Photo: TASS The Moscow City Election Commission has registered an initiative group to collect signatures in support of a referendum on the return of the Dzerzhinsky monument to Lubyanka. The initiative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was carried out with the help of United Russia members and lawyers close to the mayor’s office.

After the launch of production of the Vesta and X-Ray models, AvtoVAZ plans to restyling Kalina, Granta and Largus. After this, four more new models will enter the market Assembly line of the AvtoVAZ plant in Tolyatti (Photo: RIA Novosti) At a meeting of shareholders held on Thursday, AvtoVAZ revealed a plan to update its model range. In addition to the Lada Vesta sedan, production of which will begin in September 2015, the model will have three more modifications.

Yevgeny Primakov, who headed the Russian government after the default and devaluation, died on Friday. Colleagues remember him as an outstanding statesman who influenced Russia’s historical choice Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov (Photo: REUTERS 2015) Arabist and orientalist Evgeny Primakov was born on October 29, 1929 in Kyiv. There is no official information about his father; it is only known that he was repressed.

The authorities of the Krasnodar region have determined the amount of compensation for those affected by the flood in Sochi. City residents will receive from 50 to 100 thousand rubles. One of the flooded streets of Sochi (Photo: RIA Novosti) The amount of compensation was announced by the acting governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev.

A criminal case has been initiated against the former general director of JSC Lenenergo Andrei Sorochinsky. This is stated in a message published on the website of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the police, in 2014, Sorochinsky, together with the previously detained ex-financial director, is suspected of implementing a scheme to remove the company’s financial assets from control.

The window of the apartment of producer Joseph Prigozhin and singer Valeria in Moscow was shelled on the evening of Thursday, June 25, Interfax reports, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. As the agency’s interlocutor said, the window of Prigozhin and Valeria’s apartment was fired from a pneumatic weapon, their housekeeper reported this to the police.

The Higher Regional Court of Brandenburg in Germany granted the prosecutor's request for the extradition arrest of Ukrainian banker Boris Timonkin. this . reports Deutsche Welle The court's decision was based on the increased danger of the suspect escaping. Timonkin will not be released on bail and will remain in prison in the city of Cottbus . He was placed there after being detained on June 14 at Berlin Schönefeld Airport , the publication reports.

Coca-Cola was surprised by initiatives such as banning the company's products in Russia, since they contradict the position of the government and the country's president, voiced at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. This is stated in a commentary from the company's press service received by RBC. The report states that soft drinks with The Coca-Cola Company trademarks, presented on the Russian market, have been produced at 12 Russian enterprises since 1992, employing 11 thousand local employees.

Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov may be buried on June 29 at the Novodevichy cemetery. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to a representative of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It is expected that farewell to the politician will take place at the House of Unions. Primakov died on June 26 after a long illness. President Vladimir Putin and former Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin have already expressed their condolences over his death.

Over the course of a year, St. Petersburg managed to rise from fifth to second group (“comfortable doing business”) in the investment rating of Russian cities. As RBC St. Petersburg found out, this does not give city leaders serious reasons to be proud of themselves - according to experts, the main role in the change in assessment was played by the registration of previously connected, but not accounted for, electricity consumers. Photo: lenenergo.ru St.

Viktor Zubkov was re-elected head of the board of directors of OJSC Gazprom. This decision was made at the general meeting of shareholders of the company. This was said in a statement . The head of the company, Alexey Miller, was elected deputy chairman of the company’s board of directors. Energy Minister Alexander Novak was also elected to the council.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the US State Department's report on the situation with human rights in the world filled with “politicized assessments and crude ideological cliches.” This is stated in the commentary of the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Lukashevich, published on the department’s website.

The central stations of the Filyovskaya line of the Moscow metro will be closed to passengers on Saturday, June 27. Interfax reports this with reference to a representative of the press service of the capital's subway. We are talking about the stations "Alexandrovsky Sad", "Arbatskaya" and "Smolenskaya" - major repair work will be carried out there throughout the day. Trains will run from the Kyiv station to the Kuntsevskaya station and from the Kyiv station to the Mezhdunarodnaya station.

Moscow police decided not to initiate a criminal case after an incident with leopards, which were found in an apartment in a residential building in the west of the capital in early June. the Moscow agency about this .

The death toll from attacks on tourist hotels in Tunisia has risen to 37. Another 36 people have been wounded. Among the victims are a Russian woman and a Ukrainian woman. According to the latest data, the attack was carried out by one person Photos from the scene (Photo: REUTERS 2015) The number of victims of the terrorist attack in Tunisia has increased to 37 people, Tunisia Live reports , citing a statement from the authorities. Previously, 32 deaths were reported.