Co-owner of the Russian national search engine Sputnik, former head of the Bryansk branch of A Just Russia, Vyacheslav Rudnikov, will soon appear in court on charges of fraud, writes Kommersant . According to a source close to the investigation, at the end of last week the indictment, approved by the prosecutor, was sent to the Butyrsky District Court of Moscow.

The IT giant plans to lay off 2,300 employees in Finland Microsoft plans to lay off 2,300 employees in Finland. According to Yle , Microsoft's activities in southern Finland will be completely stopped. Worldwide, the company plans to cut 7,800 jobs. The reductions will most affect the mobile division, which was purchased by the company from Nokia in April 2014. Microsoft plans to cut costs in this division by 7.6 billion euros.

The Kremlin commented on media reports that Estonia blocked the Russian delegation's trip to the session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Finland, RIA Novosti reports . “This is a media report, so we don’t know how much it can be trusted, and we cannot make any comments based solely on this,” said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Privatbank, the largest in Ukraine, co-owned by billionaire Igor Kolomoisky, claims that it has filed a lawsuit against Russia “for the protection of investments lost in Crimea.” Earlier it became known about a similar lawsuit by Oschadbank Photo: Lori Privatbank has initiated arbitration proceedings against the Russian Federation to protect investments lost in Crimea, press secretary of the Ukrainian credit organization Oleg Serga told RBC.

Not a single region found the funds to equip all PECs with video cameras on the single voting day on September 13. Only two will have video surveillance in some areas. It is not included in the budget for the 2016 Duma elections. Rostelecom employees install a video surveillance system at one of the polling stations during the 2012 Russian presidential election campaign.

Members of the Federation Council on Wednesday, July 8, approved previously adopted by the State Duma. the law on the “right to be forgotten” on the Internet, According to this law, search engines will be required, at the request of the user, to remove links to information that has become irrelevant for him. This refers to information that “lost its significance for the applicant due to subsequent events or actions.” The applicant will have to confirm that the information is not current.

The head of the Committee against Torture, Igor Kalyapin, announced the imminent liquidation of the organization. The reason is the recognition of the organization as a foreign agent.

In the Pskov region, the driver of a VAZ-2110 crashed into a bus stop, killing three people. Interfax was informed about this by the press service of the regional department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The tragedy occurred in the village of Khotovan in the Dnovsky district on Wednesday night, around midnight. According to preliminary data, the driver lost control, ran into a stop, after which the “ten” drove into a ditch and overturned.

President Vladimir Putin arrived in Ufa, where the SCO and BRICS summits will be held, Interfax reports. The SCO and BRICS summits will be held in Ufa from July 8 to 10, 2015. The Kremlin said that the program of events for the Russian leader will be unprecedented in intensity.

Roscosmos and Center named after. Khrunicheva denied RBC previously reported information that due to sanctions there may be a shortage of rocket fuel - heptyl. It is produced in Russia by a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft. Photo: TASS The sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union against Russia may have a negative impact on a number of projects of Roscosmos and the Ministry of Defense, Interfax reported this morning, citing a source familiar with the situation.

In June, the main brands in the premium segment showed a decline in sales, outpacing the rate of decline in the market as a whole. Porsche, for example, went into the red for the first time in eight months Porsche Boxster in the center of Moscow (Photo: TASS) In June, 479 Porsche cars were sold in Russia - 8% less than in the same month a year earlier. The German mark fell for the first time in the previous eight months, seven of which it had been continuously growing.

European officials, amid protracted negotiations with Greece, are preparing for various scenarios.

Lyubov Yurievna Kazarnovskaya is a Soviet and Russian opera singer and teacher. Childhood, parents, education The future opera singer was born on July 18, 1956 in Moscow into the family of Yuri and Lydia Kazarnovsky. Father Yuri Ignatievich was a reserve general and wrote several military history books. Mother Lidia Alexandrovna worked as a philologist and teacher of Russian language and literature [1] . “I grew up in a very cultural environment.

United Russia deputies agreed with the French side on the borrowing of their symbol of traditional marriages, Deputy Head of the Moscow branch of the party Alexei Lisovenko said on the Russian News Service. This is how he commented on the accusation against the party that the “flag of straight people” proposed by United Russia almost completely copies the emblem of the French movement against same-sex marriage La Manif Pour Tous, which was previously noticed by users of social networks.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered the execution of the manager of a turtle farm for carelessly allowing the death of baby reptiles. This was reported by the South Korean publication Daily NK, citing two sources in Pyongyang. The farm manager, whose name was not given, was shot. The execution was carried out after Kim Jong-un's visit to the farm.