The management of Detsky Mir will recommend directing 100% of net profit to dividends based on the results of 2018. This was stated by the company’s general director Vladimir Chirakhov during a conference call with investors, reports . Reuters Detsky Mir's policy provides for dividend payments in the amount of at least 50% of net profit under RAS. At the end of 2017, the retailer paid out 100% of net profit, or RUB 2.9 billion. Detsky Mir is the largest Russian retailer of children's goods.

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Former Minister of Natural Resources Sergei Donskoy will join the board of directors of the Irkutsk Oil Company (INK), writes RBC , citing two sources in the company and its representative. A representative of INK clarified to Vedomosti that Donskoy received an offer to join the board of directors of the holding company of the INK group, INK-Capital.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin refused to comment to Kommersant on the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), which claims that the politician is engaged in entrepreneurial activities and owns an apartment on Michurinsky Avenue in Moscow . the publication’s correspondent Volodin told that he has the right not to comment on his personal life. He also refused to clarify whether Lidiya Barabanova, mentioned in the FBK investigation, is his mother.

The JPMorgan banking group has launched the You Invest service. It is a digital platform that provides brokerage services, writes The Financial Times . The You Invest service will become available to bank clients next week. It will be integrated into the bank's mobile application. With its help, ordinary citizens will be able to trade on the stock exchange for free. The application will allow each client to make up to 100 transactions in the first year.

Tennis player Maria Sharapova returned to the list of the highest paid athletes according to Forbes. It is published on the magazine's website. This year the athlete took fifth place, the publication estimated her annual income at $10.5 million. Sharapova has been included in the Forbes ranking of the highest-paid athletes since 2005. However, she did not make it into it in 2017 due to the fact that her income began to fall after the doping scandal.

Two Democratic congressmen from the US House of Representatives, Elijah Cummings and Stephen Lynch, asked the White House for information about whether National Security Adviser John Bolton mentioned his contacts with the now imprisoned Russian woman Maria Butina. this reports Politico , attaching a scan of a letter addressed to the head of the administration secretariat, John Kelly.

The US authorities added two Russian citizens to the sanctions list, employees of the St. Petersburg company Divetechnoservice, Anton Nagibin and Marina Tsareva. This is stated in a message from the US Treasury. Nagibin and Tsareva, according to American authorities, tried to help Divetechnoservice circumvent American sanctions that were imposed against the company on June 11 due to possible cooperation with the FSB.

The largest Russian media holdings Gazprom-Media (owns the channels NTV, TNT, TV-3, etc.), NMG (REN TV, Channel Five) and Channel One have removed their channels from the main page in Yandex . The first did this at the end of July, the second and third - in August, wrote Kommersant with reference to a top manager in one of the media holdings. Media holdings believe that Yandex promotes piracy, the publication writes.

August 21, 2018, 12:46 pm / Economics Topilin named the “main beneficiaries” of the pension reform undefined Vedomosti Saved by raising the retirement age: 3 trillion rubles. over the next six years will be used to increase pensions for non-working pensioners, said Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin at parliamentary hearings in the State Duma. “It is non-working pensioners who should become the main beneficiaries of the changes,” Topilin noted.

The Board of Directors of Rosneft recommended that shareholders at an extraordinary meeting approve dividends based on the results of the first half of 2018 in the amount of 14.6 rubles. per share. This is half of the company's net profit according to IFRS, according to the company's materials. In total, Rosneft will allocate 154.5 billion rubles to pay dividends, the company also reported. The General Meeting of Shareholders will be held on September 28, 2018.

Russia maintains contacts with the Taliban movement (an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia) to encourage the Taliban to dialogue with Kabul and to ensure the safety of Russians in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “We have never hidden the fact that we maintain contacts with the Taliban; they are part of Afghan society,” Lavrov said at a press conference (quotes from TASS).

August 21, 2018, 15:08 / Politics / Economics Neverov divided the fortune of the Forbes list participants by the number of pensioners Vedomosti The populist proposal to withdraw money from billionaires, even if implemented, would not solve the problems of the Russian pension system. This was stated by the head of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, Sergei Neverov, at parliamentary hearings on pension reform.

August 21, 2018, 00:18 / Opinions Between Prague 1968 and Crimea 2014 There are twice as many people who approve of the introduction of Soviet tanks into Czechoslovakia as those who think it is wrong Alexey Levinson In 1968, those who decided to be against were secretly shaking hands. In 2014, they broke off relations Remembering 1968, Czechs and Slovaks recall their greatest national uplift and their greatest national humiliation.

August 21, 2018, 22:18 / Business / Interview Exclusively by subscription “Utair management said: “We are ready to change” President of Utair - Passenger Airlines Pavel Permyakov on why ticket prices will soon begin to rise and why Utair prefers foreign aircraft Alexander Vorobyov Utair President Pavel Permyakov / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The situation in the Russian aviation market is now similar to the one that led to the bankruptcy of Transaero in 2015 and VIM-Avia in 2017, says Pavel