The court denied the Petersburg TV and Radio Company (operating under the Channel Five brand) a claim against the Axel Springer Russia publishing house and Forbes journalist Ilya Zhegulev, filed because of the article “A film about Medvedev and Georgia: so who is the commander in chief here? » , published on the Forbes website on August 9, 2012. At a court hearing held on June 3, 2013, the operative part of the decision was made, according to which Channel Five’s claims were denied in full.

a screenshot on his Facebook page Opposition leader Boris Nemtsov posted confirming that the mansion near Moscow, photographs of which appeared on the Internet over the weekend, previously belonged to the head of Russian Railways (RZD) Vladimir Yakunin. According to the document published by Nemtsov, Yakunin owned a plot of land in the village of Akulinino near Domodedovo near Moscow from February 2007 to February 2011.

At least 55 people were killed and dozens were injured in a fire at a poultry factory in northeast China on Monday, the AP news agency reported . Initially, 43 victims were reported. There were more than 350 workers at the plant when the fire started. A fire at an enterprise in the city of Dehui in Jilin province (800 km from Beijing) broke out on Monday around 6:00 local time (2:00 Moscow time). It was preceded by three explosions in the enterprise's power supply system.

Carlyle Group LP sold a skyscraper in Manhattan in New York for $1.3 billion, which became the largest transaction in the US real estate market in the last three years and set a record for the cost of one square meter, reported on Monday. Bloomberg The building has a total area of ​​55,700 sq. m was purchased by investment funds Crown Acquisitions Inc. and Highgate Holdings Inc..

Billionaire investor Leonard Blavatnik will present a new award to young scientists in the United States, Forbes reports. An American businessman of Russian origin is ready to spend $30 million on the initiative. The New York Academy of Sciences is a partner of the award. Read more about Blavatnik’s business in the material “The Emigrant Advantage: How Leonard Blavatnik built a $10 billion business with the help of an American passport .

The chief sanitary doctor of Russia, head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko recommends that Moscow residents suffering from allergies leave the capital while the poplars are blooming. “Whoever suffers from poplar fluff and who has such an opportunity, it is better to change their place of residence until the poplars fade,” Onishchenko told Interfax on Monday.

On Monday, during the Unified State Exam in Mathematics, fragments of real exam tasks once again appeared on the Internet, most of which were posted by schoolchildren from Bashkortostan, reports Rosobrnadzor . “The monitoring group of Rosobrnadzor recorded the appearance on the Internet of 30 unique fragments of test measurement materials for the Unified State Examination in mathematics.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) applied to the Supreme Arbitration Court to review the claim of the Ministry of Defense to invalidate the decision and order of the FAS regarding the transfer of accounts of defense industry enterprises to VTB, Interfax reported on Monday . On August 29, 2012, the Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the corresponding claim of the Ministry of Defense.

Slavyanka OJSC, controlled by the Ministry of Defense, did not pay the fee to American singer Jennifer Lopez for a planned performance at the anniversary of the company’s former general director Alexander Elkin, who was arrested in an embezzlement case, Slavyanka CEO Oleg Belaventsev told RIA Novosti . “We do not have information about Ms.

The Accounts Chamber identified violations in the expenditure of budget funds in the housing and communal services of St. Petersburg in 2011-2012, totaling about 9 billion rubles, the agency reported on Monday. Of these funds, 1.2 billion rubles were ineffective expenses, 2.1 billion rubles were violations in procurement for state and municipal needs, 340.8 million rubles were payment for work without supporting documents.

The main lot of the "Russian auction" at Christie's auction house in London - "Still Life with Fruit" by Ilya Mashkov - was sold on Monday for £4.78 million, which was more than 3 times the estimated value of the painting at £1-1.5 million, it reported agency RIA Novosti . The exact amount for which the still life was sold is £4,765,875. It takes into account the buyer's premium - the fee paid to the auction. The painting was bought by an anonymous buyer during the auction.

On Sunday, June 2, at the age of 72, the leading actor of the Maly Theater, People's Artist of Russia Yaroslav Baryshev, died, the theater said in a statement on Monday. “On June 2, at the age of 72, People’s Artist of Russia Yaroslav Pavlovich Baryshev died. The staff of the Maly Theater mourns and brings its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Yaroslav Pavlovich,” the message says.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes Why does the dangerous and poorest region of Russia attract millionaires and how will the sudden arrest of the mayor of Makhachkala affect the outcome of the battle? “Axel, quickly tell me how you live here,” the Caucasian man orders in a loud voice. Axel Troster, technical director of the Caspian Flat Glass Factory, visibly embarrassed, exchanges glances with another German manager and responds in broken Russian: “Everything is fine, no problems.

A fire broke out on the territory of the Sretensky Stavropegic Monastery in the center of Moscow on Monday, Interfax reports , citing the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Moscow. According to the agency, the fire started at about 11.30 pm on Bolshaya Lubyanka, building 19, building 1. The insulation under the facing panels was burning on an area of ​​50 square meters. m, said a representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Starting from November 2013, scooter riders will have to obtain a driving license; for this purpose, the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate is preparing regulatory documents providing for the issuance of such licenses, RIA Novosti reported , citing the head of the Main Directorate for Road Safety of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Viktor Nilov. The corresponding additions to the road safety law have already been adopted by the State Duma on April 26.