The funeral of disgraced Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky began on Wednesday at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey, RIA Novosti reports . According to the agency, Berezovsky's friend Ekaterina Sabirova and bodyguard Avi Navama, who was the first to discover the body of the deceased businessman, arrived at the Brookwood cemetery. correspondent An ITAR-TASS at the scene of the events reported that among those present was also the friend and business partner of the deceased, Vladimir Voronov.

After Vladislav Surkov leaves this post, the responsibilities of the head of the government apparatus will be transferred to his first deputies, and Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich will receive Surkov’s responsibilities as deputy prime minister, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reported on Wednesday.

The resignation of Vladislav Surkov from the government, the decree of which was signed by President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, is not related to his controversy told Interfax with the representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Vladimir Markin regarding possible thefts in the Skolkovo Foundation, the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov.

At the top of the list are early Facebook investors who made huge profits from the social network's IPO. Russian Yuri Milner took 35th place in the list American Forbes on Wednesday unveiled its annual “Midas List” - a ranking of the 100 most successful venture investors on the planet. Accel Partners partner Jim Breuer holds the top spot for the third year in a row. The second position was retained by the co-founder of the Andreessen Horowitz fund, Marc Andreessen.

An unemployed man started shooting in the premises of one of the large banks in the center of Moscow, reported on Wednesday. the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the capital The incident occurred on Monday evening in “one of the large banks located in building No. 1 on Kozhevnicheskaya Street,” the report notes.

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The St. Petersburg police stopped the theatrical procession of Cirque du Soleil artists in the center of St. Petersburg due to a violation of the legislation on mass actions, ITAR-TASS reported on Wednesday with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. “The organizers submitted an application for 200 people, but significantly more people gathered,” a department representative explained to the agency.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized three more Russian non-profit organizations (NPOs) as "foreign agents" - the human rights foundation "Public Verdict", the Moscow School of Political Research (MSPS) and the "Ural Human Rights Group", the Izvestia newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed source in the Prosecutor General's Office. .

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was aware that Vladislav Surkov had written a letter of resignation from the post of Deputy Prime Minister, and met with him several times, the Prime Minister's press secretary Natalya Timakova told Forbes on Wednesday. Timakova also confirmed Surkov’s words that he submitted the application on April 26, and not on May 7, when a meeting was held on the government’s implementation of the May presidential decrees.

Oleg Topalov, accused of murder, who escaped from the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center on Tuesday, was detained in Izmailovsky Park in eastern Moscow, the told Interfax on Wednesday evening. press service of the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia “Moscow police officers detained Oleg Topalov, who escaped from Matrosskaya Tishina, in Izmailovsky Park,” a press service employee said.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has identified another 25 episodes of theft worth more than 5.5 billion rubles from Rosselkhozbank OJSC, and 17 criminal cases have been initiated, reported .

The People's Assembly of Ingushetia, at a meeting on Wednesday, May 8, adopted in the second and third, final reading, amendments to the bill on the election of the head of the republic, according to which the highest official of the region will be elected by the republican parliament, and not by direct voting, Interfax reports . 23 deputies voted for the adoption of the amendments, one against.

Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, sentenced in the United States to 20 years in prison, needs surgery, but the administration of the American prison is not taking any measures to provide him with the necessary treatment, told RIA Novosti . Yaroshenko’s lawyer Alexey Tarasov “Doctors at Trenton Hospital in New Jersey, where Konstantin Yaroshenko was taken from prison for consultation, concluded that he needed surgery.

reported on Wednesday Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky rewrote his will shortly before his death, the British newspaper The Times . According to the publication, nine days before his death, Berezovsky made changes to the document that related to the management of his personal fortune. In his new will, he named five people who would manage his finances in the event of his death. However, according to the publication, none of the persons mentioned by Berezovsky wanted to take on this matter.

The Transport Prosecutor's Office began an inspection of Angara Airlines after the crash of its Mi-8 helicopter in the Irkutsk region, told the Interfax agency on Wednesday. a representative of the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office According to him, as part of the investigation, employees of the transport prosecutor's office, together with investigators and representatives of the International Aviation Committee, flew to the site of the helicopter crash.