Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded on Thursday that the government of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev introduce a unified system for monitoring interethnic relations and preventing conflicts on ethnic grounds in the country by the end of 2014, Interfax reported . The head of state called for special attention to be paid to the prevention of extremist manifestations among students of educational institutions.

Photo by RIA Novosti Forbes reporter Orkhan Dzhemal met with DPR special forces soldiers, talked with them about politics, art and history, and also listened to poetry The story that a certain Donetsk special forces, known as the “Mongol group”, was stationed in the Museum of Modern Art and turned the most avant-garde avant-garde into targets for shooting training excites the imagination. Moreover, the detachment commander himself sees this as a kind of act of conceptualism. Why not?

The government does not plan to extend the moratorium on the transfer of pension savings to non-state pension funds (NPFs) in 2015, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, confirming information that appeared in the media on Thursday. “Next year there is no provision for continuation of the current year’s scheme; next year all funds will go to non-state pension funds, as was the case in 2013 and earlier, ” Interfax quotes Siluanov .

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has put former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on the international wanted list, the UNIAN agency reported on Thursday, citing an informed source in the ministry. “Azarov, on behalf of the Prosecutor General’s Office, has been put on the interstate wanted list,” the agency quotes him as saying. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine confirmed this information.

First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov instructed the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Justice to study the possibility of legalizing Internet poker, writes on Thursday, July 3, citing sources. Kommersant Information about this was confirmed by Shuvalov’s office, noting that the deadline for executing the order is July 21.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (No. 7 on the list of the richest Ukrainians in the American Forbes 2014 ranking , net worth: $1.3 billion) assured US Vice President Joseph Biden in a telephone conversation that he was ready to return to a ceasefire, the reported press service on Thursday head of the Ukrainian state.

agency reported on Thursday, The Russian Prosecutor General's Office refused to satisfy the request of the Investigative Committee of Russia and send a petition to the State Duma to deprive Alexander Khinshtein of parliamentary immunity, the Interfax citing a representative of the supervisory agency.

Shells hit the Russian checkpoint Novoshakhtinsk during shooting on Ukrainian territory near the Dolzhansky checkpoint on Thursday morning, Interfax reports , citing Vasily Malaev, an official representative of the FSB border department for the Rostov region. According to preliminary data, no one was injured, but the infrastructure and facility of the Russian checkpoint were damaged, a representative of the border department said.

Kommersant The former head of the Bank of Moscow considers accusations of embezzlement of a billion rubles to be “a new fantasy of investigators” The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs brought new charges against the ex-management of the Bank of Moscow . Former bank president Andrei Borodin , first vice-president Dmitry Akulinin and vice-president Alexei Sytnikov are accused of embezzlement and misappropriation of more than 1 billion rubles.

The American Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday exceeded 17,000 points for the first time in history amid positive labor market statistics, reported . Bloomberg As of 10:20 New York time (18:20 Moscow time), the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 17,046.90 points, thereby updating its all-time high. The agency explains the record figures by the publication of statistical data on the labor market in the United States, which turned out to be higher than expected.

The State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship on Thursday recommended that the lower house adopt in the second reading three bills on advertising, one of which prohibits advertising on pay TV channels, and the other allows beer advertising in print media, Interfax reported . We are talking about three bills amending the advertising law.

The head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin (No. 9 in the ranking of the 25 most expensive top managers in Russia according to Forbes, total compensation - $15 million), included in the sanctions lists of the United States and Australia, did not rule out that he would spend a vacation in one of the Russian Railways sanatoriums reports , RIA Novosti .

The structures of Russian billionaires Viktor Vekselberg and Vladimir Yevtushenkov are bidding to purchase two plots on Sofiyskaya Embankment in the center of Moscow, put up for auction by the capital government, the ITAR-TASS agency reported on Thursday . We are talking about two plots of more than 30,000 square meters. m on Sofiyskaya embankment.

Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin told reporters on Thursday that the amount of maternity capital will increase to almost 500,000 rubles by 2017, ITAR-TASS reports . “We plan that the increase will be almost 15% over three years, and maternity capital will increase to almost 500,000 rubles by 2017, or rather, a little less, to 490,000 rubles,” Interfax quotes Topilin . According to the head of the Ministry of Labor, the growth rate will be from 4.3 to 5% per year.

Arina Borodina, specially for Forbes, sums up the results of the 2013/2014 television season on the main Russian television channels. Part three Read about why Channel One outperformed its competitors and how the Olympics turned out to be more popular than Putin’s New Year’s address in the first part of Arina Borodina’s article .