The investigation believes that the alleged organizer of the mass brawl with shooting at the Khovanskoye cemetery is the former director of the cemetery, Yuri Chabuev, said the official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin.

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said that if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad does not make efforts to establish a truce in the republic, it is necessary to begin searching for alternatives. “We believe that we should have moved to Plan B a long time ago,” the minister was quoted as saying by Reuters . Al-Jubeir's statement was made in Vienna, where negotiations on the Syrian settlement are taking place today.

The prosecutor's office identified repeated violations of the procedure for evacuation of cars and ordered Vice-Mayor Maxim Liskutov to eliminate them. Inspectors covered cars with stickers and installed illegal wheel grips. Evacuation of a car in Moscow (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC) The Moscow prosecutor's office revealed repeated violations of the procedure for evacuation of cars.

The US Department of Justice has begun an investigation into the possible use of doping by Russian athletes, The New York Times reports, citing its sources.

The Indian automaker Bajaj Auto will begin deliveries to Russia of the Qute car, which is considered the cheapest in the world, in September-October this year, reports Bajaj distributor in Russia East West Motors. The cost of Qute in India is $2 thousand. In Russia, prices for the model will start from 300 thousand rubles, that is, more than twice as high as in India. (about $4.5 thousand at the Central Bank exchange rate as of May 18).

The state will offer banks a new instrument - mortgage securities, the risks for which will be assumed by AHML. State guarantees may ultimately reduce the cost of housing loans Photo: Oleg Kharseev/Kommersant Insurance from AHML Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov on Tuesday, May 17, announced that a new financial instrument will soon appear - a risk-free mortgage security.

A representative of the crew of a yacht with Russian athletes detained by the DPRK said that the actions of North Korean representatives posed a threat to life. According to him, the yachtsmen were confused with “Korean spies” Russian yacht “Elfin” (Photo: Yuri Smityuk/TASS) The detention of a yacht with Russian athletes, which was carried out by the DPRK, was accompanied by a “threat to life,” senior mate of the yacht captain Sergei Domovidov told reporters, Interfax reports .

The decline in the car market will continue for two years, AvtoVAZ President Nicolas More said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel. “We expect the market decline to continue for about two years, and during this period it is necessary to provide support to both buyers and suppliers - in the form of reducing their overhead costs,” he explained.

The State Duma adopted a law increasing the minimum wage by 20% from July 1, from 6.2 thousand to 7.5 thousand rubles, Interfax reports . The authors of the bill were deputies Sergei Neverov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Olga Batalina and Andrei Isaev, as well as members of the Federation Council Galina Karelova and Valery Ryazansky. According to Batalina, the increase in the minimum wage will affect about 1 million workers, of which 87% work in government agencies.

The Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kyiv rejected the investigation's request to extend the detention of Russian woman Anastasia Leonova, who was previously arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack, Leonova's lawyer Maxim Kozub said. “Investigating judge Bugil refused to satisfy the investigator’s request to extend Nastya’s period of detention. The motivation is that the suspicions are unfounded,” Kozub wrote on his Facebook page.

In the village of Yakovlevka, Primorsky Territory, a road bridge partially collapsed. One of the supports of the structure broke. Primorskaya Gazeta about this . told The acting head of the Yakovlevka district administration, Alexander Gorbunov, No one was injured due to the bridge collapse.

Photo: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Before the end of the spring session, a bill may be submitted to the State Duma, according to which the Russian Export Center (REC) will be separated from Vnesheconombank, and on the basis of this structure, in turn, the Export Bank of Russia (ERB) will be created. Kommersant writes about this with reference to a source familiar with the situation.

Former investigator in the case of Sergei Magnitsky, Pavel Karpov, filed a statement with the Ministry of Internal Affairs against opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whom he accuses of libel. Former investigator in the case of Sergei Magnitsky Pavel Karpov (Photo: Artem Korotaev/TASS) As Karpov told RBC, on Monday, May 16, he filed a statement regarding libel by Navalny and other persons unknown to him.

NLMK's revenue and profit decreased despite an increase in sales of metal products, the volume of which in January-March 2016 grew to a record level of 4.1 million tons Work of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works branch in Kaluga (Photo: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg) The net profit of the NLMK group in January-March 2016 amounted to $56.9 million, which is 82% less than the result for the first quarter of 2015 ($320.4 million), follows from the company’s report prepared in accordance with

The Anapa District Cossack Society stated that the people who attacked FBK employees at the airport are not Cossacks.