Photo: Svetlana Kholyavchuk/Interpress Contrary to expectations, the first four months of 2016 turned out to be successful for the St. Petersburg office real estate market. According to the consulting company Colliers International, during this period the volume of office leasing transactions increased by 10%. At the end of the first quarter of 2016, the total volume of net absorption in the market was 2.5 times higher than the same indicators of the previous period.

Non-alcoholic beer is becoming more and more popular among Russians: in the first quarter of 2016, its production increased by 34.5%. Among the reasons are an improvement in the taste of the drink and a large amount of advertising, according to retailers and manufacturers.

Petro Poroshenko canceled his visit to the UK due to the situation with the election of the Prosecutor General and the failure to adopt bills for cooperation with the IMF. In London he was going to take part in an anti-corruption summit Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko decided to postpone his visit to the UK, which was planned for May 11–12. reported this on the evening of Tuesday, May 10 His press service .

Roskomnadzor refused to renew the broadcasting license of the radio station EuropePlus Tomsk, which is part of the Tomsk Media Group holding. the TV-2 news agency about this told The director of the Media FM radio holding, Sergei Lapenkov, (the agency and the radio station are part of the Tomsk media group). “The TV-2 television company was refused to renew its license for the 103.4 MHz frequency under the pretext of non-compliance with the media law (Article 19.1).

Teachers in the Nukus region of Uzbekistan began to receive salaries in chickens. this to the Ozodlik radio station (the Uzbek edition of Radio Liberty) Its own source reported . He said that the state sells chicks at twice their cost - during the payment of salaries, the cost of each chicken was taken into account at twice the market price. According to Ozodlik’s interlocutor, he was told about this by a local resident who was forcibly given a bird instead of a salary.

Gazprom will refuse to sign an agency agreement for the export of Rosneft gas to Europe, sources in the monopoly said.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, wondered about the geographical position of Ukraine after Petro Poroshenko’s words about “one of the most powerful armies on the continent.” “ One question: on what continent, according to Poroshenko, is Ukraine located?” — Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page. Post on facebook Poroshenko’s words were spoken on May 7 at the opening of the monument to Mazepa in Poltava.

An unknown vessel dumped 50 to 100 liters of fuel oil into the Black Sea near Sevastopol. Acting Head of the Department of Natural Resources and Ecology Sergei Samoilov stated this at a meeting of the headquarters to overcome the consequences of the incident, reports .

Former head of the Chechen government Odes Baysultanov was appointed first deputy minister for North Caucasus affairs. The decree was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Prior to this appointment, Baysultanov worked as a deputy minister. He took up this post in July 2014. As the Caucasian Politics publication notes, Baysultanov is a cousin of the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Yuri Luzhkov believes that Dmitry Medvedev's government is not able to cope with the difficulties in the economy.

The Accounts Chamber receives complaints from Russian Post employees about salary cuts after the transition to a time-based wage system. Deputy head of the Accounts Chamber Vera Chistova announced this during the “government hour” in the State Duma, an RBC correspondent reports. “Yes, indeed, we understand that unprecedented processes are taking place at Russian Post.

Russian serviceman Anton Yerygin died from severe wounds received during shelling by militants in the province of Homs. He was nominated for a state award posthumously Photo: Valery Sharifulin/TASS Russian serviceman Anton Yerygin died in the Syrian province of Homs, a representative of the Russian base at Khmeimim said on Wednesday. According to him, the military man died while performing tasks to escort vehicles of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg approved adjustments to the city budget for 2016. In the first reading, 33 people's representatives voted for the changes, an RBC St. Petersburg correspondent reports from a meeting of the city parliament. According to the document, budget revenues were increased by 2.9 billion rubles to 436 billion rubles. Expenses were increased by the same amount to 494 billion rubles. The budget deficit remains at 58.6 billion rubles.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered a report to be submitted by September 2017 on how officials comply with restrictions on receiving gifts. This is stated in the list of instructions to ensure the implementation of the presidential decree “On the National Anti-Corruption Plan for 2016–2017,” published on Wednesday, May 11, on the government website.

The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the ban on the nationalist movement “Russians” as an extremist organization as legal. this reports TASS from the courtroom. During the meeting, a representative of the organization asked to overturn the decision of the court of first instance. He referred to the examination of the manifesto and charter of the organization, in which, in his opinion, the expert was asked questions not of a linguistic, but of a procedural nature.