The UAE plans to buy a Soyuz spacecraft from Roscosmos to launch two cosmonauts into Earth orbit, said in an interview with RIA Novosti Roscosmos executive director for manned space programs Sergei Krikalev . According to him, the flight of UAE astronauts is possible no earlier than in two years. Read on vedomosti.ru “The UAE is planning to organize a specialized manned mission, which will require a ship. We are talking about the purchase...

Boeing and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) want the updated software of the 737 Max aircraft to be approved by an international, rather than American, panel of experts. In their opinion, this is necessary to restore confidence in this model after plane crashes in Indonesia in October 2018 and in Ethiopia in March 2019. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing representatives of the aviation industry and American officials familiar with the plans companies. Some U.S.

Varvara Grankova In the first three months of 2019, the salaries of Russian workers increased by an average of 3–3.5%, according to the HeadHunter Salary Data Bank project. The calculations were based on salary data from 800 companies. For the first time, logistics specialists and managers became champions — their salaries increased by an average of 8.6% to RUB 75,456 per month.

American hedge fund Kingstown Capital Management LP and Czech investment company Investhold Ltd. filed a lawsuit in the United States against billionaire Radovan Vitek, Bloomberg reports . They accuse the businessman of fraud amounting to more than $1 billion. Read on vedomosti.ru The plaintiffs allege that Vitek used a network of shell companies to gain control of a Luxembourg-based real estate company and then sold its most valuable assets at low prices to entities he secretly controlled.

If the Russian presidential elections were held next Sunday, only 55% of voters would vote for Vladimir Putin, showed a Levada Center poll . This is the lowest result in the entire history of research: in April 2014, 60% were ready to vote for Putin, in January 2016 - 66%, in April 2017 - 62%, in January 2018 - 70%. In the 2018 elections, Putin won 76.7% of the votes. Read on vedomosti.ru At the same time, 19% of all respondents said that they would not take part in the elections.

Former president and co-owner of the VSMPO-Avisma corporation , Vladislav Tetyukhin, died on April 11 after a serious illness, reports the press service of the Ural Clinical Treatment and Rehabilitation Center . This center was created by Tetyukhin. Read on vedomosti.ru Tetyukhin was born in 1932 in Moscow. After graduating from the institute, he worked at the Verkhnesaldinsky metalworking plant in the Sverdlovsk region.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Access to the website of the Yarkub news agency has been restricted at the request of Roskomnadzor, the editor of this media outlet, Marina Sedneva, reported on Facebook : the entire website has been blocked. Roskomnadzor made the decision to block the site on April 9, Sidneva writes, and the hosting provider initially could not explain to the agency what exactly had caused the officials' complaints.

Actor Geoffrey Rush, who won an Oscar in 1997 for his leading role in the film Glitter, won a lawsuit against the Australian tabloid The Daily Telegraph, which published materials about his “inappropriate behavior” towards his colleague, reports The Sydney Morning Herald . Rush demanded that the publications be declared libel. Read on vedomosti.ru The publications appeared in 2017.

Representatives of the 27 EU member states agreed to propose to London that Brexit be delayed until October 31. about this on Twitter President of the European Council Donald Tusk wrote . According to him, the decision was made in accordance with Article 50 of the EU Treaty. “Now I will meet with British Prime Minister Theresa May regarding the consent of the British government,” Tusk said.

The change in the preventive measure for the founder of Baring Vostok, Michael Calvey, is a good sign for the investment climate in Russia, said Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin. “We will wait for the final decision of the court. Economic issues should remain economic and become criminal much less often,” the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development quotes Oreshkin as saying. On April 11, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sent Calvey under house arrest.

I met the younger brother of the Range Rover family in Greece. The new Evoque has become incredibly prettier and has shed all the excess. The lines of the body have become smoother, the plastic lining on the wheel arches has disappeared, and the outer door handles, like the older Velar model, are retracted flush with the panels - these will now be available on all Range Rover models and will become a characteristic feature of the brand's cars.

The Soviet shadow visually increases the power of the Russian state, making it seem more organized and stronger than it actually is. A journalist from The New York Times recently called the reshuffle in the US security agencies "purges." Another journalist familiar with the Russian topic noted that if the author uses the word "purges," he is indirectly comparing Donald Trump to Joseph Stalin.

Spring has come to Moscow: the courts have released director Kirill Serebrennikov from house arrest on his own recognizance not to leave, and investor Michael Calvey from a pretrial detention center under house arrest. It would probably be tempting to look for signs of a new global political warming here, some kind of nano-thaw, but a thaw is not a softening of the preventive measures for well-known defendants in high-profile cases with a political background.

The pipeline from Nadym-Pur-Taz to the coast of the Gulf of Finland is still imaginary, but the project already carries 45 billion cubic meters of ethane-rich gas. By wisely managing such a quantity of gas, impressive results can be achieved. Get 4 million tons of ethane, for example, with the prospect of creating added value through gas chemistry.

At the Kempinski Vilnius Hotel you can study the history of Vilnius and the whole of Lithuania in the 19th–21st centuries. Read on vedomosti.ru In the 80s the century before last, one enterprising person decided to build a rich inn in provincial Vilna - for wealthy travelers heading from St. Petersburg to Warsaw (then the third largest city in the Russian Empire) and Berlin (or vice versa).