Moscow demands Kyiv to release Russian citizens captured in Donbass The Russian Ministry of Defense demanded that Kyiv stop torture and release two former Russian servicemen detained on Monday in the Lugansk region. This was stated by the official representative of the department, Major General Igor Konashenkov. Director of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights Alexander Brod answered questions from Kommersant FM host Alexei Korneev.

The Russian economy needs reform to improve the situation, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Min Zhu said on Monday. “For each BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), we have our own recommendations,” he said at a conference on doing business with this group of countries at the Russian Embassy in the United States. “We urge Russia to promote economic reforms,” said Ming Zhu, mentioning in particular the energy sector.

There is a movie about the main prize in competition at the Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Film Festival program includes the documentary “The Legend of the Palme d'Or” by Alexis Weller. The film stars famous directors, winners of the main prize at Cannes - Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Emir Kusturica, Wim Wenders, Steven Soderbergh and other masters of cinematography. Ilya Nagibin talked with the director of this film, Alexis Weller.

STGT LLC will be launched on the first day of SPIEF The official opening of a joint plant between Siemens and Power Machines for the production and service of gas turbines with a capacity above 60 MW will take place on June 18. Investments in the plant amounted to €275 million. The opening of the Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies plant, the construction of which lasted about a year and a half, will take place during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 18.

Thermal energy will rise in price the most from July 1 Moscow announced that the increase in utility tariffs from July 1 will correspond to the maximum indexation level of 10%. In the basket of utilities, heat energy will rise in price the most, and cold water supply the least. Photo: Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant / buy photo Moscow will raise utility tariffs by 10% - the maximum possible value approved by the mayor's office of December 18, 2014.

The court awarded VKHP to Alexey Busarov The owner of the Oblprod company, Alexey Busarov, received control over the property complex of the bankrupt enterprise Vereshchaginsky Bread Products Plant (VKHP). Yesterday, the regional arbitration court rejected Uralchem ​​LLC's complaint against the sale of the complex. The lawsuit was filed in the interests of the regional authorities, who were not satisfied with the candidacy of the winning bidder, Mr.

The State Duma did not seriously change the process of moving cars to the impound lot As a result of the confrontation between the capital's mayor's office and United Russia, the State Duma abandoned the idea of ​​radically limiting the rights of the Moscow authorities to use tow trucks as part of the fight against traffic violations. In return, the deputies put forward a number of new standards to regulate the work of forklifts, but much less stringent.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke at the opening of the session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe The Russian Federation is extremely concerned about “attempts to use external factors to undermine the internal political situation in Macedonia,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking at the 125th ministerial session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Brussels.

OJSC "Etalon-TZ" (Tuymazy, Bashkiria), 100% of which was purchased by individual entrepreneur Azat Mustaev at an auction in September last year from the government of Bashkiria through a public offer, announced plans to cease operations due to reorganization. As follows from the company’s materials, its sole shareholder made a decision on this today, May 19. On May 21, the JSC intends to send an application to make a corresponding entry in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.

A criminal case has been initiated against the head of the company's Krasnodar representative office for poor quality repairs of a federal highway in Kuban Last Friday, in the Saratov office of Volgomost PJSC, documents were seized as part of a criminal case of attempted fraud against the acting. head of the company's representative office in Krasnodar, Mikhail Penin. Mr. Penin has not yet been charged.

OJSC Kurgan Machine-Building Plant (Kurganmashzavod, part of the Tractor Plants concern) in the first quarter of 2015 reported a net loss under RAS of 532.786 million rubles, which is 3.1% lower than the same period last year. The company's revenue amounted to 2.9 billion rubles, Interfax writes. Kommersant-Online

Gazprombank and Bashneft entered into an agreement to issue bank guarantees to the company in the amount of no more than 59 billion rubles, or 15.11% of the value of ANK’s assets, estimated at 390.48 billion rubles, follows from Bashneft’s materials. The agreement of the parties was signed before October 1, 2016, it can be extended. Each bank guarantee expires on December 31, 2018. The board of directors of Bashneft approved the deal on March 31, according to the company’s materials.

The head of Ramzan Kadyrov's administration, Magomed Daudov, who on May 16 took minor Luiza Goylabieva to the registry office for a wedding ceremony with the head of the local police department, spoke out for the legalization of polygamy. “I’m not sitting as a deputy now, but it would be nice if polygamy were legalized. But just so that everything is in accordance with Sharia: if a man can support another wife, then why not?

The Office of the Federal Migration Service for the Krasnodar Territory published the results of its work for 4 months of 2015. The number of Russian citizen passports issued since the beginning of the year has remained virtually unchanged compared to the same period last year - the Federal Migration Service issued 75.6 thousand Russian passports to residents of the region. At the same time, the number of issued foreign passports decreased by 43% and amounted to 38.9 thousand.

Conjuncture The Yandex.Money payment system (75% of the capital minus 1 ruble belongs to Sberbank, 25% of the capital plus 1 ruble belongs to Yandex) has entered into a partnership with Western Union in the field of money transfers, the company told Kommersant. You can transfer funds on the Yandex.Money website from an electronic wallet or from a bank card linked to it. The service will transfer the amount and give the sender a control number for the money transfer.