The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation did not initiate a case against former State Duma deputy from the United Russia faction Alexei Knyshov. The people's representative handed over his mandate in October 2012. after the Social Revolutionaries and the prosecutor's office convicted him of illegal participation in business activities, having discovered a Slovak company registered in United Russia.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Experts from the Committee of Civil Initiatives (CCI) of Alexei Kudrin have developed an alternative bill on gubernatorial elections. In their opinion, the municipal filter should be abolished and the regions should be allowed to determine the electoral system themselves. In national republics, the authors propose to replace the presidential form of government with a parliamentary one and provide for personnel rotation in order to eliminate inter-ethnic disagreements.

Photo: from personal archive Speaking about the degree of dependence and independence of the Russian media and the influence of law enforcement agencies on this degree, which Evgeny Roizman recently discussed on the pages of RBC daily in the article “Four Cases of Independent Journalism,” let’s remember what the police do and what their function is. The police respond either to an apparent crime or to a report of a crime. The police are obliged to conduct a thorough, scrupulous check.

Photo: EPA This year, the largest British retailer Marks & Spencer will open its eighth local online store. As RBC daily learned, Russia will be the new country where the company’s products can be purchased via the Internet. The Russian online store Marks & Spencer will open not independently, but in partnership with its franchisee, the Turkish Fiba Group.

Photo: RBC More than 400 billion rubles. Moscow intends to attract private investment into the program for the development of the city’s transport system, the head of the capital’s transport department, Maxim Liksutov, said yesterday. Thus, the authorities hope to save 200 billion budget rubles through the supply and maintenance of 2,450 metro cars under a life cycle contract. Another 130 billion rubles.

Currently, there are more than 3 million illegal migrants in Russia. Deputy Head of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation Anatoly Kuznetsov told reporters in Moscow about this. Photo: RBC We are talking about people who violated their stay in the Russian Federation. In general, statistics on illegal immigrants are quite stable. According to official data, their number ranges from 3 to 5 million.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved the Russian state program “Development of Foreign Economic Activity,” the government press service reports. Photo: RBC The main period for the implementation of the state program is 2013-2018.

A qualitatively new stage is beginning in the relationship between Moscow and Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting held today with Russian President Vladimir Putin , who, after being confirmed in his new position, paid his first foreign visit to Russia today. According to him, Russia and China have come a long way over the past 20 years, and now have “mature and strong political relations.” Photo: ITAR-TASS “You and I have similar personalities.

The leader of the center-left Democratic Party of Italy, Pier Luigi Bersani, received a mandate from the country's President Giorgio Naplitano to form a government. The head of state made the decision on this after consultation with the leaders of all parliamentary parties. Photo: AP P.L. Bersani announced his readiness to begin work immediately, BBC reports.

Chinese scientists from Zhejiang University have created the lightest solid material - graphene-based airgel. It is so light that it can be held on the petals of a flower. Its weight - 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter - is simply ideal material for the fabulous Thumbelina. Photo: globallookpress.com Chinese scientists from Zhejiang University have created the lightest solid material - graphene-based airgel. It is so light that it can be held on the petals of a flower.

The trio of potential international creditors of Cyprus (the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund), according to unofficial data, rejected the plan of the Cypriot authorities to create a Solidarity Investment Fund, secured by pension reserves and future income from natural gas production.

Petersburg police managed to prevent a mass fight involving migrants. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The visitors decided to sort things out last night at a construction site on Krzhizhanovsky Street. The police who arrived at the call detained 8 people from Central Asian republics, all of them were intoxicated. The participants in the conflict were taken to the police.

In the United States, the Quantico Naval Base in Virginia is completely closed from the outside world. This happened after one of the Marines opened fire on his colleagues. Photo: Global Look Press According to CNN, two people are known to have died as a result of the incident. The initiator of the shootout was also killed. His name has not yet been revealed, but there are suggestions that he was a student at the officer school located at the base.

The Bordeaux prosecutor's office has charged former French President Nicolas Sarkozy with corruption . The politician is suspected of receiving illegal financial assistance for the 2007 presidential campaign. from the former owner of L'Oreal Liliane Bettencourt, France24 reports. Photo: Global Look Press The former president is accused of receiving an envelope with 50 thousand euros, bypassing reporting documents. The day before, N.

Vladimir Putin is keeping his finger on the pulse of preparations for the Universiade: this week he traveled to Kazan and inspected the sports facilities. The president liked what he saw. Of the 29 structures, 27 have already been put into operation. V. Putin was pleased to note that Kazan is turning into the sports capital of Russia. Vladimir Vladimirovich visited the Artistic Gymnastics Center, where he watched the training of the Russian team.