May 16, 2019, 02:38 / Business How the situation with dirty oil in Druzhba affected European refineries They can reduce refining by about 3 million tons - this is 2% of oil demand in Europe Galina Starinskaya Due to oil contamination in the Druzhba pipeline, European refineries may reduce oil refining in the second quarter by 250,000 barrels per day / Zsolt Szigetvary / AP Due to oil contamination in the Druzhba pipeline, European refineries may reduce oil refining in the second quarter by

May 16, 2019, 02:37 / Updated May 16, 2019, 12:39 / Business Exclusively by subscription Electricity producers and consumers agree: power supply contracts can be terminated But they are arguing about whether it is possible to break off already concluded agreements Elena Vavina Power supply agreements were introduced to attract investment in energy modernization / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The Community of Energy Consumers and the Council of Electricity Producers have proposed making it possible

This year topped Real Madrid the rating of the most valuable football brands in the world according to the consulting company Brand Finance. The Spanish team's brand increased in price over the year by almost 27% to 1.6 billion euros. The last time Real Madrid topped the Brand Finance ranking was in 2010. Read on vedomosti.ru Last year's leader in the ranking, the English club Manchester United, dropped to second place.

Beeline . is modernizing the Moscow infrastructure of communication networks based on Huawei equipment, VimpelCom CEO Vasil Latsanich and Huawei CEO in the Eurasia region Aiden Wu said on Thursday Read on vedomosti.ru The network update will be completed in September 2019 and will take place in two stages. By 2020, Beeline will first update all Moscow base stations and then install several thousand new ones, Latsanich explains.

The tanker Marshal Z, carrying about 130,000 fuel oil in defiance of US sanctions, unloaded at a port near the Chinese city of Zhoushan, according to Refinitiv Eikon data. Before this, the tanker had been at sea for about five months. One employee of a local oil storage facility confirmed information about the unloading, reports Reuters . But another official told the agency that the terminal has not received supplies from Iran for at least four years.

The Breitling boutique bar in Zurich was the first, but they will soon open all over the world The first Breitling boutique, complete with a bar and bistro, has opened in Zurich. It is located in Switzerland's largest premium department store, Jelmoli, on the main shopping street, Bahnhofstrasse. The company will later open similar boutique bars in other key cities around the world. The café menu has been developed by Jelmoli's gastronomic service and consists of light snacks and dishes.

President Vladimir Putin called for transferring control over nutrition in schools from the director of the educational institution to the level of municipal leadership, reports RIA Novosti . Interfax notes that Putin was offered to transfer this issue to the level of the regional governor, however, in his opinion, “it is not a fact that this will be effective.” Read on vedomosti.ru Putin also announced the need to increase the number of students covered by free meals in schools.

A petition has been published on Change.org demanding that the final, eighth season of Game of Thrones be remade. The description of the petition states that the creators of the TV show, David Benioff and Daniel Brett Weiss, have “proven themselves to be woefully incompetent when they don’t have source material (i.e., a book) to fall back on.” "This show deserves a final season that makes sense. Do it, HBO!" urged the petition's author.

On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin commented for the first time on the conflict surrounding the construction of a church on the site of a park in the center of Yekaterinburg: he proposed conducting a survey of residents / URA.RU / TASS On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin commented for the first time on the conflict around the construction of a church on the site of a park in the center of Yekaterinburg: he proposed conducting a survey of residents.

The leader of the musical group “Okean Elzy” Svyatoslav Vakarchuk announced the creation of the “Voice” party. The party he heads will take part in the parliamentary elections in Ukraine in October this year. “ We, the Golos party, are going to parliament to destroy the old policy and create a new one ,” Vakarchuk said, speaking in Kiev. was broadcast on his page Facebook The artist's performance .

The largest beer producer in Russia, the Baltika company (brands Baltika, Carlsberg, Tuborg), is introducing a new product to the Russian market - the soft drink Barley Bros, writes the Kommersant newspaper. The brewing company said that the product will be produced at the St. Petersburg plant and will go on sale in large retail chains by the end of May.

Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Yekaterinburg authorities to conduct a public survey on the issue of building a church in the city center, he said while speaking at the ONF media forum "Truth and Justice." "There is a simple way: conduct a survey. And the minority must submit to the majority," he said. "You know, I heard about this, and only briefly, yesterday. I was even a little surprised, I didn't understand what was going on there.

The waste reform that started on January 1, 2019, seems to please few people. Operators that have started to dispose of household waste under the new system complain about mass non-payments, Russians complain about the increase in tariffs – for them, this has become the most noticeable manifestation of the reform. Attempts to find a compromise do not seem convincing so far.

In preparation for the deployment of 5G networks, part of the communication systems in the 3.4–3.8 GHz bands will be turned off, writes Kommersant with reference to the draft concept for the creation and development of 5G in Russia. This will happen in March 2021 if the decision of the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF), which issued this resource, is terminated.

The Ministry of Labor published a bill with uniform rules for calculating the cost of living of a pensioner in the regions. Read on vedomosti.ru If the pension of a non-working pensioner does not reach the subsistence level of a pensioner in the region where he lives, or in Russia as a whole, he is entitled to a social supplement - from the regional and federal budgets, respectively. This allows pensioners to avoid falling below the poverty line.