reported on Friday, March 7 Lawyer Genrikh Padva said that he did not give comments confirming the amnesty of his client, former Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, ITAR-TASS . “They’re lying, bastards, I didn’t say anything like that, we don’t give any comments in this regard,” Padva noted. The second lawyer of the former Minister of Defense, Konstantin Rivkin, refused to comment on the information about the amnesty.

The oil company Rosneft announced the repurchase of shares of OJSC RN Holding, the former TNK-BP Holding, at a voluntary offer price of 67 rubles per ordinary share and 55 rubles per preferred share, the Prime agency reported on Friday, March 7 " with reference to the company's press service. Now Rosneft owns 99.54% of the shares of RN Holding. The list of owners of the securities to be redeemed must be compiled as of April 22, 2014.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready “virtually on a daily basis” to explain Moscow’s position regarding the situation in Ukraine, but is still faced with a wall of misunderstanding, said the head of state’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “This is very sad,” Peskov stated.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) has formally charged the former owner of My Bank and ex-senator Gleb Fetisov (No. 1210 in the Forbes global ranking of billionaires, net worth $1.4 billion) in a fraud case, reports on Friday, March 7, " Interfax" with reference to the press secretary of the defendant Igor Pylaev.

The Internet sites of the Expert and Russian Reporter magazines were attacked by hackers on Friday, reported on March 7. the press service of the Expert media holding, which includes both magazines, The message states that on Friday from 12 noon the Internet sites of the Expert media holding were unavailable to users.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama held a new telephone conversation on the situation in Ukraine, during which “differences in approaches and assessments of the causes of the current crisis and the current state of affairs were revealed,” the on Kremlin press service reported the night of Friday, 7 Martha.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow fined oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who was detained near the building of this court on February 24, the day of the verdict in the Bolotnaya case, 10,000 rubles, said on Friday, March 7. Navalny’s press secretary Anna Veduta “The court decided to find him guilty and impose a fine of 10,000 rubles,” Veduta wrote on her Twitter.

Ukraine has not yet paid for Russian gas supplies in February, its debt has grown to $1.89 billion, Prime agency reported on Friday, March 7, citing Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller. According to Miller, March 7 was the deadline for payment for February gas supplies to Ukraine, but Gazprom did not receive payments including debt payments. "With the first-quarter discount, our outstanding debt increased significantly to $1.89 billion," Miller said. On Tuesday, March 4, Miller (No.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi held a meeting with the head of the Paralympic Committee of Ukraine Valery Sushkevich, at which they discussed the inadmissibility of political events influencing the Paralympic Games, Interfax reported on Friday, March 7, citing the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov.

http://www.brda.gov.ua/ The head of the administration of the Bakhchisaray region, Ilmi Umerov, explained to Forbes why the Crimean Tatars do not recognize the referendum on the annexation of the autonomy to Russia, and assessed the prospects for escalation of the conflict The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people does not consider the March 16 referendum on Crimea’s entry into Russia to be legal and calls for a boycott of it.

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Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher is still in a state of awakening, Eurosport.fr reports on Friday, March 7, citing the racing driver's press secretary Sabine Kem. “Michael is still in the awakening phase. The situation has not changed,” she emphasized. Schumacher's spokeswoman also clarified that any information about the health of the Formula 1 driver, not confirmed by his doctors or agent, should be considered unreliable.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, March 7, appointed Alexei Gordeev as acting governor of the Voronezh region, ITAR-TASS reports citing the Kremlin press service. This decision was made in connection with the expiration of Gordeev’s powers as head of the region. Alexey Gordeev took the post of governor of the Voronezh region in March 2009. Before that, he was the Russian Minister of Agriculture.

Expenditures of the Russian budget in the event of the annexation of Crimea to the territory of the country as a new entity will increase by $3 billion per year, writes on Friday, March 7. the Kommersant newspaper Crimea now costs Ukraine about $1.5-2 billion a year, based on the balance of taxes and subsidies. This amount does not take into account the expenses of the Ukrainian treasury for Sevastopol, which has a special status.

And about. President of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov, who is both the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and the Commander-in-Chief of the country's armed forces, canceled the resolution of the Supreme Council of Crimea on holding a referendum in the autonomy, as follows from the text of the decree published on Friday on the website of the acting. head of the Ukrainian state.