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LSR Group

Value of LSR's new contracts for 3 months of 2025 amounted to ₽41 billion, up 28% from ₽32 billion in the previous year. In volume terms, sales volume declined 0.7% to 146,000 square meters. Share of mortgage transactions decreased by 27 p.p. and amounted to 46%, share of installment transactions - 42%.

Yandex

IT company Yandex has unveiled the largest ever update of Alice. Now the AI-assistant can reason, work with files, recognize what is seen through the smartphone camera, speak English without an accent, and work with children of different ages. New capabilities have appeared thanks to the YandexGPT 5 Pro language model and Yandex's multimodal neural network....

VTB Bank

VTB shareholders have approved the merger of its Crimean subsidiary bank RNKB. It is planned to complete the legal merger of RNKB to VTB during the long summer weekend from June 12 to 15, 2025. Specified term may be changed in the course of the reorganization procedure.

SmartTechGroup (CarMoney)

SmarTechGroup's Board of Directors set the price of the additional share issue at ₽1.89 per share. In mid-January, the company's shareholders decided to place 745 million additional shares by private subscription in favor of Promsvyazbank. Exact number of redeemable shares will be determined by the bank independently, and all outstanding shares of the additi...

Yandex

IT company Yandex is negotiating with operators of smart building systems for apartment buildings to connect its virtual assistant to them, and is also preparing package offers for large developers who are ready to pre-install a smart house before handing over apartments. Five years ago, Yandex already announced projects with developers PIK and A101, but the...

Phosagro

PhosAgro in Q1 2025 set a record for agrochemical output, which totaled more than 3.11 million tonnes, up 3.6% year-on-year. Output of phosphate-based fertilizers and feed phosphates increased by 5% to a record high of over 2.37 million tonnes.

Crystal

Net profit of KLVZ Kristall, the main operating company of AG Kristall PJSC, for 2024 amounted to ₽78.4 million, up 4.5% year-on-year, the company said in a presentation. Revenue rose by 7.6% to ₽3.97 billion.

Polyus

Shareholders of Polyus approved dividends for 2024 in the amount of ₽73 per ordinary share. The last day of purchase of securities to receive dividends is April 24, 2025. Dividend yield may amount to 3.77%.

Uralskaya Kuznitsa

Ural Kuznitsa's IFRS net profit for 2024 amounted to ₽8.88 billion, up 44.3% from ₽6.15 billion in the previous year. Revenue increased 8.1% to ₽23.53 billion against ₽21.77 billion a year earlier.

MOEX Group (Moscow Exchange)

Moscow Exchange will change the execution mechanism and funding parameters for perpetual futures on USD/RUB and EUR/RUB currency pairs from April 21. Now, when an order is submitted for the execution of a perpetual futures quarterly contract, a payment of 3% of the contract's face value will be charged, which will go in favor of the client whose position was...