The Dozhd TV channel is suspending the production of the State Department program, hosted by Ksenia Sobchak, the channel’s general director Natalya Sindeeva told Interfax on Monday. “The program is under no circumstances being closed. We are suspending it to reformat it. The format that exists does not work. We have a desire to do the program differently,” Sindeeva explained.

An unknown person, possibly with an accomplice, opened fire on Monday afternoon in Belgorod during a robbery at a gun store, killing six people, Elena Kozyreva, a representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) for the Belgorod region, told RIA Novosti . The robbery took place at the Okhota weapons store, the agency quotes her as saying. Kozyreva clarified that perhaps there was more than one attacker.

The high cost of transportation by Aeroflot OJSC compared to other air carriers is explained by favorable slots (departure and arrival times of flights), an updated fleet, as well as ineffective costs, the Accounts Chamber (CA) reported based on the results of an audit of Aeroflot’s activities for 2010-2011 and nine months of 2012.

Russia has begun accepting questions for “Direct Line with Vladimir Putin,” which is scheduled for Thursday, April 24, and among them there are questions regarding criminal cases against oppositionist Alexei Navalny and the “prisoners of Bolotnaya,” zero ppm and the Unified State Exam.

Russia may apply to host the 2019 FIBA ​​World Cup, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko told reporters on Monday. “The application campaign for the 2019 World Cup will begin in December. Now we will think about it and decide whether we will qualify,” the R-Sport agency quotes Mutko . “The championship will be very interesting, its format is changing: four cities will be involved. Of course, there are opportunities for holding it; many palaces have been built in the country,” the minister added.

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The suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, answers investigators' questions by nodding his head, the American television channel CNN reported , citing an informed source. Investigators meet in 19-year-old Tsarnaev's room every two hours and, in the presence of doctors, interrogate the suspect, who is connected to a ventilator, the source said.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs published on its website a photograph of a suspect in the shooting of six people in the center of Belgorod. The suspect is a previously convicted resident of Belgorod, born in 1981, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. The department did not specify the name of the alleged shooter.

Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov denied the possible appointment of former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin as First Deputy Head of Administration. “We learned about this from media reports,” the RIA Novosti agency quotes Peskov’s statement, which he made in response to information that appeared in the online publication Gazeta.ru about his impending high-profile appointment in the Kremlin administration.

The United Capital Partners (UCP) fund, which purchased 48% of the shares of the VKontakte social network from the Mirilashvili family and the company’s financial director Lev Leviev, is pleased with the work of the social network’s creator Pavel Durov as CEO and hopes for cooperation, said UCP managing partner Ilya Sherbovich in an interview with the TV channel “ Rain" on Sunday. “We are more than satisfied with the management team and Pavel (Durov).

The police prevented hackers from stealing about 1 billion rubles from the accounts of the largest Russian banks, stopping the spread of viruses designed to covertly copy access details to the bank accounts of citizens and organizations, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Monday . “Department K received information that malicious software is being posted on the websites of leading banks of the Russian Federation.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin promised to hold a competition in 2013 for the construction of an amusement park similar to Disneyland in the Nagatinskaya floodplain in the southern district of the capital.” “It is obvious that the city needs such a theme park, full of attractions and sports facilities,” Sobyanin said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, published on Monday. The mayor of Moscow emphasized that there is a project to create such a park in the Nagatinskaya floodplain.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, detained on Friday evening in a Boston suburb and suspected of committing a terrorist attack during an international marathon, regained consciousness on Sunday and began giving written testimony, the American television channel ABC News reported , citing sources familiar with the investigation. Tsarnaev, 19, is being treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Doctors assess his condition as serious but stable - he was wounded in the neck.

last week The real results of the modernization of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Post, in which the general director was replaced , will appear in 2-3 years, the head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov said on Monday during a visit to the postal and customs terminal at Vnukovo airport. The federal state unitary enterprise reform program may be presented to the government in the summer, reports the Prime agency .

The Tashkent Economic Court declared the MTS subsidiary, Uzdunrobita LLC, bankrupt and opened liquidation proceedings against it, appointing a liquidation manager, Interfax reported on Monday . Thus, the court granted the corresponding petition of the company’s creditors. The liquidation of the company must be completed within a year. At the same time, the debtor and creditors still have the opportunity to sign a settlement agreement and terminate liquidation proceedings.