Former Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev was not detained in the courtyard of the central office of Rosneft, as previously reported, witness Alexei Kalugin, an FSB officer, said at the trial. According to him, Ulyukaev went to the Investigative Committee voluntarily. “We invited him, and he even came there in his car,” RBC quotes Kalugin .

Ex-head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, during his detention, found it difficult to answer the question of whether he owns the funds in the amount of $ 2 million found in a brown bag in the trunk of his service car. FSB officer Aleksey Kalugin, who compiled the detention protocol.

An anonymous official from the Moscow City Hall told Vedomosti that Zaryadye Park, which suffered from visitors after its opening, will not be closed for reconstruction: “This is a defeatist position.” However, additional funds will be allocated from the city budget for the maintenance of the park. “We are talking about no less than hundreds of millions of rubles,” the source said.

The ex-president of Georgia, now the leader of the Ukrainian socio-political movement "Movement of New Forces" Mikheil Saakashvili is not going to arrange a new revolution in Ukraine. He stated this at a rally in the city of Vinnitsa, the Ukrainian edition of GORDON reports on September 18 . “Although I am an old revolutionary, I have no desire to organize a new revolution,” Saakashvili stressed. Instead, he, along with his team, will “travel all over Ukraine and collect requirements.

As the president and head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dispersed in views on Russian-American relations Photo: kremlin.ru The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov flew to New York to the 72nd Cestle of the UN Genas-Eat and has already met with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson-as if making it clear that the diplomatic war that erupted between Russia and the United States was not a hindrance to bilateral relations.

Who is Andrei Krutsky, how he won Putin’s special trust and why his mission in Washington failed Photo: screenshot from the website BuzzFeed.com Those who are watching the foreign policy of the Russian leadership have long realized that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in it is not the most important figure. The ball in the field of international relations is ruled by completely different people.

China and Russia began naval exercises off the coast of North Korea on September 18, Radio Liberty reports , citing Reuters. The Chinese government agency Xinhua also spread the news about the exercises through its own channels. It specified that they would pass between the Gulf of Peter the Great, near Vladivostok, near the border between Russia and North Korea, and in the southern part of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, north of Japan.