefined Vedomosti at the license areas of Rosneft, Lukoil - Western Siberia and other oil refining companies in the Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug).

A participant in a single-person picket outside the State Duma building / Mikhail Dzhaparidze / TASS What Speaker Volodin said On the morning of March 7, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin commented on new accusations against the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Relations, LDPR deputy Leonid Slutsky, about whose sexual harassment several journalists reported.

07 March 2018, 14:06 / Finance A fund close to Kerimov agreed to purchase Vozrozhdenie Bank Its representatives occupied 2/3 of the board of directors of the bank Alexander Astapenko Danis Yumabaev Vozrozhdenie is up for sale: after the reorganization of Promsvyazbank, the Central Bank ordered the main owner of both banks, Dmitry Ananyev, to reduce his stake in the bank to 10% or less by March 18 / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The Bonum Capital fund, close to Senator Suleiman Kerimov, has reached

Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent, The Guardian reports , citing sources. This is indicated by medical and chemical evidence, the newspaper writes. The Guardian's sources do not specify what exactly Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with, but the most well-known substances of this type are sarin and vx. The latter was previously used to poison Kim Jong-nam, the brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Moscow took 71st place in the ranking of world cities by volume of investment in commercial real estate with an indicator of $3.5 billion at the end of 2017, according to the annual Knight Frank study on the distribution of wealth in the world The Wealth Report 2018. Los Angeles received the most investment money, taking first place in the ranking: $21.3 billion was invested in commercial real estate there. Second place goes to Central London ($20.8 billion).

Sistema Finance SA, a structure of AFK Sistema , sold more than 3.1 million ordinary shares of MTS to the operator's subsidiary, Stream Digital LLC. The deal was made as part of MTS's share buyback program. This was reported in a statement by AFK Sistema . The transaction amounted to approximately 930 million rubles. Sistema's effective share in MTS capital has not changed and amounts to 50.004%.

March 07, 2018, 10:30 / Finance Sberbank increased its net profit in February by 37% undefined Vedomosti Sberbank earned 63.8 billion rubles in February 2018. according to RAS, the state bank said in a statement. This is 36.6% more than in February 2017. The bank's net commission income increased by 22.4% compared to January-February 2017, and the amount of loans issued in February (RUB 1.3 trillion) was twice as high as last year.

Withdrawal of funds from exchange accounts suspended pending investigation / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Binance users are reporting a possible hack of this crypto exchange – they wrote about it in its official Telegram chat and on Twitter. Some complain that their assets were converted into Viacoin cryptocurrency at an inflated rate without their participation.