While the ban for officials to keep money abroad is only discussed, the requirement for Russians to carry out all banking operations through domestic banks has already entered into force While the ban for officials to keep money abroad is only discussed, the requirement for Russians to carry out all banking operations through domestic banks has already entered into force The state claims to receive full control over the cash flows of citizens.

The 20th defendant in the case of the riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6 refused to confess under part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code imputed to him (use of violence not dangerous to life or health against a representative of authority). This is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Rosuznik. “Ilya Gushchin changed the testimony given by him in the presence of an appointed lawyer: at the last interrogation, he refused to confess Article 318,” the report says.

The prohibition factory becomes a compromising factory Our legislature has lately produced nothing but prohibitions. But, since gays, if desired, can be found even in the Kremlin administration, each new ban can be turned against the authorities... Just as the Russian judicial system practically does not issue (in both senses of this verb - literal and psychological) acquittals, our legislature has recently been doing nothing but prohibitions.

The outflow of capital from Russia this year may amount to about 50 billion dollars. This statement was made today by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development Andrey Belousov. According to Ekho Moskvy , Belousov recalled that last year the outflow amounted to about 57 billion. The Minister explained that most of these funds are direct investments of Russian companies abroad.

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Who are we deceiving? Ourselves. Who do we want to please?

A lawyer for businessman Sergei Polonsky, who was arrested in Cambodia, said that his business center in Moscow City in the Federation Tower was occupied by masked men who introduced themselves as guards of the alleged new owner of the building, Alexei Alyakin, whose dismissal order Polonsky sent from prison this week . “This morning, the CEO of the Potok company, owned by Polonsky, called me and said that he was not allowed into the office. told Interfax on Friday.

Mikhail Shvydkoi remains President of the Russian Television Academy Foundation. “I am still the president. The decision on the president will be made at the general meeting of the Academy, which may take place this year,” Shvydkoy said today after the meeting of the Fund's board.

Today, the State Duma granted the request of Anatoly Lomakin, a United Russia deputy, and terminated his powers ahead of schedule, Interfax reports . Billionaire Lomakin, as previously reported, was registered on August 22 last year by the Central Election Commission as a deputy of the State Duma, having received a mandate that was refused by the former head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, presidential aide Yuri Trutnev.

About 15 people came to the Embassy of Ukraine today with posters "Follow the UN Convention on Refugees!" and anarchist flags. The portraits of their associate were also held in their hands - Philip Galtsov (Dolbunov), a participant in the Russian socialist movement, left Russia on January 20, and asked for refuge in Ukraine.

As UNIAN reports today with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister of the country, does not need further inpatient treatment. Tymoshenko, who was diagnosed with a herniated disc, has been in the Kharkov hospital of Ukrzaliznytsia since May 9 last year.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow refused to satisfy the petition of the investigation for the arrest in absentia of US citizen Miles Harrison, who was the adoptive father of Dima Yakovlev, who died in America. According to Interfax today , with reference to the press secretary of the Basmanny Court, Ekaterina Korotova, this decision was made due to the fact that Harrison was acquitted in his homeland.

A glaring case of indifference of the authorities and social structures in the city of Baikalsk is reported by Newsbabr . According to the agency, on February 12, a two-year-old boy died there. The boy lived in an extremely dysfunctional family, consisting of a 21-year-old mother, an elderly grandmother and her roommate. The whole family drinks heavily, the mother practically does not raise the child.

Oleg Mitvol, chairman of the Central Council of the Green Alliance - People's Party, reports that searches are being carried out in his house. "They came to me with searches," Mitvol wrote on his Twitter on Friday. He also notes that investigative actions are also being carried out in his mother's apartment. Interfax does not yet have confirmation of this information from law enforcement agencies.

The biological mother of the Kuzmin brothers, one of whom died in a foster family in the United States, was indeed removed from the Moscow-Pskov train due to outrageous behavior while intoxicated, Oksana Shiran, the head of the press service of the administration of the Pskov region, told RIA Novosti on . Friday Earlier, the court deprived the mother of the Kuzmin brothers Yulia from parental rights.