This time, Alexander Shestun (pictured) was unable to appear in court, even via video link / Sergey Vedyashkin / AGN "Moscow" On Tuesday, the Krasnogorsk City Court began the trial of the Prosecutor General's Office's lawsuit seeking to seize property belonging to the former head of the Serpukhov District of the Moscow Region, Alexander Shestun, in the amount of 2.6 billion rubles. In addition to Shestun and his wife, the lawsuit names more than 30 defendants.

UK MPs voted 329 to 302 on Monday night to try to find an alternative to Prime Minister Theresa May's plan. May wanted on Monday to again put to a vote the agreement on leaving the EU, which she reached with Brussels, but which parliamentarians have already twice rejected. Last week, the EU allowed the UK to move the Brexit date from March 29 to May 22 if parliament approves May's plan; otherwise, London has until April 12 to “set a path forward” and leave the EU on that date.

Tele2 CEO Sergei Emdin said that the company is participating in negotiations with Voentelecom, controlled by the Ministry of Defense, about creating a mobile operator for the military. this . reports TASS Read on vedomosti.ru “This is a good, interesting segment, we hope that we will be able to increase market share in such a specific segment as the military,” noted the CEO of Tele2. According to him, the parties are close to signing contracts.

The International Court of Arbitration in London ruled that Vostochny's minority shareholder Artem Avetisyan's attempts to obtain another 10% of the bank through a call option violated arbitration agreements, writes the Financial Times (FT). The court ordered Avetisyan to abandon his attempt to exercise a call option that would have given him and his partners control over Vostochny Bank, the newspaper notes.

Russiagate is over: US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has found no evidence of collusion between Donald Trump and his entourage and the Kremlin in the case of interference in the 2016 presidential election and the president’s attempts to obstruct the investigation. This is good news for Trump, but not for Russia, since the very fact of interference attempts on the Russian side is now considered confirmed, which means that new US sanctions cannot be ruled out.

March 26, 2019, 14:33 / Business Severstal will place bonds worth 15 billion rubles Debt will increase slightly and will not affect the size of dividends Polina Trifonova Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti On April 4, Alexei Mordashov's Severstal will open an order book for the placement of ten-year bonds, an investment banker told Vedomosti, citing the placement organizers. A company representative confirmed the information about the placement.

Facebook has removed more than 1,900 pages, groups and accounts linked to Russia, the social network reported on its blog. According to her, the people behind this activity used fake accounts, which mostly ran groups and pages that posted spam content. They also posted content that touched on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian patriotism, the situation in Crimea, and refugee issues, Facebook noted.

March 26, 2019, 10:14 am / Finance How will the MTPL reform affect car owners? The market will be influenced not only by the expansion of the tariff corridor, but also by other important factors Andrey Krupnov , director of industry solutions in insurance at CROC The MTPL reform, for which the insurance community fought resolutely, and at times even desperately, throughout 2018, has begun and is in full swing.

A representative of the state prosecution on Tuesday asked the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow to sentence the former head of Komi, Vyacheslav Gaizer, to 21 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 500 million rubles, Interfax reported.

China's Huawei has announced plans to release its first smart glasses, created in partnership with Korean fashion brand Gentle Monster. The company announced this during a press conference in Paris, writes TechCrunch. Read on vedomosti.ru Huawei is positioning these glasses as a replacement for headphones. Their frame will have built-in speakers, a microphone, an antenna and a battery. TechCrunch notes that the glasses are not equipped with a camera.

The prosecutor asked the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow to send ex-Komi Governor Vyacheslav Gaizer to 21 years in a maximum security colony on charges of corruption, reports RIA Novosti . The prosecutor's office also asked to punish the former governor with a fine of 500 million rubles. and a ban on holding public office for five years. For his accomplices, sentences ranging from 8 to 20 years in prison and fines in the amount of about 500 million rubles were requested.

Investigators have brought charges against former Minister of Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov, reports the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) . He is accused of creating a criminal community using his official position and fraud on an especially large scale. Read on vedomosti.ru The Investigative Committee also confirmed the detention of the former official. The court will soon decide on the preventive measure for him.

The US Missile Defense Agency fired two interceptors at an intercontinental ballistic missile without a warhead for the first time as part of an exercise, the Associated Press (AP) reports , citing a Pentagon statement. The target missile was launched from the Reagan test site in the Marshall Islands, the interceptors were launched from underground silos in southern California, and they hit the target over the Pacific Ocean.

March 26, 2019, 09:02 / Business The media learned the details of the deal to merge the assets of Renova and Gazprom Energoholding undefined Vedomosti The largest private Russian generating company T Plus (part of the Renova group of Viktor Vekselberg) is valued at 45 billion rubles. The assessment was carried out as part of the preparation of a transaction to merge with Gazprom Energoholding, which controls the energy assets of the gas monopoly. Gazprom , citing its sources .

Online cinemas have been asking officials for tax breaks for several years / Andrey Gordeyev / Vedomosti Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has instructed to work on the issue of exempting online cinemas from VAT, according to the minutes of the meeting of the government council on cinema. The council met on March 15, the order was given to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Communications and must be implemented by July 5.