Private bussiness Lopota Vitaly Aleksandrovich was born on September 28, 1950 in Grozny. Graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (1978) and its graduate school. He began his career in Grozny as a mechanic at an oil and oil plant. Since 1981, he has worked his way up at the Polytechnic Institute from junior researcher to head of department. In 1984, he headed the laboratory of the USSR Ministry of Defense Industry, created a year earlier.

Open-pit mine Stepanovsky LLC (mines hard coal in the Novokuznetsk district of the Kemerovo region) stopped work in June due to a lack of funds.

The organizer of a financial pyramid in Kalmykia received a five-year suspended sentence The Supreme Court of Kalmykia sentenced a resident of Elista, who defrauded 76 investors of over 2.1 million rubles, to a fine and a suspended sentence. “Elistinka Galina Bodrova was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 “Fraud committed on an especially large scale” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” reports the republic’s prosecutor’s office.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in a telephone conversation with US Vice President Joseph Biden, discussed international efforts to implement the peace plan in Donbass and the restoration of infrastructure, RIA Novosti reported on July 11.

In Georgia, police discovered almost three tons of liquid heroin during a search of a truck traveling from Azerbaijan to Turkey. “The seizure of drugs in such quantities is an unprecedented case for Georgia. According to preliminary data from the expert-criminal service, the seized narcotic substance contains 80% pure heroin, the market value of which is hundreds of millions of dollars,” RIA Novosti quotes a message from the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

A platform for lectures and exhibitions, organized by the publishing house with the help of the Moscow Youth Media Center, will be opened on July 15 on the territory of VDNKh, between the Space and Floriculture pavilions. The theme of the series of events, which will last until September, will be “Soviet space”.

Many Russian universities will no longer offer master's and postgraduate courses. This was stated by Education Minister Dmitry Livanov at a meeting with rectors. He noted that the changes will primarily affect institutes and universities that train specialists in technical specialties. First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education Oleg Smolin answered questions from Kommersant FM host Oksana Barykina.

LDPR deputy Valery Seleznev, the father of Roman Seleznev, who was arrested in the Maldives, is preparing amendments to existing legislation that will strengthen the protection of Russians in such situations. Kommersant FM's interlocutors support the deputy's initiative, but note that this is unlikely to change US policy towards Russian citizens. Photo: Evgeny Pereverzev, Kommersant Valery Seleznev intends to legislatively ensure the protection of Russians abroad.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Alexander Karpushin as Russian Ambassador to Albania. The corresponding document was published today on the official portal of legal information.

1K 1 min. ... Russian Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev announced that the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the EU have agreed to create a tripartite consultation mechanism on the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement, RIA Novosti reports.

Pete Doherty, one of the most notorious modern rock musicians, has collected diaries and notebooks over the past 5 years, from 2008 to 2013, into one volume.

The Bank of Russia has registered a report on the results of an additional issue of shares of the rehabilitated bank BTA-Kazan in the amount of 1.8 billion rubles, the Kazan bank said in a statement. In total, 756 quadrillion 708 trillion 408 billion ordinary shares were placed in favor of the sanatorium, LLC New Petrokhimiya (one of the largest shareholders of Tatfondbank), at a price of 1/420393560 rubles. for paper.

In the first half of the year, 569 thousand people used the services of the Perm Bolshoye Savino Airport, which is 19.3% more than the same period last year. Since the beginning of this year, 4,611 aircraft sorties have been carried out from the airport. This figure increased by 29.7% compared to 2013. This was reported by the press service of the regional government. The most popular Russian destinations in 2014 remain Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan.

A pre-investigation investigation is being conducted into the helicopter crash in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, which resulted in the death of the pilot. “According to preliminary data, the aircraft commander, not convinced of the safety of the maneuver, caught a power line with the helicopter’s tail boom during takeoff. As a result, the helicopter crashed and caught fire,” the Ural Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported.

It will be the General Director of the Credit Card Company Vladimir Komlev As Kommersant expected, Vladimir Komlev has been approved as head of the operator of the national payment system (which has yet to be created).