Alexey Kudrin warned Russia against confrontation with the West. He stated this at the presentation of the report “Values ​​of Perestroika in the Context of Modern Russia” and called for “finding a common language with the leading world powers” Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin (Photo: Nikolai Asmolovsky for RBC) According to Kudrin, confrontation with the West is a dead-end path that will only lead Russia to losses. “It’s sad that today we are again in confrontation with the West.

Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash closed two enterprises of the chemical holding Ostchem in Ukraine. He explained his decision by “systemic and unprecedented pressure” from the Ukrainian authorities Ukrainian entrepreneur Dmitry Firtash (Photo: TASS) We are talking about the closure of two enterprises of the Ostchem holding in Ukraine - Cherkasy PJSC Azot and PJSC Rivneazot.

In accordance with the law, the Ukrainian government will be able to refuse to pay Russia a $3 billion debt. The next payment on it is due in June 2015 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a law allowing the country's government to declare a moratorium on the payment of external debts. The Verkhovna Rada website notes that the bill, adopted by parliament on May 19, 2015, was today returned to the Rada with the signature of the president.

The official dollar exchange rate increased by 1.27 rubles today. and for the first time since the end of April 2015 rose above 51 rubles. - since May 29, it has been set by the Central Bank at the level of 52.2907 rubles. The previous time the official exchange rate of the American currency rose above 52 rubles. April 29, 2015. At the same time, the official euro exchange rate rose by 1.47 rubles; from May 29, 2015, it was set by the Central Bank at 57.1433 rubles. Above 67 rub.

Yekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport will demand compensation from a motorcyclist who, on the night of May 28, while drunk, crashed into the glass wall of the airport on an Oreon moped, reports the local publication E1.ru. “The entrance to the international airlines terminal was damaged. As you know, the inspection area is surrounded by a glass wall. The motorcyclist drove through the doors and drove straight into the glass wall.

Russia's assertion that US authorities are trying to extend American jurisdiction to other countries is incorrect, a State Department spokesman said. Earlier, Vladimir Putin said that this was evidenced by the FIFA case The Russian assertion that the FIFA corruption case indicates an attempt to extend American jurisdiction to other countries is not true, State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said. "This is not true.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said his country is ready to diversify its gas sources, which is “very important for American friends,” reports AP . As the agency notes, we are talking about connecting to the Trans Adriatic Gas Pipeline (TAP), which will be built as part of the Southern Gas Corridor, through which gas will be supplied to Europe from the Azerbaijani Shah Deniz field.

On Thursday, May 28, the humanitarian convoy of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations crossed the border with Ukraine and headed to Donetsk and Lugansk, Interfax reports , citing a representative of the department. The cars passed customs control in the Rostov region at the Donetsk and Matveev Kurgan border checkpoints.

NATO partner countries should be ready to arm Ukraine if Russia continues to act to destabilize the situation in this country, said former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Photo: AP) “If Russia continues to destabilize the situation in eastern Ukraine, I think NATO partner countries should decide to supply defensive weapons to [Ukraine],” Rasmussen told GlobalPost.

Photo: Oleg Yakovlev/RBC Sberbank sent letters to its clients asking them to report on citizenship or residence permits of other countries. This is done to report to the US tax authorities, the bank explains. What should clients do? Sberbank clients began receiving letters inviting them to report foreign citizenship, residence permits, or tax resident status in other countries by mail in mid-May (RBC has a copy of the letter).

It will be very difficult for Gazprom to implement the Turkish Stream project after Macedonia’s statement that the country will agree to laying a pipeline through its territory only after Russia reaches an agreement with the EU Photo: REUTERS 2015 Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski announced his intention to make the Macedonian branch of the pipeline dependent on Brussels the day before, reports the Macedonian publication Kurir.

President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Michel Platini said at a press conference in Zurich that he had asked FIFA head Joseph Blatter to resign from his post. this . reports Basler Zeitung According to Platini, the request was due to the fact that too many scandals had erupted around FIFA. As the head of UEFA said, Blatter refused to resign from his post, as it was too late to do so before the election of a new president.

An accident involving a fuel tanker and a bus with children occurred on Thursday, May 28, on Ilinskoye Highway in the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Moscow traffic police department. According to the agency's interlocutor, the fuel tanker tried to avoid a collision with the bus; the driver turned the car into a ditch, causing it to overturn. “There is no fuel spill,” the traffic police noted.

Norway's pension fund, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, may sell off about $60 million worth of Russian companies due to a new ethical restriction related to coal. The Finance and Economics Committee of the Norwegian Storting (parliament) on May 28 approved a law that obliges the sovereign wealth fund Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) to divest from assets related to the mining or use of coal.

Photo: Transport Photo Images The structure of NPF Surgutneftegaz can buy out the additional issue of UTair airline for 25 billion rubles. This money will allow the carrier to get out of debt. Shareholders of UTair airline at the annual meeting on June 29 will consider a deal to sell up to 3.125 billion shares of the additional issue of AK-Invest, according to the decision of the UTair board of directors published today.