Deputy Chairman of the Board of OJSC Bank VEFK Ivan Bibinov was sentenced to a suspended sentence for complicity in theft. This is stated in a message published on the website of the Investigative Committee. He was found guilty of aiding and abetting fraud on an especially large scale and was sentenced to 4 years of suspended imprisonment.

Thanks to exporters, the ruble continues to strengthen against other currencies at auction on Monday. After the completion of tax payments, analysts expect the dollar exchange rate to consolidate at the level of 50.5–51 rubles. Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC On the Moscow Exchange, trading on Monday, May 25, opened with a slight increase in the ruble against the dollar and the euro. By 13:00 Moscow time, the dollar was trading at 49.85 rubles, having decreased by 15 kopecks.

The official euro exchange rate dropped by 80.31 kopecks today. - since May 26, it has been set by the Central Bank at the level of 54.7477 rubles. Below 55 rub. The euro exchange rate fell for the first time since the end of April 2015. At the same time, the official dollar exchange rate rose by 7.12 kopecks; from May 26, 2015, it was set by the Central Bank at 49.8613 rubles. During today's trading on the Moscow Exchange, the value of the dollar rose to 50.05 rubles, which is 2.2 kopecks.

The leader of the rock group “Metal Corrosion” Sergei “Spider” Troitsky explained the decision of the Blagoveshchensk court to recognize several of the group’s songs as extremist by the presence of fans in law enforcement agencies. Spider told RSN. “Among the investigators there are many fans of the Metal Corrosion group; a case was opened against me in Orel under Article 282 (inciting hatred or enmity), and I need a background, a free advertising campaign,” said Pauk.

The leader of the Night Wolves challenged the former people's mayor of Sevastopol, and now the speaker of the city's Legislative Assembly, Alexei Chaly, to a duel. The reason was the issue of land ownership, which was given to the bikers by the authorities.

Moscow authorities approved the naming of a street on Taganka after Vladimir Vysotsky. Now a decree from the Moscow government is required to rename it.

Every country has small and medium-sized fast-growing companies that account for a significant share of economic growth. There are such companies in Russia, and many of them, but the state still weakly supports them Growth driver The Russian leadership has recently been very interested in small and medium-sized businesses.

The wife of the head of the presidential affairs, Alexander Kolpakov, named by Alexei Navalny as a co-owner of the management company of “Putin’s palace,” earned 68 million rubles in 2014, follows from the declarations of department employees Photo: Global Look Press The Presidential Administration reported on the income of its employees for 2014. Department manager Alexander Kolpakov, who took up his position in May 2014, earned 10.5 million rubles over the past year.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he starred in the leading role in the film “Who does not understand, will understand.” this He reported on his VKontakte page. “This is an action-packed film in which, after lengthy negotiations, I agreed to play the role of the main character,” he wrote. Kadyrov did not name the director, but stated that the director is the author of famous Hollywood films. Some scenes of the film, the head of Chechnya emphasized, have already been filmed.

Moscow bikers who were on duty near the hospital where Deni Mirzoev, the alleged culprit of a high-profile accident in which a motorcyclist died, was staying, went home. This was announced by the coordinator of the biker community Arseniy Raisky, Interfax reports . According to Raisky, the bikers left Moscow Hospital No. 20 after Mirzoev admitted his guilt in the incident, and his lawyer confirmed this fact.

Candidates from the United Russia party did not receive a single mandate in the elections to the council of deputies of the city of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region. This is reported by Klops.ru with reference to preliminary data from the GAS-Elections system. Candidates nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Liberal Democratic Party were also left without mandates, clarifies .

Bronislaw Komorowski admitted defeat in the second round of the presidential elections in Poland. The current head of state did this immediately after the publication of exit poll results, according to which he received 47% of the vote, and his rival, the candidate from the Law and Justice party, Andrzej Duda, secured the support of 53% of Polish citizens, reports Reuters .

Photo: Oleg Yakovlev/RBC The capital amnesty adopted by the State Duma is unlikely to become an incentive for deoffshorization. It will probably be most popular among former officials and current holders of foreign accounts. “We need to finally turn the offshore page in the history of our country,” President Vladimir Putin demanded in his last address to the Federal Assembly.

Activists of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF) in Komi opposed the production of gold and silver badges for parliamentarians of the republic using budget funds, according to the ONF website. Information about the competition for the production and supply of deputy badges, announced by the Komi State Council, appeared on the government procurement portal on May 21.

The Moldovan authorities blocked Russian peacekeepers from reaching Transnistria. Local police began to detain military personnel who were getting to the contingent location Peacekeeping post in Moldova. Archive photo (Photo: RIA Novosti) Chisinau Airport remained the only legal opportunity for Russians to get to Transnistria after the Verkhovna Rada’s decision to denounce the agreement on the transit of military personnel and military cargo from Russia through the territory of Ukraine.