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March 13, 2018, 12:35 / Business Lavazza in Russia increased revenue by a third last year undefined Vedomosti In 2017, the revenue of the Italian coffee company Lavazza grew by 35% to 24 million euros. This was stated by Lavazza Marketing Director in Eastern Europe Paola Autiero, Interfax reports. At the same time, sales of bean coffee in monetary terms increased by 8.3%, in physical terms - by 8%, ground coffee - by 5 and 6%, respectively, and capsules for coffee machines - by 7 and 1%.

Former co-owner of Euroset Yevgeny Chichvarkin, who left Moscow for London in 2009 and was later accused of kidnapping and extortion in Russia, said that he noticed surveillance shortly after moving. This was reported by The New York Times, citing the businessman himself. According to the businessman, he was being watched by a group of two or three people who stood for hours 100 meters from the front door of his house.

March 13, 2018, 11:56 am / Business “Wine villages” will appear in Crimea undefined Vedomosti One of the largest wineries in Crimea, Massandra, will open specialized fairs - wine villages - for the new holiday season, reports . the press service of the enterprise The project is designed to attract tourists not only to the large cities of the peninsula, but also to small villages where wine farms are concentrated. “We will start opening wine villages by May.

Deputy Secretary of State Steve Goldstein was fired following the US State Department chief Rex Tillerson, CNN reports. The dismissal is due to the fact that his statement about the circumstances of Tillerson's resignation contradicts the official position of the White House, NBC reported, citing an official representative of the US presidential administration.

March 13, 2018, 04:20 / Politics Tillerson blames Russia for Skripal poisoning undefined Vedomosti Russia is most likely responsible for the poisoning of ex-GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a nerve agent in Salisbury. This is stated in a statement by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. He noted that US authorities are aware of the investigation conducted by British intelligence agencies and “fully trust” their conclusions.

The American company Kitty Hawk, whose investors include Google co-founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page, conducted tests of an unmanned air taxi in New Zealand. about this . writes The New York Times This could lead to the emergence of a network of flying taxis in New Zealand within three years, the newspaper notes. The development of this taxi took almost eight years, according to the Kitty Hawk website. Kitty Hawk's self-driving taxi is called Cora. It looks like a prototype airplane.

Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti Today, developers are forced to allocate the first floors of residential buildings for commercial premises for businesses – there should be no housing on the first floors at the request of the authorities. However, businesses are not interested in all such areas and not in every district. And developers do not always care about the liquidity of these properties, since they receive their main profit from the sale of apartments.

Singapore topped the ranking of smart cities in the world, compiled by the consulting company Juniper Research together with the Intel Corporation. When compiling the ranking, analysts took into account the development of Internet technologies, their penetration into key areas of public life, infrastructure and the healthcare system , Business Insider reports . The experts also paid attention to the introduction of high technologies in public safety and production.

An appeal to US President Donald Trump calling for new sanctions against Russia was signed by 140 members of the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives. This is stated on the website of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the lower house of Congress. The initiator of the appeal was the chairman of the committee, Eliot Engel.

Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign did not collude or coordinate with Russian officials. These are the findings of a 150-page draft report by a bipartisan House of Representatives committee. The committee conducted an investigation over 14 months. "We found no evidence of collusion," Associated Press reports committee chairman Mike Conway as saying . The president of the United States also noted Conway's findings on Twitter.

A domestic gas explosion occurred in a nine-story residential building in St. Petersburg. Three floors of the building were damaged, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the city's emergency services. The domestic gas explosion occurred at 219 Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street. “The floors of the seventh, eighth and ninth floors were damaged,” the source said. According to preliminary data, two people were injured. Law enforcement officers are investigating the circumstances of the emergency.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Dagestan on a working visit, Interfax reported, citing the president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. According to him, Putin will hold a meeting with representatives of the public in the republic. In addition, the president will hold a separate meeting on issues of socio-economic development of Dagestan. This is the first visit of the Russian president to Dagestan after the anti-corruption scandals in the republic.

Economic analyst and commentator Larry Kudlow may be appointed as US President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser. This was reported by CNN, citing sources in the White House. Earlier, US administration officials named Kudlow among the "two best candidates" for the post after the departure of the previous adviser, Gary Cohn. White House officials have named National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro as another possible candidate for the post of US economic adviser.

TV presenter, Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak and former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov will announce on March 15 the creation of a new political force based on the Civil Initiative party. Vedomosti was told about this by a person at Sobchak’s headquarters and two interlocutors close to the Civil Initiative and Gudkov. Gudkov himself was unavailable for comment; Ksenia Sobchak's press secretary, Ksenia Chudinova, declined to comment.