This is due to both the global economic situation and the decline in demand within the country.
Today, the United States expanded the list of blocking sanctions on Russia. It hit 17 Russians, 16 companies, 7 yachts and three aircraft.
The Italian authorities reported that they had begun blocking the assets of Russian businessmen who fell under EU sanctions. The yacht, owned by Mordashov, stood in the city of Imperia, Timchenko - in San Remo.
All mines in Vorkuta in 2022 will finally become the property of the dollar billionaire Roman Trotsenko, adviser to the president of Rosneft Igor Sechin.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service opened three cases: against Alexey Mordashov's Severstal, Vladimir Lisin's NLMK and Viktor Rashnikov's MMK.
Mordashov is faced with a non-trivial task - how to transfer a fortune to children without harming a huge business, a billionaire is already developing a plan for how his children will inherit his fortune.
The Black Sea city became a place of concentration of a number of oligarchs and officials.
Billionaire talked about wealth, hard work, mistakes and diet.
The owner of Severstal, Alexey Mordashov, has agreed to buy 41.91% of Lenta from its largest shareholders, TPG and EBRD. But the minority shareholders of the network have already called the “April Fool's joke” the price offered by them within the framework of the mandatory offer.
The owner of Severstal wants to first buy a 34% stake in the network, and then make an offer to other shareholders.
Powerful administrative support has turned the company, to which generous orders of the gas monopoly have fallen, into a reseller of large diameter pipes from other manufacturers in Russia.
Severgroup presented projects worth billions of dollars when discussing the list of Belousov.
They did not sell monopoly pipe with an additional discount.
The largest Russian metallurgical cartel, "Russian Steel", estimated losses of metallurgists in the coming years because of infrastructure restrictions of 500 billion rubles. Such a figure should save them from extortion in favor of the Kremlin, they hope.
Following the meeting of the owners of metallurgical and chemical companies with the presidential aide, Andrei Belousov, it was decided that 513 billion rubles should not be paid. The size of the "tribute" fell to 200-300 billion rubles under the sauce "investment in infrastructure."
The adviser of the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin intends personally to inform owners of companies the importance of putting them 513 billion rubles for the benefit of the state.
After the proposal of Andrei Belousov metallurgists and chemists to shell out for 513 billion rubles, his initiative was not supported by the RF Ministry of Finance. With the condition that the company invests this money all the same in Russia.
"Dekulakization" of Russian metallurgical and chemical corporations can lead to aggregate losses of more than 1 trillion rubles. Businessmen themselves do not fully believe in such measures.
Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov explained his initiative to withdraw 513 billion rubles from metallurgical and chemical companies not so much by fulfilling the "May" decrees as by "equalizing the tax burden."
Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK criticized the idea of an adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov "withdraw" from metallurgists and chemical companies 537 billion rubles.
Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Andrei Belousov, found where to take 537 billion rubles to finance the "May" decrees of the head of state. They will be taken from the profits of metallurgists, producers of fertilizers and Sibur.
The Government of the Russian Federation intends to shake at least 140 billion rubles from the Russian metallurgy within the framework of an environmental national project. It is assumed that by 2024 it will be possible to achieve a sharp reduction in environmental pollution in Magnitogorsk, Norilsk, Cherepovets and other cities.
Dividends of Severstal billionaire Alexei Mordashov for the second quarter will be twice as high as a year earlier. As a result, the main shareholder will receive from the company over $ 850 million only for the first half of 2018.
Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine of Viktor Rashnikov outperformed the largest metallurgists. However, the purchase of metal for the construction of stadiums "weather" Russian manufacturers still did not do because of its modest volume - an average of about 100 thousand tons per year.
Forbes presented the rating of the heirs of the richest businessmen of Russia for the third time. The first place was taken by Yusuf Alekperov, the second place was occupied by the children of Leonid Mikhelson, "bronze" - in the son and daughter of Andrei Melnichenko.
Under the US sanctions, "Power Machines" businessman Alexei Mordashov continues to demand benefits.
Forbes magazine published the 15th updated rating of Russia's 200 richest businessmen, whose overall condition is estimated at $ 485 billion.
The collapse of the quotes of "Rusal" was the main event of the day, however, sanctions were hit not only by the state of Oleg Deripaska - today many members of the Forbes list have become poor.