The governor held consultations with City Duma deputies regarding Oleg Kondrashov’s report Last week, Governor Valery Shantsev held personal meetings with deputies of the City Duma, discussing with them tomorrow's meeting on the report of the head of the administration of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Kondrashov for 2014, which could end with an expression of no confidence and the resignation of the latter.

Volunteers will be recruited to clean the Bezymyanny stream, which flows through the territory of the Rostov Zoo. According to the administration’s press service, this was discussed at an off-site meeting held by the chairman of the environmental protection committee, Vladimir Vasilenko.

The arrival of local carriers will shake the monopoly's position The Far Eastern Railway responded to the government's initiative to create a free traction market by supporting a conservative scenario in which only one private company could carry out transportation on the route. Stevedores and freight operators, on the contrary, are interested in the arrival of private carriers, but in order to admit new players to the highway they are asking to refine the tariff setting mechanisms.

Users of Apple devices experience difficulties when trying to use some services. The problem occurred with the Apple Music music service, as well as the iTunes and App Store. Some users receive an error message, while for others the services work, but intermittently. The failure of services is confirmed by information on the official Apple website.

Yesterday, the deputy head of the Rosprirodnadzor department for the Volga Federal District, Olga Korneevets, told deputies of the Nizhny Novgorod Legislative Assembly that the project for eliminating the Dzerzhinsk sludge reservoir “White Sea” received a negative conclusion from a repeated state environmental assessment. “In total, the project received 53 comments,” she said. — The main complaint is the lack of necessary treatment facilities in the project.

Sergei Smirnov about the territorial distribution of poverty: “In our country, I suspect, the level of poverty varies depending on, say, belonging to one or another ethnic group. With us, it’s a little different, though: with us, rather, very serious territorial differences in poverty. This is the structure of the economy, first of all, of the region.

Sergei Smirnov about the diversity of poverty: “There is a completely formal definition, in any case, of social policy, when measures of social support for those whom we call the poor are considered. There are absolutely clear criteria, in fact, the main criterion that we use is I’m not saying that it is ideal - far from it, it is a correlation with the size, with the cost of living.

The Russian Ministry of Defense sent a large landing ship “Admiral Nevelskoy” to the Tatar Strait to assist in transporting passengers and cars that had accumulated at the Vanino-Kholmsk ferry crossing due to the typhoon “Chan-Hom” that passed in the Khabarovsk Territory.

Kemerovo OJSC Holding Company "Sibcem" is not abandoning attempts to strengthen the consolidation of its main assets. The company applied to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to obtain the status of “sole executive body” of OJSC Angarskcement (Irkutsk region) and OJSC Iskitimcement (Novosibirsk region). FAS decisions published last week indicate that the deadline for consideration of relevant petitions has been extended by two months to obtain additional information.

The restoration of the facade of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rostov-on-Don is planned to be completed this year. According to the press service of the city administration, at the moment all the domes of the cathedral have been replaced, work has been done to restore and strengthen the brickwork of the walls, cornices and columns.

Sanctions applied to Time Bank and the United Industrial Investment Bank The Bank of Russia continues to clear the banking market of small, unscrupulous players. Today, two more banks lost their licenses: Time Bank and the United Industrial Investment Bank. Photo: Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant / buy photo The Central Bank today announced that it had revoked the banking licenses of two Moscow banks: Time Bank and the United Bank for Industrial Investment.

The Constitutional Court (CC) of Russia ordered the removal of ambiguities in the legislation regarding the rules for the import into the country of potent drugs that are not psychotropic and narcotic, for personal use for medical reasons. The existing uncertainty in the legislation makes it possible to bring citizens to criminal liability for this as smuggling.

The Khabarovsk Territory was among eight regions that will receive federal subsidies in 2015 for the purchase of new tram and trolleybus equipment. The corresponding document is posted today on the website of the Russian government. The total amount of the subsidy for this year is 384 million rubles, of which the Khabarovsk Territory will receive 9 million rubles. The maximum amount will be allocated to the Republic of Tatarstan - 160 million rubles, the minimum. 4 million rub.

In the Purovsky district of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a Robinson helicopter from Light Air Airlines made a hard landing while flying over a gas pipeline. According to the press service of the district Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, one person was injured as a result of the incident. The helicopter's blades and tail boom were damaged. Kommersant-Online

The average monthly nominal accrued wages of workers in the Rostov region (for the full range of enterprises and organizations) in January-May of this year reached 23.4 thousand rubles, which is 4.5% higher than the level of January-May last year, Rostovstat reports. The average number of employees (excluding external part-time workers) in the first five months of this year reached 1.1 million people.