The governor of the Tver region Andrei Shevelev resigned of his own free will. This follows from the relevant decree, which was signed by President Vladimir Putin. “In connection with the statement of Governor Shevelev A.V. On the early termination of powers <...> I decide: to accept the resignation of the governor of the Tver region A. Sheveleva on their own, ”the decree text says. Earlier, the head of state appointed the acting governor of the region Igor Rudeny.

The prosecutor's office requested 23 years in prison for the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, Mediazona reports . In addition, the representative of the prosecution at a meeting in the Donetsk city court requested a fine of 100 thousand rubles for the pilot.

For the first time since 2006, the weight of financial organizations in the British FTSE stock index has been less than the weight of consumer companies. About this writes Financial Times. By the end of February 2016, the weight of non -financial organizations (including Diageo, Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever, Burberry and British American Tobacco) reached 20.85%.

Chinese construction companies are ready to replace Turkish builders, said the President of the Association of Builders of Russia Nikolai Koshman. As Interfax reports, according to Koshman, the Council of Trade and Economic issues of the PRC Embassy in Russia Zhang Di made such an initiative. “In the work of Turkish and Chinese companies there is one distinctive property - these are issues of financing. The Chinese in Russia have always worked for budget money on prepayment.

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not make sole decisions in connection with the allocation of funds from the National Welfare Fund, since the FNB is not his personal piggy bank. This was announced on March 2 by the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. “The president does not do this personally. This is not his personal piggy bank, and he does not manage this, ”Peskov explained.

The Moscow City Court canceled the verdict to the zoo defender Victoria Pavlenko, convicted of the theft of a guide dog, TASS reports . The case was sent to the prosecutor to eliminate violations. Earlier, the lower authority sentenced it to one and a half years in a general regime colony and a fine of 15 thousand rubles. The investigation claimed that in July 2015, Pavlenko stole Labrador at the blind singer Julia Dyakova near the Moscow Metro station "Profsoyuznaya".

Among the most financially insolvent structures of the Ministry of Defense were the only executor of procurement of goods and services for the department, as well as communal structures, Kommersant writes . The newspaper refers to the data received when checking the main military prosecutor's office of the Garrison company, which was called Oboronservis until 2014.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia proposed completely abandoning the state regulation of prices for cheap medicines. This was reported by Kommersant, citing a letter sent to the government, available to the publication. In addition to subsidizing unprofitable industries, the ministry proposes to provide Russian manufacturers with the right to re -register prices for cheap drugs in a declarative manner.

The Prosecutor General’s Office did not answer the question of the deputy Dmitry Gudkov about whether the alleged co -owner of the Sahara Kuban company Olga Lopatin was the wife of deputy prosecutor General Yuri Lopatin at the time of registration of the company. The parliamentarian published the response of the supervisory authority on Facebook.

At the place of detention of a nanny suspected of killing a child, near the Metro October Field. Maxim Zmeyev / Reuters When federal television channels are silent, it is customary to scold them-and in vain; In fact, no one doubts that if they had not been stopped, they would have managed to ensure that the “bloody nanny” (and what was in her hands) began to dream at night to millions of Russians, bringing our psyche already very worn out over the years.

The State Foreign Company Rusnano asked her to allocate 89 billion rubles from the National Welfare Fund (FNB). It is reported by Interfax with reference to unnamed sources. According to the agency, the head of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, addressed the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The funds of the FNB of the state -owned company are proposed to allocate for a period of 15 years with the possibility of early repayment, at a rate of not more than 2% per annum.

President Vladimir Putin appointed Igor Rudeny the acting governor of the Tver region, Interfax reports. As noted, earlier Rudena was the director of the Department of the Agro -Industrial Complex of the Government. “You know the subject of our conversation. You are a very experienced person, and the department was headed by the government, and were the deputy minister.

Forum of a democratic coalition in Moscow. Pavel Bednyakov / ITAR-TASS At the end of 2015, the boundaries and opportunities of power and opposition in the upcoming federal and regional elections in 2016 were discussed . Now let's try to identify potential problems for individual political forces. We probably start with the most difficult and traditionally conflict - a democratic camp, which has never had common lists of candidates in the federal elections.

The contact group signed a document on a ban on military shooting exercises within 30 kilometers from the contact line in the Donbass, Interfax reports. The agency gives the words of the special representative of the OSCE in the contact group Martin Saydik, according to which the agreement will enter into force on March 4. The parties also agreed until the end of March to submit maps of the districts to be cleared.

Moscow can really start a war with terrorism - for its own purpose Vladimir Putin and Bashar Assad. October, 2015. Alexei Druzhinin / Ria Novosti / Kremlin / Reuters The truce in Syria barely managed to begin when it was broken, and the parties participating in the conflict predictably accused each other of this.