Information that the proceedings in the ONEXIM group are related to attempts to force Mikhail Prokhorov to sell RBC is rumors. This was in a commentary on the radio station "Says Moscow" said the press secretary of the publication Egor Timofeev. “We guesses, assumptions, rumors and theories are not commented. I don't know who is about RBC. As for “ONEXIM”, they have checks. Tax, as far as I know. Nothing else is known, because “ONEXIM” is “ONEXIM”, and RBC is RBC, ”he said.

Two -thirds (69%) of Russians supported the extension of the powers of Ramzan Kadyrov as the head of Chechnya. As Interfax reports, this is evidenced by the survey conducted by the Levada Center. At the same time, 13% of respondents opposed the extension of authority, and 18% found it difficult to answer. At the same time, the share of Russians who consider the situation in the North Caucasus “tense” exceeds the share of those who call it safe: 44% against 41% of respondents.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the abandonment of a “meaningless confrontation with NATO”, Interfax reports. “Russia does not intend and will not be drawn into a meaningless confrontation and are convinced that there is no reasonable alternative to mutually beneficial pan -European cooperation in the field of security on the basis of the principle of non -security indivisibility with support for international law,” the minister said.

The term “Sislib”, or “system liberal” has existed in the Russian political discourse somewhere since the end of the 1990s and helps to quite clearly outline the country's management system that has developed after Boris Yeltsin’s departure from his post and in the early years of Vladimir Putin’s presidency. During this period, the struggle for influence in the country was fought by two clans: a clan of security forces, from which Putin himself was a native.

Microsoft filed a lawsuit in Washington in a complaint against the government and the Department of Justice for the ban on reporting users about the interest of special services in their data stored in cloud services, reports Wall Street Journal. The publication explains that users are required to notify such actions in cases where information is taken from physical carriers, but not from cloud services.

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is not considering the accession of South Ossetia. He reported this during the "direct line" translated by Slon Magazine. “We are not considering our relations with Southern Ossetia in such a context,” he explained.

The militants of the Islamic State Organization (prohibited in Russia) shot down the aircraft of the government army. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the Syrian Observatory on Human Rights. According to activists who are monitoring the situation in Syria, the plane was shot down in the south of the country near the city of Es Suvid. The fate of the pilot is not reported. According to unconfirmed reports, he managed to escape.

Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sentenced the four years in prison, businessman Levon Ayrapetyan, Interfax reports. The entrepreneur was found guilty of the embezzlement of $ 700 thousand from the mother of the former Senator from Bashkiria Igor Izmestiev convicted for life. The state prosecution asked to give Ayrapetyan seven years of a general regime colony. The businessman did not plead guilty, his mother and his mother were given the testimony against him in court.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will discuss the incident with the flight of a Russian aircraft over the American destroyer in the Baltic Sea with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. This was stated by the representative of the State Department John Kirby, reports Reuters . About the date of possible negotiations, the representative of the American Foreign Ministry said nothing.

The annual report of the US State Department on the situation with human rights in the world is based on ideological stamps and politicized assessments. This was stated by the authorized Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation on human rights, democracy and the rule of law Konstantin Dolgov.

Drone MQ-4C Triton during the flight. USA Reuters/US Navy/Erik Hildebrandt/Handou The British press spread the statement of Malik Jalal, a native of Pakistan, who claims that the United States included him in the list of people subject to liquidation, and that American drones hunt him. The other day, he spoke on the BBC radio, his appeal appeared in the Independent newspaper.

Potential investors should not be stingy during the privatization of Rosneft. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, answering questions from journalists after the "direct line" , Interfax reports. When buying shares of the company, you need to look not at quotes, but to the future, the head of state added. Putin noted that the state during the privatization of Rosneft will look for a strategic partner who understands all of the above.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the White House to completely transfer public procurement and purchases of state-owned companies to electronic auction until July 1, 2017. The list of instructions by Medvedev was at the disposal of the newspaper Kommersant. It is reported that the transition to electronic procedures will become possible from January 1, 2017. By July 1, 2017, Goszkazchiki will be required to use the system.

The Communist Party of China (CCP) allowed officials to play golf, reports the official newspaper of the Central Commission of the CPC to verify the discipline. The ruling party of China now considers golf “just sports”, in which there is “nothing reprehensible”. Members of the Chinese Communist Party and other officials will be able to play golf if they themselves pay for membership cards of golf clubs and if the game does not interfere with their work, China Daily clarifies .

Leonhard Foeger / Reuters When the police came to the sellers in the Royal Floraholland flower market, which is located south of Amsterdam and began to ask about their colleague, Vincenzo Brilly Flower Indicator, the merchants were shocked: they could not believe that he was leading a double life. But the appearance is deceiving.