April 05, 2019, 15:05 / Economy / News Putin postponed the deadline for Russia to enter the top 20 of the Doing Business rating undefined Vedomosti President Vladimir Putin gave repeated instructions to ensure that Russia reaches 20th place in the World Bank’s Doing Business ranking, reports Interfax , citing a source in the government’s financial and economic bloc. Putin already gave such an order in the May 2012 decrees - it was supposed to be implemented before 2018.

Nil Ushakov called his removal from the post of mayor of Riga an illegal decision. He promised to challenge it in court. “My Riga voters made me mayor, and only they can fire me, and not Puce and other political midgets!” – Ushakov wrote on the Telegram channel.

April 05, 2019, 10:12 / Business / News "Citymobil" and "Yandex.Taxi" began to track the working time of drivers undefined Vedomosti Taxi ordering services Citymobil and Yandex.Taxi press release began testing a system for exchanging data on the total working time of drivers in Moscow, the Moscow region and Yaroslavl, according to a Yandex.Taxi . In the future, the Vezet company will join the testing.

Crimea has decided to cancel the resort tax for 2019, the head of the republic Sergei Aksenov said, reports RIA Novosti . According to the official, a corresponding appeal has already been sent to the government. Aksenov cited the cost of organizing the collection as the reason for the refusal: according to his calculations, Crimea will spend as much on this as it can collect.

Latvian Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development Juris Puce dismissed Riga Mayor Nil Ushakov for failure to fulfill obligations and violation of regulations, reports the official government publication Latvian Gazette . The decision comes into force from the moment of its publication. In particular, Ushakov’s violations are related to the municipal transport enterprise Rigas satiksme, the report notes.

April 05, 2019, 21:19 / Finance / News Sovcombank raised 6 billion rubles through an additional issue undefined Vedomosti Sovcombank sold 5% of its shares to foreign investors. Due to the additional issue, the bank raised 6 billion rubles, according to its statement. Initially, the bank registered 10% more shares than it planned to place, says a Sovcombank representative.

In the analyzes of Ukrainian presidential candidates Vladimir Zelensky and Petro Poroshenko, who reached the second round of elections, no drugs were found. Read on vedomosti.ru Zelensky published a screenshot of the test results on his Facebook page . In the document, the names of drugs, in particular methamphetamines, cocaine, methadone, and opiates, are marked with zeros. “No narcotic substances were found in the peripheral blood sample under study.

April 05, 2019, 03:17 / Business / News Kommersant learned about the plans of an Azerbaijani company to buy the Antipinsky Oil Refinery undefined Vedomosti The Azerbaijani oil and gas company SOCAR may buy the Antipinsky Oil Refinery from Dmitry Mazurov's New Stream group, reports , citing sources. Kommersant According to the newspaper, SOCAR will completely buy Antipinsky Oil Refinery JSC , including the Mogutovskoye oil fields, parts of Gremyachevskoye and Vorontsovskoye.

The owners of Kyiv Ploshchad LLC, God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev, will build a warehouse terminal with an area of ​​140,000 square meters in the new Moscow. m. The facility will be located in the Sosenskoye settlement next to the Food City food market (owned by Kievskaya Ploshchad). Information about the construction of the terminal was published on the Moskomarkhitektura website.

The American streaming service Apple Music has for the first time surpassed its Swedish competitor Spotify in the number of subscribers in the United States, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports , citing sources. As of February, Apple Music had 28 million subscribers in the US versus Spotify’s 26 million, the publication writes. Every month, the number of subscribers for Apple Music grows by an average of 2.6–3%, for Spotify – by 1.5–2%, WSJ interlocutors noted.

video service The Amazon Prime Video will show the series “Gogol” in the USA, Canada and the UK. He acquired the rights to show it from the Gazprom-Media holding and the Central Partnership film company. reported this to Vedomosti . The press service of Gazprom Media Read on vedomosti.ru “Gogol” was created by the TV-3 channel (part of Gazprom Media) and the production company Sreda. The project became the first series that was first shown in cinemas and only then released on television.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The Ministry of Justice does not see the need for additional legislative measures to protect businesses from pressure from law enforcement agencies: there are already enough of them. The Ministry wrote about this to the Association of Internet Trade Companies (AKIT), which addressed a letter to President Vladimir Putin in support of Baring Vostok founder Michael Calvey and the fund's employees.

The Central Bank revoked the license of Ivanovo Bank, the regulator said in a statement. With its activities, Ivanovo jeopardized the interests of depositors and creditors, and also systematically violated the regulations of the Central Bank, the regulator notes. Read on vedomosti.ru As of March 1, 2019, Bank Ivanovo ranked 294th in the country’s banking system in terms of assets. The authorized capital of the credit institution, according to the Central Bank, is 142 million rubles.

05 April 2019, 11:24 / Business Transneft plans to allocate only 25–40% of profits to dividends undefined Vedomosti Transneft . plans to allocate 25–40% of its profits under IFRS for dividends for 2018, Interfax reports, citing a statement by the company’s president, Nikolai Tokarev “There is no decision yet. I think everything will be clear in the near future,” he said.

One of the sections of the canal named after. Moscow, between locks 7 and 8, will not be opened on April 24 with the start of shipping in the capital region. about this writes Kommersant with reference to sources close to the industry and the Ministry of Transport. We are talking about a site that was drained after a flooding accident in the Tushinsky tunnel in January. The interlocutors claim that it can open only by June 1.