The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko, announced that local elections in the DPR will be held on October 18 in accordance with local agreements, the Donetsk News Agency (DAN) reported on Thursday, July 2. Zakharchenko said that on October 18, heads of cities and districts will be elected.

Photo DR The founder of the Metropol investment group, Mikhail Slipenchuk, explains why he went to the Arctic, studied Baikal and swam in Antarctica. Once a week, on Mondays, multimillionaire Mikhail Slipenchuk gives lectures at Moscow State University, his alma mater. The main owner of the Metropol investment group (No. 148 on the Forbes list with a fortune of $600 million) graduated from graduate school at the Faculty of Geography in 1993 and defended his Ph.D. thesis there.

photo TASS Switzerland organizes court hearings to consider requests US authorities have sent a request to Switzerland to extradite seven International Football Federation (FIFA) officials arrested in Zurich in May on suspicion of corruption, the said on Thursday, July 2. Swiss Justice Ministry The department said it received official requests from the US Embassy in Bern on Wednesday to extradite the accused within the time limit established in the bilateral extradition treaty.

Photo by Getty Images The oil company will pay this amount for 18 years British oil and gas corporation BP will pay a record fine of $18.7 billion to settle claims filed in connection with an accident on a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, Bloomberg reported Thursday . Payments of the fine will be extended over 18 years. Of the total $18.7 billion, $5.5 billion will go to the federal government.

According to sources, the billionaire intends to earn $350 million for the property. The owner of the Nafta-Moscow investment holding, Suleiman Kerimov, found someone willing to buy the Fashion Season gallery in the Moscow Hotel near Red Square, reported , citing sources on Thursday, July 2.

Photo by Semyon Katz for Forbes Alexander Nikolaev has been managing investments of wealthy Western families in Russia for 20 years. Where did he invest $1.5 billion? “Valartis’ investments in real estate are associated with the interests of Russian oligarchs, but this is complete nonsense. We do not have money from Russian family offices and never have.

photo Kommersant A former top manager of a state-owned company was detained as part of a criminal case on misappropriation of public funds The former head of the state corporation Rusnanotech (transformed into OJSC Rusnano) Leonid Melamed was detained as part of a criminal case for misuse of public funds, TASS reported on Thursday , citing a source. According to the source, in addition to Melamed, the former financial director of Rusnano, Svyatoslav Panurov, is also involved in the case.

The press service of the Minister for Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov commented on the information of the Izvestia newspaper that law enforcement officers are going to interrogate him as a witness in a case related to the E4 Group, the founder of which is Abyzov, reports on Thursday, July 2, RIA News .

Photo by Semyon Katz for Forbes Latvian Parex banka helped Eduard Khudaynatov turn from a manager into a businessman. Late 2009, cloudy Riga. “I was standing on the street and suddenly I saw the first vice president of Rosneft, Eduard Khudainatov, entering the Parex banka office. It was unexpected to meet a manager of a state-owned company at the entrance to such a bank,” says one of his acquaintances.

Russian political consciousness is becoming more and more provincial. The same deck of clichés is shuffled: both reactionary and progressive. “Well, what to talk about! Snowden is the head. Listen, Valiadis,” he addressed the third old man in Panama. “What do you say about Snowden?” “I’ll tell you frankly,” Panama answered, “Don’t put your finger in Snowden’s mouth. I personally wouldn’t put my finger..." What's true is true - there's no need to put your finger in Snowden's mouth.

The Federal Security Service declared the illegality of the service of separate passport control for visitors to VIP lounges at major airports and demanded that “special passengers” be forced to line up with ordinary citizens from July 1, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday, July 2. The special service proposes to preserve for such VIP passengers only the ability to separately check in and check in luggage.

Photo by Reuters Will Bill Ackman be able to build an empire from assets that are of no interest to other investors? The top managers of hedge funds, law firms and pension funds gathered in the hall of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Billionaire Bill Ackman is on stage. He is trying to convince participants at the Active-Passive Investor Summit that the long-term development of the companies in which he invests is more important to him than speculative profits on the stock exchange.

Photo by Anton Denisov / RIA Novosti A revisionist state is being formed in Russia, ready to fight the generally accepted international reality - the only one where its sovereignty is recognized In the new US military doctrine, Russia is included in the group of revisionist states - revisionist states. What is this, another dirty name or something more?

The US Embassy in Moscow handed over to Russia a package of court documents with a subpoena in the case of recognition and enforcement in the US of the decision of the Hague Arbitration Court, which awarded compensation to ex-YUKOS shareholders in the amount of $50 billion, RBC reported on Thursday with reference to the status of the case on the website of the district court Colombia.

The Buddenovsky City Court (Stavropol Territory) partially acquitted the head of the human rights organization "Mothers of the Kumya" - the local branch of the "Soldiers' Mothers" - Lyudmila Bogatenkova, reported on Thursday, July 2. the Kommersant newspaper The human rights activist was charged with two counts of fraud under Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.