168 1 min. ... Deputies Vladimir Golman and Anatoly Kosterev, who supported the resignation of Sergei Mironov from the post of Speaker of the Federation Council, were expelled from the A Just Russia faction. This was reported to RBC by the first deputy head of the “Right Russia” in the State Duma, Gennady Gudkov. According to him, the “treacherous position” towards Sergei Mironov of the majority of St.

Former heads of Moscow region departments detained Two former prosecutors of the Moscow region were detained in connection with illegal gambling. The Basmanny Court will consider the arrest of Roman Nischemenko and Oleg Bazylyan, who resigned from the prosecutor’s office back in April. At a press conference, Dmitry Medvedev emphasized that the “payment for mistakes” has not yet been completed and did not rule out further arrests of prosecutors in the Moscow region.

On the evening of May 17, in the city of Strunino, Aleksandrovsky district, Vladimir region, a ceiling collapse occurred in a multi-story brick residential building. According to preliminary data, two people could have become victims. Shortly before the tragedy, the house's roof and gutters were replaced. According to the prosecutor's office of the Vladimir region, almost half of the four-story building No. 10 on Sovetskaya Street, in which 85 people lived, was destroyed.

Municipal unitary enterprises will be reorganized Members of the standing commission on budgetary and financial issues, economics, use of municipal property, local taxes and fees brought up for discussion three issues on the reorganization of municipal unitary enterprises. The deputies agreed that as a result of the reorganization, the MUP “Sadovo-Parkovaye” will join the MUP “Sargorsvet”, and the MUP “Landscape Construction and Improvement” will join the MUP “City Roads Plus”.

383 1 min. ... Yesterday in Tbilisi, about 30 local lawyers began a hunger strike outside the parliament. They accused the Georgian authorities of the fact that in the absence of a normal judicial system in the country, their profession becomes meaningless. The protesters put forward 16 demands.

Russia's largest automaker AvtoVAZ, which received a net profit in 2010 thanks to state support, will not pay dividends to shareholders. Two sources close to the board of directors told Reuters about this on May 18.

Several dozen units of automotive equipment of the Strategic Missile Forces (Strategic Missile Forces) will undergo deep modernization. Service maintenance of more than 3.5 thousand vehicles will be transferred to third parties. In 2011, service maintenance of more than 3.5 thousand units of Strategic Missile Forces vehicles will be carried out by third-party organizations - Remdizel CJSC and its branches.

In three months, the mining and metallurgical group Evraz may announce the sale of 40% in the Raspadskaya coal company. Chairman of the Board of Directors and co-owner of Evraza Alexander Abramov told reporters about this on May 18. “In three months, if there is a deal,” Mr. Abramov said in response to a question about when Evraz will announce the sale of its stake in Raspadskaya. He did not say whether there is a list of selected applicants or whether foreign companies are included in it.

The new head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will look for a common language with the governor Yesterday, the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Perm Territory, Major General Yuri Valyaev, held his first press conference, during which he outlined the main directions of the department’s work. The head of the main department noted the low level of crime detection, according to which the Perm Territory ranks only 61st in Russia.

The rest are ordered to increase transparency The Ministry of Economy proposed that the government create a list of federal state unitary enterprises that perform a “significant socio-economic function” by analogy with the presidential list of strategic enterprises and joint-stock companies.

Today, May 18, the head of the press service of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor's Office, Maryana Gayovska, denied information about the initiation of criminal cases against the head of the Svoboda faction in the Lviv Regional Council, Irina Sekh, and the head of the Svoboda faction in the Lviv City Council, Ruslan Koshulinsky. “To date, the prosecutor’s office of the Lviv region has not initiated a single criminal case against the named deputies - Irina Sekh and Ruslan Koshulinsky,” she noted.

Tax system reform is supported by the government, parliament and entrepreneurs The government of Mykola Azarov decided to carry out the promised reform of the simplified taxation system. Yesterday a bill was submitted to parliament that takes into account almost all the wishes of entrepreneurs.

Banks The share of non-residents in the authorized capital of Sberbank for the year, from April 16, 2010 to April 15, 2011, increased from 32.13 to 33.44%, according to the bank’s materials on the shareholder structure as of the register closure date. The share of institutional investors over the year increased to 37.59 from 36.33%, while private investors decreased to 4.83 from 6.09%.

— Share your impressions of Dmitry Medvedev’s press conference. - You just gave an example of such multi-layered idle talk in empty spaces, and this is, of course, the first impression, because it was a fantastically empty press conference. And that it’s absolutely true that the same quote you gave is absolutely correct.

The company is the first American social network to go public On May 19, the social network LinkedIn goes public. The IPO could value the company at more than $4 billion. The success of this IPO will be an important benchmark for companies like Facebook and Twitter, which are also planning to go public in the next few years. LinkedIn will begin trading on the NYSE on May 19.