Parliamentarians are being asked to surrender their mandates 26K 4 min. ... The Russian Society of Scientific Workers (ONR) in an open letter demanded the resignation of those State Duma deputies in whose dissertations plagiarism was discovered. According to scientists, these parliamentarians do not have the ethical right to discuss the bill on reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Lufthansa Chairman and CEO Christoph Franz will leave his post in May 2014 due to the end of his contract, according to a press release from the largest German carrier. Mr. Franz refused to renew the agreement with the company, since he will take the position of chairman of the board of the pharmaceutical Roche. Christoph Franz was nominated by the board of directors of the Swiss company following the resignation in 2014 of current chairman Franz Humer.

The Ukrainian again brought victory to Dynamo Moscow In the final match of the 8th round of the Premier League, Dynamo Moscow defeated Ural in Yekaterinburg - 4:1. The hero of the meeting was the Ukrainian Andrei Voronin, who hit the goal of the Ural team three times. Photo: Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant / buy photo In the last round, Ural lost heavily at home to Rubin Kazan (0:3), and Dynamo in Moscow could not defeat Rostov, ending the match in a draw (1:1).

The Minister of Culture of the region, Igor Gladnev, confirmed to the weekly “New Companion” the information of “Kommersant” about the upcoming “castling” of two cultural institutions of Perm - the Perm Art Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art “PERMM”. Kommersant reported that the regional authorities proposed to the city to give the property complex of the former tram depot in Razgulay to the PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art.

The match of the first round of the group stage of the Champions League between the Spanish Real Sociedad and the Donetsk Shakhtar will be officiated by a refereeing team from Romania, led by 33-year-old Ovidiu Hecegan. The fight will take place on September 17 at the Anoeta stadium in San Sebastian. The match starts at 21.45 Kyiv time. In another Group A match, England's Manchester United will host Germany's Bayer at Old Trafford.

Blog post According to rumors, the most popular Moscow official, Sergei Kapkov, who heads the department of culture, decided to leave Sergei Sobyanin’s team. Bloggers did not remain indifferent Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov, Kommersant / buy photo What a pity Gost: “It’s a pity! Kapkov today is really a ray of light in a dark kingdom. And in his case, his place of birth is not important.

The jewelry stolen by Jack McLean over several years of thieving was worth $133 million. It was not for nothing that McLean was nicknamed the Super Thief - he had perfectly mastered the art of breaking into and covering his tracks. There are, of course, few such master thieves, but there are certainly more than the police catch—many of them escape punishment and remain forever in the shadows.

The Investigative Committee of Russia began an investigation into the fact of paid transportation on boats of people from the flooded Komsomolsk-on-Amur and adjacent territories.

And the company’s minority shareholders are again waiting for an offer The FAS allowed Mikhail Prokhorov's offshore Ragato Management to buy a 30% stake in Quadra, which the businessman has been trying to sell since 2011. According to unofficial information, Mr. Prokhorov’s structures have already consolidated 81% of Quadra’s shares, which obliges them to make an offer to minority shareholders, which they have avoided since 2008.

The President of Rosneft denied information about the corporation's possible participation in the fight for the share of Russian entrepreneur Suleiman Kerimov in Uralkali. For Rosneft, this deal would not be a profitable investment, experts say, but such speculation fuels interest in the asset. Photo: Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant / buy photo Rosneft will not enter into the fight for Suleiman Kerimov's share in Uralkali. This statement was made by the head of the oil corporation Igor Sechin.

Maxim Kvasha, editor of the economics department The average Muscovite is a very wealthy person by Russian standards. It accounts for 18 sq. m of housing, which corresponds to a capital of $90 thousand. However, the average resident of the Gagarinsky district has $160 thousand, Kapotnya - $65 thousand, and New Moscow - even less. Moreover, it is not so much the supply of housing that is important, but the price per square meter.

Who and what did the revolutionary predator grab? 95 years ago, in 1918, in red Petrograd, despite the existence of censorship, regular arrests and executions of counter-revolutionaries, the enemies of the Soviet government published “Crocodile” - a satirical depiction of the events of the revolutionary era.

Aeroflot employees will donate part of their salaries to flood victims in the Far East. The general director of the air carrier, Vitaly Savelyev, announced this on his microblog on Twitter . “The flood situation in the Far East is extremely difficult. Therefore, the Aeroflot Board decided to provide financial assistance to the region. Moreover, many Aeroflot employees, including management, decided to transfer part of their salaries to the victims.

Geography 465 1 min. ... India, the USA and Brazil are among the world's anti-leaders in terms of the number of endangered languages. Russia and China, unfortunately, are catching up with them

The government is preparing new approaches to the media The discussion of the draft amendments of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media to the law “On the Mass Media” has ended on the government website. They can reduce the level of jurisdiction in cases of terminating the work of media outlets, and deprive those convicted of crimes against the state and society of the right to establish a media outlet. Experts call the amendments discriminatory.