The Investigative Committee of Russia notified A Just Russia deputy Ilya Ponomarev that a criminal case will be opened against him in the Skolkovo case in the near future, the Interfax agency reported on Monday, citing official representative of the department Vladimir Markin. Markin said Ponomarev was notified during an interrogation last week.

Firefighters managed to put out a large fire at the Melnitsa construction market in the southwest of Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported on Monday . “At 20.31 Moscow time on May 20, the fire was extinguished. There were no deaths or injuries as a result of the fire,” the department said in a statement. Thus, extinguishing the fire took more than 3 hours.

Photo by PhotoXPress The high level of urbanization of the country and the growing mobility of the population can become an impetus for the long-awaited modernization The good news is that the intensity of internal migration in Russia is growing : in 2012 alone, there were 23.6% more people moving within the country than a year earlier (about 3.8 million people in total). In 2010 and 2011, the number of internal Russian migrants grew much more slowly.

On Tuesday, State Duma deputies will consider a bill allowing Russians with mandatory payment debts not exceeding 10,000 rubles to travel abroad, Interfax reported on Monday , citing United Russia deputy Nadezhda Shkolkina. “The bill was included in the agenda of the meeting by the Duma Council,” she said.

FSB officers prevented a terrorist attack in the Moscow region, Interfax reported on Monday with reference to the information center of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. “Decisive actions by law enforcement forces stopped an attempt to carry out a terrorist attack in the capital,” the department reports. As noted, during the prevention of the terrorist attack, two militants were killed, one militant was detained.

President of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg (No. 4 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia , wealth - $15.1 billion) was questioned in the “Skolkovo case” as a witness, the Interfax agency reported on Monday, citing a statement by the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Vladimir Markin. According to Markin, Vekselberg was summoned for questioning on Saturday.

As a result of a double terrorist attack near the bailiff service building in Makhachkala, four people were killed and 35 people were hospitalized, including one child, the Russian Ministry of Health reported on Monday . Reportedly, 9 patients were hospitalized in the Republican Clinical Hospital (of which 2 people were in serious condition, 7 in moderate condition), 7 victims - in the Republican Orthopedic and Traumatology Center (all seriously injured), 3 victims - in the City Hospital No.

American lawyer and former diplomat Thomas Firestone was expelled from Russia in May 2013 and declared persona non grata after a lengthy interrogation at the airport, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Monday, citing an acquaintance of Firestone. According to the publication, the incident occurred when the lawyer was returning to Russia after a trip abroad.

May 20, 2013 Business Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites Team of Sergei Chemezov Key managers of the Rostec system RIA Novosti Alexey Aleshin Since 2000, together with Chemezov, he worked at Promexport, Rosvooruzheniya and Rosoboronexport, where he was responsible for legal and personnel issues, the supply of spare parts and investments. Since 2007 - first deputy general director of Russian Technologies.

In Gunvor’s memorandum for the placement of Eurobonds, the company reported that the US Department of Justice was indeed interested in the activities of one of the group’s companies. The document (obtained by Forbes) states that in April 2011, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York requested documents from Castor Americas regarding, "among other things," oil trading. Castor is part of the Gunvor group of Gennady Timchenko and is registered in the state of Delaware.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili thanked the Prime Minister of Vanuatu for this country’s cancellation of the decision to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and expressed confidence that Russia will soon refuse its recognition of the independence of this territory, which Georgia considers its own, Saakashvili made such a statement during of his meeting with the Prime Minister of Vanuatu.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism has decided to increase the cost of entry visas for tourists from $15 to $25 from November 1, 2013, RIA Novosti reported on Monday , citing the Egyptian Embassy in Moscow. “Indeed, the country’s Cabinet of Ministers has already adopted a decree to increase the cost of a tourist visa, which can be obtained at the airport upon arrival in Egypt, to $25,” the embassy said, noting that the decree will come into force on November 1.

Photo by Reuters Meg Whitman on good, eBay success, politics and dieting Current Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman headed the online auction site eBay from 1998 to 2007. Under her leadership, a startup with 30 employees has grown into a corporation with a turnover of more than $8 billion. Since September 2011, Whitman has been trying to bring hardware manufacturer Hewlett-Packard out of a protracted crisis.

The country is not in danger of an economic crisis similar to what Russia experienced in 2008-2009, and the population should not stock up on essential products, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

The ProfMedia media holding (part of Vladimir Potanin’s Interros) and the A&NN investment group of Alexander Mamut announced the completion of the transaction to merge the companies Afisha-Rambler and SUP Media. As noted in report , the transaction was approved by the Federal Antimonopoly Services of Russia and Ukraine. the ProfMedia Upon completion of the transaction, the merged company will be transferred to the management of Alexander Mamut.