60 US diplomats to leave Russia, consulate in St. Petersburg to be closed / Evgeny Egorov / for Vedomosti The Russian Foreign Ministry has announced that it will expel diplomats from 30 countries – the same number as those countries expelled Russian diplomats in solidarity with the UK. The UK made the move after it felt Russia had failed to provide a timely and clear answer about its involvement in the poisoning of former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal.

01 April 2018, 23:29 / Economics Exclusively by subscription Tax penalties may be limited to the size of the debt itself The State Duma may consider such amendments already in the spring session Anna Kholyavko Elizaveta Bazanova President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin proposes to give companies a chance to pay off their debts / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti “It would be possible to determine that the amount of penalties cannot exceed a certain amount of

April 02, 2018, 07:34 / Business Hackers stole data from 5 million cardholders in Hudson's Bay stores undefined Vedomosti Canadian retailer Hudson's Bay has confirmed information about the theft of payment card data from customers of its Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue stores located in North America. this Reuters reports with reference to a company statement. Hudson's Bay only noted that it had received confirmation that the security of its systems is not currently at risk.

The Caspian flotilla, currently based in Astrakhan, will be transferred to Kaspiysk in Dagestan. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the decision on Monday during a conference call with the leadership of the armed forces, the department's website reports . "We have a huge construction project underway there: piers, docks, service points, housing," Shoigu said.

Rescuers have evacuated 50 people from a burning five-story residential building in Sochi; there are no casualties or fatalities in the fire, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Krasnodar Krai reported. "Residents have been evacuated from the burning building on Pyatigorskaya Street, 92/3. A total of 50 people. There are no casualties or fatalities," the press service employee said.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called recent criticism of him by Apple CEO Tim Cook unfounded in an interview with Vox . On March 24, Cook called for stricter privacy rules to prevent the abuse of personal information. This is how the Apple executive commented on the leak of data of 50 million Facebook users. Cook noted that "well-thought-out" rules are needed that would prevent the aggregation of information for use without the consent of users.

The government has given five minutes to call emergency dispatch services of apartment building management companies . The corresponding government decree is posted on the official website of the Cabinet of Ministers. The government has made a number of changes to the regulatory legal acts on issues of managing apartment buildings and maintaining the common property of owners.

April 01, 2018, 23:56 / Business Exclusively by subscription Gazprom does not want competition The concern asks officials to check whether new plants will interfere with its supplies to Europe Artur Toporkov “Any 1 cubic meter supplied to the European market. m of the same LNG is minus 1 cubic meter.

Grudinin does not plan to run for governor of the Moscow region or join the Communist Party of the Russian Federation / Artem Geodakyan/TASS Former presidential candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, non-partisan Pavel Grudinin , told RBC that he does not intend to participate in the Moscow Region gubernatorial elections, which will take place in the fall. "Why? Who will pass the municipal filter?

The author of a documentary about President Vladimir Putin, the press secretary of his election campaign, journalist Andrei Kondrashov has been appointed first deputy general director of VGTRK, the BBC Russian Service reports , citing four sources in VGTRK. According to one of them, the order on his appointment has been signed and will be made public within a week. The VGTRK press service confirmed the information about Kondrashov's appointment.

02 April 2018, 13:28 / Finance Moscow Credit Bank focused on one counterparty The bank financed it for 658 billion rubles through reverse repurchase transactions Daria Borisyak Anna Eremina The bank did not disclose which counterparty MKB conducts reverse repo transactions with / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Moscow Credit Bank (MCB) conducted almost all reverse repo transactions with one counterparty.

According to preliminary information, the cause of the drone crash could have been numerous WiFi hotspots in nearby residential buildings / Andrey Ogorodnik / TASS The first attempt by Russian Post to test a drone for parcel delivery ended in failure , the Buryat television and radio company Arigus reported . Shortly after launch, the device deviated from its course, crashed into a three-story building and collapsed, according to a video filmed by its correspondents .

April 02, 2018, 10:26 / Business / News "Stalin's Yacht" will be turned into a museum in Gorky Park in Moscow undefined Vedomosti The Moscow River Shipping Company (MRP) will sell the motor ship "Maxim Gorky", known as "Stalin's yacht", to the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Moscow Canal". This was reported by the Kommersant newspaper with reference to Konstantin Anisimov, a representative of the Federal State Budgetary Institution and General Director of the MCI.

Artem Lyubimov, an activist from Volokolamsk who was detained by police on Saturday evening, has been arrested by the court for 15 days, the activist's lawyer Denis Kunaev told Vedomosti. "Artem was convicted under the article for disobeying the police," he said. "The court ordered his arrest for 15 arrests, two of which he has already served in custody.

In Ersan Mondtag's "Terminal Station," trained dancers play residents of a nursing home / Julian Röder "They don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore" "We need money! What do you mean, 'no'? Do you see the man crying? Why do you think he's dancing? Give him some and he'll stop," a girl of about ten walks through the rows of the HAU 1 theatre, shaking change from the audience like a street beggar.