Naftogaz of Ukraine announced that it had won a dispute to recover damages from Russia for the loss of assets in Crimea and on the Black Sea shelf. “The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague recognized that Russia violated the investment protection agreement by expropriating the assets of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine and its subsidiaries in Crimea,” the company said in a statement.

Online retailer Ozon has decided to indefinitely postpone the launch of its food delivery service from restaurants, a company representative told Interfax. He explained the postponement of the launch by Ozon’s intention to develop other services and optimize internal processes. “Ozon thanks its partner restaurant chains for the trust they showed by agreeing to participate in the project.

Danish toy manufacturer Lego is preparing to change its sales model as retail moves online, Bloomberg reports . The company is looking to boost online sales at a time when many toy retailers have collapsed as brick-and-mortar retail declines and consumer behavior shifts to online shopping. The move to online sales means children will no longer “feel the toys and shake the boxes” as they do in brick-and-mortar stores, said Lego Group Chief Executive Officer Nils Christensen.

The development holding Crocus Group of Aras Agalarov (54th place in the Forbes list of Russian billionaires, fortune estimated at $1.8 billion) began selling an energy drink called “Heat,” writes Kommersant . According to the newspaper, the drink went on sale in the “Your House” hypermarket chain in the Moscow region. A representative of the Crocus Group reported that the sale of “Zhara” was launched in test mode at the end of January 2019.

Russia and the United States have agreed to reduce visa prices for Russians, reports the press service of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs . The message clarifies that from March 4, all types of visas for Russians will again cost $160, as it was before the price increase in early January.

MR Group abandoned the construction of the third phase of the Filigrad residential complex in western Moscow. This follows from the file of arbitration cases, which published the contents of the settlement agreement concluded by the developer with Russian Railways . attention to him . drew Kommersant Russian Railways filed a lawsuit against MR Group in November 2018.

Microsoft has created a chatbot to help patients find clinical trials they can participate in and help developers of new drugs and treatments find the most suitable people for trials , reports . Bloomberg The bot was developed during a hackathon in the company's Israeli laboratory. For the most accurate search, it uses machine learning technologies. The patient, when launching the bot, must answer several questions related to the disease.

Amazon plans to launch a new chain of grocery supermarkets and open dozens of locations in major US cities, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing informed sources. Thus, the company wants to expand its presence in the food market. It is not yet clear what the new network will be called. The first store could open in Los Angeles by the end of the year. The company has entered into lease agreements for two other supermarkets, the newspaper notes. They are scheduled to open in early 2020.

Yandex by has reduced the price of Yandex.Phone 4,000 rubles: now the smartphone costs 13,990 rubles. instead of 17,990 rub. This is evidenced by data from retailers: Beru (a joint project of Yandex and Sberbank), Svyaznoy and M.video . the first to draw attention to this. was The publication vc.ru " Yandex.Phone " is the first smartphone of "Yandex". The company began selling it in December last year.

The American corporation Gap will spin off the Old Navy brand, which shows the best sales figures, into a separate company. This is stated in a Gap press release. Under the plan described in the release, Old Navy will become a standalone public company. Its separation will occur by 2020, the corporation notes. The remaining brands, such as Gap, Athleta, Banana Republic, Intermix and Hill City, will be merged into another company, tentatively called NewCo.

Sovcombank is preparing to conduct an additional issue of 6.2 billion rubles. The bank announced the placement by private subscription of 1 billion ordinary shares at 6.2 rubles. for paper. Potential buyers include the Russian-Japanese Investment Fund, Saudi Ayar International Investment Company, Bahrain's sovereign fund Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding, as well as five co-investors of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

01 March 2019, 18:53 / Business Polina Yumasheva's representative confirmed her divorce from Oleg Deripaska This happened more than a year ago, he tells Vitaly Petleva Information about Oleg Deripaska's possible divorce from Polina Yumasheva appeared a long time ago, but was only confirmed now / Interpress / PhotoXPress Co-owner of the energy and metallurgical holding En+ Oleg Deripaska divorced Polina Deripaska, a representative of the latter told Vedomosti.

On March 6, the board of directors of one of the largest coal producers in Russia, Raspadskaya, plans to consider the issue of holding an extraordinary meeting of shareholders. It is planned to approve an increase in the authorized capital through the issue of new shares, according to the company’s message. The company does not disclose the parameters of the additional issue - the number of securities planned for issue and their placement price.

The Central Bank plans to change the model for assessing the financial stability of insurers, said Philip Gabunia, director of the insurance market department of the Central Bank. Assets and risks associated with them in the capital of companies will be taken into account in a new way, as follows from his presentation.

Varvara Grankova It’s difficult to find out exactly what venture capitalists say about entrepreneurs and their pitches, as all discussions take place behind closed doors. We were able to attend meetings of the Swedish government’s venture capital fund and, over the course of two years, observe how the fund’s representatives discussed entrepreneurs who had applied for funding.