Mikhail Khodorkovsky / PhotoXPress Mikhail Khodorkovsky may have been the person who ordered the murder of Nefteyugansk Mayor Vladimir Petukhov in 1998; the investigation has been reopened due to newly discovered circumstances, Vladimir Markin, a representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, reported on Tuesday: "According to operational information that has come to the Investigative Committee's disposal, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of YUKOS, may have acted as the

As usual, Terminator crawls to victory not without losses. But his software is stronger than his hard drive / kinopoisk.ru He smiles. He jokes. He says he's old but useful. He promised to come back – and here he is. In Genisys, director Alan Taylor diligently quotes the first two – classic – episodes, filmed by James Cameron in 1984 and 1991. A naked young Schwarzenegger materializes in a wasteland at night among the garbage, meets some hooligans and says: take off your clothes.

The Bank of Russia has set the official exchange rates of the dollar and euro to the ruble on July 1. According to Prime , the dollar exchange rate will be 55.8413 rubles. for $1, that’s 31.73 kopecks. higher than today's figure. The euro exchange rate will be 62.3803 rubles. for 1 euro, that’s 85.97 kopecks. higher than today's figure. The cost of the bi-currency basket (0.55 dollars and 0.45 euros), calculated at official rates, amounted to 58.7838 rubles.

The death toll from the crash of an air force plane in a residential area of ​​Medan, Sumatra, in Indonesia has risen to 49, Reuters reports . The C-130 Hercules military transport plane had 113 passengers on board, not 12 as previously reported, and it crashed not on a hospital, but on a hotel and residential buildings. Indonesian Air Force Chief of Staff Agus Supriatna told local Metro TV that, according to preliminary information, no one survived.

The European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU have reached an agreement to abolish roaming charges. "Breakthrough! Roaming charges eliminated by the end of 2017. Open internet for all. We have reached a political agreement," wrote EU Commissioner for Digital Economy Günther Oettinger on social media. "A big thank you to the Latvian EU Presidency and to everyone involved in the negotiations to reach this agreement," he wrote on social media.

June 30, 2015, 00:33 / Finance Alfa Bank for the first time in a long time made a failure in card servicing Large clients claim that they did not notice anything Anna Eremina Svetlana A. Petrova Maria Kiseleva Alfa Bank for the first time in a long time made a failure in card servicing / M. Stulov / Vedomosti Yesterday, one of the largest retail banks in Russia, Alfa Bank, experienced a failure, due to which Internet services and card acceptance were suspended.

June 29, 2015, 11:56 pm / Business Biosimilar developer Samsung Bioepis plans IPO The company estimates itself at $8 billion Anastasia Demidova Drug developer Samsung Bioepis plans to list shares on the stock exchange in about a year / D. Abramov / Vedomosti Samsung Bioepis, specializing in the development of biosimilars, announced plans to hold an IPO on NASDAQ, writes the Financial Times (FT), citing South Korean media.

A selection of the most interesting publications in the publications co-founders of Vedomosti dated June 30, 2014. Politics Iran has sent two senior officials to talks over its nuclear program in an attempt to make progress. But US diplomats say the parties will not be able to reach an agreement before the June 30 deadline.

June 30, 2015, 14:37 / Business Mechel held a meeting of shareholders One of the most heavily indebted metallurgical companies in Russia re-elected the board of directors and approved dividends on preferred shares Vitaly Petleva Mechel held an annual meeting of shareholders / D. Grishkin / Vedomosti is now Mechel negotiating with the three largest creditors on loan restructuring.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker made a new proposal to Athens “at the last minute” in an attempt to reach an agreement on the debt issue, Reuters has learned .

China has begun building its section of the Power of Siberia pipeline Construction of a branch of the Power of Siberia pipeline has begun in China, which will supply gas to China via the so-called eastern route. A 30-year contract for the supply of up to 38 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to China was signed in May 2014. Gazprom has already begun developing the primary supply base – the Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia – and building a 2,200-kilometer gas pipeline from it to Blagoveshchensk.

On the night of June 30, a fire broke out in the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow, the fire broke out on the second floor of the building on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. The area of ​​the fire was 70 square meters. The fire was assigned the second level of complexity, with the maximum being fifth.

June 30, 2015, 00:44 / Business The administration of St. Petersburg is increasing its influence in Lenenergo A top manager of a network energy company owned by the city, Dmitry Gorshenin , has been appointed to the position of general director of the company. Three more energy companies will join Lenenergo / E.

June 29, 2015, 23:30 / Business Norilsk Nickel and Millhouse are discussing a joint project Norilsk Nickel can participate in the development of the Peschanka copper deposit in the Baimskaya area Alexander Terentyev Vitaly Petlevoy The companies of Roman Abramovich (in the foreground) and Vladimir Potanin can jointly develop a large copper deposit / Ruslan Krivobok / RIA Novosti Such a project may be of interest to Norilsk Nickel , says Gazprombank analyst Ayrat Khalikov.

The election campaign for the upcoming elections on September 13, 2015, has started in all regions – the last mass voting before the regional and federal elections of 2016. Let us try to summarize the main legal and political features of the campaign that has begun. For the first time in a long time, preparations for the elections were not accompanied by significant changes to the electoral legislation itself.