photo Getty Images Investors in Flipkart, valued at $15.5 billion, include Russian billionaire Yuri Milner India's largest online retailer Flipkart will raise a new round of investment based on a valuation of $15.5 billion, turning its founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal into billionaires, Forbes wrote on Wednesday. According to the publication's source, Flipkart is currently close to receiving a round of investment worth more than $500 million. The company has not attracted new investors.

Employees of the Russian FSB detained a spy from Lithuania in Moscow on Tuesday, Interfax reports with reference to a message from the FSB public relations center on Wednesday. The FSB said that the alleged spy was caught “red-handed” while he was receiving documentary classified information from a Russian. The foreigner was taken to the FSB reception for investigation and confessed, the department reported.

State Duma deputies on Wednesday, May 20, adopted the capital amnesty bill in the second reading, Interfax reports . For the second reading, the bill was supplemented with an indication of articles of the Criminal Code under which amnesty participants are exempt from liability.

Norilsk Nickel received a license from Rosnedra to develop the Maslovskoye platinum-copper-nickel deposit in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Prime reports on Wednesday, May 20, citing the company’s press service. The license was issued to the company on May 19 for a period until June 1, 2035.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev came to a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday wearing an Apple Watch smartwatch on his wrist, Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist Dmitry Smirnov reported on his microblog on Twitter. “And Medvedev came to a meeting with Putin today on his Apple Watch. He sat modestly and didn’t tell anyone!” Smirnov wrote. He accompanied this post with photographs of the Prime Minister with an Apple Watch on his hand.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, May 20, submitted an agreement between Russia and South Ossetia on alliance and integration to the State Duma for ratification, according to information on the website of the lower house of parliament. This agreement was signed on March 18 by Vladimir Putin and the head of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov.

The RusHydro company offered VTB to purchase its shares for up to 85 billion rubles, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Wednesday, May 20, citing a federal official and sources close to one of the parties to the negotiations. According to the publication, the parties are still discussing the structure and terms of the deal. One of the sources noted that RusHydro could theoretically issue an additional issue and offer the bank treasury shares (5.6%).

Ukraine may hold consultations on the deployment of missile defense system components on the country’s territory to protect against the nuclear threat from Russia, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov said in an interview with the Ukrinform agency.

The Moscow Prosecutor's Office canceled the decision of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (GSU ICR) in Moscow to initiate a criminal case against businessman Konstantin Ponomarev, a former partner of IKEA, who achieved an unprecedented payment of 25 billion rubles from the Swedish company, writes the Vedomosti newspaper on Wednesday, May 20. . The decision to close the case, which the newspaper has at its disposal, was made on May 13.

The famous Brazilian football player Ronaldo announced on Wednesday plans to open a football academy in Russia to search for and train talented young athletes, Interfax reported . “We want to open the Ronaldo Academy in Moscow,” the footballer said at a press conference in the Russian capital, where he arrived to support football in Russia in connection with the 2018 World Cup.

Sberbank of Russia has reduced deposit rates for the mass segment of clients by 0.25-0.75 percentage points from May 20, Interfax reported on Wednesday , citing a representative of the credit institution's press service. According to the publication, rates on the “Top up” deposit in rubles decreased by 0.5 percentage points. and amount to 7.2-8.6% per annum against 7.7-9.1% previously. On the Multicurrency deposit, ruble rates decreased from 7-7.65% to 6.25-6.9%.

Goloshchapov Artem for Forbes The Presidential Envoy to the Duma found no grounds for early elections Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that the Kremlin is not participating in the discussion of the possible postponement of the State Duma elections from December 2016 to September, Interfax reports . “As far as we understand, there is a discussion going on (in the State Duma). We are not part of this discussion,” Peskov said.

The new head of the investigation team in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Nikolai Tutevich, ordered examinations to find out whether Zaur Dadaev, who confessed to the crime, was under psychological and physical pressure, the Kommersant newspaper reports , citing sources familiar with the investigation, on Wednesday, 20 May. According to the newspaper, investigators have a video version of the confession of the person involved in the murder of the oppositionist.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky proposes that the State Duma resign early in June 2016 so that the elections to the lower house of parliament in 2016 are postponed from December to September. this Zhirinovsky stated on air at the Russian News Service on Wednesday, May 20. According to the parliamentarian, if the State Duma dissolves itself in June 2016, the president will be forced to issue a decree on holding parliamentary elections on September 11.