The special corner of the “New” Pavel Kanygin - about how he was detained by the “safety bodies of the DPR”, was checked for drugs and deported to Russia.

Belgian bailiffs arrested Russian state assets in Belgium Russian institutions in Belgium, with the exception of diplomatic missions, received on Wednesday a document of bailiffs on the imposition of an arrest on their disposal of the state property of the Russian Federation, as well as for their debts to the Russian state. The document states that the arrest is made on the basis of a decision of the Belgian Arbitration Court of July 18, 2014 at the suit of Yukos Universal Limited.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on a moratorium on scheduled inspections of small businesses from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2018, Interfax reports . According to Slon , the document was supported by 443 deputies. The bill assumes that small businesses will not be exempted from inspections if they were previously punished for gross violation of the law or supervisory authorities suspended their work, revoked their license and were last checked less than three years ago.

Assistant to the President of Russia Andrei Belousov was elected chairman of the board of directors of Rosneft, Interfax reports citing the head of the company, Igor Sechin. In addition, today it became known that the British oil company BP received two seats on the board of directors of Rosneft. They were occupied by the head of the company, Robert Dudley, and the president of BP for Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela and Colombia, Guillermo Quintero.

The Council of Deputies of the Yantarny village of the Kaliningrad region canceled the Kubana rock festival, which was supposed to take place from August 6 to 9 in the area of ​​this settlement. about this on his Facebook . wrote Aleksey Zalivatsky, the head of the administration of Yantarny, “The deputies felt that security issues had not really been worked out. By the decision of the Council, I was pointed out the need to cancel the “Kubana” in Yantarny, ”Zalivatsky writes.

Law enforcement officers detained the founder of Mosoblbank, Andrzej Malchevsky, and the deputy chairman of the board of the bank, Yulia Zedina, in a fraud case, according to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They were charged with “fraud committed by a group of persons on an especially large scale” (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The Supreme Court of Russia upheld the sentence of ex-Krasnoyarsk police officer Roman Ushakov, sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of high treason, as legal, reports . RAPSI "The Judicial Board decided to leave the Moscow City Court's verdict against Ushakov unchanged, and the appeal of the accused and his lawyer - without satisfaction," the judge said. Thus, the verdict entered into force.

Deputies of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation submitted to the State Duma a bill that could prohibit the Prime Minister from heading a political party. The corresponding document is published on the website of the State Duma. The authors of the bill are Nikolai Arefiev, Nikolai Sapozhnikov, Ivan Nikitchuk, Vyacheslav Markhaev, Nikolai Razvorotnev, Vladimir Fedotkin and Valentin Shurchanov.

The Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR will resume work in the Ukrainian capital, , reports on Facebook. Serhiy Kostinsky, Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine According to the minister, tomorrow, June 18, the chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov, the owner of ATR Group Lenur Islyamov and Kostinsky himself will give a press conference on this matter.

Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya demands to deprive Dmitry Sotnikov, defender of Maidan activist Alexander Kostenko, of his legal status. The lawyer published a copy of the appeal on his Facebook page. The prosecutor's office of the Moscow region sent an appeal to the Ministry of Justice, Poklonskaya applied to the department with a request to deprive Sotnikov of his lawyer status.

EU member states have reached a preliminary agreement to extend sanctions against Russia until the end of January 2016, reports Bloomberg . Reuters, citing its sources in diplomatic circles, also reports on the extension of sanctions for 6 months. The final decision on the extension of sanctions will be made by the EU foreign ministers on June 22 in Luxembourg. Earlier it was reported that the European Union will soon extend sanctions against Crimea and Sevastopol for a year.

In Kaliningrad, three activists spent more than a year in prison for “insulting veterans” and, finally, were released in the courtroom - but not justified In Kaliningrad, three activists spent more than a year in prison for “insulting veterans” and, finally, were released in the courtroom - but not justified Photo of surveillance from the case file Early on the morning of March 11, 2014, three young people were hung on the garage of the local branch of the FSB flag of Germany.

The Public Verdict Foundation is appealing the judge's ban on keeping a written record of journalists and members of the public at the trial in the case of Ruslan Rakhaev, ex-deputy head of the Cherkessk police department. At an open hearing in the Cherkessk city court the day before in the case of Rakhaev, who is accused of the death of the detainee, the judge forbade journalists and members of the public to take written notes.

Director Timofey Kulyabin, who staged the opera Tannhäuser at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, will stage Gaetano Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale at the Bolshoi Theatre, Interfax reports citing Tugan Sokhiev, musical director of the theatre. “In no case did we take advantage of Kulyabin’s scandalous fame - our decision to invite him to the production was made long before the Tannhäuser story, last year, after Timofey received the Golden Mask,” Sokhiev said at a press conference.

The Federal Penitentiary Service will consider a proposal not to use rubber truncheons against women in colonies, reports . Interfax “As for the women's colonies, we will probably consider that the staff does not have the PR-73 (rubber stick) at all. Women are weaker, spiritually subtle creatures than men, we are more rude, ”the agency quotes Anatoly Rudy, First Deputy Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, who spoke at a special meeting of the Presidential Human Rights Council.