Police detained former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for 24 hours. He was sent for questioning in a corruption case, the BBC reports. It is reported that Sarkozy voluntarily went to the office of the anti-corruption police department in the city of Nanterre, near Paris. It is assumed that Sarkozy's detention is connected with suspicions that the former French president, through his lawyer Thierry Herzog, put pressure on judges.

Ten years after the abolition of the sales tax in Russia, the Russian government is again discussing its return, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said. The authorities may allow governors to introduce a new tax, despite the obvious concern of business about increasing the load, the current promise of the authorities not to increase it, and the negative experience with the recognition of the sales tax as unconstitutional in the early 2000s.

Today, the government commission on budget plans will consider amendments to the budget for 2015-2017. The Ministry of Finance presented its proposals the day before. The department proposes to reduce the planned budget deficit by more than half next year - from 1 to 0.4% of GDP. Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC This will be possible due to an increase in oil and gas revenues while reducing marginal costs. The income plan was raised from 14.6 trillion to 14.9 trillion rubles.

State Corporation "Olympstroy" summed up the results of its activities in 2013. According to the report, the actual amount of financing for the construction of Olympic facilities amounted to 403.17 billion rubles, of which about 398 billion rubles were actually spent, including more than 36 billion rubles by Olimpstroy. Photo: ITAR-TASS In 2013, for the construction of facilities intended for the development of Sochi as a mountain climatic resort.

This morning, on the Petrograd side, a car fell into the Malaya Nevka River. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in St. Petersburg, the accident occurred at 08:40 Moscow time. Photo: 78.mchs.gov.ru This morning, on the Petrograd side, a car fell into the Malaya Nevka River. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in St. Petersburg, the accident occurred at 08:40 Moscow time.

The Japanese government approved the draft of a new defense strategy, which implies the expansion of the scope of use of the Armed Forces, Reuters reports. This is a "historical" step, commentators say. Japan actually departs from the so -called pacifist Constitution of 1947, according to which the once powerful Japanese army was reduced to self -defense forces. The new doctrine establishes the rules for using the Armed Forces abroad.

RBC-Petersburg has compiled a selection of the most important and most read news on Tuesday, July 1: RBC-Petersburg has compiled a selection of the most important and most read news on Tuesday, July 1: Sell-pay The Russian government is considering the possibility of allowing regional authorities to introduce a sales tax of up to 3% on their territory.

The leader of the International Eurasian Movement, Alexander Dugin, confirmed his separation from the Department of Sociology of International Relations of the Faculty of Sociology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, which he headed since 2009. Leader of the International Eurasian Movement Alexander Dugin (Photo: RIA Novosti) On his Facebook page, Dugin claims that he was fired.

The Ministry of Economic Development did not support the introduction of a tax free system in Russia. Earlier, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov instructed the ministry and other departments to think over a mechanism for refunding VAT on purchases by foreigners leaving the country. First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov (Photo: ITAR-TASS) The Ministry of Economic Development did not support the introduction of a tax free system in Russia.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The incomes of Moscow school directors are growing: last year, according to a RBC study, the heads of the capital's educational institutions received on average almost one and a half times more than a year earlier, while the salaries of ordinary teachers in Moscow increased by only 16%.

The head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, speaking at a banking congress in St. Petersburg, said that depositors’ money will soon return to small banks, Visa and MasterCard will remain in Russia, and the ban on the work of “subsidiaries” of Russian banks in Ukraine will harm her rather than Russian banks . The most important statements of the head of the Bank of Russia in the RBC selection.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow today began preliminary hearings in the case of the former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense Evgenia Vasilyeva, whom the Investigative Committee accuses of selling the property of Oboronservis OJSC. The parties were supposed to resolve procedural issues, but the meeting was postponed to Wednesday, July 2, ITAR-TASS reports.