The G7 does not accept Bashar al-Assad's victory in the elections: the leaders of the G7 countries are confident that the elections held in Syria are illegitimate. The incumbent president won with 88% of the vote. The elections can hardly be called transparent, but the very fact of their holding in Syria is unique, experts believe. Photo: Dmitry Azarov, Kommersant The leaders of the G7 countries refused to recognize the victory of Bashar al-Assad in the elections in Syria.

"Kinotavr" continues Movie premiere In "White White Night" director Ramil Salakhutdinov is guided by the principle of immersion in the "natural flow of being" Photo: press service of the Kinotavr festival At the 25th Open Russian Film Festival (ORKF) taking place in Sochi, three women's films and one men's were shown - we can say that in the main competition, women took revenge for the short discovery: in the feature film, the weaker sex demonstrated a greater presence of logic, albeit female.

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) at a meeting today lowered the base interest rate to a record low - from 0.25% to 0.15%, the regulator said in a statement . The ECB's decision comes into force on June 11. It is noted that the ECB deposit rate became negative for the first time in the history of the currency bloc. Read more about this in the Kommersant article “The European Central Bank has gone into the red.”

Analysts' opinions and forecasts on how the ruble will behave on June 6 The beginning of 2014 turned out to be a disaster for the Russian financial market. In January and February alone, the dollar exchange rate strengthened its position in Russia by more than 3 rubles, rising to 35.886 rubles/$, reaching a new five-year high. The euro renewed its historical maximum in January, approaching the level of 50 rubles/€ for the first time.

Traffic on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line of the Moscow metro has been restored. It was interrupted for 20 minutes due to a technical problem. “From 17:30 to 17:50, due to a technical malfunction at the Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard station, train traffic was suspended,” Interfax quotes the words of an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow. He also denied information about the evacuation of passengers. The metro is currently operating as normal.

Russia will investigate crimes against civilians committed on the territory of Ukraine. This will be handled by a special department created by the Investigative Committee. Columnist for the weekly Independent Military Review Viktor Myasnikov discussed the topic with Kommersant FM hosts Maxim Mitchenkov and Natalya Zhdanova. Photo: Dmitry Lekai, Kommersant / buy photo The work will involve investigative units from all regions of Russia into whose territory refugees from Ukraine arrive.

During a meeting of the Anti-Corruption Council under the Head of Adygea, the prosecutor of the republic Vasily Poslovsky said that this year more than 1.1 thousand violations of the law have been identified, more than 200 officials have been brought to disciplinary liability, a number of protests and submissions have been made demanding that the identified violations be eliminated.

Direct speech 424 2 minutes. ... Olga Kryshtanovskaya, head of the Center for the Study of Elites at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Ilya Ponomarev and Larisa Ponomareva Photo: Dmitry Azarov, Kommersant / buy photo - Yes. I would name the Vorobyevs, Ponomarevs, and Gudkovs as examples of successful dynasties, although their fate is more difficult. And the question of whether this is good or bad comes down to another question: is aristocracy good or not?

KAMAZ OJSC plans to double the sales of gas engine equipment in 2014 compared to 2013, said Pavel Kanichev, the company’s deputy general director for sales and service. “If last year our sales were about 800 units, then this year we plan to sell about 1.5 thousand units,” he said. Mr. Kanichev noted that the increase in the plan in 2015 will depend on the economic situation in the country.

Convicted of the murder of businessman Oleg Spiridonov in the Khabarskoye sports complex in February 2013, businessman Pavel Brovkin and his defenders filed an appeal against the verdict of the Bogorodsky City Court, the regional court reports.

A district for nine thousand residents will be built in Irkutsk Irkutsk municipal unitary enterprise UKS will build a new district on the outskirts of Novo-Lenino. On a site with an area of ​​25 hectares, 59 residential block sections of different heights, as well as social facilities, will be built. It is planned that about 9 thousand people will live in the area.

The Russian Air Force has taken delivery of another modernized long-range bomber Tu-22M3. This was reported in Kazan on Wednesday at a meeting on the state and prospects for the development of Long-Range Aviation of the Russian Air Force to the Minister of Defense, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, by the commander of Long-Range Aviation of the Air Force, Anatoly Zhikharev. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the entire list of mandatory work was completed on the missile carrier.

Financial institutions will join forces to create a database of clients who are denied opening accounts or conducting transactions on anti-money laundering grounds. The “injured” party should have the right to challenge its inclusion in the list, experts believe. Photo: Oleg Kharseev, Kommersant Bankers will tell their colleagues about suspicious clients. The Central Bank supported the creation of a unified “anti-money laundering” register of companies.

N Bank CityAssets (million rub.) Rate growth assets (%)Own capital (million rub.)Funds individuals (million rub.)Change (%)Loans NBS-net (million rubles)Change (%)Loans individuals (million rubles)Change (%) 1 Sberbank of Russia Moscow 17066365.6 4.7 1974500.6 7316250.0 -3.6 12046535 6.2 3449722.5 3.5 2 VTB Saint Petersburg 5750116.3 9.6 759634.7 19362.2 12.6 2652276 5.6 213.8 -4.4 3 Gazprombank Moscow 3834802.5 7.9 288001.1 347739.3 -5.7 2399760 6.4 265201.6 3.5 4 VTB 24 Moscow 2106379.9 4.1

The Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow today extended the detention of nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich, known as Tesak, until July 27. “The court did not agree with our arguments that the grounds for extending the arrest were far-fetched, did not agree that our client was not going to hide anywhere, and extended his arrest until July 27,” ITAR-TASS quotes the defendant’s lawyer Alexei Mikhalchik as saying. Maxim Martsinkevich is accused under Part 2 of Art.