The bodies of four victims, including two children, were found after a fire that broke out in a two-apartment residential building in the village of Balyksa in Khakassia was extinguished, the press service of the republican government reported. "While clearing the rubble, firefighters discovered four dead people - a mother born in 1976, two children born in 2013, and a man born in 1971.

On Tuesday afternoon, rescuers pulled the body of a woman from under the rubble of a four-story residential building in the Sovetsky district of Volgograd that was partially destroyed as a result of an explosion, Interfax reported from the scene. Earlier it was reported that two people were killed and nine were injured as a result of the explosion. In the Sovietsky district of Volgograd on Universitetsky Prospekt there was a domestic gas explosion in a four-story residential building.

May 16, 2017, 17:29 / Economics Food imports to Russia have decreased by 1.7 times over three years Vedomosti Food imports to Russia have decreased by 1.7 times over three years, while domestic production in the agricultural sector is growing. This statement was made by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting of the government commission on import substitution.

May 16, 2017, 19:35 / Economics Moody's predicts continued sanctions against Russia for the foreseeable future Vedomosti International sanctions against Russia will not be lifted in the near future, believes Dietmar Hornung, head of the European sovereign ratings department at the Moody's rating agency. “According to our base case, sanctions will remain in place for the foreseeable future,” Hornung said in an interview with Bloomberg .

May 16, 2017, 13:07 / Business Ex-president of A1 Alexander Vinokurov has a second joint project with Rostec His “Marathon Pharma” agreed to buy control in the pharmaceutical company “Fort” Maria Dranishnikova Anastasia Ivanova The Marathon Pharma group, part of the Marathon Group investment company of Alexander Vinokurov, agreed to purchase a controlling stake in Fort LLC / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti The Marathon Pharma group, part of the Marathon Group investment company of former A1

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Forbes magazine has compiled a rating of the 20 most commercially successful Russian directors for the first time. The main criterion for success was the difference between the amount spent on the production of a film and the box office receipts. Films made after 2000 were used to compile the rating. Timur Bekmambetov took first place, whose films brought in $430 million.

Opposition loses badly to Merkel's party in key state / Martin Meissner / AP The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) achieved its worst result in 60 years in the key state of North Rhine-Westphalia in local elections on Sunday. They were called a decisive test for SPD candidate Martin Schulz, the main rival of Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel. These elections in Germany's most populous state are the last before the Bundestag elections on September 24.

The increase in the number of small enterprises and individual entrepreneurs in Russia has not led to an increase in employment. On the contrary, the number of employees in small and medium-sized businesses has decreased, the majority of those laid off went to the informal sector, the Accounts Chamber (CA) report notes. The joint venture analyzed the effectiveness of using budget funds to support small and medium-sized businesses.

May 16, 2017, 15:26 / Finance The national reinsurer is preparing for an IPO The company plans to triple net profit and double capital by 2021 Tatyana Lomskaya The Russian National Reinsurance Company (RNRC) should be ready for an IPO by 2021 / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti By 2021, RNPK plans to become the leader of the Russian reinsurance market: at least 15% of all major risks of outgoing reinsurance will be transferred to it, and its share in the incoming reinsurance market will exceed 40%.

May 16, 2017, 01:11 / Business Exclusively by subscription Consumers refused to buy summer clothes due to snowfalls in May Retailers hope for warming that has begun Natalya Ishchenko Muscovites did not expect snow in May / Andrey Makhonin / Vedomosti March spoiled us with warmth, and Muscovites perceived the return of cold weather in April as a tragedy,” said Roman Vilfand, director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia (quoted by Interfax).

May 16, 2017, 00:58 / Finance Pension funds and management companies were not given a deferment on ratings Bonds without ACRA and RAEX ratings will not be taken into account in their capital from July 14 Ilya Usov Emma Terchenko Pension funds and management companies were not given a deferment on ratings / M.

The Russian Ministry of Health explained why the agency’s data on HIV incidence differs from the data of the head of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, Vadim Pokrovsky.

Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword flops at box office / Warner Bros. Guy Ritchie's sprawling film about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table didn't even make $15 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. The premiere audience gave the film an average B+ on the CinemaScore scale. Critics were harsher: the film press aggregator Rotten Tomatoes showed only 27% positive reviews.

Lawyer Sergei Badamshin reported that Vyacheslav Maltsev's case had disappeared from the court. "The Tverskoy Court has lost the materials on Vyacheslav Maltsev's arrest. What good guys," he wrote on Twitter. In an interview with Mediazona, a court representative declined to comment on the situation. Later, the court's press service denied the disappearance of the case materials and added that Mediazona employees had contacted the wrong person for a comment.