A demonstrator who was injured during protests in Istanbul died in hospital from his injuries, AP reports. Thus, the number of victims of the unrest in Turkey since May 31 has increased to five people. It is also reported that several hundred demonstrators once again gathered in Istanbul's Taksim Square on Thursday to take part in another anti-government demonstration.

The UN asks Austria not to complete the withdrawal of its peacekeepers from the separation zone between Syria and Israel on the Golan Heights until the end of July in order to have time to find replacements for them, RIA Novosti reports, citing the official representative of the world organization Martin Nesirky.

Companies removed from FTSE 100 index Evraz and Polymetal dropped out of the LSE FTSE 100 blue chip index due to a sharp decline in the companies' capitalization over the past quarter. From 24 June, Evraz and Polymetal will be promoted to the FTSE 250, with UK construction companies taking their place in the FTSE 100. Photo: Georgy Kopytin, Kommersant Russian Evraz and Polymetal have been excluded from the London Stock Exchange (LSE) FTSE 100 index, the trading platform said in a press release .

The investigative unit of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Kamchatka Territory has opened a criminal case against the head of the department for organizing work on the sale of property of debtors of the Federal Bailiff Service in the region, suspected of fraud on an especially large scale.

The funds allocated for the implementation of the target program for the renovation of the Bolshoi Theater in 2005 were stolen. A criminal case has been opened for fraud. Photo: Stas Vladimirov, Kommersant / buy photo The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported today that during an investigation into the expenditure of funds, the police discovered the theft of 90 million rubles, which were allocated for the repair of power supply facilities of the Bolshoi Theater.

PJSC "Indar", the only Ukrainian enterprise with a full cycle of insulin production, won the tender of the Ministry of Health for the supply of 6.798 million tablets of the drug to combat tuberculosis - cycloserine. "Indar" will supply the drug at a price of 6 UAH per 1 tablet. In 2012, when PrJSC Indar did not participate in government procurement, the Ministry of Health purchased cycloserine at a price of 8.65 UAH per tablet.

The Ministry of Economic Development estimated the cost of export projects of leading Russian state-owned companies that require insurance coverage from OJSC Export Insurance Agency of Russia (EXIAR), a subsidiary of Vnesheconombank, at 2.3 trillion rubles.

In 2014, the volume of Russian gas imports may amount to about 18 billion cubic meters or less, which repeats the forecast gas balance for 2013, said the head of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine Evgeniy Bakulin. “We proceed from the already approved balance for 2013, but we are going with a constant reduction - it will be less or 18 billion cubic meters. We are now clarifying,” Mr. Bakulin said. At the same time, he noted that all calculations must be provided to the gas supplier - Gazprom OJSC.

Australian dollar** 761.9951 British pound** 1251.0824 Belarusian ruble* 0.0092 Hungarian forint*** 35,804 Danish krone** 142.3114 U.S. dollar** 799.3 Euro** 1061.2306 Icelandic krona** 6.62 Kazakh tenge** 5.2735 Canadian dollar** 786.7378 Norwegian krone** 138.4515 Polish zloty** 249.5135 Russian ruble* 2.4673 Turkish Lira** 426.0944 Czech crown** 41.3574 Swedish krona** 122.2503 Swiss frank** 861.1788 Japanese yen** 82.7148 *For 10. **For 100. ***For 1000. According to the NBU

The non-profit organization American Civil Liberties Union sued the US government. The lawsuit is related to the massive wiretapping of telephone calls by intelligence agencies. The plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court for the Southern District of New York, arguing that wiretapping private calls violates the U.S. Constitution. Natalya Suvorova, a correspondent for Kommersant FM in Washington, provides details.

Clement, Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk Previous photo Next photo 1 / 2 Photo: Kommersant / Grigory Sobchenko / buy photo Photo: Kommersant / Vasily Shaposhnikov / buy photo Ascension of the Lord The world is increasingly turning to the topic of the historicity of matter. Scientists wonder what will happen if history stops, and the entertainment industry pampers the viewer with vivid images of the end of the world and the apocalypse.

The growth of Ukraine's gross domestic product (GDP) this year is expected to be 1-1.5%, said Finance Minister Yuriy Kolobov. “At the rate we are developing now, GDP growth will be from 1% to 1.5%,” the minister said. “There will be no cuts to the state budget...an absolutely realistic budget, even taking into account the fact that the economy will not grow as planned,” added Yuri Kolobov. Based on materials from Interfax-Ukraine news agency

The Plenum of the Supreme Court decided on bribery Receiving money for performing professional duties cannot be considered a bribe, and knowingly providing funds to another person to give a bribe should be considered mediation in the commission of a crime. Such norms are contained in the draft resolution of the plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which today considered issues related to criminal cases of corruption crimes.

Non-profit organizations have figured out how to circumvent the foreign agents law. Kommersant writes about this with reference to anonymous sources. One of the authors of the law on foreign agents, State Duma deputy from United Russia, Alexander Sidyakin, discussed the situation with presenter Oksana Barykina.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov at today's meeting in the department approved the first results of the interregional air transportation program, which started on April 1 in the Volga Federal District. “We can say with confidence that the project has taken place.