The intensity of aerial reconnaissance near Russian borders has increased over the past week, according to materials from the Ministry of Defense published in the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda. In particular, over the past week, 23 foreign aircraft conducted aerial reconnaissance in Russia's border territories, while the week before there were 16. Russian aircraft carried out six sorties to intercept and escort foreign aircraft. There was one such sortie a week earlier.

The cousin of Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Salisbury, wants to visit her in the UK, the press service of the Russian embassy in London reports. "Today the embassy contacted Victoria Skripal, S. Skripal's niece, again. After receiving information that Yu. Skripal's condition had improved and she could speak, Victoria expressed a desire to come to London and visit her cousin," the diplomatic mission said.

March 30, 2018, 14:40 / Economics The Ministry of Construction will introduce a systematic inspection of apartment buildings every five years undefined Vedomosti The Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services proposed introducing a systematic technical inspection of residential buildings every five years, Minister Mikhail Men told reporters. “We are now coming up with a legislative initiative to ensure that the inspection of houses is systematic and periodic.

March 30, 2018, 12:33 / Business China is about to create the world's largest shipyard undefined Vedomosti The Chinese government is exploring the possibility of merging two shipbuilding companies and creating on their basis the world's largest shipyard, which would eclipse its South Korean competitors, Bloomberg writes , citing sources. According to their information, the State Council of China has preliminary approved the merger of China State Shipbuilding Corp.

This was to be expected: in the wake of the crisis of trust in official information, the depth of which was demonstrated by the rally of those who did not believe the number of victims of the fire in the Winter Cherry named by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, voices have emerged advocating for the introduction of criminal liability for the dissemination of knowingly false information about emergency situations.

March 30, 2018, 09:37 / Business The media learned about the risk of an acute shortage of grain carriers in Russia Vedomosti In the next three years, Russia, which claims to be the second largest grain exporter in the world, will lose a quarter of grain carriers, writes Kommersant, citing the minutes of a meeting with the deputy head of Roszheldor Dmitry Shpadi dated March 15.

March 30, 2018, 15:51 / Business Transneft's net profit under RAS almost doubled in 2017 undefined Vedomosti The net profit of Transneft according to RAS at the end of 2017 amounted to 58.8 billion rubles, which is 1.9 times higher than in 2016. This is stated in the company’s reporting.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service approved the application of the All-Russian Regional Development Bank (RRDB) to acquire 49% of the voting shares of JSC Settlement and Depository Company (SDK), according to the agency’s website. RDK provides clearing services at the St. Petersburg International Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange (SPIMEX). The Gazprombank report announced the sale of 99.84% of RDK for 2.54 billion rubles. SPbMTSB acquired this package on February 14, 2018.

March 30, 2018, 00:36 / Updated March 30, 2018, 12:48 / Business Exclusively by subscription Russian metallurgists are getting rid of foreign suppliers The main producer of copper sheets, UMMC, increased its production by 40% Polina Trifonova The main producer of copper sheets, UMMC, increased its production by 40%. This will allow Russia to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers / UMMC In 2017, Russia produced 978,000 tons of copper.

Transneft put on its balance sheet 100% of the shares of two companies - KTK Company and KTK Investments Company, registered in the Cayman Islands. One of these companies manages Russia's share in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), the company said in a statement. In December 2017, Transneft shareholders approved an increase in the authorized capital by 35 billion rubles. The authorized capital of the pipeline company was increased by including Russia's share in CPC.

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One fire has been extinguished, but another is just flaring up. On television, every channel, format and commentator considers it their human and professional duty to work through the tragedy in Kemerovo to the maximum, no worse than others. Full mobilization in the information, propaganda and counter-propaganda services. All those responsible for "domestic policy", for the reputation and image of the authorities, in the center and in the regions, have been raised.

An inspection of the Yadrovo solid waste landfill in the Volokolamsk region revealed a number of serious violations in its operation, reported Pavel Kirillov, First Deputy Minister of Ecology and Nature Management of the Moscow Region. "This week we will complete all inspection activities and by Monday we will be ready to draw up and hand over the inspection report to the landfill.

On 12 February 2018, former KGB agent Boris Karpichkov, who defected to the UK in 1998 and lives there under an assumed name, received a call from a friend in the Russian secret service. The caller was secretly from somewhere in continental Europe and warned Karpichkov that his name was on a list of eight people the Russian secret services were planning to eliminate. Karpichkov initially ignored the call, as he had faced death threats before.

March 30, 2018, 10:08 am / Business Russia's largest cigarette manufacturer sold a factory in Moscow undefined Vedomosti The tobacco company Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has sold the Liggett-Dukat factory on Kashirskoye Shosse in the south of Moscow, reports RBC , citing the press service of the company's Russian office and Knight Frank, which acted as a consultant on the transaction.