According to the Xinhua agency, during the 34th Congress of the Olympic Council of Asia in Ashgabat, it was decided to choose the city of Guangzhou (China) as the capital of the 2022 Asian Games. The competition is scheduled for August or September. This is the third time China has hosted these games. In 2018, the games will take place in Jakarta.

Personnel Khabarovsk Governor Vyacheslav Shport signed an order appointing Evgeniy Korolev to the position of head of the Main Control Directorate of the Governor and Government. This was reported by the press service of the regional government. The position, we recall, became vacant after Denis Udod, who had held it since November 2009, became the head of Khabarovsk Energy Systems JSC in July.

Dmitry Yurovsky became the chief conductor and musical director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, according to the theater’s website. According to Mr. Yurovsky, he has already started work. “Now I am getting acquainted with the general creative and administrative situation and, together with theater director Vladimir Kekhman, I am preparing for the upcoming season,” the theater’s press service quotes him.

LDPR left the State Duma meeting in protest The LDPR faction left the State Duma meeting. Vladimir Zhirinovsky made the decision to leave the hall after a conflict with United Russia deputy Irina Rodnina. According to journalists, the leader of the Liberal Democrats from the podium cited facts of violations in the elections in the Amur region, where, according to Zhirinovsky, the LDPR candidate Ivan Abramov should have won, and not the representative of United Russia, Alexander Kozlov.

Minority shareholder of Uraltransbank Sergei Pilshchikov, who owns 1.4 thousand shares, appealed the alienation of 25% plus one share of the credit organization to new shareholders. In his opinion, the rights of minority shareholders were violated during the transaction, Ura.ru reports.

Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said that Moscow sees a political context in the attempts of some Western countries and Ukraine to abolish the veto power in the UN Security Council. “We have a negative attitude towards this initiative. We believe that the veto power of the five permanent members is a very important mechanism that forces delegations to work on developing consensus decisions,” said Mr.

The court arrested the property of Konstantin Tsybko Yesterday it became known about the seizure of the property of Konstantin Tsybko, a member of the Federation Council from the Chelyabinsk region, and his parents. In particular, at the request of the investigation, first the Basmanny District Court of the capital, and then the Moscow City Court, seized two apartments in the center of Moscow and a garage for a total amount of 84.2 million rubles.

In the Moscow International Business Center "Moscow City" there was a fire in the IQ-Quarter tower. Eyewitnesses captured black smoke pouring from the roof of a multi-story building. Nine fire brigades are currently on the scene. According to preliminary information, the cause of the fire was a wiring fault. The fire has now been extinguished. LifeNews reports this.

The question of establishing someone’s guilt in the assassination attempt on journalist Oleg Kashin is the prerogative of the investigation and the court, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov in response to a request to comment on the statements of the wife of one of the participants in the trial in the case of the assassination attempt on the journalist.

The head of Mordovia, Vladimir Volkov, held a working meeting with the management of the Azerbaijani company Embawood, which plans to open a factory in Saransk for the production of cabinet, upholstered and office furniture. This is stated on the website of the republican government. The Azerbaijani company has been offered a ready-made site on the territory of the Rabex Group Saransk industrial park, which is currently being created at the production base of the Rezinotekhnika plant.

A petition for the resignation of the head of the Odessa Regional State Administration, Mikheil Saakashvili, has appeared on the official website of the President of Ukraine. “For more than three months of work as governor of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili has not fulfilled any of his promises,” the text of the petition says. It is noted that during the three months of the governor’s work, residents of the region did not see positive changes.

Refugee status is more willing to give former Ukrainian security forces Most refugees prefer not to go to Russia. Moreover, it is even rarely considered as a transit state. Nevertheless, those who are looking for asylum in Russia are still there. The head of the Civil Assistance Committee Svetlana Gannushkina told Kommersant Grigory Tumanov about how many Syrians have arrived in Russia since the beginning of a military conflict and how much is the status of refugee among intermediaries.

Russia's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad contributes to the expansion of the conflict in this country, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “The Secretary of State has made it clear that Russia’s continued support for President Assad threatens to widen the conflict and undermines our common goals in the fight against terrorism,” RIA Novosti quoted the State Department as saying.

The Blue Buckets Society proposes to combat underfilling of gasoline at gas stations Gas stations must be equipped with special counters to prevent underfilling. This proposal was made by the coordinator of the Blue Buckets society, Pyotr Shkumatov. He has already approached the Ministry of Finance with his initiative. According to Shkumatov, drivers constantly overpay for gasoline. Frauds are carried out at the software level.

The consul of the Russian Embassy was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to deliver a note in connection with violations by the Russian side of the rights of Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, held on Russian territory.