A meeting on the topic “Russian corruption and the UK” is scheduled for 14:45 local time in the UK Parliament, indicated in the schedule . The meeting will hear information from journalists Oliver Bullough, Juliet Garside, Luke Harding. Tom Keating, director of the Center for Financial Crime and Security Studies, and Vladimir Ashurkov, ex-top manager of Alfa Group, executive director of the Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation, will also speak.

The oil and gas company Rosneft dropped out of the top three Russian leaders in terms of capitalization, giving way to Lukoil, Vedomosti writes , citing data from the Moscow Exchange. At 12:50 Moscow time, Rosneft dropped to fourth place, Lukoil was third, and Gazprom was second. In first place with a capitalization of more than 5.7 trillion rubles. still Sberbank. During trading on Tuesday, the capitalization of Lukoil reached 3.29 trillion rubles.

Slovakia, Montenegro and Malta have joined the diplomatic sanctions against Russia, reports on Wednesday, March 28, Reuters . The government of Montenegro has announced that it is expelling one Russian diplomat and withdrawing its consent to the activity of the honorary consul of Russia in the country. Slovakia and Malta recalled their ambassadors to Russia for consultations. The Kremlin said it would give a "timely response" to diplomatic sanctions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un paid an unofficial visit to China, Xinhua news agency reports . He held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to the report, the visit took place from March 25 to 28 at the invitation of the Chinese side. As CNN notes , the first foreign visit of the head of the DPRK since 2011 suggests that he shows himself as a leader in the search for a peaceful solution to the crisis on the Korean Peninsula.

The head of the Dagestan branch of the human rights organization Memorial, Sirazhudin Datsiev, was beaten in Makhachkala, reports on her Facebook on Wednesday, March 28. Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, director of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Unknown people attacked Datsiev near the house in the morning. He was hit on the back of the head and severely beaten while he was on the ground. The human rights activist said that he heard the attackers get into the car and drive away.

Songwriter, singer, actor Oleg Anofriev has died at the age of 87. Actor Alexander Oleshko was the first to report this, writing on Instagram that “Oleg Anofriyev is gone. The voice of our childhood, our dear and beloved artist, human being. Thank you for giving me fellowship and friendship. The Kingdom of heaven". Later, Anofriyev's relatives confirmed this to news agencies. Oleg Anofriev served in the Moscow Central Children's Theater, the Theater. Mayakovsky and the theater.

A court in Kemerovo arrested Georgy Sobolev, technical director of the burned out Zimnyaya Cherry shopping center, and security guard Sergei Antyushkin, who, according to investigators, did not turn on the fire alarm, for two months, Interfax reports . Also taken into custody was Igor Polozinenko, the head of the company involved in the maintenance of fire alarms in the mall. Earlier, the court sent Nadezhda Suddenok, the manager of the shopping center, under arrest.

Deputy Governor of the Kemerovo Region Alexei Zelenin was dismissed from his post, TASS reports on Wednesday, March 28, citing its own sources. Aleksey Zelenin heads the administration of the regional governor Aman Tuleyev. TASS also writes that together with Zelenin, Nina Lopatina, head of the department of domestic policy, is being fired. The chair of the vice-governor should now be occupied by the first deputy head of Kemerovo, Olga Turbaba.

On Tuesday throughout the country, promotions of the memory of the victims of the tragedy in Kemerovo were held. Thousands of people took part in them In most cases, actions were spontaneous. Their organizers were public activists or simply not indifferent, and the information instantly distributed on social networks. The authorities were limited to the fact that they did not disperse the participants in the "unbridled" shares. But in some places, in particular, in St.

The Chairman of the Accounts Chamber, Tatyana Golikova, at the collegium of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, said that the targeted system of social protection should be based not on the subsistence minimum, but on the consumer budget. As Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes , the elimination of the subsistence level will help the authorities save money by refusing to pay pensions and benefits to those whose relatives have a car or keep livestock.

reports on Wednesday, March 28, In the UK, the visas of 700 Russians who received them in exchange for investments in the country's economy will be reviewed, Bloomberg citing the Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom Amber Rudd. The British government fears that by approving visas, they have opened the way to the country for those who received their income illegally.

reports on Wednesday, March 28 The head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, acknowledged the presence of intelligence officers among the expelled Russian diplomats, Interfax . According to Naryshkin, there are "very few" security officers among the exiled diplomats.

Specialists by the morning of March 28 identified 27 victims of a fire in the Kemerovo shopping and entertainment center "Winter Cherry". This was announced by the head of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kemerovo region Alexander Mamontov. “To date, 27 people have been identified. The provision of assistance, the operation of a hotline, control over the payment of compensation and the issuance of bodies to relatives are planned, ” Interfax quotes Mamontov .

The first vice-governor of the Kemerovo region, Vladimir Chernov, said that there were many provocateurs among those who gathered for a spontaneous rally after the fire in the Zimnyaya Cherry shopping center, whose actions were aimed at discrediting the authorities. “25-30 percent are those people who came to sympathize, empathize.

Alexei Navalny on Wednesday, March 28, on his website spoke about the corruption of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kemerovo, because of which "people died in the Zimnyaya Cherry shopping center." Navalny said that employees of his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) discovered 8 purchases of clothing items worth 19 million rubles. Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Kemerovo.