Crimean Tourism Minister Elena Yurchenko said that Ukrainian tourists will be able to vacation on the peninsula this summer if there are no problems at the border. The tourist season opened in Crimea on May 1, and for the first time, vacationers are traveling to the peninsula as if it were Russian territory. "Ukrainian tourists will go on vacation to Crimea this summer if there are no problems at the border," the Crimean government reported on its Twitter microblog, citing Yurchenko.

The degree of legitimacy of the president of Ukraine elected on May 25 will be incomplete, believes State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin. He explained that the elections will be held in the context of "essentially a punitive operation against several regions of the country, against two regions where about 7 million citizens of this country live" (quoted by Interfax).

GPS navigation accuracy in Russia may decline / Paul Vreeker / Reuters Russia will suspend the operation of 11 American GPS ground stations from June 1, 2014, Interfax quotes Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. These correction stations are located in Russia in accordance with Russian-American intergovernmental agreements from 1993 and 2011.

In January-March 2014, fees from life insurers, members of the Association of Life Insurers ( ALI), increased by 15% on an annual basis. This was reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to data from the insurance policy and the All-Russian Union of Insurers. Life insurance premiums increased by 40%, to 20.21 billion rubles; for other personal insurance, fees decreased by 50.3%, to 2.73 billion rubles.

Tomorrow the government will consider the macroeconomic forecast for 2014-2017. ( has a copy of the document Vedomosti ), corrected by the Ministry of Economic Development. In April, the ministry proposed stimulating the economy using the budget lever. Now it has abandoned this idea and recommends the most conservative forecast to the government as the base version.

RMA Pipeline Equipment supplies ball valves for Nord Stream project / rma-armaturen.de RMA Pipeline Equipment's subsidiary, RMA Rus LLC, is launching a plant in the Alabuga special economic zone today, Alabuga and the German company reported in a joint press release. This will be RMA Pipeline Equipment's largest plant and the first in Russia, with investments in the project amounting to 1.7 billion rubles, the press service of OAO Special Economic Zones (OAO SEZ) said in a response to Vedomosti.

May 14, 2014, 10:54 / Business John Galliano, fired from Dior for anti-Semitism, found a job at the Russian L'etoile Marie Mesropyan Famous designer John Galliano will work for the Russian chain of perfumes and cosmetics L'etoile. The company plans to announce his appointment as creative director on May 22, writes . Kommersant Currently, L'etoile, apparently, does not have the position of creative director.

American Boeing Co. will deliver 50 aircraft to Chinese air carrier Juneyao Airlines Co. The airline's budget airline division 9 Air will receive 737 and 737 Max aircraft, Boeing said in a press release. The list price of the aircraft ranges from $76 million to $109.9 million, meaning the total supply is estimated at $3.8-5.5 billion. Many of the world's major airlines, including Qantas Airways Ltd. and China Eastern Airlines Corp., are investing in China's low-cost segment, Bloomberg reports.

Tomorrow an investor was to be identified who would install and maintain a system for collecting tolls on roads from trucks weighing more than 12 tons. However, with a new order of Rosavtodor, the deadline for submitting proposals for the concession competition was extended from May 15 to June 30.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and European Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger agreed in a telephone conversation to meet in Berlin on May 19, the Russian Ministry of Energy told Interfax. During these negotiations, it is planned to reach an agreement on the place and time of the second round of trilateral negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission. Currently, Naftogaz Ukrainy's debt to Gazprom is $3.508 billion.

Actor Leonid Yarmolnik has been registered with the organizing committee of the civil initiative "My Moscow" to participate in the primaries of candidates for deputy of the Moscow City Duma. He is nominated in electoral district number 3 (Arbat, Khamovniki, Presnya) from the "Civic Platform" party. As of Monday morning, 723 potential candidates had registered to participate in the primaries, the portal moskva2014.rf reports.

A. Makhonin / Vedomosti How has the Dynamo stadium changed? In 2011, VTB Arena Park presented an updated project for the reconstruction of the Dynamo stadium and the development of nearby territories. According to the Moscow government's regulations, its total area was to be reduced by 71,000 sq. m. In 2011, the project was also divided into sports and entertainment and commercial parts. The multifunctional sports and entertainment complex with a total area of ​​350,000 sq.

May 14, 2014, 08:36 / Business UEFA has approved the voting procedure for determining the host cities of Euro 2020 In August, the executive committee will divide the applications into regional zones, each with two host cities.

Russian automaker Sollers reduced car sales in April by 16.3% compared to April last year, to 6,829 units, the company told Interfax. According to the results of four months, sales decreased by 20.3% to 22,580 units. Thus, sales of UAZ vehicles fell by 23.6% to 14,227 units, in April 4,598 units were sold (-20.6%). SsangYong vehicles sold in April totaled 2,006 units (-13%), and in four months - 7,739 units (-18%).

May 14, 2014, 12:00 AM The Ukrainian crisis has reached Kaliningrad The Canadian government demanded that Magna withdraw from the joint project with the Russian Avtotor, says its co-owner Vladimir Shcherbakov. Magna has never heard of this Vladimir Shtanov Maxim Tovkaylo Big politics intervened in the relationship between Avtotor and Magna / I.