Users of VKontakte, where a mass purge of music archives recently began, were given the opportunity to transfer their collections of recordings to the Zvooq.ru and Yandex.Music services. Their owners offered users of the social network the opportunity to legally listen to the same recordings that the copyright holders insist on removing from VKontakte.

Recently, many cases of NPOs being used as a cover for illegal activities have been revealed, said Anna Kotova, Deputy Director of the Justice Ministry's Department for NPOs. According to her, unscheduled inspections of NPOs are important in this regard. As an example, the official cited a case in the Kaliningrad Region, where the Justice Ministry and tax authorities uncovered a veterans' organization that was carrying out activities worth several billion rubles without paying taxes.

Roman Abramovich / D. Grishkin / Vedomosti Roman Abramovich has decided to resign early from his post as chairman of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Duma, three people close to the district's leadership, United Russia, and the presidential administration told Vedomosti. The formal reason for this, according to one of Vedomosti's sources, was the end of the first term of office of Governor Roman Kopin, Abramovich's protégé.

The transfer of National Welfare Fund (NWF) funds from the Central Bank to the management of Vnesheconombank will ensure higher returns on their investment due to the expansion of the range of instruments, said Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukayev in an interview with the Prime agency. The Ministry of Economic Development, unlike the Ministry of Finance, insisted on increasing the income from investing the NWF funds during the preparation of the main budget projects.

Dmitry Livanov / E.Razumny for Vedomosti Dmitry Livanov does not consider it important to justify how the new system of organizing Russian science that he proposed will be better than the old one. It is enough that the old one is full of shortcomings. For example, it is “archaic.” “The state of the Russian system of fundamental research is critical,” he and his co-authors wrote in one of the program articles in 2011.

Park for 10 billion rubles. The volume of investment in the construction of a park in Zaryadye on the site of the demolished Rossiya Hotel is currently estimated at approximately 10 billion rubles, said Moscow's chief architect Sergei Kuznetsov, RIA Novosti reports. The project is financed from the city budget. In April 2013, the Moscow Committee for Architecture announced an international competition for the landscape architectural concept of Zaryadye Park.

The Ministry of Economic Development wants to conduct a study of the level, structure and specifics of business corruption that arises when business representatives and the state interact. In this regard, the ministry has ordered a study for 11 million rubles, according to an application posted on the state procurement portal.

According to the decision of the shareholders' meeting, the former head of the Swedish-Finnish TeliaSonera Lars Newberg left the board of directors of MegaFon. He left the company at the beginning of the year amid a corruption scandal. According to the press release of MegaFon, his place on the board was taken by TeliaSonera Vice President Jan Henrik Arnell.

Gold rose sharply on Monday after falling a record 23% in the second quarter, supported by the continued weakening of the dollar against most world currencies and data showing a slowdown in business activity in China, stock exchange data show. The August gold futures on the New York Comex exchange rose by $32.40, or 2.64%, to $1,256 per troy ounce by 9:49 p.m. Moscow time. The dollar exchange rate against a basket of six currencies of the US's main trading partners fell by 0.22% to 83 points.

From now on, Mail.ru will use only its own search technology, Go.mail.ru, according to a company statement. The contract with Google, signed in 2010, is no longer in effect, said Mail.ru Group representative Ksenia Chabanenko. Google accounted for about 60% of Mail.ru users' search queries, and its own search engine accounted for about 40%, a source close to the company noted. According to comScore, the global monthly audience of Mail.ru search in May 2013 was 39.5 million users.

The Russian Academy of Sciences may call on the authorities to postpone the reform of the academy and give time for academicians to discuss its prospects with the Ministry of Education and Science and develop a common position. This was stated by the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov. According to him, the academy believes that it is impossible to adopt the bill on reform in its current form.

01 July 2013, 09:00 / Finance Why is it better for Russian depositors of European banks to rely only on themselves? Eurozone countries are no longer able to prop up their banks; we have to return to the basics of a market economy, when its shareholders and investors must answer for the problems of a financial institution with money Isaac Becker There was an interesting episode at the St.

Last week, the Arbitration Court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug accepted for proceedings a claim by Kapital Insurance (part of the Rosgosstrakh group) for the recovery of reinsurance compensation in the amount of $32.4 million. The defendants include 24 foreign reinsurance companies and Lloyd's syndicates: Berkshire Hathaway International Insurance, Chartis Europe (a division of AIG), Assicurazioni Generali, Mapfre Global Risks and even Oriental Insurance Company (Kathmandu, Nepal).

Business only 1. It is not true that negotiations are underway on oil supplies to Poland and the Czech Republic, and that PKN Orlen has ever approached Rosneft with a proposal to acquire a stake in PKN Orlen, sell the Mazeikiu nafta refinery in Lithuania and jointly sell oil products on the Berlin-Warsaw-Brest route. On the article “PKN Orlen asks to be taken under Rosneft’s wing” (No. 112 of 27.06.2013, p. 01) PKN Orlen states that the article contains information that is not true. 2.

01 July 2013, 00:00 Yellow Moscow taxi From July 1, all new legal taxi cars in Moscow must be yellow. There may also be uniform tariffs for their services Elizaveta Nikitina From today, all new legal taxis in Moscow must be yellow only - this is the law, according to which, from July 1, permits are issued only to owners of cars of this color. These regulations do not apply to taxi drivers who managed to obtain a permit to operate before July 1.