The Basmanny Court of Moscow on Monday extended until August 11 the house arrest of the main shareholder of the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) Andrey Komarov , accused of commercial bribery, Interfax reports, citing the businessman’s lawyer Rustam Kurmaev. According to Kurmaev, the defense considers the chosen preventive measure excessive and will insist on changing it.

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine will receive an additional assistance package of $7 million from the US Department of Defense to strengthen border security, the Ukrainian agency reported on Monday, May 12. The department notes that about $3 million from the assistance package will be allocated to support State Border Service personnel.

photo Reuters Despite tightening regulation, Russian owners of foreign companies still have access to foreign accounts For more than a month now, there has been ongoing discussion of the consequences of the adoption of a law on the taxation of controlled foreign companies, the draft of which was published in March.

reported on Monday, May 12 The Lugansk People's Republic declared state sovereignty following the results of the referendum on the status of the region, Interfax . “The people of the Lugansk region proclaim the creation of a sovereign state of the Lugansk People’s Republic,” says the declaration read out on Monday at a rally in the center of Lugansk.

The incident that occurred in Moldova with a delegation of the Russian government does not contribute to the development of normal relations with this republic and will be taken into account in further economic cooperation, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with deputy prime ministers on Monday. “This is their choice. In the end, they periodically ask us for something.

Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, removed from power in February, on Monday demanded that the Kiev authorities stop violence and “terror” against the people and withdraw “mercenaries” and troops from the territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Odessa and other regions, ITAR -TASS reports with reference to Yanukovych's statement. Yanukovych said that the Kiev “bloody junta” killed more than 300 civilians in Ukraine. The agency does not specify where exactly the statement was made.

The Russian company Severstal, whose founder and co-owner is billionaire Alexei Mordashov , has put up for sale two of its metallurgical plants in the United States, including Dearborn in Michigan and Columbus in Mississippi, expecting to receive $1.5 billion for them, reported The newspaper Wall Street Journal. The American US Steel Corp. showed interest in the deal. and the Brazilian Companhia Siderurgica Nacional.

's Rusal company Oleg Deripaska has not yet been able to reach an agreement with three Western banks, including the British Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and the French Natixis and BNP, on refinancing a $5.15 billion loan, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday. In total, the campaign owes these banks $350 million. The newspaper’s sources said that RBS insists on repaying the loan, including because of sanctions against Russia in connection with the events in Ukraine.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vitaly Milonov appealed to Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky with a request to take preventive measures to prevent possible concerts of Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst (Thomas Neuwirth) in Russia, Interfax reports on Monday, May 12 . “The stage image and songs performed by this creature of indeterminate gender are in themselves an insult to the majority of the population of Russia, and indeed of any other country.

kremlin.ru The department will be headed by the former governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Lev Kuznetsov, who, following Alexander Khloponin, made his way from top managers of Norilsk Nickel to federal officials in the North Caucasus A Ministry for the Development of the North Caucasus is being created in Russia, and Lev Kuznetsov, currently the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, has been proposed to head it, ITAR-TASS reports .

Russian President Vladimir Putin will formulate his attitude to the referendums on the status of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions “based on their results,” press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov told the Kommersant newspaper. Peskov noted that it is “difficult” to predict what the president’s decision will be.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed Gazprom to introduce an advance payment system for gas for Ukraine starting Tuesday, May 13. Medvedev announced this at a meeting with the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller (No. 3 in the ranking of the most expensive top managers in Russia according to Forbes, total compensation - $25 million) and Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, Interfax reports . It's time to "stop babysitting," Medvedev emphasized.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Monday rejected the claim of Bokmer Ventures Limited, registered in Cyprus and representing the interests of co-investors of Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky, against Federation Tower CJSC (formerly Mirax City) for the recovery of $48.96 million, RIA Novosti reported .

The European Union included the first deputy head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Vyacheslav Volodin, on the sanctions list, the expansion of which was agreed upon by the EU foreign ministers at a meeting held in Brussels on Monday. The list of Russian and Ukrainian citizens and companies included in the expanded sanctions list was published in the official journal of the EU.

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