Khoroshavin, accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale, Interfax On Monday, April 6, the reports . Moscow City Court recognized as legal the arrest of ex-governor of the Sakhalin region Alexander Thus, the court rejected the complaint of Khoroshavin’s defense, which insisted on canceling the arrest order on the grounds that the trial court, when choosing a preventive measure, violated the principles of a fair trial.

Investigators in the Amur region opened a criminal case into non-payment of wages to employees of a contractor company for the construction of facilities at the Vostochny cosmodrome, according to the official website of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) on Monday, April 6. According to the investigation, the company's employees did not receive full wages for January, February and the first half of March 2015, despite the fact that the company had the necessary funds.

During trading on the Moscow Exchange on Monday, April 6, the ruble updated its 2015 highs against foreign currencies, reports Finanz.ru . During trading, the dollar fell to 55.12 rubles - the minimum since December 30, the euro - to 60.70 rubles, which is the minimum since November 28. As Finanz.ru notes, the strengthening of the ruble occurred against the backdrop of a 5% rise in oil prices.

Employees of the Federal Security Service (FSO) will have to get rid of their property abroad by October 1, 2015, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Monday , citing a draft order received for signature by the head of the department, Evgeny Murov. The draft order “On the terms of alienation of property, the ownership of which is registered outside Russia” prepared by the FSO will apply to military personnel and civilian personnel of the service.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday providing for the zeroing out of the value added tax (VAT) on suburban passenger rail transportation until 2017, the reported . Kremlin press service “The federal law provides for the establishment of a tax rate for value added tax of 0% in relation to services for the transportation of passengers by rail in suburban traffic for the period until December 31, 2016,” the message says. Corresponding changes have been made to the Tax Code.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called “groundless” and “outrageous” attempts to explain the cessation of the work of the APR media holding in Crimea by infringement of freedom of speech and the rights of the Crimean Tatar media, follows from a commentary by the Russian Foreign Ministry published on the ministry’s website on Monday, April 6.

Photo by Dmitry Ternovoy for Forbes L1Technology is ready to acquire application developers and companies providing streaming services Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman has decided to spend $16 billion on buying telecommunications assets in the EU and the US, the Financial Times reported on Monday, April 6.

Turkish authorities have blocked access to the social networks Facebook and Twitter and the Google-owned video service YouTube after the publication of photographs of prosecutor Selim Kiraz, who was taken hostage and killed by militants in Istanbul, the Hurriyet Daily News reported on Monday . At the same time, the publication, citing the head of the Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Department, Typhoon Akarer, notes that access to Facebook has been unblocked.

One of the key requirements of the Russian authorities for approving the deal for Schlumberger to purchase 45.65% of the leader of the Russian oilfield services market Eurasia Drilling Company (EDC) for $1.7 billion was that the state receive a “golden share” in EDC, reported the Kommersant newspaper on Monday. April 6. The deadline for approval of the deal expires on April 6, but the government fears that the company, headquartered in the US and France, will control 30% of Russian drilling.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven refused to travel to Moscow on May 9 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Victory over fascism, the Swedish publication The Local reported , citing the press service of the head of the cabinet. Also, ministers of the Swedish government will not go to the Victory Parade on May 9 on Red Square. Only the Swedish Ambassador to Moscow will take part in the festive events in Moscow.

Three of the six deputy governors of the Murmansk region Marina Kovtun earned more than their boss in 2014, as follows from information about income and property posted on the website of the government of the Murmansk region. According to the document, First Deputy Governor of the Murmansk Region Alexey Tyukavin declared income for 2014 in the amount of 6.09 million rubles, of which almost 657,000 came from income from deposits in banks and other credit institutions.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov called “frivolous” the information published by Forbes about the proposal of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to “take back Donbass,” which Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about at a closed meeting with the RUIE board of directors on March 19 , reports on Monday , April 6, press service of the National Security and Defense Council.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Monday rejected Alfa Bank's claim to recover 342 million rubles from the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya), the Federal State Unitary Enterprise State Corporation for Air Traffic Management (ATM) and the Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (Rostransnadzor) in connection with activities of UTair airline, Interfax reported . A representative of Alfa Bank did not appear at the court hearing.

The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Yevgeny Perebiynis, on Twitter on Monday commented on a report from Forbes sources that Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a closed meeting with businessmen on March 19, spoke about his refusal of the proposal of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to “take back Donbass.” “‘Get out of Donbass’ does not mean ‘take away Donbass’, but quite the opposite,” Perebiynis wrote in Ukrainian.

photo by Artem Akchurin The inspection will not become a redistribution of property, the department emphasized Tatarstan Prosecutor Ildus Nafikov proposed checking the legality of the origin of the assets of billionaire Alexei Semin , who was put on the wanted list in the case of a fire in the Admiral shopping center in Kazan, Interfax reported on Wednesday, citing senior assistant prosecutor of Tatarstan Ruslan Galiev.