Elena Isinbayeva was denied participation in the Rio Olympics. this The athlete announced on her Instagram page. “Dear friends and media, the information that I allegedly did not submit an individual application to the IAAF for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio is false. 20 minutes ago I received a negative response from the IAAF Secretary. Unfortunately, they didn't make an exception for me. I was not allowed to go to the Olympic Games in Rio.

The Elista city court sentenced Said Osmanov, a native of Dagestan, who was found guilty of desecrating a statue of Buddha in the capital of Kalmykia, to two years of probation with a probationary period of one year. He was released in the courtroom, RIA Novosti reports citing lawyer Murad Velikhanov. Recall that the incident occurred on the night of April 2 in Elista.

The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region granted the petition to declare the former CEO of the JFC holding, and now the artistic director of the Mikhailovsky Theater - the CEO of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater Vladimir Kekhman bankrupt, Interfax . reports The court declared Kekhman insolvent, the procedure for the sale of property was introduced for a period of six months. The decision can be appealed to the Thirteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal within a month.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced the former lieutenant general of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) of Russia in Ukraine Alexei Shashaev, accused of embezzling 125.8 million rubles. from the budget, to five years in prison in a penal colony and imposed a fine of 500,000 rubles on him, reports . TASS The court also issued sentences against Shashaev's accomplices.

What do the layoffs and reshuffles in the regional elites mean on the eve of the elections? President Putin issued several decrees at once concerning regional policy in Russia Resignations was dismissed due to "loss of confidence" The governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh , who is under investigation, . It is noteworthy that this became possible, despite the fact that Belykh was elected by the inhabitants of the region, and there is currently no court decision to recognize his guilt.

The terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra (banned in Russia) has confirmed that it has cut off all contact with al-Qaeda (banned in Russia), reports Associated Press. In a video released by the group, its leader, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, thanked al-Qaeda for supporting the decision to sever ties between the groups.

The Crimean Federal District was included in the Southern Federal District in order to increase the efficiency of the managerial level, reports . RIA Novosti “We are talking about increasing the efficiency of this link of government at the level of the plenipotentiary, because many of the tasks are similar in terms of the development of what was the former Southern Federal District and Crimea.

The loss of AvtoVAZ for the first half of 2016 increased eight times to 27 billion rubles, follows from the company's IFRS report. This is eight times more than in the same period last year. The main reason for such large losses was the depreciation of non-current assets due to the low use of production capacities, said the AvtoVAZ press service . Excluding revaluation, the loss amounted to 8.6 billion rubles.

The Leninsky District Court of Ulyanovsk sentenced collector Dmitry Yermilov to eight years in prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail into the window of the debtor's house, as a result of which a child was injured, the official website of the reports .

What did Sergey Chanylo did for Sevastopol Photo: RIA Novosti The official was resigned in two years of governorship could not get along with the townspeople or with the federal center. 4 months and 10 days - exactly so much Sergey Chanipolo was able to preserve Sevastopol with a “quiet harbor”. The former deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet and the Admiral was appointed by the presidential decree a month after the Crimean referendum - April 14, 2014.

State Bank VTB24 bought for 13.2 million rubles. an annual subscription to the "left side box No. 5" of the Main Stage of the Bolshoi Theater, follows from the materials on the public procurement portal. According to the posted documents, the bank purchased a subscription for six theater tickets for 241 theater seasons, from September 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) did not receive an application for participation in the 2016 Olympic Games from Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva, TASS reports citing the press service of the IAAF. “Please note that on Tuesday we sent a response to the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko. The IAAF rules have been approved by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich praised the work of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) under the leadership of ex-head of the department Andrei Belyaninov. He announced this while speaking at the introduction of the new head, Vladimir Bulavin, to the FCS team, reports .

Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that on November 24, 2015, a Russian Su-24 aircraft was shot down on his orders, according to the Hyrriet newspaper. According to the publication, since 2012, Turkey has had a decree according to which “all Syrian aircraft entering Turkey from Syria ... should be considered a threat and shot down.” In the fall of 2015, Davutoglu ordered to shoot down any aircraft, not just Syrian ones.

Google has promised to return Russian names to the map of Crimea, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the company's press service. They said that they were "aware of the current situation" about the renaming of the settlements of Crimea, and are actively working "to return the former names to the Russian version of Google Maps." Earlier it became known that Google renamed the settlements of the Republic of Crimea on its map service in accordance with the Ukrainian decommunization program.