The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts has announced a fundraiser to purchase an ancient Egyptian staff for 6 million rubles for its collection. This was reported by the museum's press service, Interfax reports. "The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts announces a fundraiser for the purchase of a magic wand - a unique monument of ancient Egyptian art from the Middle Kingdom (19th-18th centuries BC) from the collection of K. G. Danelia," the press release says.

Jason Brown, CEO of advertising agency Brown, Parker & DeMarinis Advertising, paused from his speech and looked around the meeting room: most of those present were fiddling with their smartphones. Brown lost his temper and issued an order to the company prohibiting people from coming to meetings with phones, threatening violators with dismissal. It was two years ago, Brown recalls. Since then, he has been waging war on smartphone use in the office.

Bulgaria cannot buy new fighters from Russia due to NATO membership, Bulgarian President Rumen Radeev said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper. “Bulgaria has announced its intentions to modernize its air force through the purchase of a new type of combat aircraft.

May 20, 2018, 11:37 pm / Finance Exclusively by subscription What happened to Rosselkhozbank under Dmitry Patrushev The new Minister of Agriculture sorted out some of the bank's old problems, but was never able to turn it into a universal one.

Appointments to the Russian presidential administration have not yet been made, confirmed Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president. "This is not de jure mandatory," the Kremlin spokesman said.

Best Picture director Hirokazu Kore-eda and jury chair Cate Blanchett / Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP PHOTO At the beginning of the Japanese film Shoplifters by Hirokazu Kore-eda, a father and son who are engaged in petty theft return home and notice a freezing girl, apparently locked on the balcony by her parents.

May 21, 2018, 21:20 / Business Renova is ready to sell the electric power company T Plus This is the third time the asset has been offered to Gazpromenergoholding Artur Toporkov Polina Trifonova Vitaly Petlevoy In 16 regions of the country, T Plus owns 61 power plants with a total capacity of 15.7 GW. / PJSC "T Plus" Renova, owned by Viktor Vekselberg, has returned to the idea of ​​selling T Plus to Gazprom's structure, Gazpromenergoholding, Interfax reported, citing two sources.

Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD) Yuri Trutnev proposed to Vladimir Putin to increase maternity capital for residents of the region by 30%. This was reported by the Kommersant newspaper. The initiative is part of a package of proposals from the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Far Eastern Federal District aimed at increasing the social attractiveness of the Far East.

May 21, 2018, 20:12 / Business Starbucks clarifies new rules for customer access to cafes undefined Vedomosti Despite a new customer policy that allows people to stay in the coffee shop even if they don't buy anything, Starbucks employees may ask some customers to leave the coffee shop if they misbehave, a company executive told The Wall Street Journal.

Russian air defenses have thwarted an attack by drones carrying small bombs near the city of Jableh, located several kilometers from the Russian Khmeimim airbase. This was reported by the pro-government resource Muraselon . According to this information, four missiles were launched at the drones, shooting them down as they approached Khmeimim. There have been no official comments from the Russian Ministry of Defense yet.

Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky, reappointed to this post by President Vladimir Putin on May 18, said that his department is on the right track and promised to work "even better." He made this statement after Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets introduced him to the ministry staff, Interfax reports. Golodets wished the official creative success. She noted that Russia occupies a leading position in the world in the sphere of culture. "This imposes a special responsibility on creative people.

There are still quite a lot of people in Russia who had the misfortune of being born before 1967. The Russian government is not really being kind to them, including in terms of pension prospects; for example, these citizens were immediately cut off from the pension reform as soon as it began. For a while it was unclear: maybe it was a good thing that they turned it off? Now everything is back to normal.

The Russian Defense Ministry will hold a robot biathlon, "Robobiathlon," at the "Young Robotics" conference in November. This is stated in a statement from the department received by the editorial office of Vedomosti. Participants will have to design and program robots in advance, and during the competition they will control them remotely. The robots will overcome slopes, overpasses and water obstacles, the report says. The department does not specify what prize awaits the winner.

Samolet Dve Stolitsy is part of the Samolet Group. Its main owner is the brother of Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov, Maxim / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Samolet Dve Stolitsy signed an agreement with the Absolut group of Alexander Svetakov on the joint development of a land plot of almost 11 hectares in Nekrasovka, two sources close to both companies told Vedomosti.

May 21, 2018, 13:57 / Economics Medvedev called on the government to speed up the search for money to implement Putin’s decree undefined Vedomosti Sources of financing for President Vladimir Putin’s new May decree must be determined as quickly as possible, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at the first meeting with the new composition of deputy prime ministers. “It is extremely important to decide on finances.