On the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line on Wednesday morning there was another failure - this time on the section between the Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard - Annino stations - as a result, train movement towards the center was suspended for 17 minutes, Interfax reported on Wednesday . As the press center of the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development told the agency, the cause of the failure was a technical malfunction of one of the cars.

The Coordination Council of the Opposition (CCO) supported ex-State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov Gudkov as a single opposition candidate in the elections for governor of the Moscow region, ITAR-TASS reported on Wednesday . The agency was informed about this by the executive secretary of CSR Marat Davletbaev. Earlier, the Yabloko party decided to nominate Gudkov as a candidate in the elections in the Moscow region and as an alternative to the government candidate.

Well-known gallerist Marat Gelman was dismissed from his post as director of the PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, which he had held since 2008. The corresponding decision was made on Wednesday, June 19, by the acting. Minister of Culture of the Perm Territory Igor Gladnev, reports the radio station “Echo of Perm”. Gelman himself, who is in Moscow, said that he learned about the dismissal from the media. “Apparently yes, I learned from Echo of Perm.

Information about the dismissal of Vladimir Yakunin from the post of president of JSC Russian Railways (RZD) is not true Information about the dismissal of Vladimir Yakunin from the post of president of Russian Railways (RZD) does not correspond to reality, Yakunin’s assistant Alexander Pirkov told Forbes . It “was a fake mailing,” Pirkov said.

The press service of the Russian government denied the fact of sending out a message about the resignation of Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin and the appointment of the company's first vice-president Alexander Misharin to his post, the Prime agency reported . “We do not confirm the fact of mailing,” the agency quotes the words of the press service officer of the Russian government.

The head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, was relieved of his post, and Alexander Misharin was appointed instead. The head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, has been relieved of his post, and Alexander Misharin has been appointed instead, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. The reason for the dismissal has not yet been specified.

Oppositionist and candidate for the post of Moscow mayor Alexei Navalny may receive the smallest remuneration for 2012 for his work on the board of directors of Aeroflot airline compared to other board members, the Prime agency reported, citing available materials for the company’s annual meeting of shareholders . According to the documents, Aeroflot shareholders will be asked to approve the payment of bonuses to the board of directors.

Forbes publishes an excerpt from the book “The Kudrin System. The story of a key economist in Putin's Russia" The Mann, Ivanov and Ferber publishing house has published a book telling about the life and work of former Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin in the context of government and economic reforms of the last 25 years. With the consent of the publisher, Forbes is publishing an abbreviated chapter on the conflict between Dmitry Medvedev and Kudrin.

Preliminary damage from shell explosions at a training ground near the city of Chapaevsky in the Samara region amounted to 100 million rubles, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday , citing a statement by the region’s vice-governor Andrei Nefedov. According to preliminary estimates, the damage will be in the region of 100 million rubles, the agency quotes his words spoken during a conference call led by the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Vladimir Puchkov.

The message about Yakunin’s resignation came to the RIA Novosti agency from an IP address that does not match the address of the government press service, the agency reported on Wednesday. This conclusion was made by the RIA Novosti IT service, which tried to find out the source of the message that arrived on Wednesday evening to a number of Russian news agencies under the guise of a press release from the Russian government. It contained elements traditional for such documents.

The All-Russian Popular Front has nominated Acting Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov as a candidate for the elections of the head of the region, which will be held on September 8, ITAR-TASS reports . The corresponding decision was made on Wednesday at a conference of the regional branch of the United Russia party. 1,184 people voted for Vorobyov’s candidacy in a secret ballot.

Gazprom will supply gas to China without being tied to the Henry Hub center for spot and futures trading of natural gas in the United States, said the head of the holding, Alexey Miller. An agreement to this effect was reached at a meeting between Miller and the President of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Zhou Jiping, held in Moscow on Tuesday evening, the Prime agency reports .

The purchase of foreign currency by the Ministry of Finance to replenish state funds will not have an impact on the dynamics of the ruble exchange rate, the head of the Central Bank Sergei Ignatiev said on Wednesday, speaking in the State Duma.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs suspects the deputy head of the regional branch of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) in the Siberian Federal District of receiving illegal monetary rewards, the press service of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Wednesday.

Investigators on Wednesday brought oppositionist Leonid Razvozzhaev a final charge in the case of preparing mass unrest in Russia, activist lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky told RAPSI . According to him, Razvozzhaev was charged with preparing and participating in mass riots (Article 212 of the Criminal Code) and illegally crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border while trying to hide from the investigation (Part 1 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code).