The gas company Novatek, co-owned by billionaires Leonid Mikhelson (24.8%) and Gennady Timchenko (23.5%), is considering the possibility of supplying gas to the Moscow region, since it considers this region promising, ITAR-TASS reports citing the company’s general director Leonid Mikhelson. According to Mikhelson, the company began providing gas to Russian regions more than two years ago.

The Russian company Stroytransgaz, controlled by the structures of the Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko , together with the Bulgarian Gasproekt Jug will design and build the South Stream gas pipeline in Bulgaria, ITAR-TASS reports .

Ukraine links the resolution of the gas dispute with Russia with the return of 2.2 billion cubic meters to Kyiv. m of gas worth $1 billion, “stolen along with Crimea,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at a government meeting on Tuesday. “We want to hear an answer from Russia, including on the issue of returning to Ukraine 2.2 billion cubic meters of gas that Russia stole through Chernomornaftogaz on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

FSUE Russian Post and the Airports of Regions holding of billionaire Viktor Vekselberg agreed to build a postal logistics center on the territory of the projected airport in Rostov-on-Don; Oleg Deripaska's Basel Aero holding also plans to place a new postal hub at its airport , company reported the . Tuesday newspaper "Kommersant".

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the law "On Education", which provides for insignia for schoolchildren and graduates, including a medal "For special achievements in learning", follows from a document posted on Tuesday, May 27, on the legal Internet portal information.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Leningrad Region lifted the arrest from bank accounts at VTB 24 for 25 billion rubles of Konstantin Ponomarev, which he received under a settlement agreement from the Swedish company IKEA, reported on Tuesday. the Kommersant newspaper The decision to terminate the criminal case of fraud against Ponomarev and lift the arrest from his accounts was made by the head of the investigation department (ID) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Vsevolozhsk region.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) has charged another alleged participant in the riots on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, 2012, reported on Tuesday, May 27.

photo by Greenpeace Russia On the night of Tuesday, May 27, activists from the environmental organization Greenpeace blocked the Saturn drilling platform, chartered by Gazprom Neft, in the Dutch port of Izmuiden, according to the Greenpeace Russia website.

The main defendant in the Oboronservis case, ex-head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense Evgenia Vasilyeva, had six real estate properties located in Moscow and St. Petersburg, a bank account worth 25 million rubles and accounts of commercial organizations controlled by her worth more than 300 million rubles, seized, reports on Tuesday, May 27, the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR).

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine has lost contact with a group of four international observers based in Donetsk, the reported on Tuesday. organization's website The report notes that contact with the group was lost on Monday around 18:00 local time (19:00 Moscow time), when the observers were carrying out regular patrols east of Donetsk. The OSCE says it is continuing to try to contact the group and is using its contacts at the scene.

May 27, 2014 news Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites ForbesTV. Olga Golodets: “We have a reserve in the budget for Crimea” Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets told Forbes at SPIEF about at whose expense social and pension projects in Crimea will be financed, why prices are rising, how salaries and pensions will be increased and the infrastructure of the peninsula will be put in order.

The European Union is going to sign an association agreement with Ukraine at the EU summit, which is scheduled to take place on June 27 in Brussels, RIA Novosti reports on Tuesday, May 27, citing Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite. “This is on the agenda for our June council meeting. If nothing changes, I hope we will be able to sign it in June,” answered the Lithuanian president when asked when the full signing of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement will take place.

photo Reuters Why the owner of a concert agency should not rely on his own taste In Bernard Rose's film Paganini: The Devil's Violinist, accompanist John Watson attempts to organize the maestro's first concert in London. Having mortgaged a house with all its furnishings for the sake of a promising project, he finds himself on the verge of bankruptcy when Paganini, citing illness, suddenly cancels the performance.

photo Kommersant Forbes report from Dnepropetrovsk about the private army of the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky. How is it structured and how is it fighting with the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics? The ground floor of the administration of the Dnepropetrovsk region is crowded. “What kind of weapon do you need? We can’t just give out weapons,” shouts the head of the National Defense Headquarters, Yuri Bereza, sweating from tension, a man in a striped polo shirt.

In Donetsk, at least several dozen people died in two days of fighting using aircraft and mortars. Militias in the city are preparing for a new assault On May 26, during fighting between militias and the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk region, at least several dozen people died. On Monday morning, May 26, Ukrainian security forces began an assault on Donetsk international airport, during which they used mortars and launched missile airstrikes.