The Green Patrol organization, together with the National Ecological Corps union, presented a new rating of the cleanest and dirtiest regions of Russia. It has been compiled four times a year since 2008. The rating is based on operational data on environmentally significant events, incidents and problems. Read on vedomosti.ru Based on the results of last spring, the Tambov region was recognized as the most environmentally friendly region.

In Russia, 30% of shopping centers, after massive unscheduled inspections initiated after the fire at the Winter Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo, were brought into ideal fire-proof condition, TASS reports with reference to Rinat Enikeev, director of the department of supervisory activities and preventive work of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to him, the remaining shopping centers have a satisfactory level of fire safety.

JSC As Rus Media, which manages Forbes magazine in Russia, filed two lawsuits against A-Media and A-Media Distributor, affiliated with the former owner of the magazine Alexander Fedotov. The amounts of the claim, according to the file of arbitration cases, are more than 41.6 million and 8.3 million rubles. The claims were registered on June 5. A Forbes representative confirmed to Vedomosti that a lawsuit had been filed.

Tinkoff Bank is launching a management company, Tinkoff Capital, said Oliver Hughes, chairman of the bank's board, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. It should begin work in the fourth quarter of this year. Read on vedomosti.ru First, Tinkoff Capital will offer shares of its own exchange-traded mutual investment funds (MUIF). The Tinkoff representative did not say what instruments they would be linked to, but noted that these would be assets in both rubles and dollars.

05 June 2019, 12:02 / Business Russian Railways will spend more than a billion euros on new Sapsan aircraft undefined Vedomosti The Russian Railways company will spend 1.1 billion euros on the purchase of 13 Sapsan trains, ten cars each, and their maintenance for 30 years, reports Kommersant , citing sources. According to the publication, the deal was approved by the board of directors of the monopoly on June 4.

June 05, 2019, 17:46 / Technologies / News Qiwi reported a failure in all its services undefined Vedomosti users Qiwi encountered a malfunction in the company's services and complained about it on social networks. The problems started at approximately 15.50 Moscow time. First, error 403 appeared on the main page of the Qiwi website . Later, site visitors began to be redirected to status.qiwi.ru, where it was stated that there were problems with the operation of all the company’s services.

June 05, 2019, 23:50 / Finance / News Kostin named the reasons for freezing the regional airline project undefined Vedomosti President VTB Andrei Kostin cited the lack of support from operators operating in the market as the reason for the suspension of the project to create a regional airline, reports . Interfax “We somehow went through all the main interests, and, to be honest, we still see that it doesn’t stick together.

05 June 2019, 20:17 / Economics Central Bank: VAT increase has ceased to be a threat to prices Inflation has slowed, experts expect the key rate to be cut next week Tatyana Lomskaya Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti Weekly inflation in Russia slowed to zero after seven weeks of growth of 0.1%, according to Rosstat data for May 28 – June 3. Based on these data, annual inflation in May continued to slow down - to 5.1% from 5.2% in April, says Tatyana Evdokimova, chief economist at Nordea Bank.

PhotoXPress According to Rospatent data, the intellectual property market in Russia is developing steadily: the number of applications filed for trademarks in 2018 increased by 3.47% (more than 76,000 applications), for patents – by 4.1% (almost 38,000 applications).

The Turkish government will have to choose between Russian and American weapons by the end of the week, US Representative to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchinson said in an interview with CNBC. She explained that the weapons in question are Russian S-400 air defense systems and F-35 fighter jets. According to her, the situation in which Turkey purchases weapons from the US and Russia simultaneously is unacceptable.

Last week, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Vladimir Reinhardt proposed banning the video game Minecraft: “You understand, these games should be banned in general, and these sites. And then there won’t be this hyperactivity. Because what is this Minecraft game promoting? It’s as simple as violence.” Then the AP clarified that the colleague, apparently, was confused and it was not about Minecraft, but about Warcraft.

June 05, 2019, 14:45 / Auto / News Chinese Great Wall opened a car plant in Russia undefined Vedomosti The Chinese automaker Great Wall has begun production at a car plant in the Tula region. The opening ceremony took place on June 5. The company will produce cars under the Haval brand. Production began with the F7 crossover, and will later be supplemented by the H9 SUV and the F7x coupe-crossover. Cars are produced in a full cycle - with welding, painting, and local stamping.

Presidential aide Andrei Belousov knows the businessmen who made public his proposal to seize more than 500 billion rubles from 14 companies. He himself told Forbes about this. According to him, the paper came to businessmen as a result of a leak from the government. He refused to name the entrepreneurs so as not to collapse the shares of their companies.

Holders of default Eurobonds of Russian Standard Ltd, Rustam Tariko, hired the A1 company (investment division of Alfa Group) to negotiate with the issuer, said the owner of the Russian Standard papers and confirmed a person close to one of the parties to the negotiations. According to Vedomosti’s interlocutors, A1 was approached by an initiative group that collected 25% of the issue: they did not agree to the proposed restructuring conditions.

85% of Russians admit the possibility of refusing or reducing the use of plastic bags, according to a study by VTsIOM. Read on vedomosti.ru Of these, 39% of respondents are ready to completely abandon the packages, and 46% - partially. 70% of Russians believe that reducing the use of plastic bags will reduce the amount of garbage and improve the environmental situation. Only 68% of Russians surveyed use plastic bags to package purchased products.