Russia will receive from China a loan of 400 billion rubles for the construction of the Moscow-Kazan high-speed highway, Russian Railways said . It is clarified that the equivalent of 250 billion rubles will go to the Moscow -Nizhny Novgorod section, and 150 billion rubles to Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan. The parties are considering financing in dollars and yuan. In addition, China will bring 52 billion rubles and $ 1 billion to the capital of the SPV company created by the SPV company.

The sad anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was marked by one truly bright event- publishing the documents of the SBU archive, namely the secret documents of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR, about the causes and consequences of the disaster, about the efforts of special services to hide information about the accident and force those who wanted to find out and inform the world the truth.

The absurd action "Monstand" in Novosibirsk will be held on May 1, since its organizers managed to agree with the mayor. About this the ideologist of the action, the artist Artem Loskutov told Interfax . “We were forbidden to conduct a separate independent procession, we agreed that we would follow the“ prone ”[official youth procession] with the most acceptable interval by law,” he explained.

The Kremlin criticized the actions of “patriotic” activists who attacked adolescents who participated in the competition of the Memorial Society and doused the writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Interfax reports. “This is hooliganism. This is a disgrace. These are those who, hiding behind the St. George ribbon, discredit it, ”said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the President of the Russian Federation.

The Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia at the meeting on April 29 decided not to change the key rate and leave it at 11% per annum. This was reported in the press release of the regulator. Thus, the Central Bank retained the rate without changing the results of six meetings in a row. To the current level, it was reduced in July 2015.

The Kremlin was called erroneous or torn out of context to students from the rector of the Saratov State University to not communicate with foreigners. “This is some kind of or erroneous information, or pulled out of context, or something else. Honestly, I can’t believe it, ”Peskov quotes Interfax . Later on April 29, the Ministry of Education and Science said that there is no talk of any prohibitions on communicating students of SSU with foreigners.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called on road companies in construction to use technologies corresponding to the Russian climate. He made this statement during the meeting to improve regional and municipal roads, Interfax reports. The prime minister also advised to hold “road workers”, who refuse to comply with regulatory requirements.

President Vladimir Putin explained the breakdown of the first launch of the rocket from the Cosmodrome East error of instrumentation. It is reported by Interfax . “The first launch [from the Vostochny Cosmodrome] was postponed for a day, as it turned out, not because of the rocket itself, it was in perfect order, but because of the instrumentation, which gave an erroneous signal that there was no refueling, but it turns out,” the Russian leader explained.

Update: March 30, 2022, Levada Center (announced in the Russian Federation by a foreign agent), published the results of a fresh survey on the rating of Vladimir Putin and the ruling party "United Russia". Against the background of the “special military operation” in Ukraine, the support of the authorities has increased significantly, follows from the data of the sociological service.

On April 29, the Bank of Russia will release a commemorative silver coin from the Red Book series with the image of a Manul . This was reported in the press release of the regulator. Nominal coin - two rubles, circulation - seven thousand copies. In the same series, the Central Bank will release two more coins - with the image of a red kite and a butterfly alkina. The Central Bank has been producing memorable coins of the Red Book series since 1992.

The State Holding "Rosneftegaz", managing the state -owned shares in Rosneft and Gazprom, answered the order of the Government of the Russian Federation on an increase in dividends of state -owned companies. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the holding. “It is quite clear the desire of the Ministry of Finance to solve the problem of falling budget revenues by increasing dividends paid by companies with state participation.

Russian military Valery Permyakov, accused of killing seven members of the Avetisyan family in the Armenian city of Gyumri, explained his act “noise”, RBC reports . “There was noise, the children cried, and dogs barked in the yard. He killed this noise to stop, ”he said. Among those killed by Permyakov is a two -year -old child and a half -year -old baby. He fully pleaded guilty.

By the end of 2016, the Tax Free function may appear in Russia, which will allow foreign tourists to return part of the taxes for the purchases in Russia. This was written by Kommersant with reference to the protocol of the meeting “On the introduction of the return of VAT to foreign individuals” with the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov.

In the Auchan hypermarket in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, dairy products falsified with vegetable fats were found. This was reported in Rosselkhoznadzor, reports TASS. Thus, the audit of the department’s employees showed that vegetable fat was also contained in cottage cheese and sour cream, produced under the Auchana - “every day”. The indicated products were produced by the Moscow Plant "Baltic Union Uni" and the Milk enterprise in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

The net loss of Rusnano according to Russian accounting standards in the first three months of 2016 increased more than 13 times. This was reported by TASS with reference to the documents of the state -owned company. Compared to the same period a year earlier, the company's loss increased from 360.5 million rubles to 4.7 billion rubles. Along with this, the company's revenue doubled - to almost one and a half billion rubles.