In the company, security forces were looking for a mysterious Mercedes driver, who on April 5 hit a traffic police inspector in the center of St. Petersburg Employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia carried out searches on Tuesday evening in the VKontakte office on Nevsky Prospekt in the center of St. Petersburg. One of the founders and key employees of the company, Nikolai Durov, announced this on his page on the social network.

Boston doctors are fighting for the lives of at least three children injured in a terrorist attack in Boston, the local Boston Globe reports , citing the head of the trauma department of the city's children's hospital. According to the publication, the children are in critical condition, they will have to undergo several more operations, but, according to doctors, they should survive.

AFK Sistema does not yet plan to further repurchase shares of the company (buy back), company president Mikhail Shamolin (No. 10 in the ranking of the 25 most expensive top managers - 2012 ) said at a press conference on Tuesday. AFK Sistema will work in the “vector of dividends,” ITAR-TASS quotes Shamolin . The AFK Board of Directors will consider the issue of the size of dividends on Saturday.

State Duma deputies adopted in the first reading a bill introducing large fines for violating the conditions of keeping cats and dogs. As follows from the text of the bill published on the State Duma website , now for violating the established rules for keeping dogs and cats in cities and other populated areas, citizens will have to pay a fine of 500 to 1,000 rubles, and officials - from 1,000 to 3,000 rubles.

An FBI spokesman at a press conference on Tuesday declined to comment on information about arrests in connection with the double terrorist attack that occurred during the Boston Marathon on Monday, Reuters reports. At the same time, the Boston police said that currently no one has been detained on suspicion of involvement in the explosions, CNBC reported on its microblog on Twitter.

Law enforcement officers are conducting searches on Tuesday in the offices of North Caucasus Resorts OJSC, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. Law enforcement officers are conducting searches on Tuesday in the offices of North Caucasus Resorts OJSC, reported the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs .

American singer Madonna did not violate Russian laws during her performances in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the summer of 2012, ITAR-TASS reported on Tuesday , citing Elena Dunaeva, head of the Federal Migration Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. “We have no reason to say that Madonna violated anything,” Dunaeva said. “Madonna entered Russia on a cultural exchange visa and had the right to perform concerts on the condition that she would not receive remuneration,” she said.

The world's largest social network Facebook has begun testing a version of the logo in Cyrillic, intended for Russian-speaking users, the told RIA Novosti . company's press service Representatives of Facebook said that from Monday about 5% of users of the Russian-language Facebook interface can see the Facebook logo in Cyrillic on their page on the social network. It is located in the upper left corner of the page.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, at a meeting with the general director of Grozneftegaz (a subsidiary of Rosneft) Musa Eskerkhanov on Monday criticized the oil company Rosneft for not paying taxes to the budget of the republic, the press reports. service of the head and government of Chechnya . Kadyrov said that Rosneft does not fulfill any point of the existing agreements.

Photo by Maria Savelyeva for Forbes Hendrix Studio created a network business with annual revenue of 50 million rubles, opening platforms for amateur music and dance classes An inconspicuous two-story building is a former factory management building in the Paveletsky railway station area. Loud music echoes through the orange-walled hallway: four rock bands are rehearsing here in different rooms. In the next room there is another one, a dance class.

Security measures in Sochi, where the Olympics will be held in winter 2014, will be strengthened from June 1 this year, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Tuesday in connection with the double terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon in the United States, which killed three people and injured more than 150. “The safety of those who will come to the Games in Sochi is a priority task of the state.

on Tuesday Opposition leader Alexei Navalny published his income declaration . As follows from the documents, in 2012 the income of the head of the Rospil fund from advocacy amounted to 7,482,257 rubles. Navalny received 1.1 million rubles from securities and shares in commercial organizations. Supporters of the oppositionist transferred 8,521,597 rubles as a donation to Rospil accounts (this income is not subject to taxation).

The FBI is investigating the Boston Marathon bombings as a terrorist attack, but its perpetrators have not yet been identified, US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday. “We don’t know yet whether it was an international or domestic terrorist organization that organized this. But we will find out who it is, and they will be brought to justice,” CNBC quoted Obama as saying . “Every time bombs are used against innocent civilians, it is an act of terrorism,” he stressed.

“It Can’t Be” - a book about why it’s so important to make unexpected decisions in business The most serious scientific discoveries began with absurd discoveries that seemed inconsistent with reality and even contradicted it. Having stumbled upon a paradox, the researcher, as a rule, does not exclaim Archimedes’ “Eureka!”, but says: “Strange, this cannot be.” A book by Alexey Ivanov, a physicist by training and an advertiser by vocation, director of the creative agency MasterUm, “It can’t be.

Photo by Anastasia Tseyder for Forbes The architect of the second stage of the Mariinsky Theater, Jack Diamond, told reporters on Tuesday that he considers the new Mariinsky Theater the “crown” of his career. The crowning achievement was a banal shopping center, says Forbes columnist I have never seen the great and, without a doubt, terrible opera “The Turn of the Screw” by Benjamin Britten live. And here I am in St. Petersburg, and the Mariinsky Theater is just giving “Turn”.