The new representative of the Moscow mayor in the Federation Council may be the elder of the State Duma, former secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and candidate for membership in the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee in the mid-1980s, chairman of the Moscow Council of Veterans, 88-year-old Vladimir Dolgikh. A source in the capital's mayor's office told Vedomosti about this, and a person close to the presidential administration confirmed it.

Queen Elizabeth II's grandson Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, will soon leave the Royal Air Force, Kensington Palace has announced. According to the BBC, the prince completed his last shift as a rescue helicopter pilot last Tuesday. He has served in the air force for more than seven years. The prince will now focus on his duties as a member of the royal family and his work in the field of charity.

The city authorities will hold a new auction to sell 40% of the shares of the Oktyabr Cinema Center, Interfax reported, citing the press service of the Moscow Department for Competition Policy. This is already the third attempt to find a new owner for the city package. The Oktyabr Cinema was built in 1967 on Kalininsky Prospekt (now Novy Arbat). It was considered one of the main cinema centers of the USSR. In 1998, a large-scale reconstruction of Oktyabr began.

In a recent major development in Chinese justice, six officials of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party were charged with the premeditated murder of their suspect, Yu Qiyi, the chief engineer of Wenzhou Industry Investment Group. Yu was captured by the commission in early March; on April 9, his wife was informed that he had died in an accident, and a body bearing signs of torture was later handed over.

There were so many violations that it is impossible to determine the will of Muscovites, Navalny is sure / Sergey Kuznetsov / RIA Novosti Alexei Navalny, who came in second in the Moscow mayoral elections, will file a lawsuit today with the Moscow City Court to cancel the elections and another 951 applications to district courts demanding that the voting results at individual polling stations be cancelled. "We are transporting about 50,000 pages on a truck," Navalny wrote on his blog.

Ksenia Yudaeva, who left her post as head of the Kremlin's Expert Directorate this week and was appointed first deputy chairperson of the Central Bank of Russia, has been relieved of her duties as Russia's sherpa in the G20, according to an order from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yudaeva was appointed Sherpa in August 2012 and took an active part in the preparation and holding of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg.

On Tuesday, the main event of the year in the world of information technology took place - at least in the eyes of the average person: Apple, the most valuable public company in the world, presented a new version of its best-selling iPhone. Everyone understands perfectly well why even those who can't stand Apple products or are not interested in mobile phones at all follow the annual announcements of new iPhones.

The international rating agency Fitch Ratings has lowered its forecast for copper and nickel prices for the next two years amid slowing demand growth in China and weak recovery in European markets. In 2013, according to the agency's estimates, copper on the London Metal Exchange will cost an average of $7,250 per ton. Previously, copper prices were expected to be $7,500 per ton. In 2014, a decline in quotations to $7,000 per ton is expected.

Land reclamation systems help reduce village dependence on weather / Sergey Venyavsky / RIA Novosti Asian fund ADM Capital has invested $30 million in a land reclamation project in southern Russia, the press service of another co-investor in the project, OJSC North Caucasus Development Corporation (NCDC, a 100% subsidiary of state-owned Vnesheconombank), reported. The project is being implemented by Irrico, a company created by VTB Capital.

I wonder why there is no online store in Russian IKEA, but in English-speaking countries there is? Like, in the old fashioned way, will they come to our store and impulsively buy a bunch of other things?

EBRD may become shareholder of Amtel Properties The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plans to invest up to $50 million in the authorized capital of Amtel Properties and obtain a significant minority stake in it, the bank said in a statement.

The former head of the bankrupt Kamchatka Bank, Yuri Petrov , was detained in Cyprus with the assistance of Interpol. reported this Interfax to A source in law enforcement agencies of the Kamchatka Territory . According to him, Petrov is suspected of committing theft on an especially large scale. The suspect had property in Cyprus, where he was hiding from justice, the agency’s interlocutor added.

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September 12, 2013, 00:00 Billions from the Arabs The United Arab Emirates will invest $5 billion in Russian infrastructure - in the construction of roads, bridges and ports.

On September 10, at the office of Agroprom, a sub-holding of Oboronservis specializing in food supplies to the Armed Forces, investigators from the Main Military Investigative Directorate (GVSU) of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation seized documents related to the sale in early 2012 of shares in Orlovskoye OJSC, the owner of a large land plot in the Shchyolkovsky District of the Moscow Region near Star City.