Deputy head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications Alexei Volin said on Tuesday, May 12, that experts in the media and communications industry gave a negative assessment to the proposal to introduce an “Internet tax, ” Interfax reports . “The best thing to do with the idea of ​​a global license is to bury it and forget it. The idea is technically unrealizable, quite crazy and, of course, dangerous,” the deputy minister believes.

The arbitration court on Tuesday, May 12, arrested the funds of Uralvagonzavod and its subsidiary ChTZ-Uraltrak as part of Alfa Bank’s second claim to collect debt under a loan agreement for 523.5 million rubles, TASS reports . “At the moment, the claim has been accepted for proceedings. The preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 5,” the court’s press service told the agency.

The head of the council of the interregional historical and patriotic movement "Immortal Regiment" Sergei Lapenkov on Tuesday, May 12, addressed the Prosecutor General's Office and the Moscow Prosecutor's Office with a request to provide a legal assessment of photographs posted on the Internet, which show discarded posters with images of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, Interfax reports " . Lapenkov emphasized that the Immortal Regiment movement considers such actions offensive to veterans.

Former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov invested $5 million in his farm in the Kaliningrad region. about this He spoke in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, which was published on Tuesday, May 12. According to the former mayor, the farm employs about 100 people. They raise sheep, rams, goats, and there is also a stud farm on the farm. Luzhkov grows wheat, barley, rapeseed, corn there and acquired technology for processing buckwheat.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry, who arrived in Sochi on Tuesday, went “wonderfully,” RIA Novosti reports . The meeting between Lavrov and Kerry lasted about four hours.

A bill on unified basic textbooks in four main school subjects - mathematics, Russian history, Russian language and literature - was submitted to the State Duma on Tuesday, according to materials posted in the automated legislative support system.

TASS/ Ramil Galeev The Ministry of Justice is asked not to include Dmitry Zimin’s foundation in the list of foreign agents Ten academicians and 18 corresponding members from the July 1 Club, which protested against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), on Tuesday, May 12, sent an appeal to the head of the Ministry of Justice, Alexander Konovalov, with a request not to include the charitable foundation of the founder of VimpelCom in the register of foreign agents.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived for talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the Rodina Hotel in Sochi driving a white Pobeda car, TASS news agency reported on Tuesday . The meeting of the heads of foreign affairs of Russia and the United States is taking place on Tuesday, May 12, on the territory of the Rodina Hotel in Sochi. During the negotiations, it is planned to discuss the situation in Ukraine, Yemen, Iran and Syria. Kerry arrived in Sochi on Tuesday.

Russian Presidential Assistant Yuri Ushakov said on Tuesday, May 12, that US President Barack Obama conveyed greetings to Vladimir Putin through US Secretary of State John Kerry, who held talks with the Russian leader in Sochi, TASS reports . Ushakov clarified that the American leader did not convey any written message to Putin. The issue of a bilateral meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States was also not discussed at the negotiations.

The Transneft company, headed by Nikolai Tokarev , has decided to completely exit the engineering business and is liquidating three subsidiaries - LLC Transneftstroy -Bryansk , LLC Transneftstroy -Omsk and LLC Transneftstroy -Tyumen , newspaper reported on Tuesday the Kommersant with reference to informed sources . “Exiting construction assets is part of the company’s strategy,” Transneft confirmed this information to the publication.

Unknown hackers hacked the website of the RT television channel on Tuesday, May 12, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said on Twitter. “The website russian.rt.com was hacked. We’re figuring it out,” Simonyan wrote. This is not the first time RT has announced that the channel’s resources have been subject to a hacker attack. This happened , for example, in April 2014, when hackers managed to block access to the RT website.

The Rosatom State Corporation plans to prohibit the organization's top managers from opening and having accounts in foreign banks, follows from the draft order posted on Tuesday, May 12, on the unified information disclosure portal.

Mostovik's creditors decided to petition the Arbitration Court of the Omsk Region to introduce bankruptcy proceedings into the company and sell the enterprise in parts, the Vedomosti newspaper reported , citing external manager Viktor Markov on Tuesday, May 12.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, May 12, that the Kremlin is not familiar with the contents of the report of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, killed in February, about Russia’s alleged participation in the conflict in Donbass, Interfax reports . “I am not familiar with this report, so I cannot say anything,” Peskov said.

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