March 14, 2019, 12:41 / Finance Sberbank insurer found a general director at Sogaz Alexey Leonenko Danis Yumabaev can head the country's largest insurer In 2018, Sberbank Life Insurance became the country's largest insurer for the first time / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti Life Insurance company The Sberbank , which lost its general director in October 2018, may be headed by Alexey Leonenko, a person who knows this from a company employee told Vedomosti, and an employee of the Sberbank group said

March 13, 2019, 22:54 / Economics Medvedev agreed on the construction of a high-speed highway to Nizhny Novgorod Now the fate of the project must be decided by Vladimir Putin Olga Adamchuk The high-speed road project to Kazan is one step away from final approval / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The government has approved the start of construction of high-speed lines (HSR) in Russia.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that over the past 24 hours, 3 million new users have joined the messenger. “I see 3 million new users signing up for Telegram in the last 24 hours. This is good. We have real privacy and unlimited space for everyone,” Durov wrote in his Telegram channel. Read on vedomosti.ru Typically, the daily growth of Telegram users, according to various sources, ranges from 300,000 to 700,000 people.

Residents of Crimea and Russia generally continue to support the peninsula's annexation into Russia five years ago, but the level of support varies by region. If euphoria persists in Crimea, despite the ambiguous socio-economic results of the annexation, then residents of continental Russia have begun to more soberly assess its consequences.

A meeting of Ekho Moskvy journalists re-elected Alexey Venediktov by a majority vote as the radio station's editor-in-chief for the next five years, the radio station reports . According to the vote count, 79 out of 108 voters supported his candidacy. This time, the election of the editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy was held on an alternative basis for the first time: previously, Venediktov's candidacy had always been the only one.

The Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has decided to transfer the State Duma deputy mandate that became vacant after the death of Zhores Alferov to former presidential candidate Pavel Grudinin. This was reported to Interfax by the party leader Gennady Zyuganov. According to him, the decision was made collectively: the issue was studied by both the personnel commission and the regional branches of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

March 14, 2019, 10:47 pm / Business How much did it cost to create an oil and fat giant in Russia? Vadim Moshkovich's Rusagro group disclosed details of the transaction to purchase the Solnechnye Products holding company Ekaterina Burlakova To secure its obligations to the Russian Agricultural Bank, Rusagro acquired its 20-year bonds for 19.9 billion rubles.

March 13, 2019, 23:08 / Economics Is the Eurozone threatened by Japaneseization?

By the end of the year, the United States may test two types of missiles banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which is currently suspended, Reuters reports , citing information from a closed briefing at the Pentagon. In particular, we are talking about a land-based cruise missile with a range of about 1,000 km. The US intends to test it in August. If they are successful, the missile could be deployed in about 18 months.

March 14, 2019, 21:47 / Management How three Phystech graduates help online stores sell clothes They came up with a new technology that selects items of the right size for the buyer Polina Smertina Startups have come up with an automatic clothing meter / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti 27-year-old Stanislav Podshivalov, Mikhail Matrosov and 28-year-old Vahe Taamazyan were never interested in fashion and did not buy clothes on the Internet.

March 14, 2019, 10:42 pm / Finance The Central Bank told how it will improve pension funds He will be able to introduce a moratorium on the transfer of clients from the NPF being sanitized, and top managers will be left without a pension Alexander Astapenko The Central Bank presented the concept of reorganization of non-state pension funds / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The Central Bank presented the concept of reorganization of non-state pension funds (NPFs), which it developed together with the

Cinemas that previously boycotted the cartoon “Gurvinek. The Magic Game” will start showing on March 16. This was reported in a press release from the company “Mult v Kino” (MVK), which is distributing the film. Read on vedomosti.ru This information was confirmed to Vedomosti by Oleg Berezin, chairman of the board of the Association of Cinema Owners.

Businessman Alexander Geller, founder of the Gema automobile holding, has been put on the international wanted list for the theft of 850 million rubles. at the State Unitary Enterprise "Moscow Metro". This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee. Read on vedomosti.ru According to investigators, the theft was committed between April and July 2015 by Geller, as well as the general director of Auto Cell LLC (part of the Gema holding) Gulya Kogan and their accomplices.

President Vladimir Putin attended the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) on Thursday, where he was expected to respond to the arrest a month ago of the head of the Baring Vostok investment fund, Michael Calvey, on charges of fraud.

VTB announced a forced repurchase of ordinary shares of Bank Vozrozhdenie from minority shareholders at a price of 481.68 rubles. for paper, says the materials of “Renaissance”. At 17.30 Moscow time, the cost of ordinary shares of Vozrozhdenie in trading on the Moscow Exchange was at the level of 473 rubles. for paper. VTB and its affiliates own 96.3% of Vozrozhdenie shares. The ransom demand was sent to Vozrozhdenie on March 14.