Train traffic on the Sokolnicheskaya metro line section has been restored, the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Transport Infrastructure Development officially announced on Wednesday. According to a statement from the capital's mayor's office, traffic has now been restored, but trains are running at increased intervals. As reported the press service of the Moscow metro , high voltage was applied to the contact rail at 13:37.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Gennady Onishchenko, asked to be given expanded powers to his department to combat the propaganda of child suicide on the Internet, Interfax reported on Wednesday . “By administering sites and giving opinions, we have already accumulated sufficient experience to raise the issue of improving supervisory powers in this area.

In the case of theft in the Oboronservice holding, two new defendants were arrested - the former general director of the FSUE St. Petersburg Engineering and Technical Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense Valery Sedov and the chief accountant of the enterprise Irina Petukhova, the Investigative Committee reported on Wednesday .

Violations of delivery times for postal items are due to ineffective actions of transport companies, and in particular, Russian Railways, this statement was made on Wednesday by the press service of Russian Post following a meeting in the Federation Council on the issue of legislative provision of preferences for postal services in rail and air transportation.

Patriarch Kirill flew on an official visit to China on a plane of the special flight detachment “Russia” on the basis of a corresponding decree and with the written consent of the president, evidenced by the response of the presidential affairs department to a request from journalist Saken Aimurzaev. “The said air transportation was carried out in accordance with Presidential Decree No.

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education Vyacheslav Nikonov proposed to enshrine at the legislative level a rule on the mandatory writing of signs in Russian with dubbing in a foreign language; he voiced such a proposal on Wednesday at a round table dedicated to Russian Language Day. “Now there is a visual displacement of the Cyrillic alphabet from cities, squares, and billboards. On the way here, I read the signs exclusively in Latin, without translation,” Interfax quotes Nikonov .

Trains on the Sokolnicheskaya line of the Moscow metro, where a power cable caught fire on Wednesday morning and train traffic was stopped, continue to run in the evening with an increased interval, which sometimes reaches 18 minutes, Interfax reported on Wednesday . According to the agency, people are warned about this via loudspeaker when descending into a metro station. However, delays are not constant, and some passengers manage to travel quickly on the Red Line.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting with the government's expert council on Wednesday, complained that Internet users often do not believe that he personally answers questions that are left to him on social networks.

Businessman Oleg Tinkov (No. 151 on the list of the richest businessmen in Russia, net worth $0.7 billion) will close the deal to purchase a Russian insurance company by the end of the week, the Prime agency reported , citing a statement from the businessman himself. “We are closing the deal this week,” the agency quotes him as saying. Tinkov said that buying an insurance company turned out to be as difficult as buying a bank.

Kurt Badenhausen Author The revival of Tiger Woods, Maria Sharapova's candies, Samuel Eto'o's salary, Kobe Bryant's records and other details of the list of the richest athletes on the planet American golfer Tiger Woods has regained his leadership in the ranking of the 100 highest-paid athletes in the world according to Forbes, where he consistently occupied the first place from 2001 to 2012.

A new leak of radioactive water was discovered on Wednesday at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in Japan, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing a statement from a representative of the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO). A radioactive water leak in one of the nuclear power plant's tanks was discovered by a worker during an afternoon inspection, a company representative said.

Alexander Provotorov, who was appointed head of Tele2, a subsidiary of VTB's telecommunications company, at the end of May, in his post will be involved in shaping the company's development strategy and in case of dismissal will not receive a "golden parachute", the Prime agency reported on Wednesday , citing a statement by VTB head Andrey Kostina. He doesn’t have a “parachute”, there aren’t any in the VTB group and there won’t be any,” the agency quotes him as saying.

American Forbes presented a ranking of the 100 wealthiest athletes in the world based on the results of the 2012-2013 season. Golfer Tiger Woods earned the most over the past 12 months - $78.1 million. He regained his leadership in the list after a series of reputational scandals, which in the last ranking threw him into third place, after boxers Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao (the latter are occupied in the latest ranking 14-15 lines with an estimated income of $34 million each).

On Wednesday evening, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow will consider the petition of the Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the arrest of two new suspects in the case of theft at Oboronservis, controlled by the Ministry of Defense, Interfax reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the situation.

In the German city of Dresden, the evacuation of residents began due to flooding and rising water in the Elbe River, the Freie Presse portal reported on Wednesday, citing the DPA news agency. The authorities of the state of Saxony warned of a further rise in water in the Elbe River and a critical situation in which the city of Dresden found itself. Forces have been gathered to further evacuate residents from the city, about 650 people have already been evacuated from the flooded streets.