A group of senators on Friday introduced a bill to the State Duma introducing criminal liability for violating security on board an aircraft with up to 10 years in prison. The corresponding bill is posted in the database on the State Duma website. The maximum penalty is provided for violation of safety rules on board, which resulted in a plane crash with loss of life. The actions of a passenger that led to a plane crash without casualties are punishable by imprisonment for up to five years.

Photo from Twitter Vadim Kobzev The search is being conducted in connection with the theft of about 100 million rubles from the SPS in 2007 At 04:00 on Friday, investigators came to search the house of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is under house arrest, Navalny’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev said on his Twitter. The search is being carried out in a criminal case of the theft of about 100 million rubles from the Union of Right Forces (SPS) party in 2007, Kobzev said.

Alexei Navalny’s press secretary Anna Veduta called the search in the oppositionist’s apartment, which took place early on Friday morning, an attempt to exert pressure and “get back” for the fact that Navalny’s defense in court achieved the return of the so-called “Yves Rocher” case to the prosecutor’s office for further investigation. Veduta stated this on the radio station Business FM on Friday.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have completed the operation to close the Ukrainian-Russian border, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Alexander Turchynov said at a meeting of the Ukrainian parliament on Friday. “We had the opportunity to communicate with the Ministry of Defense in the morning, and we were informed that our units approached Izvarino (Lugansk region) and thereby completed the operation to block the border,” the RBC-Ukraine agency quotes Turchynov .

reported on Friday, June 20 Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia sent a communique to the World Trade Organization (WTO) about the US failure to fulfill its trade obligations in connection with the introduction of sanctions against Russian organizations by this country, ITAR-TASS .

The head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu, who visited the 33rd combined arms training ground in the Leningrad region on Friday, called on the command not to make “nerds” out of students and to increase the number of hours of practical training during military training, RIA Novosti reports . “They need to run, shoot, so that they come out hardened. What are you making of them into nerds?” - Shoigu said.

Photo by RIA Novosti reported on Friday, June 20 The Moscow City Court commuted the sentences of two defendants in the case of the riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, Interfax . In particular, Yaroslav Belousov, who was previously sentenced to two and a half years in prison, had his sentence reduced to three months in a general regime colony. Sergei Krivov, sentenced to four years in prison, had his sentence reduced to three years and nine months in prison.

The State Duma adopted at a plenary session on Friday, June 20, in the second and third readings, a law on the transfer of tax information within the framework of the American law FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act - “On the Taxation of Foreign Accounts”), Interfax reports .

Twitter has acquired a service for creating short videos from television programs SnappyTV, according to a message on the company's official blog. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed in the message. The SnappyTV project, after its purchase by Twitter, will continue to develop independently, but will receive deeper integration with the microblogging service platform.

The competition for the construction of a new runway in Domodedovo was declared invalid, since one of the two applicants who submitted an application - Oleg Deripaska 's Transstroy company - did not pass the prequalification selection, ITAR-TASS reported on Friday, June 20 . After agreement with the Federal Antimonopoly Service, it was decided that the contract could only be concluded with the only approved bidder - the Construction Management 1 company.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) explained the search in the apartment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny at night by “urgency” due to “the receipt by investigators of information about the theft of someone else’s property,” according to a statement published on the ICR website on Friday. “The search was carried out in strict accordance with criminal procedural legislation, in the presence of lawyers,” the Investigative Committee emphasizes in a statement.

Forbes Editorial Forbes Editorial On June 19, the winners of the Forbes startup competition received awards and memorable gifts in the Cabinet Lounge On June 19, the finals of the Forbes startup competition “School of a Young Billionaire” took place in the Cabinet Lounge.

Units of the ground forces and air force of the Central Military District were alerted on Friday as part of a surprise check of the combat readiness of the Russian Armed Forces, the ITAR-TASS agency reported . The inspection is carried out by a comprehensive commission under the leadership of the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Several motorized rifle and anti-aircraft missile formations stationed in the Urals and Western Siberia were alerted.

The owner of 25% of Scanex, which supplies satellite images for Yandex and Rosreestr, turned out to be Mostotrest shareholder Igor Rotenberg (son of billionaire Arkady Rotenberg ); another 65% of the company is controlled by the head of the board of directors of Kaskol, Sergei Nedoroslev, shareholder of N- Trans" Konstantin Nikolaev and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Scanex Vasily Barashkov, reported on Friday.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (No. 7 on the list of the richest Ukrainians in the American Forbes ranking 2014 , wealth - $1.3 billion) said that security forces would stop fighting in the east of the country from Friday, June 20, to June 27 so that the militias could lay down arms, indicated on the website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Ukrainian president announced this during a conversation with residents of Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region.