Dossier 4K 1 min. ... Konstantin Anatolyevich Ponomarev was born on August 14, 1971 in Moscow. Graduated from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics. He studied in the same course as Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for the Hermitage Capital investment fund, who died in a pre-trial detention center in 2009. In 1995, Mr. Ponomarev co-founded the auditing firm Firestone Duncan (Firestone Duncan LLC), receiving 51% of it and the position of general director.

Russian human rights activists and public figures appealed to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lukin, with a request to intervene in the situation with the inhumane, in their words, treatment of the defendants in the case of mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, Interfax reports.

1K 3 min. ... The new pension formula will be introduced on January 1, 2015. As now, the pension calculated according to it will consist of three parts - a fixed payment (analogous to the current basic part of the pension, in 2013 its size is 3,610.31 rubles), insurance and savings parts. The main difference is in the technology for calculating the insurance part of the pension.

A resolution of the Barnaul administration approved the conditions for the privatization of 100% of the shares of OAO Krytyi Rynok, currently owned by the municipality. According to documents posted on the city’s official website, 28,155 ordinary registered shares with a par value of 1 thousand rubles will be put up for sale. each. The starting price, established on the basis of the market value assessment report, is 43.34 million rubles.

The uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has sold his Parisian mansion for £60 million ($92.5 million); the buyer may have been a Russian oligarch, The Daily Mail writes. Initially, Rifat Assad put up a seven-story mansion in a prestigious area of ​​Paris for sale for £90 million ($138.8 million), but then significantly reduced the price. As the publication notes, despite this, the amount received by Mr. Assad for the sale of the property is twice as high as its original cost.

Russian Maria Sharapova lost to the 131st racket of the world in the second round of Wimbledon, RIA Novosti reports. Maria Sharapova (3rd seed) lost to 20-year-old Portuguese Michelle Larcher de Brito, number 131 in the world, with a score of 3:6, 4:6. This was a repeat of the worst result for a Russian at Wimbledon: she also lost in the second round of singles in 2008 and 2009. Michelle Larcher de Brito's next opponent will be Karin Knapp from Italy.

Parliament did not pass the controversial amendment to the constitution The Brazilian Congress voted with an absolute majority to reject a constitutional amendment limiting the rights of the federal prosecutor's office. Rejection of the innovation was one of the key demands of the anti-government protests that have rocked Brazil in recent weeks.

The United States, due to budget sequestration, will reduce the number of ground forces by 80 thousand by the end of the 2017 fiscal year (September 30, 2017), Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno told reporters on June 25. According to him, the number of troops will be reduced by 14% - from 570 thousand military personnel to 490 thousand. The cuts will be accompanied by a reorganization - instead of 45 brigades, the ground forces will have 33.

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Bashkir communists did not include a candidate agreed with the Central Committee as the leader of the list At the conference of the Bashkir branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, where yesterday the lists of candidates from the party to the Kurultai of the Republic were approved, an incident occurred. Its participants refused to approve the version of the first three candidates agreed upon by the central committee (Central Committee) of the party.

Residents of Russia can now buy Apple gadgets in the official online store. However, their delivery is currently only carried out in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Many buyers will prefer the Apple online store rather than intermediaries, but “gray” products will continue to be in demand, experts believe. Photo: REUTERS/Stephen Lam, Reuters Apple launched an online store in Russia. Now Russians will be able to officially purchase the company’s equipment on the Internet.

Citizens were allowed to have fences, fences and barriers The capital's authorities yesterday approved a simplified procedure for installing barriers, fences and other barriers in the courtyards of residential buildings. Now, in order to legally close the entrance to the yard, it is enough to hold a meeting of homeowners and obtain approval of the barrier project from the council of municipal deputies.

Ecuador may need several months to decide whether or not to grant political asylum to former CIA officer Edward Snowden. “It took us two months to make a decision in the Assange case, so don’t expect us to decide sooner this time,” Ricardo Patiño, head of the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry, told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Patiño declined to say what criteria Ecuador would use in its decision, but added that his government would “take into account all the risks,” Bloomberg reports.

The head of the Moscow Department of Education, Isaac Kalina, proposed banning schoolchildren from going to the toilet while taking the Unified State Exam to prevent cheating. “There is one little thing that we need to get rid of. These are trips to the toilets,” he said at a meeting of the “Open Tribune” in the State Duma, RIA Novosti reports.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that his country could consider providing asylum for Edward Snowden if he asked for it, RIA Novosti reported on June 26. “We would consider this, since in any case asylum is a measure of humanitarian protection, it is a mechanism of international humanitarian law that is widespread in Latin America and has always been used to protect the helpless,” Latin American media quote Mr. Maduro as saying in during the visit to Haiti.