The fire broke out on Monday in a warehouse with correspondence at the main office of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Post" in the south of Moscow, told Interfax . the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow “On Varshavskoe Highway, house 37, in a five-story post office building, bags of correspondence caught fire,” said a representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

The chief military prosecutor of Russia, Sergei Fridinsky, sent a submission to the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, in which he proposed to dismiss the general director of Oboronservice OJSC, Sergei Khursevich, for failing to ensure compliance with the law in the company’s activities and “himself taking the path of violating the law,” in As a result, the state suffered damage in the amount of 5 billion rubles, reported on Monday.

At the initiative of United Russia deputy Irina Yarovaya, the planned passage in the southeast of Moscow will be named “Streets of the Battle of Stalingrad,” reported the United Russia website on Monday. The corresponding decision was made on April 24 at a meeting of the city commission on the names of territorial units, the report notes.

The Ministry of Defense denied information that aircraft from the Western Military District (WMD) invaded Finnish airspace on Monday. “According to objective control data, the district’s aviation did not violate Finnish airspace,” said the acting commander. the head of the press service of the Western Military District, Major Vladimir Drobyshevsky, to Interfax on Monday.

The official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Vladimir Markin, denied versions that appeared in the media that his article in the Izvestia newspaper about the activities of the Skolkovo Foundation was ordered. “Yes, I read a lot of opinions on this matter. It’s simply amazing what conclusions are being drawn!” - Markin told the weekly The New Times . He called such versions stupid, saying that no one called him and asked him to write such an article.

A Turkish F-16 fighter jet, which was reported missing by the Turkish command on Monday, crashed near the border with Syria, the BBC reports , citing Turkish media. Earlier, the Al-Arabiya TV channel reported in its microblog on Twitter that the Turkish military command had lost contact with one of the fighters flying in the south of the country near the border with Syria. It was reported that contact with the fighter was lost while it was in the mountainous border area.

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree canceling visas for athletes, their coaches, members of foreign official delegations and judges coming to Russia for international sports competitions, according to a statement published Monday on the Kremlin website.

French Danone SA has acquired a 92% stake in the American manufacturer of organic food products for children Happy Family, reports The Wall Street Journal . Information about the deal was confirmed to the publication by Happy Family founder Shazi Visram and a source familiar with the details of the agreement. They do not name the exact amount, but, according to WSJ estimates, we are talking about “hundreds of millions of dollars.” Visram will continue to lead the Happy Family within Danone.

A gas cylinder exploded in the Shokoladnitsa cafe on Shcherbakovskaya Street in the Eastern Administrative District (VAO) of Moscow, there were casualties, told Interfax . a law enforcement source “According to preliminary information, a gas cylinder exploded on Shcherbakovskaya Street, opposite the Semyonovsky shopping center,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to an eyewitness to the incident, the explosion occurred in the Shokoladnitsa cafe.

The founder and CEO of personal computer maker Dell, Michael Dell, is challenging the terms of the offer to acquire the company by billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management. Forbes reported this on Monday. According to Dell, the proposal by potential buyers ignores a number of key issues for the agreement.

Deputy Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Sergei Zheleznyak criticized reports about the release of a deck of playing cards “Russian Mafia” in the United States. “With such an “expert” approach, they can easily justify the negative impact of Martians on the American economy,” RIA Novosti quotes Zheleznyak .

Russian Commercial Bank (RCB), VTB's Cyprus subsidiary, has received permission to resume full operations, the bank said on Monday. The report notes that on May 13, President and Chairman of the Board of VTB Andrei Kostin met with the President of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiades and the head of the Cypriot Central Bank Panikos Dimitriadis.

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The United States and Great Britain agreed to “increase pressure” on the Syrian authorities to force the departure of President Bashar al-Assad, the Associated Press reported on Monday following a meeting between US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron. According to the American leader, the United States and Great Britain will continue to support the moderate opposition to achieve the departure of President Bashar al-Assad.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he no longer sees the need to block access to the YouTube video hosting service, which was closed in the republic last year due to the scandalous film “The Innocence of Muslims,” which ridiculed the Prophet Muhammad, RIA Novosti reported on Monday .