Zerkaleva Alexandra Author September 11, the Holocaust, the Gulag, Chernobyl and other tragedies of the last two centuries, which became reasons for the opening of museums On May 21, 2014, the 9/11 Memorial Museum opens to visitors in New York. The complex became available to relatives of those killed during the New York terrorist attacks in 2001 a week earlier and has already caused several scandals.

In order to combat corruption and increase the objectivity of assessing students’ knowledge, Rosobrnadzor proposed that student exams should be taken by independent experts, like the Unified State Examination, the writes on Wednesday, May 21.

President Vladimir Putin announced the possibility of a repeat of the events in Odessa on May 2 if the international community does not give them an adequate assessment, Interfax reports . “The nightmare and horror that we all saw on our TV screens, which happened in Odessa, has not yet received a proper and adequate assessment from the international community. If we do not do this, relapses of such crimes will be possible,” Putin said.

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photo East News/AFP Loyalty to certain clans is no more characteristic of political strategists than of investment bankers The Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Research held Berdyaev Readings at the end of last week. The main pro-Kremlin “thought factory” tried to find out whether a famous Russian philosopher could become the banner of a new Russian conservatism? But this question turned out to be, to a certain extent, rhetorical.

reports on Wednesday, May 21 The Federation Council appointed Vyacheslav Lebedev as chairman of the new Supreme Court (SC), RIA Novosti . Thus, Lebedev will head the combined Supreme and Arbitration Court. Lebedev's candidacy was approved by the relevant committee on constitutional legislation of the upper house, Interfax notes . She received absolute support from the special qualification board, after which she was presented to the president.

Raiffeisenbank has restored the operation of all its services and resumed card servicing, which was interrupted on Wednesday due to a failure, according to a statement posted on the bank's website. “At the moment, all services are operating as normal, all consequences of incorrect operations will be eliminated in the very near future,” the message says.

First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Shvetsov was the first official to openly warn that pension savings of citizens could be withdrawn from the budget again in 2015, the wrote on Wednesday.

The leader of the Civic Platform party, the sister of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, Irina Prokhorova, will not participate in the Moscow City Duma elections, but does not rule out the possibility of running for State Duma deputy if the political situation allows. Prokhorova stated this at a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday.

Rosneft has completed the consolidation of RN Holding, purchasing all 100% of the shares from minority shareholders, reported the press service of the Russian oil company on Wednesday. . The share repurchase was completed on May 16. As a result of the buyout, Rosneft, together with its affiliate Novy Investments Limited, became the owner of 100% of ordinary registered uncertificated shares and preferred registered uncertificated shares of RN Holding, the press release says.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has sent a request to Moscow to conduct an observation flight over Russia to ensure the withdrawal of Russian Armed Forces units from the border, according to a statement posted Wednesday on the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. Kyiv recalled that Ukraine and Russia are parties to the Open Skies Treaty, which provides for a number of measures aimed at increasing stability, transparency and reducing the threat of conflicts.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, on his Instagram page on Wednesday demanded that Kiev immediately release LifeNews TV channel employees Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko, detained in Ukraine, threatening to “act harshly” otherwise.

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov will indeed leave the post of head of the federal political committee of the Civic Platform, but neither he nor his sister Irina Prokhorova are going to leave the party, the head of the Moscow branch of the Civic Platform, Mikhail Vyshegorodtsev, told Interfax on Wednesday . According to Vyshegorodtsev, Rifat Shaikhutdinov will replace Prokhorov as head of the federal political committee.

The branch of VTB Bank in Shanghai, which is the only Russian bank with a financial license in China, conducted the first cross-border transaction in Chinese yuan in the amount of 20 million yuan (more than 110 million rubles), the reported on Wednesday, May 21. bank’s press service The message clarifies that until now the branch had the opportunity to carry out international settlements in foreign currency and rubles.

Aeroflot has engaged the consulting company Bain to assess the possible acquisition of the aircraft business of Russia's third airline, UTair, which is in a difficult financial situation, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday, May 21.