Photo: AP Members of the OSCE mission spoke with “GRU soldiers” detained in Ukraine and accused of terrorism. The conversation took place in the absence of Ukrainian security officials. The detainees said that they were Russian military personnel. Employees of the OSCE monitoring mission visited Russians detained in Ukraine, whom Kyiv considers to be military personnel of the Russian Federation.

Members of Aslan Gagiev's criminal community were involved in the murder of a man whose body was found the day before in a barrel at the bottom of a canal in the Moscow region. This was announced by the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Vladimir Markin. According to him, one of the gang members admitted that in the summer of 2005, members of the group killed a man, placed his body in a barrel, concreted it and threw it into the Moscow Canal.

The ONF suspects the Moscow authorities of creating conditions for Strelka KB to win a street improvement competition. The order was worth almost 1 billion rubles.

A criminal case was opened against V. Garyugin Photo: V.Garyugin/gov.spb.ru After an inspection by the Chamber of Control and Accounts of St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened against the head of the State Unitary Enterprise “Petersburg Metro” Vladimir Garyugin. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, he is suspected of abuse of official powers, which resulted in damage of 466 million rubles. According to the investigation, in 2012, V.

Former Yukos shareholders consider Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium as countries where processes to recover $50 billion from Russia could begin.

The Kyiv court arrested until July 19 Russian Alexander Alexandrov, whom Ukraine considers an active GRU special forces soldier. Soon the court should decide the fate of the second detainee - Evgeny Erofeev.

The budget deficit of the Russian Pension Fund in 2014 amounted to 31 billion rubles. This is stated in the text of the bill submitted to the State Duma on the execution of the Pension Fund budget for 2014, published on the government website. The actual execution of the Pension Fund budget for 2014 in terms of income amounted to 6,159 billion rubles, or 98.5% of the projected volumes of revenues, and in terms of expenses - 6,190 billion rubles.

In Moscow, employees of the Federal State Institution of Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service (Matrosskaya Tishina) were taken into custody for extorting funds from those under investigation on an especially large scale. This is stated in a message from the Investigative Committee received by RBC. All members of the criminal group were charged and a preventive measure in the form of detention was chosen, the report says.

The second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest ended in Vienna; 10 more musicians reached the finals, including Russian representative Polina Gagarina, RIA Novosti reports . The remaining finalists were determined at the beginning of the week. The final of the competition will take place on the evening of May 23.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk urged European leaders not to be “scared” of Russia or the expansion of the European Union at the expense of the former Soviet republics Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Photo: REUTERS 2015) “Act boldly and wisely. Don’t be afraid of Russia,” he admonished EU leaders gathered for the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. “Let Russia fear you, all of us,” he said in an interview with the Financial Times.

Norway supplied more gas to Western Europe than Russia in the first quarter of 2015, according to data from Norwegian gas operator Gassco compared with Gazprom figures. Photo: REUTERS 2015 For the first time since 2012, Norway has surpassed Russia in gas supplies to Western Europe over an interval of more than one quarter, Reuters reports , citing data from the Norwegian gas operator Gassco compared with Gazprom figures.

Experts believe that the new law will allow officials not to worry about the adequacy of repair plans The amendments to the law on major repairs adopted by the Legislative Code retain the right of the Housing Committee to arbitrarily determine the list of works in the process of major repairs.

The owner of the bus involved in an accident in the Nizhny Novgorod region was detained by law enforcement officers, the Investigative Committee said in a statement . In the near future, the investigation will appeal to the court with a request to arrest 51-year-old resident of Kazan Victoria Larina.

According to Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Vasily Pozdyshev, deposits are just beginning to recover, and in this situation, some serious experiments will bring more risks than benefits Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Vasily Pozdyshev (Photo: TASS) Making changes to the deposit insurance system carries more risks than benefits.

Former PhosAgro employee Alexander Gorbachev filed a lawsuit against the company, members of its board of directors and shareholders. He demands to be recognized as a co-owner of the company. PhosAgro accuses the plaintiff of causing reputational damage Photo: TASS The lawsuit filed against the company is stated in a message published on Thursday on the website PhosAgro .