The investigation has opened a criminal case into the disappearance of a nine-year-old schoolgirl in Moscow, who was dropped off by a minibus driver on Monday evening for lack of money to pay the fare. The driver is asked to voluntarily appear before investigators, reported on Tuesday.

It is unlikely that visas with the European Union will be abolished before the Olympics in Sochi in 2014, but Russia expects to introduce a visa-free regime by the end of 2014, Ambassador at Large of the Foreign Ministry Anvar Azimov said at a briefing on Tuesday. “Of course, to be honest, we would like, and this is a great reason, to introduce a visa-free regime for the Olympics in Sochi, but this is hardly possible,” Interfax quotes him .

The law in Russia is no longer used so often to put pressure on businessmen and seize their property, Boris Titov, the presidential commissioner for the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs, said at a press conference on Tuesday. “We can say that today the situation with criminal pressure on business is complex and serious, but there is a tendency towards improvement. This must be recognized,” RIA Novosti quotes Titov .

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) recognized as justified the complaint of oppositionist and founder of the RosPil project Alexei Navalny regarding the purchase of steel by the Admiralty Shipyards, a subsidiary of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC). “The complaint was found to be justified, the company was sent an order to eliminate the violations,” Interfax cites a statement from a FAS representative.

The founder of the Marshall Capital fund, Konstantin Malofeev, in an interview with Forbes, announced the initiation of a criminal case for spreading slander against him. According to him, in connection with a “massive PR campaign” to discredit his business reputation at the end of February, he contacted the police with a statement, according to which a case was opened on March 1.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, became the most cited blogger among the governors of Russian regions in February, according to the Medialogy rating published on Tuesday. In mid-February, Ramzan Kadyrov registered on the Instagram photo service. In a couple of days, more than 4,000 people subscribed to his account. Kadyrov is also active on Twitter, which is read by more than 25,000 people.

The Duma factions of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia will most likely not support the candidacy of presidential aide Elvira Nabiullina for the post of head of the Central Bank. Representatives of the factions announced this shortly after the announcement of her nomination for the post of head of the Central Bank.

Additional oil and gas revenues of the Russian budget will amount to 230 billion rubles in 2013, major privatization transactions are expected in the second half of 2013, and a plan to mobilize additional budget revenues in the amount of 500 billion rubles will be prepared by the summer. Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told reporters about this on Tuesday following a meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed information about an almost twofold increase in salaries for employees of the government apparatus and the presidential administration since September, published by Forbes on Tuesday, and linked it with the cancellation of a number of benefits for officials.

Members of the Federation Council on Tuesday sent to the government a proposal to create an interdepartmental information and analytical center for preventing and countering space threats, Interfax reports . “We need a single body to prevent and counter threats that come from space,” said the head of the Defense and Security Committee, Viktor Ozerov, at the end of the round table in the upper house on ensuring planetary security from space risks and threats.

East News photo Why do the Chinese authorities, unlike the Russian ones, manage to increase the share of highly processed goods in exports? A little less than a quarter of a century ago, when imported televisions, VCRs and other equipment began flowing through the collapsed border that separated the socialist camp from the rest of the world, Soviet buyers meticulously inspected the products: “Made in Germany? White assembly, right?

Well-known blogger Anton Nosik, who previously accused the Foreign Ministry of defending the interests of officials in negotiations on the abolition of the visa regime with the European Union, did not come to the briefing on Tuesday by Ambassador-at-Large on visa-free dialogue between Russia and the EU Anvar Azimov, where he was invited by the department, RIA reports News . Judging by Nosik's blog entries, he is not in Moscow.

The Bank of Russia on Tuesday presented commemorative “Olympic” coins of the third and fourth series, issued on the eve of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, reported . the Department of External and Public Relations of the Central Bank Coins of the third series have been in circulation since Tuesday, March 12, the bank reported.

The government must continue to work on legalizing wage payments, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday at a meeting on the issue of mobilizing additional federal budget revenues. Medvedev noted that the tax system “in general sets taxpayers up to receive wages, as they say, “in white,” but, nevertheless, the problem still exists,” RIA Novosti reports . “We need to do this. Ultimately, this is not only a legal issue, but, if you like, also a psychological one.

March 12, 2013 Career and business Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites This day in business history: the father of AvtoVAZ and the largest financial pyramid On March 12, Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to creating the largest financial pyramid, Robert Bosch, Gianni Agnelli and Clement Studebaker were born, and an explosion occurred at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in Japan.