The International Monetary Fund approved on Friday the allocation of financial assistance to Greece in the form of a new loan tranche in the amount of €3.4 billion ($4.6 billion), newsobserver reported on Friday, citing the IMF press service. The decision to provide the loan was made by the IMF Board of Directors following a regular review of Greece’s implementation of the anti-crisis program approved by the IMF on March 15, 2012.

LLC "Investment and financial construction company "Arks" , 25% of which belongs to the structures of Gennady Timchenko 's Volga Group , won the competition for the reconstruction of Volgogradsky Avenue from the Garden Ring to the border with the Moscow region, 30 the press service of the city's competition policy department reported on Friday, May Moscow.

Law enforcement officers are checking Pulkovo International Airport in St. Petersburg on Friday after receiving a call about a bomb planted there, RIA Novosti reported , citing a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Transport in the Northwestern Federal District. According to the agency's interlocutor, on Friday morning the Pulkovo information service received a message about mining at the airport.

Russian President Vladimir Putin granted on Friday the request of the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Shantsev for early resignation to participate in the elections of the head of the region in September 2014, the Interfax agency reported . “I don’t mind. You are an experienced person, the results are positive, the trends are encouraging. So I wish you success,” the agency quotes Putin as saying during a meeting with Shantsev in the Kremlin.

The Directorate of Railway Stations, a branch of Russian Railways, has launched paid Wi-Fi at 78 stations and station areas, according to the Russian Railways website. The cost of one hour of access is 50 rubles, two hours – 90 rubles, three hours – 130 rubles, eight hours – 340 rubles, the message notes. Paid access time can be used in different time intervals within 30 days. To access the service, you need to send an SMS to a short number and receive a login with a password.

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and persons from the National Guard of Ukraine and the Right Sector for the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, said official representative of the department Vladimir on Friday Markin. The names of the Ukrainians against whom the case has been opened have not yet been established.

Police and sappers did not find explosives at the St. Petersburg Pulkovo International Airport, Interfax reported on Friday, May 30, citing the regional transport police department. Thus, the earlier report of a bomb planted at the airport turned out to be false. “Pulkovo Airport continued to operate as normal. There were no violations of public order,” the agency’s interlocutor said. On the morning of Friday, May 30, the St.

The Oktyabrsky Court of St. Petersburg on Friday arrested for two months the former personal bank manager of the striker of the Zenit football club, Alexander Kerzhakov, in the case of the theft of 330 million rubles from the football player’s account, Interfax reports . “Now all efforts will be devoted to ensuring that a third defendant appears in the case. We know very well who it is,” said Kerzhakov’s lawyer Igor Reshetnikov. Bagaev was detained last Thursday.

Yuri Chichkov for Forbes After the IPO, Qiwi shares rise rapidly and fall quickly. Why does the co-owner of the company Sergei Solonin not want to sell them? Jeans with a floral pattern, sneakers lying near the ottoman, a laptop in his hands - but before, the main shareholder of Qiwi, Sergei Solonin, headed the bank and wore only suits. “I feel great, it’s great,” he says when asked what it’s like to run a technology company.

photo Fotodom/Rex Features Robot cars, ready to respond to a call in a few minutes, can completely change the attitude towards the car Many have seen posters hanging around Moscow: “We have returned Crimea, we will return Moscow without traffic jams.” But traffic jams - at first, though not in Moscow - will be destroyed in a completely different way than they took Crimea. Not by force, not forcefully and without the help of green tow trucks.

A group of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission in Ukraine was detained by unknown armed men in the city of Severodonetsk, 100 km from Lugansk on Thursday evening, the reported on Friday. OSCE website The message notes that contact with observers was lost around 19:00 local time (20:00 Moscow time). The group included four international observers and a Ukrainian translator. The team traveled in two cars, the OSCE reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the early resignation of the head of the Republic of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov, reported the Kremlin press service on Friday, May 30. He intends to take part in the elections on September 14, 2014. “I ask for early resignation in order to participate in the autumn elections for the position of head of the Republic of Bashkortostan,” the press service of the Russian president quotes Khamitov as saying.

The management of the aircraft manufacturing OJSC Sukhoi Company is considering the possibility of transferring production facilities from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to China, ITAR-TASS reported on Friday, May 30, citing the First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Khabarovsk Territory for Economic Affairs Alexander Levinthal.

Sergei Lavrukhin, who served as executive director of the Onexim group of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov , decided to leave the company on May 30 of his own free will, reported . Kommersant “Unfortunately, there are currently no new projects at ONEXIM where my knowledge and skills can be in demand,” Lavrukhin himself explained his decision to the publication. He said that he was considering several job offers, but had not yet made a decision.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen confirmed on Friday that Russia is withdrawing troops from the border with Ukraine, Interfax reported . “We have seen signs of at least a partial withdrawal of troops. According to our information, approximately two-thirds of the Russian troops have been withdrawn or are being withdrawn at the moment,” the agency quotes the words of the alliance secretary general said at a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Vilnius.