Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with journalists on Tuesday, called Igor Kolomoisky (No. 3 in the hundred richest Ukrainians according to Ukrainian Forbes, net worth $2.4 billion), appointed governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region on March 2, a “unique rogue” who “dumped” the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich (No. 137 in the Forbes global ranking of billionaires, net worth: $9.1 billion). The meeting was broadcast live by the Rossiya 24 TV channel. “A unique rogue.

Photo by RIA Novosti Moscow is not considering the issue of annexing Crimea to Russian territory, President Vladimir Putin said at a press conference in Novo-Ogarevo on Tuesday. The press conference was broadcast live on the Rossiya 24 TV channel. He stressed that Russia is not going to provoke separatism in Ukraine. According to Putin, citizens living in a given territory should determine their future.

The board of directors of Russian Railways has approved a sponsorship agreement with the Lokomotiv football club, under which it will allocate 4.8 billion rubles to the team until the end of 2014, the Prime agency reported on Tuesday , citing a company press release. A sponsorship agreement with the Yaroslavl hockey club Lokomotiv was also approved. The team will be allocated 734 million rubles by the end of this year.

And why should the authorities not count on a serious increase in supplies abroad? In 2013, exports of Russian defense-industrial complex products, as in the previous year, amounted to approximately $15 billion. Arms exports have stabilized and seem to have reached their ceiling. After all, the strategy of Rosoboronexport, which provides about 80% of the export of weapons and military equipment, is aimed at maintaining supplies at the current level for the next few years. What are the reasons?

The Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow opened a criminal case against the top managers of Aeroexpress LLC - the director of the commercial real estate department Pavel Vareh and his deputy Maxim Babenko, suspected of attempted commercial bribery and fraud, the Kommersant newspaper wrote on Tuesday.

The general director of Dozhd, Natalya Sindeeva, said that the channel may stop working within a month, the Interfax agency reported on Tuesday, March 4 . “As of today, we have one month left to live. In a month we have to close. Today I have a meeting with the team, at which I will ask to reduce salaries and we may then live for another two months,” Sindeeva said at a meeting of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia.

The faulty train got stuck on the stretch between the Baumanskaya and Kurskaya stations of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line of the capital's metro on Tuesday, the Interfax agency reports , citing a source in the Moscow transport complex. According to the agency's interlocutor, the incident occurred at 11:15. According to preliminary data, the cause of the incident was jammed pads, the source said.

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade (Minpromtorg) published on Tuesday, March 4, a list of cars worth more than 3 million rubles that are subject to an increased luxury tax. This list includes 191 types of cars, the average cost of which is more than 3 million rubles.

The Pentagon has decided to suspend cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Defense in connection with the events in Ukraine, US military spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby told reporters on Monday evening. He acknowledged that the US Department of Defense values ​​cooperation with the Russian military and has sought to develop it in recent years to increase transparency, mutual understanding and reduce the risk of conflict.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) has not identified any signs of a cartel agreement between pay television operators who turned off the broadcast of the Dozhd TV channel, Interfax reported on Tuesday, citing the head of the department, Igor Artemyev. “We conducted an inspection, we did not find a cartel,” the agency quotes him as saying. The head of the FAS said that he had already signed a conclusion on this issue.

President Vladimir Putin received a written request from Viktor Yanukovych, who was removed from the post of President of Ukraine by the Verkhovna Rada, to use Russian armed forces to protect the population of this country, Russian Permanent Representative Vitaly Churkin told the UN Security Council. “Today I am also authorized to report the following,” Churkin addressed the members of the UN Security Council. He said that Vladimir Putin had received a written appeal from Yanukovych.

The Russian Ministry of Finance and the Federal Treasury suspended, from Tuesday, March 4, foreign currency purchase operations on the domestic foreign exchange market for transfer to the Reserve Fund, the reported press service of the Ministry of Finance .

The press service of Channel One on Tuesday denied information that the channel aired a shortened version of the Oscar ceremony, from which the mention of Ukraine by the winner of the award for his supporting role, Jared Leto, was allegedly cut out, RIA Novosti reports .

Oleg Tinkov, Boris Mints, David Yakobashvili and other new faces on the Forbes global list of billionaires On March 3, Forbes presented its annual ranking of the world's billionaires. The 2014 list included 111 Russians, one more than the year before. At the same time, eight new faces appeared in the Russian part of the rating, and two businessmen - Andrey Kuzyaev and Sergey Petrov - returned to the list after several years of absence.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was transferred to house arrest on Monday evening, was put on an electronic bracelet, with which employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia will monitor his compliance with the preventive measure, FSIN official representative Kristina Belousova told RIA Novosti on Tuesday .