The chairman of the Zamoskvoretsky court, Natalya Nikishina, rejected her own challenge, declared by one of the accused at the preliminary hearing in the case of 12 defendants in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, Interfax reports . The defendant Sergei Krivov filed a motion to disqualify the judge. On Thursday, June 6, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court is holding a visiting hearing in the Moscow City Court.

Opposition leader Garry Kasparov is of no interest to the Investigative Committee of Russia and therefore he was never summoned for questioning, the Interfax agency reported , citing a statement by the official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin. “I should make Kasparov happy, and maybe also upset him,” Markin told the agency.

The Moscow Military Prosecutor's Office has revealed a new case of fraud with the lands of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, the damage from which is estimated at 288 million rubles, reported on Thursday. the Main Military Prosecutor's Office According to the department, the scam is connected with the sale in 2010 to the Alfa-Mig company for 98 million rubles of a plot of 0.75 hectares owned by OJSC 53 Central Design Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The State Duma plans to consider and adopt a law banning the propaganda of homosexuality among children on Tuesday, June 11, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, citing Olga Batalina, deputy chairman of the relevant Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children. “We plan to consider it in the second reading on Tuesday. I do not exclude that there will be a third reading on this day,” the agency quotes her as saying.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Thursday extended by six months the detention period of 10 people arrested in the Bolotnaya case, as well as the house arrest of Alexandra Dukhanina and the undertaking not to leave Maria Baronova, RAPSI reports , citing court press secretary Evgenia Pazukhina. The court supported the request of the state prosecution and considered that the accused could escape under the weight of the crimes committed, Maria Baronova reported on her Twitter.

Oil trader Gunvor Group, co-owned by businessman Gennady Timchenko (No. 9 in the Russian Forbes ranking , fortune $14.1 billion), can increase its stake in the Swedish oil producing company PA Resources from the current 9.9% to 49.9% by taking part in additional issue of 891 million Swedish kronor ($135.2 million), according to press releases from the companies.

Trains on the Sokolnicheskaya line of the Moscow metro, where train service was suspended on Wednesday due to a power cable fire in the tunnel, are still running at increased intervals, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, citing an employee of the metro hotline. “There is train traffic on the Sokolnicheskaya line, but the trains run at increased intervals,” said the agency’s interlocutor.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) suspected the operator of the Domodedovo airport terminal and four taxi companies operating on its territory of price fixing and restricting competition, the Prime agency reported on Thursday, citing the head of the department of the Moscow regional department of the FAS, Denis Stukanov. Stukanov said that the department received information that several companies at Domodedovo provide services at uniform rates.

On Thursday, the Moscow City Court began preliminary hearings in the case against 12 accused of participating in mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. The case is being considered by the Zamoskvoretsky Court, but the hearing is an off-site hearing and takes place in the building of the Moscow City Court. Thursday's hearing is being held behind closed doors.

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Police in Moscow detained a 27-year-old unemployed man suspected of setting fire to 12 cars, reported on Thursday. the press service of the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs The suspect was detained on June 4 on Lipetskaya Street. It was possible to establish his identity after a Muscovite contacted the police on May 3, reporting that an unknown person had set fire to his Peugeot car parked near one of the houses on Lebedyanskaya Street.

The election headquarters of acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin will be headed by Deputy Mayor and Chief of Staff of the Moscow Government Anastasia Rakova, the Izvestia newspaper reported on Thursday, citing sources in the capital’s mayor’s office. As a high-ranking source at the mayor's office told the publication, Rakova is the only candidate who has been working with Sobyanin for a long time and can efficiently organize his election campaign.

The Russian government has approved increasing the maximum amount of insurance compensation for deposits from 700,000 to 1 million rubles, the Prime agency reported on Thursday , citing a statement by the head of the Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov. “The government reviewed our bill on amending the law on deposit insurance and the Central Bank and supported it,” the agency quotes Siluanov as saying.

The board of directors of Uralkali approved the repurchase of up to 188,658,827 of its ordinary shares from Forman Commercial Limited, the beneficiary of which is State Duma deputy from United Russia Zelimkhan Mutsoev (No. 68 in the Russian Forbes ranking , fortune $1.5 billion), the company reports in Thursday. Under the terms of the agreement, the cost of each security will be 217.3 rubles. Thus, the total amount of the transaction is estimated at 41 billion rubles (about $1.275 billion).

Deputies of the Moscow Regional Duma on Thursday scheduled the election of the governor of the Moscow region for the Unified Voting Day - September 8, 2013, Interfax reports . 41 deputies voted “for”, two voted “against”. According to the law, the Moscow Regional Duma had to determine the date of the elections no earlier than 100 days and no later than 90 days before the vote.