The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) fined 100 thousand rubles of the Vimpelcom mobile operator, which works under the Beeline brand, the agency’s official statement said. As follows from the press release, the penalty is imposed for improper advertising of the planet Zero tariff. The Tariff Teleraklam reported that the cost of the conversation is zero rubles per minute.

In Tajikistan, a special textbook of the Russian language has been published for those who wish to work in Russia, Interfax reports. The first circulation of the textbook was 4000 copies. The development of the textbook "Russian language for labor migrants" was funded by the International Migration Organization (IOM), the UN Development Program and the Ministry of International Development of Great Britain.

The Council of the Duma instructed the three Duma committees to verify the statements of the director of the humanitarian projects of RUSNANO OJSC Leonid Gozman and make his proposals to the chamber, - said RIA Novosti with reference to the first vice -speaker of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov, the Communist. The story, as it were, is polynomial.

Football players of the Russian youth team won the title of European champions among players not older than 17 years old. In the final match held in the Slovak city of Zhilin, the Russians defeated peers from the Italian team. The main time of the match ended in a draw 0-0, the additional regulations were not provided, and the Russians (5: 4) were more successful in the penalty shootout.

The founder of Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates again became the richest person in the world according to the Bloomberg business news agency, increasing 10 billion dollars over the year, RG reports. The last time Gates received the title of the richest man in the planet in 2007. Despite the overall decline in world markets, on Thursday, May 17, the cost of Microsoft shares at auction in New York has reached a record mark over the past 5 years.

Ilya Karpyuk Construction of the stadium in Kazan Photo: Skyscrapercity.com The State Duma considered the second reading “Football Law” - on preparations for the 2018 World Cup. In the version of the bill, the provisions on the accelerated seizure of land from private owners for the construction of the championship infrastructure - including stadiums, training bases, transport and engineering facilities appeared.

The CIA employee Ryan Fogl, whom the Russian special services exposed when trying to recruit the FSB officer, must leave Russia within three days, until May 20. About this RIA Novosti was told by a source in the special services. “Vogl must leave the territory of Russia until the next Monday. He was given enough time to get together, ”the agency’s interlocutor noted.

The Ministry of Transport of Russia will allocate 700 million rubles on subsidies in 2013 when buying Sukhoi Superjet-100 and An-148 Lainers, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the department Maxim Sokolov. According to him, in 2013, the volume of subsidies for regional transportation will increase by 10% and exceed two billion rubles. He also added that in 2012, 23 liners were bought under the leasing program for regional transportation.

Russian civil servants begin to realize that the excessive “openness” and the desire to “get closer to the people” at least on the Internet are too often turned into reputation losses , and, sometimes, can provoke more serious incidents. A fresh example of a bitter resentment of officials to the inhabitants of social networks is the story with the account of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in the Instagram photo service.

The Minister of Economic Development of Russia Andrei Belousov does not intend to leave his post. He told Interfax about this on Friday, May 17. Earlier, a number of Russian media reported that Belousov wrote a resignation statement and would soon go to work in the Kremlin. “Full is complete. This is a nonsense, invention. I did not write anything and are not going to, ”said Belousov, answering questions from journalists. He added that there were no proposals for resignation of him.

The State Duma intends to legalize the issuance of "beautiful" car numbers. The deputy from “Fair Russia” Mikhail Serdyuk prepared a bill, which gives drivers the opportunity to officially buy the desired sign. “To begin with, we propose to introduce an increased tariff for those who want to receive a registration sign with a“ beautiful ”set of letters or numbers. It will cost 100 times more than ordinary state duty to receive numbers.

In the center of Tbilisi, during the action in support of sex minorities, her opponents broke through a cordon from special forces in order to attack the participants in the event. The police had to use tear gas, reports Georgia-Online . The action took place in the Pushkin Square on Freedom Square. According to the Georgian News , its place of its conduct changed at the last moment. Earlier, LGBT activists planned to gather at the former parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue.

In the two Moscow apartments of the ex -wife of Blogger Rustem Adagamov, searches were searched in the case of a pedophilia accusation, but the police found nothing. This was announced by the Rain television channel Adagamov Anton Zharov, who considers the goal of searches pressure and intimidation, and not the search for truth. “They didn’t look for anything there, they didn’t find anything there. Those who conducted the search took some completely unimportant things.

On the morning of May 17, a terrorist and suicide bomber blended Ce6 in the Ingush village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya near the police, RIA Novosti reported. According to the source of the agency, at about 07:10 Moscow time the police were at away events in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, when an explosion thundered next to them. According to police, an explosion was arranged by a suicide bomber.

The withdrawal of the Cheboksary hydroelectric power station to the design capacity and the rise in the level of the Cheboksary reservoir to the mark of 68 meters will complete the destruction of the Volga, RG reports with reference to the opinion of experts. “Already today, in general, in the Volzhsky cascade, there are more damage from reservoirs than the benefits obtained as a result of their construction.