The criminal case against the former head of the Moscow metro, Dmitry Gaev, has been dropped. agency on Monday This was done due to the lack of evidence of a crime, lawyers Alexander Asnis and Yakov Mastinsky told the RAPSI . Dmitry Gaev died on October 27 in a clinic in Switzerland after a serious long-term illness at the age of 61. Gaev has held the position of head of the Moscow Metro since 1995.

The developer of the new summer field uniform for the Russian army, BTK Group OJSC, denied information that the Ministry of Defense had already approved it. “Nothing has changed; indeed, the form has not yet been approved. There was a demonstration at the Ministry of Defense, based on its results, comments and proposals for improvement were made, which will be taken into account in the near future,” an official representative of the company told RIA Novosti.

photo by RIA Novosti The congestion on the Rossiya highway cost businesses a pretty penny: it cost transport companies alone $5-6 million. However, the costs did not end there: businesses can shell out another $60 million as part of the “work on mistakes” initiated by the government. Last Friday, November 30, as a result of heavy snowfall, a three-day traffic jam began on the M-10 Rossiya highway leading from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

One of the co-founders of the Parliament-Group company, producer of the famous Parliament vodka, Mark Milgotin, who, along with his partners in the company Yuri Manilov and Sergei Kupriyanov, was accused of extorting shares worth 150 million rubles, died in the hospital, Interfax reports with reference to a law enforcement source. “Milgotin died in the hospital about two weeks ago from liver cancer and was buried in one of the capital’s cemeteries,” the agency’s source said.

In December, a bill will be submitted to the State Duma that will oblige cinemas to allocate 20% of distribution to domestic films. This was announced on Monday, December 3, by Sergei Zheleznyak, Vice Speaker of the Lower House, Deputy Secretary of the General Council of United Russia, Interfax reports.

A criminal investigation has been completed against the former general director of the Moscow Military Construction Directorate on charges of fraud on an especially large scale, the reports .

Former Minister of Agriculture Elena Skrynnik believes that the criminal case of fraud in Rosagroleasing is an attempt to reduce the value of the state share in the company on the eve of the final privatization in 2013. Last week, on November 27, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Andrei Pilipchuk said that Skrynnik is a witness in a criminal case of fraud in Rosagroleasing.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych accepted the resignation of the country's government. “President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych accepted the resignation of Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov, satisfying his application,” says the decree of the head of state, signed on December 3 and published on the presidential website.

In Russia, the vehicle inspection ticket has finally been abolished. And car dealers received the right to conduct technical inspections of cars of those brands that they sell and service. The corresponding government decree “On amendments to certain acts of the Government of the Russian Federation on issues related to the technical inspection of vehicles” was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and published on Monday on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers.

The first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Science and High Technologies, MP from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Dmitry Novikov said that together with his colleague from the LDPR, deputy chairman of the relevant committee Mikhail Degtyarev, he sent an official letter to the management of seven leading federal television channels in Russia with a call to stop scaring TV viewers with reports about the imminent “end of the world” ", Interfax reports .

Illegal banking activities worth 1.7 billion rubles were stopped in Moscow, and a suspect in the case was detained. “The police identified and detained the suspect in committing this crime,” says a press release published on Monday on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow. A criminal case into illegal entrepreneurship related to the withdrawal of funds on a particularly large scale was initiated in August 2011.

The Investigative Committee refused to attach the conclusion of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation to the materials of the case of theft in tax inspectorate No. 28. The press service of the investment fund Hermitage Capital reported this on Monday.

The head of News International publishing house Tom Mockridge is resigning. The owner of the media empire, Rupert Murdoch, announced this in a statement. “It is absolutely and entirely his own decision to resign,” Murdoch was quoted as saying by the BBC . He worked “I’m very sorry that he’s leaving,” Murdoch emphasized, recalling that they were colleagues for almost 22 years.

The cause of the three-day traffic jam on the M-10 federal highway was an accident at 436 km of the road and inconsistency in the actions of road services and the traffic police, said the head of the Federal Road Agency (Rosavtodor) Roman Starovoit at a meeting of the government commission for emergency situations on Monday in Moscow.

Acting Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov does not consider the agreement concluded with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to limit the movement of trucks along the Moscow Ring Road to be a strategic loss. “The construction of local small parking lots will be our priority so that there are places of rest for both heavy vehicles and simply for our motorists,” Interfax quotes Vorobyov .