The State Duma adopted in its third bill obliging Russian citizens to notify the Federal Migration Service (FMS) about their second citizenship or residence permit in another state, and introducing criminal liability for concealing this fact, Interfax reported . The bill supplements the current Law on Citizenship with an article obliging a Russian citizen who has acquired another citizenship to notify the FMS in writing within two months.

Russian billionaire, co-owner of the Volga Group holding Gennady Timchenko said that he does not intend to go to court in connection with the introduction of sanctions against him by the US administration. “Let them do sanctions. We will survive both these sanctions and new ones, if they come,” ITAR-TASS quotes Timchenko . This is how the businessman commented on the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who on Friday at the St.

reports on Friday, May 23 The owner of the Dozhd TV channel, Alexander Vinokurov, may nominate his candidacy for elections to the Moscow City Duma, Interfax . However, he has not yet made a final decision. Vinokurov clarified that he would like to run for the Yabloko party. “I hope that the Yabloko party will agree to nominate my candidacy,” said the owner of Dozhd in an interview with the agency.

Norilsk Nickel can save 11 billion rubles from the abolition of export duties on nickel and copper in 2014, Interfax reports on Friday, May 23, citing the company’s general director Vladimir Potanin . “We are talking about establishing a zero duty rate on nickel and copper.

The press service of the Yandex.Money payment system to Forbes confirmed the information about searches in the company's Moscow office, noting that the investigative actions are related to some clients. “We are indeed conducting investigative actions against some of our clients,” a Yandex.Money representative told Forbes, refusing to specify who is being searched and what the investigators are confiscating. The press service noted that the company operates within the framework of the law.

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reported on Friday, May 23 In China, a court sentenced coal magnate Liu Han and his brother Liu Wei to death for "organizing and managing a criminal gang and murder," Reuters . The businessman himself denied the accusations. In total, 36 people were involved in this case. They received various prison sentences: from 11 years to life imprisonment.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that if it were the people from his inner circle who were included in the US sanctions list due to the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, he would have sued long ago. Putin said this while answering questions after a speech at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum on Friday.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow recognized as legal the demand of the capital's prosecutor's office to register the human rights center "Memorial" as a foreign agent, Interfax reports on Friday, May 23 . Thus, the court dismissed Memorial's complaint against the actions of the supervisory agency.

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The Ruzskoye Moloko dairy plant, part of the Russian Moloko agricultural holding of Vasily Boyko-Veliky, made a special statement explaining why the barcodes on the packages of the plant’s dairy products are crossed out with a red cross. “It has long been known that the barcode on goods is the mark or seal of the Antichrist; three sixes (666) are always invisibly present in it - or the name of the Antichrist, which is hidden in the Holy Scriptures,” the statement says.

International payment systems (IPS) Visa and MasterCard intend to create a Russian operator within a year and a half, Prime reports on Friday, May 23 , with reference to Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, who announced this following negotiations with company representatives at the St. Petersburg International economic forum (SPIEF).

State Duma deputies on Friday, May 23, approved in the second and third readings a bill providing for the return of the “against all” column on ballots only for local government elections, Interfax reports . Earlier, a number of deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia proposed an amendment to the bill introducing an “against all” column in elections at all levels, including presidential ones. But these amendments were rejected.

“Leviathan” is a film about the eternal, but at the same time about who lives well in Rus' Competition screenings at the Cannes Film Festival end on May 23. The latest film on the program is “Leviathan” by Andrei Zvyagintsev: it will be shown in the main hall of the Lumiere at 11:30 and 22:00 (this is a tuxedo show) local time. The fact that “Leviathan” draws a line under the Cannes competition is a sign that the festival’s selectors have made a big bet on it. They had every reason to do so.

An associate of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Nikolai Lyaskin, whose home was searched on Friday morning for violating the procedure for financing an election campaign, was given a written undertaking not to leave the place and to behave properly. this Lyaskin announced on his Twitter. On the morning of May 23, Nikolai Lyaskin and two other associates of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were searched.