Seven St. Petersburg law enforcement officers detained on suspicion of extortion Last weekend, operatives from the internal security service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg conducted a special operation to detain seven colleagues suspected of extorting large sums of money from moneylenders who specialized in quick loans. According to one version, the initiator of extortion from creditors was a policeman who suffered from them.

Rosoboronexport is working on contracts with Chile, Brazil and Peru The international exhibition of weapons and military equipment FIDAE-2014 ended yesterday in Santiago (Chile). Having held meetings with representatives of more than 20 countries, representatives of Rosoboronexport, a special exporter of Russian weapons, discussed the prospects for promoting Yak-130 combat training aircraft, T-90S tanks, as well as Pantsir-S1 air defense systems to the Latin American market.

Maria Portnyagina - about what the new generation is guided by when choosing a profession Russia is on the verge of a career guidance shift: the dictates of parents when choosing a profession are weakening, and self-realization is increasingly taking first place among school graduates School is behind us, a bright future lies ahead, to which we must break through the fence of exams, inflated parental expectations and the abolition of all benefits.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov announced that the Crimean railways could be transferred to the ownership of Russian Railways in 2015. “In principle, the issue has been resolved. Today, the state enterprise “Railways of Crimea” has already been formed, which will carry out all types of transportation: freight, passenger, and suburban,” RIA Novosti quotes Mr. Sokolov.

Russian athletes received only two silver medals in Japan World Figure Skating Championships Photo: AFP Two silver medals, won by Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov in pair skating and Yulia Lipnitskaya in singles - this is the modest result of the performance of Russian figure skaters at the World Championships in Saitama, Japan.

Expertise 1K 1 min. ... Valeria Chernetsova, head of analytics department Superjob.ru When high school students choose a profession (our survey was conducted in Moscow), they are most interested in the size of their future salary and the opportunity to make a career. The prestige of the profession is important to approximately 10 percent of students. Even fewer students are concerned about whether they will benefit other people. Self-realization is interesting for 6.5 percent.

In the final of the tournament in Miami, leaving no chance for Rafael Nadal The tennis super tournament in Miami ended in the final with the participation of the two strongest tennis players in the world, in which Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Spaniard Rafael Nadal in two sets - 6:3, 6:3.

The Ordzhonikidze court of Perm sentenced the accountant of the Kabelshchikov 17 HOA, part of the Perm Standard HOA association, Marina Antipina, accused of stealing money from residents, the press service of TGC-9 reports. As the investigation established, in 2010-2013, Ms. Antipina, using her official position and the HOA checkbook, took possession of the partnership’s money in the amount of 4.2 million rubles.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said at a press conference after a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that he discussed the possibility of federalizing Ukraine, which is now a unitary state under the constitution. At the same time, Mr. Kerry said, any decisions on this matter should be made by Ukraine itself. “It is not we who should make decisions and agreements regarding federalization, although we talked about it.

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The company ceded a plot of land for construction of a highway to Norilsk Nickel “Russian Platinum” of Musa Bazhaev at an auction gave up the right to lease the site to Norilsk Nickel, for which it had been fighting since 2012. Norilsk Nickel needs the site for the construction of a road to the Maslovskoye field, for which the company already owns a production license, and Russian Platinum needs it for the road to its Chernogorskoye field.

State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Omsk" changes its network partner on radio The regional media holding State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Omsk" refuses to rebroadcast the radio station "Silver Rain" at a frequency of 106.2 MHz in the region. At the end of April, Radio Chanson will begin broadcasting on a frequency owned by OJSC Omsk Radio. The new radio station, according to the holding, will allow it to achieve break-even broadcasting.

1K 1 min. ... The Ministry of Economy estimates the net outflow of capital from the Russian Federation in the first quarter at $65-70 billion. This is more than for the entire last year - $62.7 billion. According to the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev, by the end of the year it could reach $100 billion. “With this scenario, the estimate of economic growth is reduced to 0.6%,” he said at the Exchange Forum in Moscow.

Manchester electronic duo Lamb performed at the Moscow Glavclub The trip-hop band, which played on the Moscow stage for the first time three years ago, opened their performance with the song “Another Language” from their latest album. Later, there was a choral performance of the shamanic “Gorecki” and “My angel Gabriel”, thanks to which almost everyone is familiar with the group’s work.

Political conservatism has acquired academic forms Following the presidential administration, which held a series of seminars and meetings with mayors, governors, and employees of the Kremlin’s political bloc, United Russia is holding a series of lectures for State Duma deputies and party activists.