After the rally against the isolation of the RuNet ended in Moscow, police and Rosgvardia officers detained at least 13 people, OVD-Info reports . Thus, at the moment, 29 people are known to have been detained (16 people were taken to the police station before the rally began). It has not yet been reported whether administrative violation reports have been drawn up against the detainees. According to OVD-Info, they are being given preventive talks and forced to write explanatory notes.

March 10, 2019, 20:12 / Lifestyle In “Rusalka” the Bolshoi Theater brought muteness to the stage Director Timofey Kulyabin used his favorite technique, rinsing it with water and Dvorak music Petr Pospelov On the top floor of the scenographic structure of “The Mermaid” a fairy tale is played out, on the lower floor - modernity / Damir Yusupov / Bolshoi Theater Dvorak’s modern opera (1901) has never been staged at the Bolshoi Theater: solely because Russia has its own “Rusalka” - a romantic opera

Last week, MTS agreed with the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on a fine for corruption in Uzbekistan. The settlement agreement will cost the operator $850 million. American officials are convinced that the company gave bribes to structures close to the daughter of the ex-president of Uzbekistan, Gulnara Karimova. This maneuver does not seem to have helped MTS.

March 10, 2019, 21:14 / Business / Interviews and profiles Director General of the Azerbaijan Tourism Bureau: this country is more of a unique experience than mass tourism Florian Sengstschmid - about the tourism brand of Azerbaijan, stereotypes and how to develop tourism in conditions of political conflict Anna Shilova Florian Sengstschmid / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti According to forecasts of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), by 2028 Azerbaijan will become the first CIS country in

In most regions where governors of the new formation were appointed (they are also called young technocrats; appointments began in the fall of 2016), indicators of socio-political stability did not change or even turned out to be worse than under their predecessors. This is evidenced by the calculations of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation, which, at the request of Vedomosti, compared the sustainability indicators of the regions before and after the new appointments.

Russian Internet trolls are again trying to interfere in political processes in the United States, this time their target is the 2020 presidential election, Bloomberg writes , citing cybersecurity experts. At the same time, the trolls decided to change their strategy, the agency’s interlocutors noted: now, instead of creating their own content, they began to intensify political disagreements on social networks using comments from fake accounts.

There were three Russians on board the Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in Ethiopia on March 10, the airline said. There were 149 passengers and eight crew members from 33 countries on board, including citizens of the UK and China, an Ethiopian Airlines representative said at a press conference (his words were reported by RIA Novosti and TASS ). There were no survivors in the plane crash.

March 10, 2019, 23:08 / Economics Chambers rating: Russian lawyers replace foreign ones Sanctions gave domestic players a head start Philip Sterkin Elizaveta Bazanova Anton Vaganov / Reuters To stay in place, you need to run twice as fast - this is perhaps the most popular description of the situation among lawyers. Uncertainty has long been a certainty of the Russian economy, and law firms are adapting to it.

Participants of the event spoke out against the bill on the sovereign internet / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti On March 10, a rally against the isolation of the RuNet was held on Academician Sakharov Avenue in Moscow. The event was organized by the Libertarian Party. The participants of the event spoke out against the bill on a sovereign Internet, which was adopted by the State Duma in the first reading in February.

Stone Hedge's portfolio is small, but most of the properties are in the center of Moscow / Tribeca Apartments The development company Stone Hedge has acquired a 0.6-hectare land plot at 30 1st Yamskogo Polya Street from the PSN Group, a representative of the buyer told Vedomosti and a representative of PSN confirmed. The parties are not disclosing the terms of the deal. Colliers International partner Vladimir Sergunin estimates the site at 500 million rubles.

March 10, 2019, 11:26 pm / Opinions How bad people get into the civil service The arrests of Arashukov and Gorring were the result of selective work of personnel filters Pavel Aptekar Scandals involving officials and parliamentarians arrested on suspicion of serious crimes reflect failures in the work of government personnel services, which do not act as a filter to prevent dubious candidates from entering responsible positions.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov thanked the participants of the rally against the isolation of the Runet, which took place on March 10 in Moscow and some other Russian cities. “More than 15,000 people came to today’s rally for free Internet in Moscow. Despite the opposition, the rally became one of the largest in Russia over the past 7 years. Thanks to all participants - for the Telegram team this is a sign that we should continue digital resistance,” Durov wrote on Telegram.

March 10, 2019, 23:03 / Business RDIF and Mubadala began new negotiations on the purchase of a stake in the oil services company EDC Despite the failure of the deal with Schlumberger, the partners want to receive up to 30% of the shares of the Russian company Vitaly Petlevoy If the US imposes sanctions against new Russian oil projects, the role of Russian drilling companies could increase sharply / EDC The proposal by RDIF and the Mubadala fund from the United Arab Emirates to purchase 16.1% in

Over the past six months, foreign currency deposit rates have been growing. Moreover, the largest retail banks offered depositors some of the most favorable conditions for foreign currency investments. The rates of dollar deposits in some banks from the top 10 in terms of the size of the portfolio of attracted funds from the population reached 3.5–4% per annum. But in March the situation began to change.

The law on punishment for “disrespect” of the authorities in various forms, which was quickly developed and quickly adopted, fits firmly and reliably into the already constructed structure of relations between the modern Russian authorities and that part of society that has not yet reached the zenith of love for its representatives. The stake on force is not the first time – but there have been, it seems, many opportunities to see the ineffectiveness of such an approach.