Before leaving Moscow, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland ate dumplings with her colleagues in one of the capital's cafes. Nuland was accompanied by US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft. The photo was posted on Twitter by embassy press secretary Wil Stevens. “Nuland couldn’t come to Moscow without visiting our favorite dumpling shop,” Stevens wrote. He did not specify where exactly the diplomats had lunch.

During her visit to Moscow, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met with Russian Presidential Aide Vladislav Surkov. The previous meeting of politicians took place in January this year in Kaliningrad US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland (Photo: Efrem Lukatsky/AP) During her visit to Moscow, US Secretary of State John Kerry's assistant Victoria Nuland met with Russian President Vladimir Putin's assistant Vladislav Surkov.

Elena Basner, art critic (Photo: Petr Kovalev/Intepress) The investigation intends to appeal the acquittal against Elena Basner. Information about this is posted on the official website of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg. The day before, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg issued an acquittal against E. Basner. As RBC St.

Members of the Central Election Commission approved the candidacy of Viktor Pankevich for the post of chairman of the election commission of St. Petersburg, an RBC correspondent reports from a CEC meeting. Pankevich is a member of the St. Petersburg election commission with a voting right. The second candidate for this position was Olga Pokrovskaya, a member of the St. Petersburg election commission from the Yabloko party.

Prices for domestic drugs from the VED list increased by 28.9% in 2015, according to a HSE study.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg allowed a new meeting within the Russia-NATO Council. He stated this at a briefing in Brussels, an RBC correspondent reports. “We will have a discussion related to the new holding of the Russia-NATO Council at the ministerial meeting. Perhaps such a meeting will be held, but I will not anticipate events,” Stoltenberg said. At the end of April, the first meeting of the Russia-NATO Council since the summer of 2014 took place in Brussels.

The process of “anti-Russian propaganda in the context of Ukraine” is now working against those who launched it, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary to Izvestia.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reminded the head of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, that one can go to prison for having connections with the banned Islamic State. This is how Zakharova commented on his statement about his readiness to resign if there is evidence of Turkish support for ISIS. “This had to be done after Türkiye shot down a Russian plane.

American company CTC Media Inc. will complete the business reorganization procedure by May 20, CTC Media said in a statement. On this day, the company will complete the merger with its subsidiary and will finally leave the NASDAQ exchange, all CTC Media securities traded on the market will be cancelled. The company's shareholders will be entitled to cash compensation, they will be paid $2.05 per share, and the total payments will be $239 million, CTC Media notes.

Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the Hermitage (Photo: Sergey Kulikov/Interpress) The head of the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, called on the international community to take more serious measures to protect world heritage monuments. “Today, the dictates of power and censorship have receded into the background compared to the dictates of the crowd, the spectator, the “activists” who do not represent power at all, but use it, do not represent the church, but use it.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the creation of the National Guard. It was criticized only by the communists, who believed that the new structure was created to suppress protests during a crisis and on the eve of parliamentary elections During a State Duma meeting, January 2014 (Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC) The State Duma on Wednesday adopted in the first reading a bill on national guard troops. 345 deputies voted “for”, 14 voted against.

Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of Russia Alexey Volin and Head of the State Department of Communications and Mass Communications of Abkhazia Lasha Shamba signed a memorandum on reducing tariffs for international roaming. This is stated in a message on the website of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications. The department emphasizes that the signing of the document took place with the participation of representatives of mobile operators in Russia and Abkhazia.

Programmer Vladimir Mamut is tired of the primitive design of Russian clothing for newborns. He opened his own factory, and now his company Lucky Child earns 5.7 million net profit per month Aron Tukhvatullin (left) and Vladimir Mamut (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev/RBK) “In Russia, as is customary: boys wear blue, girls wear pink, that’s the whole fashion.

France did not approve the transfer to NATO control of a missile defense system, the construction of which Russia objects to. In Paris they want guarantees that the alliance, and not the United States, will actually manage the system Representatives of the French authorities said that Paris’s position is not related to Moscow’s objections, but to the possibility of real management and control over the system by NATO, writes The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for the formation and use of “soft law”: to take into account and use the norms of interstate structures and discuss them at the UN, European Union, BRICS and CIS countries. He stated this on Wednesday, speaking at the VI St. Petersburg International Legal Forum. The Prime Minister clarified that when countries talk about the same legal norms, it is easier for them to agree.