photo by Vasily Shaposhnikov/Kommersant And the founder of the Hermitage Capital fund, Bill Browder, was sentenced in absentia to 9 years in prison The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow on Thursday found the auditor of the British investment fund Hermitage Capital, Sergei Magnitsky, who died in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center in 2009, and the head of Hermitage, William Browder, guilty of tax evasion. reports this RAPSI .

The son of former M.Video top manager Alexander Zayonts, while driving his Ferrari, hit a pedestrian to death in Moscow, RIA Novosti reported on Thursday, citing a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies. “At the time of the accident, 23-year-old Larion Vuokila, the eldest son of large businessman Alexander Zayonets and Elena Vuokila, was driving the Ferrari,” the source said.

Law enforcement agencies have detained two possible accomplices in the murder of 20-year-old paratrooper Ruslan Marzhanov, who was killed on July 6 by a visitor from Chechnya, Speaker of the Saratov Regional Duma Vladimir Kapkaev announced this on Thursday at a rally in Pugachev. According to Kapkaev, as reported by RIA Novosti , law enforcement officers arrived at Pugachev’s private sector on Thursday morning to question two possible witnesses to Marzhanov’s murder, but they resisted.

Photo by Andrey Kovalev for Forbes Former billionaire Alexander Lebedev lost 3.5 billion rubles on the airline and sold it for 1 ruble. The new owner hopes for revenue of 5 billion rubles this year The Red Wings fleet of businessman Alexander Lebedev (No. 164 on the Forbes list) consisted exclusively of domestic Tu-204 aircraft, 11 in total - more than any other commercial carrier.

Rospotrebnadzor has complaints about confectionery products imported into Russia from Ukraine, the head of the department, the chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko told Interfax on Thursday. “Recently, the service has been increasingly concerned about the quality of confectionery products coming from Ukraine. First of all, the products of (the company) Roshen raise questions,” said Onishchenko. The head of Rospotrebnadzor did not specify the details.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced the decision to create a Human Rights Council under the head of the Chechen Republic, he announced this on Thursday, answering questions from journalists in Grozny, the reports .

Carlos Slim The music app has raised $40 million in funding from one of the world's richest men and is gearing up for a TV expansion to monetize its business model ahead of its IPO. The popular mobile app for music recognition Shazam acquired an unexpected investor this week: Mexican Carlos Slim, owner of the telecommunications empire America Movil and in the recent past the richest man on the planet according to Forbes, will invest $40 million in the service.

Candidates for governor proposed for consideration by the president will have to get rid of their accounts abroad before being nominated; the corresponding presidential decree was posted on the official portal of legal information on Thursday. As follows from the document, in regions that have refused direct elections, upon nomination, the candidate will have to stop activities that are not consistent with the status of the highest official.

photo by Max Novikov for Forbes The latest CSR report shows that the conservative wave has done its job. The government's ratings have stabilized, but demand for change is now growing outside Moscow The picture painted by the latest report on the political situation in the country, prepared by the Center for Strategic Research commissioned by the Committee of Civil Initiatives of Alexei Kudrin, is called “schizophrenic” and even “brain-breaking” by the CSR itself.

State Duma deputy from the LDPR faction Roman Khudyakov, who was beaten after a road conflict in Moscow on July 9, identified one of the four attackers, according to the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR). “One of the detainees, Zakarya Gadzhiev, has already been identified by the victim as the person who was sitting in the passenger seat of the attackers’ car and striking the victim.

All victims of the collapse of the platform at the Moscow Zoo will receive compensation and insurance payments totaling 5 million rubles, Interfax reported on Thursday , citing zoo director Natalya Kolobova. “The amounts of payments will be different, their size depends on the severity of the condition of the victims,” Kolobova said. She also noted that the victims will receive insurance compensation from the ISK Euro-Policy company, with which the capital's zoo has an insurance agreement.

The Ambassador of Montenegro was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with the detention in this country of Dmitry Potrubach, the financial director of the bankrupt Podgorica Aluminum Plant (KAP), co-owned by Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska (No. 16 in the Russian Forbes ranking , fortune $8.5 billion) , reported on Thursday on the department’s website.

Photo by PhotoXpress A significant sector of the new party market is occupied by parties created on the basis of public organizations The material continues the series of publications about participants in the upcoming autumn elections The previous article talked about parties with clearly expressed political and ideological overtones. Now we will talk about the second group - parties created on the basis or with the active participation of public associations, mostly non-political.

The Odintsovo garrison military court fined the former commander of the Swifts aerobatic team Valery Morozov, who was found guilty of attempted bribery, 775,000 rubles, RAPSI reported on Thursday . In making this decision, the court took into account mitigating circumstances in the case - Morozov’s confession, the presence of a small child, his first criminal prosecution, his state awards and merits.

The plane from Jordan made an emergency landing at Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport, no passengers were injured, reports The Jerusalem Post . According to preliminary data, there are about 150 people on board the plane. Earlier, the media reported that Tel Aviv airport was preparing for an emergency landing of a plane that had sent a distress signal. Ambulances were sent to the airport. The publication notes that the plane most likely had technical problems.