The Russian representative office of Apple (LLC "Apple Rus") filed three statements of claim in the arbitration courts of Moscow and the Moscow region. one lawsuit The company filed against the Sheremetyevo Customs. Two more - to the Central Customs Administration of the Federal Customs Service (FTS). All three claims were filed on February 18 this year. Apple Rus demands that the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region declare illegal the actions (inaction) of the Sheremetyevo Customs.

The French government has demanded a payment of 1.6 billion euros from the American company Google. This was reported by AFP. According to the French authorities, this amount reaches the company's tax debt to France. In 2011, according to the Vedomosti newspaper, as part of this case, the French police conducted several searches at the company's Paris office. According to the publication, the French Ministry of Finance refused to confirm these data.

The AvtoVAZ concern plans to supply its products to Lebanon and Syria, TASS reports with reference to the company's press service. “Deliveries will be carried out through Nissan importing companies,” the press service said. The timing of the start of deliveries and their volumes are not yet known. AvtoVAZ came under the control of the Renault-Nissan alliance in 2014. Since 2015, the alliance has been supporting the concern in expanding the geography of foreign deliveries.

The creative producer of the Ukrainian TV program, a Russian citizen Marina Stolyarova, was fired from her job, expelled from Ukraine and temporarily banned from entering the country after using obscene language during a story with relatives of the dead Euromaidan participants. this on her Facebook .

Gazprom, Italy's Edison SpA and Greece's DEPA SA signed a memorandum on gas supplies from Russia under the Black Sea, the reports . company's official website Gas will be delivered from Russia along the bottom of the Black Sea through third countries to Greece and further to Italy. As specified in Gazprom, the agreement was signed as part of the organization of the southern route for the supply of Russian natural gas to Europe.

The State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes has recommended raising excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel from April 1, TASS reports citing Russian Deputy Finance Minister Yury Zubarev. According to Zubarev, gasoline prices will rise by only 5%. “According to our estimates, the likely increase in prices will be about 5%, which will be below the consumer price index and below inflation,” he said.

France is conducting secret operations in Libya against the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia, Le Monde newspaper writes , citing its own sources in the defense department. As the newspaper notes, we are talking about high-precision airstrikes on terrorist targets, which are coordinated from the ground. In addition to the French military, the country's foreign intelligence forces operate in Libya, adds Le Monde.

In the Lomonosovsky district of the Leningrad region, a helicopter fell, there are victims, according to the official website of the Ministry of Emergencies of the region. “At 18:00 on February 24, 2016, a message was received about the fall of the Enstorm helicopter at the address: Leningrad Region, Lomonosovsky District, near the village of Globitsa. There are victims, ”the report said.

The talks on a truce in Syria, which were to be held in Geneva on February 25, have been postponed due to threats of a boycott by the opposition, a new date has not yet been set, reports . Sputnik According to the agency, representatives of the High Negotiating Committee (HNC) are threatening to boycott the talks. This was reported to Sputnik by one of the leaders of the moderate opposition group Moscow-Cairo, Kadri Jamil.

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The Moscow City Court upheld the decision of a lower court to arrest Vyacheslav Nekrasov, the former director of Domodedovo Airport, by the end of February, reports . RIA Novosti The investigator asked to leave Nekrasov under arrest, since he allegedly might try to interfere with the investigation if he was released from the pre-trial detention center.

Lawyers for Moscow State University student Varvara Karaulova, who is accused of trying to join the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia, filed a complaint with the Strasbourg Court. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the girl's lawyer Sergei Badashmin. According to him, several articles of the European Convention have been violated at once: the right to liberty and security of person (Article 5 of the Convention) and the right to a fair trial (Article 6 of the Convention).

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin will sign a decree on the resignation of the governor of the Tver region, Andrei Shevelev, by the end of the week. This information was confirmed to the Dozhd TV channel by State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Vadim Solovyov, who represents this region in the lower house of parliament. The deputy noted that the communists had repeatedly held rallies for the resignation of Shevelev.

In St. Petersburg, suspects in the murder of policemen from Komi and the Pskov region were detained, writes with reference to the Main Investigation Department of the ICR for St. Petersburg. Russian News Service According to Fontanka, on February 24, at about 2 pm, three natives of Dagestan were detained on Uchitelskaya Street in the Kalininsky District, two of them were wanted on suspicion of murder and attempted murder of policemen.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the planes of the Russian military space forces again violated Turkish airspace. He made such a statement during a speech in Ankara, reports Reuters. Meanwhile, the Turkish leader did not specify when exactly there were cases of airspace violations. Erdogan also demanded that the Syrian Kurds and the Kurdish Democratic Union party associated with them be excluded from the ceasefire in Syria.