Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping discussed the upcoming visit of the Chinese President to Moscow in Astana. "We are currently preparing the main event in bilateral relations - your visit to Russia," the Russian President said. Xi Jinping's visit is scheduled for July 3-4. Xi Jinping noted that he has held many meetings with his Russian counterpart this year.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended until September 12 the arrest of the former head of Mari El Leonid Markelov, accused of receiving a bribe of 235 million rubles. The arrest of the person involved in the case, Natalya Kozhanova, has also been extended, Interfax reports.

Lomonosov Moscow State University climbed to 95th place in QS World University Rankings / Vedomosti Lomonosov Moscow State University rose to 95th place in the world university ranking compiled by the British company Quacquarelli Symonds. A total of 965 universities were included in the QS World University Rankings 2018. In last year's ranking, Moscow State University was in 108th place. As Interfax reminds , the university has not made it into the top 100 since 2010.

Jury member poet Evgeny Bunimovich approved the search for younger colleagues in the pen / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti On the high chairs of the main stage of the book festival on Red Square sat attractive young people – poets, prose writers – and trembled – both from the icy June wind and from excitement: at the microphone they were announcing which of the finalists had won prizes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted that American Senator John McCain, known for his harsh attacks against Moscow, even likes him for his patriotism. Read on vedomosti.ru “In fact, I even like him a little bit - yes, yes, I’m not joking,” he said in an interview with the famous American director Oliver Stone, who made a documentary based on conversations with the Russian president. Four episodes of the film will be shown on the cable channel Showtime on June 12-15.

08 June 2017, 01:09 / Business X5, together with Alexander Vinokurov and Shokoladnitsa investors, want to trade at train stations and bus stations In five years they can open up to 1,000 passenger service centers Natalya Ishchenko X5 is confident: the flow of passengers at stations can be converted into rubles / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The largest Russian retailer X5 Retail Group has agreed with the private equity fund Acmero Capital and the investment company Marathon Group to develop

The mortgage rate will drop below 10% at the 2017-2018 border, and in two years will reach 6-7%, said AHML General Director Alexander Plutnik. “We must reach <...> a lending rate [on mortgages] of 6-7% throughout the country. I believe that the macroeconomic conditions are generally ripe for this,” Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at the end of May.

The EU has expanded sanctions against the DPRK, including 14 people and four companies listed in the UN Security Council resolution of June 2, 2017. Information about this is contained in the communiqué of the EU Council. Read on vedomosti.ru “The Council has added 14 individuals and four entities to the list of persons subject to asset freezes and movement restrictions, in accordance with the lists provided in UN Security Council Resolution 2356,” the EU Council said.

On June 6, the Court of the Southern District of Florida upheld the claim of MTS Bank against the owner and former chairman of the board of directors of Transaero airline Alexander Pleshakov (59.48% at the end of 2016), former first deputy general director of Transaero Alexander Krinichansky and the Florida company Sky Ocean International. Pleshakov is the beneficiary and employee of the latter.

The Arbitration Court of Bashkortostan has ordered the trial of the claim of Rosneft, Bashneft and Bashkortostan, which joined them, against AFK Sistema for 170.6 billion rubles, which is scheduled for June 27, to provide evidence of the sale of oil and petroleum products at prices in dollars USA. Read on vedomosti.ru The essence of Rosneft’s claims: from the reorganization of Bashkir assets by Sistema in 2014, a negative effect of 106.6 billion rubles arose.

"Russia tried to influence the way we think, the way we vote, the way we act" during the 2016 US presidential campaign, former FBI Director James Comey told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. He called her intervention a "big deal" because Americans may argue bitterly with each other on a variety of issues, but regardless of their political preferences, they want no outside interference in how their democratic system works.

Tour operators are advised to abandon problematic VIM-Avia flights / E. Razumny / Vedomosti The head of Rostourism, Oleg Safonov, called on tour operators to abandon the problematic flights of VIM-Avia and establish cooperation with other carriers. He said this at a meeting of the headquarters to resolve the situation with the delay of VIM-Avia flights.

I'm ashamed of my degree On the article “Degree of Management” (No. 99 of 06/02/2017, p. 06) I have been familiar with the system of defending academic degrees for over 30 years. I know it from the inside. As a young graduate student, I helped my elders a lot in organizing defenses, brought and took away members of councils, reviewers, and heard all sorts of things for the rest of my life back in the 80s. The bad smell appeared even earlier.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' believes that 200 new churches will not be able to accommodate all the believers of the capital. “Only now are we beginning to realize that 200 will not be enough. We are just opening the temple, but there is no room there,” he said on Thursday at an audience with the heads of diplomatic missions of Latin American countries in Moscow. The Patriarch said that within the framework of the “Program 200”, 40 churches have already been opened in the capital.

The Patek Philippe Triple Complication, which journalists called “Putin’s watch,” was auctioned at the Antiquorum auction house and was indeed bought by “a very important person as a gift to a man named Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.” to the BBC Russian Service This was reported by a representative of Monaco Legends, which is holding the auction. He said that the warranty card for the watch said that it belonged to a person named that.