Police have detained a suspect in Monday's double Boston Marathon bombing, CNN reported Wednesday, citing a source close to the investigation. According to the channel's source, American investigators identified the suspect in the terrorist attack from video recordings. The suspect is a black man, the source said. Video footage reviewed by police showed him throwing a bag that allegedly contained an explosive device.

Minister for Relations with Open Government Mikhail Abyzov ( No. 1161 in the Forbes 2013 world ranking of billionaires, net worth $1.25 billion ) is going to transfer his foreign assets to Russia. The official himself told Forbes about this. Abyzov, while still working as a presidential adviser, transferred assets to a trust, but it is unknown where it was registered.

The general director of the state company Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, has decided to sell his foreign asset - the Swiss SFO Consept AG, an official representative of Rusnano told Forbes. SFO Consept AG appeared at the head of the state-owned OJSC only in 2012. According to last year's declaration of income and property, Chubais owned the Development Capital company (later renamed Strategy), which belonged to the Cypriot Tillit Ltd.

In Finland, about 10 people are under suspicion in the case of erroneously adding Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Finnish police “blacklist,” Finnish radio station Yle reported on Wednesday . According to the radio station, Putin's name was entered into the secret criminal register by the secretary on the orders of a police officer. Police plan to question the secretary within the next two weeks.

April 17, 2013 news Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites Vyatka landing: the trial of Alexei Navalny in Kirov The well-known oppositionist and his supporters arrived in the capital of Vyatka on the day of the first hearing in the criminal case of the theft of products from the State Unitary Enterprise "Kirovles" The well-known oppositionist and his supporters arrived in the capital of Vyatka on the day of the first hearing in the criminal

Photo by RIA Novosti The State Duma passes a law banning foreign accounts and assets of officials, parliamentarians and management of state-owned companies. Forbes found out how government employees were forced into financial repatriation and what they will do next “Wait to applaud, maybe you won’t like everything” - this is how Vladimir Putin upset the audience during his December address to the Federal Assembly.

Photo by Max Novikov for Forbes The first hearing in Kirov in the case of opposition leader Alexei Navalny lasted only 40 minutes The first hearing in the Leninsky District Court of Kirov on Wednesday in the case of the famous oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who is accused of organizing the theft of property from the Kirovles enterprise, lasted only 40 minutes. Judge Sergei Blinov decided to give the lawyers another week to familiarize themselves with the case.

The economy of the Internet and related industries in Russia should grow annually three times faster than GDP, said the head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, opening the Russian Internet Forum (RIF) on Wednesday. The minister noted that in 2012 the volume of the Runet economy amounted to 4.6% of GDP. “This is a very large number.

Police on Wednesday conducted a search in the Moscow inspection of the Federal Tax Service (IFTS) No. 2, whose senior employees are suspected of involvement in the theft of money from the budget through fraud with illegal VAT refunds, the reported . press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, tax officials assisted a criminal group that, for two years, was involved in VAT refund fraud in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Photo by ITAR-TASS The amount of compensation upon dismissal has long gone beyond the limits of common sense. The solution is to make them dependent on the results of their work Sensational examples of fabulous payments to former top managers of state-owned companies have forced us to think about restrictions on payments to this class of managers. about too large “parachutes” The Prime Minister is asked in the Duma ; high-ranking officials promise to solve the problem .

Deputy of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada from the nationalist party “Svoboda” Igor Miroshnichenko demanded to declare the Russian presenter of “Channel One” Ivan Urgant persona non grata in Ukraine for his offensive statements addressed to the Ukrainian people, the official website of the “ Svoboda” party reported on Wednesday . Reportedly, Miroshnichenko began collecting signatures of people's deputies under a corresponding appeal to the central authorities of Ukraine.

American intelligence agencies intercepted a letter to US President Barack Obama, the envelope of which was found to contain the deadly poison ricin, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday . According to the publication, the letter was intercepted on Tuesday at the White House mail center, located separately from the presidential administration buildings. Earlier in the day, a similar substance was found in a letter addressed to Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi.

Chairman of the A Just Russia party Nikolai Levichev promised to raise the issue of confidence in the cabinet of ministers if a recession begins in Russia in the fall. He stated this on Wednesday, speaking in the State Duma after Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s report on the government’s activities in 2012. “Our economy is worn out... therefore, it is clear that the danger of an autumn recession is quite likely.

Yulia Chaikina Author Galina Zinchenko Author The wife of the creator of Rolf, a shareholder in the Victoria chain of stores, the sister of the founders of the Summa group and other “other halves” of members of the Federation Council and State Duma deputies who earn millions At the end of 2012, the top ten wives of Russian parliamentarians declared income totaling 3 billion rubles, or $98 million.

Rosfinagency can be created in the form of a non-profit partnership or fund, and not an open joint-stock company, as previously planned, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday, answering questions from State Duma deputies after a report on the work of the Cabinet of Ministers in 2012. “Probably, almost everyone understands that the form of a joint stock company is not entirely suitable... A commercial organization still creates more risks,” RIA Novosti quotes Medvedev .