The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, said in court that the former Minister of Economic Development of Russia, Alexei Ulyukaev, asked to “give him a bonus” in connection with the deal to sell Bashneft shares and said that “there is no need to quarrel with the minister.” This is reported by BBC Russian Service with reference to the court ruling issued following the consideration of Ulyukaev's appeal.

Una Probadita de Mexico House of Fans of Mexican fans was going to arrange a “day of the dead” on Red Square in Moscow on the evening of June 29. The holiday was canceled without explanation and transferred it to Ilyinka. This photograph shows how the Mexicans were preparing to celebrate the "Day of the Dead" on Red Square.

Starting July 1, 2018, Internet companies included in the register of information dissemination organizers (ORI) will have to store the contents of Russian users' correspondence for six months and transfer the data to special services upon request. Inclusion in the ORI register is voluntary-compulsory , and due to Roskomnadzor's selectivity, it can be confusing to know which popular services have agreed to share information with the special services and which have not.

Rural Taobao (part of Alibaba Group) will start selling food products in Russia via the Internet. In test mode, a special section will work on the Tmall site, which is also part of the corporation. Judging by the presentation of Rural Taobao, seafood will form the basis of the assortment, writes RBC. So far, only Chinese goods will be sold, but it is possible that products from Russian manufacturers will soon appear.

June 29. Oleg Navalny was released Oleg Navalny, the brother of the politician Alexei Navalny, was released this morning after three and a half years spent in the colony. The Navalny brothers at the end of 2014 were found guilty of the Yves Rocher case: according to investigators, Oleg Navalny, holding a leading post in the Russian Post, convinced the company to conclude an obviously unprofitable agreement.

The level of approval of Russian President Vladimir Putin's performance fell from 72.1% to 63.4% between June 17 and June 24. This was reported by VTsIOM on June 29. According to FOM data from June 28, during the same week , Vladimir Putin’s rating fell from 54% to 48% (the level of 2011-2013). FOM also reported that 80% of Russians surveyed have a negative attitude towards plans to raise the retirement age; only 6% support the initiative.

Roskomnadzor has warned the French state television channel France 24 in Russia about the possible suspension of operations due to violation of the law on mass media. “During the analysis of the licensing agreements <…> it was established that the editorial activities of the TV channel are under the control of a foreign legal entity, which is a violation of the requirements of Part 2 of Article 19.1 of the Law on Mass Media ,” the department stated.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Why does Rosobrnadzor attack the best universities in Russia? While Eugene Berg in Orel meets Oleg Navalny, Aleksey Ponomarev, in Moscow, discusses the attack of the Russian authorities on the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka). Professor's guests are Professor Shaninka, sociologist Grigory Yudin and a student of the British magistracy Shanka Anna Kozyrevskaya.

Russia has suspended issuing visas to Lithuanians traveling to the country as part of the Mission Siberia project. The Russian Embassy in Lithuania explained its decision by saying that the Lithuanian side is hindering restoration work at Soviet military burial sites in the country. Lithuania demands that the funding for the burial works be provided through local governments. The embassy notes that it cannot transfer Russian budget funds to them without violating Russian law.

Rosreestr has removed the name of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin from the data on the owner of a land plot in Barvikha . Now the Russian Federation is listed in the "Copyright Holder" column, Open Media reports. The new data is contained in the Rosreestr extract from June 20, 2018, the publication writes. At the same time, the state registration number of the right to the plot and the date of its assignment remained the same.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin has ordered the creation of a group in the department’s forensic center to assist in the investigation of crimes in the medical field ( iatrogenic crimes). At the same time, the task was also set to organize the implementation of complex examinations, including those based on medical documents, using our own resources - forensic medical research departments.

On June 29, the Governor of the Lipetsk Region, on June 29, appeared on Twitter of the Governor of the Lipetsk Region, in which the German national football team departed from the World Cup explained the victims of the two world wars. The tweet caused a stormy discussion in social networks, large online media were written about it. A few hours after that it was removed.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil, which received the case of the death of the detainee at the police station, granted the motion to challenge the court in its entirety due to the fact that one of the accused is the son of a former judge of this court. As lawyer Aleksey Bushmakov told Mediazone, the case was sent to the Leninsky District Court.

In the city of Kungur in the Perm Territory, utility bills included a fee for wastewater, which includes rainwater flowing through manholes into sewers. This is written by the local edition of Iskra. The amount of payment is seven rubles per month. The public utilities stressed that the payment for wastewater disposal will be charged all year round. The possibility of charging a fee for the removal of precipitation is provided for by the federal law "On Water Supply and Sanitation".

It seems the federal government would rather not deal with protesting truckers and demonstrating pensioners all in the same year. On Friday, Prime Minister Medvedev signed a government order postponing fee hikes to the “Platon” highway toll system by 12 months. Officials originally planned to raise the tolls last year from 1.9 rubles per kilometer (almost five cents per mile) to 3.06 rubles per kilometer (almost eight cents per mile).