Comparing a city with a book and with a text is banal and within the framework of human culture as old as Homer. Yes, the urban environment is similar to writing - builders and city residents have been writing this text for years and centuries, reading it, editing it, changing fonts and formats. Ancient cities are like endless chronicles, modern ones are like fashionable printing or even Internet design.

During the morning rush hour of May 31, a car bomb exploded in central Kabul. A powerful explosion occurred at 8.25 am local time in the “embassy quarter”, nearby is the presidential palace and the embassies of the USA, Great Britain, Iran, Turkey and China. The car that was blown up was located in Zahnbak Square, the BBC reports . As told Kabul police spokesman Basir Mujahid Reuters, the entrance to the German Embassy was closest to the site of the explosion.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has banned Russian cultural figures Nikita Mikhalkov, Stanislav Govorukhin, Nadezhda Babkina, Mikhail Zadornov, Irina Alferova, Alexey Panin and Leonid Yarmolnik from entering Ukraine. This is stated in the official response of the special service to a request from the activist of the public movement "Vidsich" Maksym Kovbik, published on Facebook .

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared five employees of the Moldovan diplomatic mission persona non grata and ordered them to leave the country within three days. The Russian department announced its decision to Moldavian Minister-Counselor Nikolai Myina on May 31.

Rostelecom bought 83% of the bond issue for 4.1 billion rubles under an offer. Rostelecom acquired 4.14 million series BO-01 bonds for 4.14 billion rubles as part of the offer, buying out 83% of the bonds of this issue. The placement of ten-year series BO-01 bonds in the amount of 5 billion rubles took place in May 2014. The current coupon rate is 8.4% per annum.

Gazprom’s requirements to Naftogaz of Ukraine under the “take or pay” condition have been completely canceled. This was reported to Interfax by the press service of the state holding with reference to the chairman of the board of Naftogaz, Andrei Kobolev. Read on vedomosti.ru Earlier on Wednesday it became known that Naftogaz received a separate decision from the Stockholm Tribunal in proceedings against Gazprom under a gas supply contract.

Former US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was ousted amid allegations of ties to Russia, has agreed to testify before a Senate committee investigating Moscow's alleged influence on the US election. He will begin testifying on June 6 and intends to cooperate with the committee as much as possible, as long as it does not infringe on his constitutional rights, a source told Bloomberg.

Four missiles were launched from the frigate Admiral Essen and the submarine Krasnodar. The targets were militant hideouts in the area east of Palmyra, where ISIS members and their military equipment were located. The Defense Ministry reports that all targets were hit.

Moscow intends to sell some of the housing that will be built under the renovation program in order to find money to implement this program. This was stated to TASS by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. "We must take into account that one part of the housing will be used for resettlement, and the other will be sold in order to compensate the budget for at least part of the costs," he said.

Moscow authorities have long been trying to get rid of the excess wires between residential buildings / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti Management companies do not have the right to prohibit operators from working in residential buildings who have not obtained the consent of two-thirds of the homeowners. This follows from the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, which rejected the claim of the State Budgetary Institution Zhilishchnik of the Chertanovo Tsentralnoye District against VimpelCom.

One of the largest Russian agricultural holdings, Rusagro , reported a net loss of 410 million rubles. based on the results of the first quarter. A year earlier, the company made a profit during the same period. The fact is that in the first quarter of 2017, the ruble was stronger than in the first quarter of 2016, by more than 28%, the company’s message quotes CEO Maxim Basov. The strengthening of the ruble reduced the margins of all business units, explains Basov.

May 31, 2017, 14:54 / Politics Peskov: Putin’s decree on Turkey does not apply to restrictions on the supply of tomatoes undefined Vedomosti The decree “On the abolition of certain special economic measures in relation to the Turkish Republic” signed by President Vladimir Putin does not apply to previously imposed restrictions on the supply of Turkish tomatoes to Russia. This was announced on Wednesday by presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

Vedomosti got acquainted with the presentation on the Central Social Development Strategy for economic development in 2018–2024, which its head Alexei Kudrin presented at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. The authenticity of the document was confirmed by a federal official. The “Growth Strategy” of the Stolypin Club was also discussed at the meeting (see inset).

May 31, 2017, 00:41 / Business Exclusively by subscription Denis Goleschikhin appointed Director of Tele2 Retail He headed the North-Western branch of Euroset for seven years Maria Buravtseva Denis Goleschikhin has been appointed as the new director of the Tele2 retail division / LinkedIn Denis Goleschikhin has been appointed as the new director of the Tele2 retail division, said Tele2 Russia representative Konstantin Prokshin. The appointment took place on May 22, he clarified.

Exhibition of Innovations 2017 nominees is being held at the Museum of Architecture / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The 2017 Innovation State Prize ceremony in contemporary art was held at the Moscow Planetarium. After the official part, the guests of the festival were allowed to look at the stars through a telescope, but many ignored this opportunity and talked to each other and about their own things.