The World Anti -Doping Agency revoked the accreditation of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory. This was reported on the website of the agency. “Vada canceled the accreditation of the Moscow Anti-Doping Center due to the inconsistency of international standards for the laboratory and relevant technical documentation,” the statement said. The anti -doping laboratory in Moscow was closed on November 10. Then Wada said that the accreditation of the laboratory was suspended for six months.

More than half (59%) of shareholders of the British company British Petrolium opposed the accrual to the general director of Bob Dudley of an annual reward. About this writes Financial Times. The amount of Dudley's remuneration in 2015 became 20% higher than a year earlier, and should amount to $ 20 million.

The Gagarinsky court of Moscow rejected the lawsuit of Nikita Mikhalkov in a suit for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation filed against RBC. This was reported by the correspondent of Interfax from the courtroom.

In 2015, the income of the head of the Russian Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev amounted to 8 million 767 thousand rubles, follows from the declaration published on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers. As Interfax clarifies, the income of the prime minister, compared with 2014, increased by 700 thousand rubles. The list of property of Medvedev has not changed over the year.

The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov apologized for the words of President Vladimir Putin about the owners of the German newspaper SueDdeutsche Zeitung, Interfax reports. “This, rather, is our mistake, rather, my mistake, those who prepared reference papers on this subject. There really was unverified information, once again they did not refer and provided it with the president in the part of the owners of SueDdeutsche Zeitung, ”he said.

The State Duma in the third reading approved a bill , which prohibits the sale of cigarettes in Russia in a pack of more than 20 pieces. 434 deputies voted for, one parliamentarian abstained. The broadcast of the meeting was conducted on the website of the lower house of parliament. If the law accepts the Federation Council and sign the President of the Russian Federation, its provisions will enter into force on July 1, 2016.

The Chinese GDP in the first quarter of 2016 grew by 6.7% in annual terms. This was reported on April 15 by the National Statistical Service of China. As a result, the quarterly growth of one of the largest world economies has been minimal over the past seven years, Marketwatch points out . In the last quarter of 2015, China GDP increased by 6.8%.

After more than 20 years, the Central African state of Gabon intends to restore membership in the organization of oil exporters (OPEC). It is reported by Reuters with reference to unnamed sources in the cartel. According to the interlocutors of the agency, Gabon has already sent an official application to OPEC. It is possible that it can be considered at the nearest meeting of the ministers of the OPEC countries, which is scheduled for June of this year.

In Russia, in 2017, it is planned to introduce bills with a face value of 200 rubles and 2000 rubles. We figured out why this is needed and how people choose how much their bills and coins should cost. Why introduce bills with a face value of 200 and 2000 rubles? Firstly, new bills will help save a place in the wallet-this problem is relevant for most Russians.

The relapse of the military conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, which today is inclined to consider in the context of the aggravated relations between Moscow and Ankara, makes us differently look at other possible points of the Russian-Turkish confrontation. As the story with Karabakh shows, they may not necessarily relate directly to our two countries-the eternal Greek-Turkish enmity, for example, at some point can also become a reason for confrontation.

The Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev spoke about the interest of the European Air Building Concern Airbus in the purchase of a stake in the “Helicopters of Russia” JSC, Interfax reports. “The French colleagues at the meeting were interested, in particular, by the privatization of“ helicopters of Russia ” - the Russian holding. It will also be privatized, but according to another scheme - through an invitation of a strategic investor.

Investments in the Russian stock market are a “deal of the century”, says the head of the board of Templeton Emering Markets Group, investor Mark Mobius. “Russia is very cheap. The problem is in sanctions-because of them, many of us cannot invest. But as soon as the sanctions are removed, the situation in the market will be very good, ”Mobius said in an interview with CNBC. Mobius is not alone in his assessment of the Russian market, the TV channel notes.

On the day of the murder of the opposition Boris Nemtsov, February 27, 2015, a video surveillance camera did not work in the Politics House, RBC writes with reference to a source close to the investigation. The interlocutor of the publication said that there are no relevant videos in the case. According to investigators, on that day, the accused of the murder of Zaur Dadaev was supposed to appear at the opposition house in Zamoskvorechye, but it will not be possible to check this.

The employees of the Sakhalinsky CJSC "Fisherman Ostrovna" began to pay salary debts. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the governor of the region. “They began to pay debt employees. In these minutes, people received the first money, ”the press service said.

A year after Gagarin’s flight, in 1962, in all Soviet cinemas they showed “nine days of one year”-a film that made nuclear physics with a fashionable specialty, and there theoretical physicists desperately argue in a restaurant with experimental physicists who believe that the galaxy must be conquered immediately. It comes to the calculations on the napkin, how much fuel will be needed by the spacecraft to fly to the stars.