The board of directors of Russia's largest petrochemical company has approved a new dividend policy, according to which the minimum dividend payout ratio has been increased from 35% to 50% of adjusted net profit under IFRS, according to a statement on the company's website .

The Russian development group PIK, the largest domestic developer, will build a multi-storey building in the suburbs of Manila, according to the website of the One Sierra residential complex. The president and main owner of the PIK group, Sergei Gordeev, told RBC that this project was the first for the company outside of Russia. According to him, construction of the facility began at the end of 2020 and sales of apartments have already opened.

Photo: Mayofi / Unsplash 2020 brought significant changes to our lives in addition to pandemia: in most countries, interest rates became low or almost zero. This is great for those who take a loan, but a completely new reality for those who are used to saving and receiving their “legal” percentage of invested money. The usual tools, such as a deposit or reliable bonds, no longer bring tangible payments. Moreover, from this year, deposits revenues are taxed as from securities.

Photo: Rishabh Varshney / Unsplash Cybercriminals hacked the Verkada system, which provides corporate video surveillance services, and thus gained unauthorized access to 150,000 surveillance cameras around the world, Bloomberg reports . In real time, attackers were able to observe the hospitals, police sites, schools, prisons, as well as the working process in the workshops of the Tesla factory.

MoneyGram, the only foreign money transfer system registered in Russia, will leave the country. The company will submit an application to refuse registration with the Central Bank and will completely stop operating independently on the Russian market, Kommersant reports , citing sources. MoneyGram has not yet officially announced its departure from Russia.

X5 Retail Group has connected a system for paying for goods using biometric data at self-service checkouts in Perekrestok stores. For now, the service is available only to Sberbank clients, the company’s press release notes . The technology does not apply to people who have submitted biometric data to the Unified Biometric System (UBS).

Since March 10, Roskomnadzor has been taking measures to slow down the speed of Twitter on all mobile devices and half of desktop devices. Later, the department clarified that the slowdown only applies to uploading photos and videos. Users will be able to exchange messages without hindrance, said Vadim Subbotin, deputy head of Roskomnadzor, on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

State Duma deputies adopted in the first reading a bill according to which an individual is exempt from liability for corruption if it is “recognized as a consequence of circumstances beyond his control.” The bill was published on the State Duma website.

Some users stopped opening the websites of the Kremlin, the government, the State Duma and Roskomnadzor after the announcement of a slowdown in Twitter. Problems with the Internet have arisen in the State Duma, writes Znak.com . According to the publication’s interlocutor, there has been no network connection on desktop computers for more than half an hour, but WiFi is working in the building. In addition, a failure occurred in the work of Rostelecom.

Artem Avetisyan Photo: Alexander Bogachev/Kommersant Artem Avetisyan, which owns 42% of Vostochny Bank, decided to receive it: “Finphizh” promised to buy out default assets from the bank for 520 million rubles. And transfer real estate worth about 4 billion rubles, said VTIMES representative of East. In addition, “Finvizh” will pay out loans taken to the bank ahead of schedule for 1.6 billion rubles.

Photo: Alphatradezone / Pexels Russian traders are trying to repeat the tactics of new investors from the Reddit forum and disperse the prices of shares using social networks. The central bank discovered a group of such players the other day. On March 9, the regulator published instructions to the seven largest brokers to suspend exchange transactions to individual customers to prevent the market manipulation. They were received by Sberbank, Tinkoff, VTB, BCS, Opening Broker, Alfa-Bank and Aton.

© The Financial Times Limited 2021. All Rights Reserved. Reprint, copying or any modification of the text is not allowed. The translation was made by VTIMES. Financial Times Limited is not responsible for the quality and accuracy of the translation. Photo: TIM MossHolder / UNSPLASH When quarantine was declared in San Diego last summer, Jenna Harris, sitting at home, learned to make aromatic candles.

Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan announced that Onik Gasparyan has been relieved of his post as head of the General Staff of the Republic, since the decree on his dismissal was not signed by Armenian President Armen Sarkissian on time.

Broadcast of the press conference of Vladimir Putin Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS An ordinary arsenal of sociological means (methods) of a study of public opinion involves the use of not only individual probe or diagnostic issues that record the current state of mass consciousness (“instantic picture” of public moods), but also their regular repetition, which allows you to see the dynamics of the opinions of society as a whole or vibration of moods, views, and the assessments of individual

Photo: duma.gov.ru Russians should have access to all world Internet resources, but these resources should comply with the requirements of Russian legislation, commented on the slowdown of the work of the Twitter, the presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “There is no desire to block anything, but taking measures to force these companies to comply with our laws is quite reasonably,” he said (a quote for Interfax).