The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Foreign Affairs rejected the draft resolution on the severance of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. this on his Facebook page . reported People's deputy from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction Vladimir Ariev He said the committee rejected the project by six votes. According to Ariev, six deputies from the BPP and one from the Popular Front voted against the resolution.

Photo: Svetlana Kholyavchuk/Interpress The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation did not find a violation of the Constitution in the contested provisions of the payment for major repairs. The corresponding decision was announced at today's court hearing.

The number of Islamic State (IS) militants, whose activities are banned in Russia, is now at its lowest in two years. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated this at a hearing in the US Senate, Reuters reports . “In fact, we estimate the number of [Islamic State] fighters to be the lowest since we began monitoring their forces in 2014,” Blinken said.

The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) intends to solve the problem of the lack of funds to pay depositors of banks that have lost their license by increasing bank premiums, writes Kommersant. The publication notes that the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) has experienced a deficit for more than three quarters in a row. Currently, the level of the base rate of deductions to the FSV is 0.1% of the quarterly balances of individuals’ funds in bank accounts.

Investor Yuri Milner will invest $100 million in the project of a flight to Alpha Centauri. For this purpose, a ship will be built capable of reaching a speed of 160 million km/h. In an interview with RBC, Milner spoke about the details of the interstellar project Investor Yuri Milner (Photo: Bloomberg) — Why do you want to build a nanoship and not an inhabited starship, for example?

The Tverskoy District Court seized the property of former Vneshprombank president Larisa Markus - two houses with a total area of ​​more than 500 square meters. m and a land plot of 30 acres on Rublyovka President of Vneshprombank Larisa Marcus (center), December 22, 2015 (Photo: Sergey Bobylev/TASS) Information about the arrest of two houses with an area of ​​308 and 232 square meters.

The monthly profitability of hedge funds investing in Russia reached 17%, a 16-year high. Positive factors were rising oil prices and strengthening of the ruble exchange rate Photo: AP The 17% return that hedge funds focused on investing in Russian securities achieved in March is the highest since August 2000, according to data provided by Bloomberg . At the same time, the MICEX index grew by only 1.7% in March.

The head of the Kazansky railway station, Sergei Donetsky, has been charged with taking a bribe. This is stated in the message of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Donetsky was charged under Part 3 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (receiving a bribe through an intermediary for illegal inaction). Donetsky was detained on March 4, 2016. Since that day he has been under arrest .

Photo: Alexander Chizhenok/Interpress A criminal case has been opened into the murder of two nurses in the district military hospital on Suvorovsky Avenue in St. Petersburg. The key suspects are escaped psychiatric patients. According to Fontanka , the military investigation department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Investigative Committee for the St.

In the special flight squad “Russia”, which also serves the country’s top officials, fraud was discovered, the damage from which is estimated at 48 million rubles, writes Kommersant.

The Deposit Insurance Agency has created a portal for the sale of property of liquidated financial organizations and property acquired during bankruptcy prevention procedures of credit organizations. This was reported in the press service of the department. The new portal is located at torgiasv.ru. It is noted that the launch of the project will improve the efficiency of business processes related to the liquidation of organizations.

Dmitry Rogozin commented on Transparency International’s publication about his apartment “for 500 million rubles.” He called these figures nonsense and told how he ended up with this apartment Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin (Photo: Daria Samsonova/press service of the head of the Republic of Crimea/TASS) Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, in an interview with Ekho Moskvy , said that the apartment mentioned in the Transparency International publication was given

The rate of insurance premiums payable by banks participating in the deposit insurance system to the Mandatory Deposit Insurance Fund is set at 0.12%. The corresponding decision was made by the board of directors of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), reported the agency’s press service . Previously the rate was 0.1%. The new rate comes into force starting from the third quarter of 2016.

The Federation of Car Owners of Russia, on behalf of taxi drivers, complained to Dmitry Medvedev about the FAS: the service refused to admit that taxi call services Uber, Gett and Yandex.Taxi monopolized the market and dictated low prices Photo: Alexandra Krasnova/TASS Repeated request Fighters against the “uberization” of the taxi market, having not received support from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), wrote a letter to the head of government Dmitry Medvedev, co-founder and president of

An investigation into hundreds of thousands of files by Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca has revealed that many of the offshore companies it registered were run by front men, writes . The Sunday Times So, it turned out that the manager of 10 thousand 361 companies was a woman who died more than ten years ago. Most of the companies were registered by Mossack Fonseca. A Dutch television company that gained access to the documents found that the woman died in 2005.