The St. Petersburg police are checking the “Example of Intonation” cinema support fund, the founder of which is director Alexander Sokurov. The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region reported this to Interfax. The inspection takes place “based on a citizen’s statement about possible illegal actions” of the fund, the department noted.

The cause of the helicopter crash carrying Leicester football club president Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was a technical fault, said the UK's Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) . According to experts, the helicopter's mechanism connecting the pedals in the cockpit with the tail rotor has switched off. This caused the helicopter to become uncontrollable, veer uncontrollably to the right and then crash to the ground, the AAIB said .

The nationwide vote on new names for 47 Russian airports has finished, but the process is not over: the final choice will be made by the president. This is a vivid metaphor for modern Russian democracy: the illusion of choice for citizens, but the real choice is up to the top officials, who consider it necessary to approve even minor decisions.

A structure of Sberbank - Sberbank Investments - acquired 10.18% of ordinary shares of Uralkali, the bank and the company reported on Thursday. The bank bought the package from the Cypriot Rinsoco Trading, whose beneficiary is Dmitry Lobyak. Sberbank has significant experience investing in the fertilizer sector. Purchasing Uralkali shares is attractive because it will provide a significant return on investment, says a Sberbank representative.

The Supervisory Board of Rosselkhozbank approved the terms of an additional issue of ordinary shares of the bank in the amount of 20 billion rubles. The securities will be placed by private subscription in favor of the state, TASS reports with reference to materials from the credit institution. In total, the bank is going to place 20,000 shares worth 1 million rubles. a piece. The shares will be purchased by the Federal Property Management Agency.

Technologies The New Times magazine appealed a fine of 22 million rubles to the Moscow City Court 06.12.2018 The New Times magazine appealed the fine of 22.25 million rubles in cassation in the Moscow City Court. This was announced by lawyer Vadim Prokhorov, TASS reports . According to him, in the complaint the defense asks the court to cancel the “severe fine” due to the insignificance of the violations. The deadline for paying the fine expires on January 20, 2019, Prokhorov noted.

December 06, 2018, 00:05 / Economics Exclusively by subscription Inflation in 2018 will exceed the Central Bank's target And it will be significantly higher than the government’s forecast Tatyana Lomskaya Annual inflation in Russia has come close to the Central Bank’s target of 4% and will exceed it at the end of the year / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti Inflation in November could accelerate to 3.9% in annual terms from October’s 3.5%, according to weekly data from Rosstat.

December 06, 2018, 11:34 / Business Transneft will demand that Rosneft compensate for losses from the downtime of the oil pipeline undefined Vedomosti Transneft . will demand compensation for losses associated with the downtime of the pipeline from the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline system to the Komsomolsk oil refinery of Rosneft This was stated by the president of the pipeline monopoly Nikolai Tokarev. He estimated losses at 1.5 billion rubles.

10-point traffic jams do not happen in Moscow every day, Deputy Mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov said in an interview with autonews.ru. Indeed, they do not happen every day, but they do happen regularly. Liksutov explains them by the fact that from 2010 to 2017, the number of cars in Moscow increased by 1.5 times - by 2.4 million units.

The University of the Prosecutor General's Office has compiled a profile of the average bribe-taker, said department official Alexander Kurennoy. According to him, the data was obtained as a result of a survey of those convicted under articles of corruption, but he did not speak in more detail about Kurennaya’s research methodology. The traits of real corrupt officials do not correspond to traditional ideas about them.

The US Navy is preparing to send its ship to the Black Sea in response to Russian aggression in the Kerch Strait, CNN reports , citing sources from among the officials. According to them, the US military asked the State Department to inform the Turkish authorities about possible plans to send warships to the Black Sea. According to the Montreux Doctrine, military vessels of non-Black Sea countries can stay there for no more than 21 days.

The conditions of detention in the special detention center for human rights activist and leader of the movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev comply with the law, but cause him “serious suffering.” This was stated by Andrei Babushkin, a member of the Human Rights Council who visited him, Interfax reports. Ponomarev is kept in a cell with 12 places, it is cramped and there are people who smoke, Babushkin said.

On December 3, Russian lawyers celebrated their professional holiday, formalized by presidential decree in 2008. The Russian holiday calendar can tell a lot about the peculiarities of the legal profession in the country. If teachers, doctors, miners or builders have only one holiday a year, then lawyers working for the state can be congratulated two, or even 3-4 times a year.

One of the Google trainees accidentally pressed the wrong button during training and placed a test ad for a yellow rectangle on the Internet, and then placed it on an online auction at a price ten times higher than normal, reports . the Financial Times According to the publication, Google trained several interns to use the electronic advertising system.

06 December 2018, 12:36 / Economics Medvedev called pension reform the most difficult decision of the authorities in ten years undefined Vedomosti Raising the retirement age has become the most difficult decision for the Russian authorities in the last 10 years, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with five Russian television channels. “Let’s be honest, this was the most difficult decision of the authorities in the last decade,” Medvedev admitted.