In Yekaterinburg, a judge of the Verkh-Isetsky District Court reads out the guilty verdict against blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who "caught Pokemon" in a church and who is being tried for inciting hatred towards believers and violating the right to freedom of religion, a TASS correspondent reports . The court found the defendant guilty on all counts.

Politics Shortly before his dismissal, FBI Director James Comey became more actively involved in the investigation into alleged ties between Donald Trump's campaign headquarters and Moscow, according to people familiar with the investigation. After his resignation, congressmen became more active: a Senate committee demanded that Michael Flynn provide documents related to the investigation.

Over the past five years, more than 300 terrorist crimes have been prevented in the North Caucasus, said Alexey Pavlov, assistant secretary of the Russian Security Council. “More than 300 terrorist crimes were prevented by timely measures taken by security and law enforcement agencies,” he said. According to him, from 2012 to 2016, during special operations in the North Caucasus, more than 1,200 bandits were eliminated while providing armed resistance, including 201 gang leaders.

Boston consulting group (BCG) will prepare a new development strategy for 2016-2020 by the end of 2017. for the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML), follows from documents published on the government procurement website. According to the procurement protocol, the revised strategy will take into account the effect of the agency acquiring control over the Russian Capital Bank. The contract value is 60 million rubles.

In the near future, the relevant committees of the State Duma and the Federation Council will hold hearings on the appointment of Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Antonov as Russia's ambassador to the United States, Kommersant newspaper reports, citing sources. He may replace the current Russian ambassador to Washington, Sergei Kislyak, as early as July. Kislyak has held his post since July 2008.

A member of the Public Chamber complained about the illegal sale of SIM cards Member of the Public Chamber of Russia Pavel Sychev asked the Prosecutor General's Office and Roskomnadzor to check the legality of the sale of SIM cards of the international cellular operator Simtravel at self-service kiosks at Moscow airports. Sychev's representative reported this.

During January–March 2017, banks issued 9,306 mortgage loans in St. Petersburg (16% less than a year earlier) in the amount of 21.8 billion rubles. (-7%), according to statistics from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. North-West Sberbank increased its issuance volume by approximately 3% to 14.6 billion rubles, the number remained at the level of the first quarter of 2016 - about 7,000. Over the same period, VTB 24 recorded a decrease in issuances in St.

11 May 2017, 13:28 / Business The court ordered the Investigative Committee to grant amnesty to Yuri Shefler - defense Vedomosti The Basmanny Court declared illegal the Investigative Committee's latest refusal to grant amnesty to the owner of the alcohol company SPI Group, Yuri Shefler, accused of illegally using trademarks, the rights to which belong to the state. This was reported to TASS by his lawyers Alexander Asnis and Dmitry Kravchenko.

Investigators have brought charges of terrorism and illegal arms trafficking against three more defendants in the case of the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro: Seifulla Khakimov, Azamzhon Makhmudov, and Dilmurod Muidinov, the official representative of the Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, told Interfax. According to her, charges against the remaining suspects are planned to be brought in the near future.

Earlier, the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg reported that 15 teenagers who were members of “death groups” committed suicide in various regions of Russia.

May 11, 2017, 16:21 / Economics Russia's international reserves decreased by $2.3 billion from April 28 to May 5 Vedomosti

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May 11, 2017, 15:04 / Business The forecast for oil supplies from non-OPEC countries in 2017 has been increased by 360,000 barrels per day Vedomosti OPEC raised its forecast for the volume of oil supplies to the world market in 2017 from countries outside the cartel by 360,000 barrels per day compared to the previous report.

May 11, 2017, 00:21 / Economics Exclusively by subscription Fuel excise tax will be returned to regional roads This money is still not enough to finance them Ekaterina Mereminskaya The President instructed to return the fuel excise tax to the regions. This money is still not enough to finance regional roads / S. Porter / Vedomosti The entire excise tax on fuel and lubricants (fuel and lubricants) may be returned to regional road funds.

Chief Executive Officer of US Steel Corp. Mario Longhi will retire by the end of the week after serving in this position for less than four years, the company said in a statement. He will remain on the American steelmaker's board of directors until June 30. Longhi joined US Steel in 2012 as chief operating officer and was promoted to executive director in September 2013. Current chief operating officer David Barritt will become the new head of the company.