Skripal was granted asylum in the UK in 2010 following a spy swap between the US and Russia over the Anna Chapman case / Misha Japaridze / AP British police have revealed new details of the investigation into the poisoning of former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury. The investigation believes that the victims first came into contact with an unknown nerve agent near the front door of the house where Skripal lived.

Residents and the administration of Kemerovo must decide the fate of the site where the burned-out shopping center "Winter Cherry" is located, a representative of the press service of the co-owner of the shopping center, the company "Konditerus com", told RIA Novosti.

Among the representatives of Russian diplomatic missions expelled by Western countries are foreign intelligence officers, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin told journalists. "Among the employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs there are official representatives of our service, security officers, very few.

March 28, 2018, 08:34 / Business Russian online retailers proposed checking children's goods from abroad at the border undefined Vedomosti The Association of Internet Trade Companies (AKIT) proposed that the Federal Customs Service introduce additional requirements for the shipment of children's goods, writes Kommersant . It is proposed to check the safety certificates of goods coming from foreign online retailers right at the border. Just an experiment for now.

March 28, 2018, 14:59 / Finance The Central Bank does not intend to sell “people’s” OFZs through the financial marketplace undefined Vedomosti The Central Bank does not plan to include federal loan bonds for the population (OFZ-n) in the list of financial marketplace products, said First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Shvetsov.

I have just finished a book in which I delved into the world of Russian-British spy stories during the Cold War. I followed how double agents crossed borders, caused problems for British prime ministers and (if they were Russian) died premature deaths. British traitors, especially aristocratic ones, usually got away with it. Little has changed since then. Former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are in critical condition in Salisbury, victims of a Soviet-era nerve agent.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow, at the request of the Investigative Committee, has arrested in absentia a Ukrainian prankster who spread rumors about “hundreds of victims” of the fire in the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping center, RIA Novosti reports, citing a statement by the press secretary of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, Yunona Tsareva. “The court granted the investigation’s request,” she said.

As of Tuesday evening, 26 countries, including Germany and France, the US and Canada, have announced the expulsion of a total of 121 Russian diplomats, showing solidarity with the UK, which believes that Russia is behind the poisoning of former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal. This is a direct signal to Moscow to reconsider its foreign policy – ​​but the Foreign Ministry is only preparing for retaliatory expulsions.

March 28, 2018, 21:44 / Finance The court arrested 20% of Ak Bars shares in the case of the collapsed Tatfondbank Vedomosti The Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan arrested the property of the State Housing Fund under the President of Tatarstan - 20.41% of the shares of Ak Bars Bank, Interfax reported. The arrest was imposed until May 16, during the preliminary investigation into the case of the collapsed Tatfondbank.

Deputy Governor of the Kemerovo Region Alexey Zelenin Deputy Governor of Kemerovo Region and head of the regional administration's staff Alexey Zelenin has been dismissed, TASS reported, citing a source in the regional administration. According to him, this position will be taken by First Deputy Mayor of Kemerovo Olga Turbaba. Information about Zelenin's resignation is confirmed by an Interfax source.

In March, Promsvyazbank returned “a significant part” of the funds it borrowed from the Central Bank, a bank representative said in response to questions from Vedomosti. He did not name the amount, saying only that the details would be disclosed in the March reporting. In December , Promsvyazbank attracted liquidity from the Central Bank for 298 billion rubles, from that moment the bank owed the regulator a total of more than 344 billion rubles, as follows from its reporting.

Russian diplomats, who were ordered by Ukraine to leave the country, returned home today, a representative of the Russian embassy in Kyiv told TASS. “All employees of the Russian embassy, ​​declared personae non gratae, have left Ukraine,” he said, adding that representatives of the embassy and consulates have complied with the ultimatum of the Ukrainian side.

On Wednesday, March 28, the Zavodskoy District Court of Kemerovo arrested a defendant in the criminal case about the fire in the Kemerovo shopping and entertainment center "Winter Cherry" - the manager of the shopping and entertainment center Nadezhda Suddenok, RIA Novosti reports. Suddenok was arrested for two months. She is accused of providing unsafe services. Suddenok herself said that she does not consider herself guilty. "I do not feel guilty.

On Monday, the system integrator Asteros filed a bankruptcy petition with the Moscow Arbitration Court, according to the court case file. Asteros is a large IT company. In the CNews Analytics rating of Russian IT companies for 2016, it was ranked 16th with revenue of 21.4 billion rubles. In 2014, the integrator participated in the Olympic construction and worked on a project to create security systems for the Olympic Village.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi / NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP On Wednesday evening, the three-day presidential elections in Egypt ended. The winner is known in advance: all strong rivals of the current head of state Abdel Fattah al-Sisi have been arrested or voluntarily withdrew from the elections. The issue of turnout was put at the forefront: more than half of voters did not come to the last elections. The official results will be announced on April 2 (Vedomosti).