Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lon and Soe Oo, have been released after more than 500 days in prison in Myanmar, the agency reported . They were arrested in December 2017 and sentenced to seven years in prison in September 2018 for violating the Official Secrets Act. The reason for this was their publications about the massacres of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

Varvara Grankova American scientists Ethan Bernstein from Harvard Business School and Stephen Turban from Harvard University recently studied the experience of two Fortune 500 companies - they moved employees from cubicles to open-plan offices. Contrary to expectations, interaction between employees fell by 70%. People began to communicate less often face-to-face: many did not want to publicly give feedback or discuss sensitive topics in the presence of colleagues.

The dominant version in the investigation of the criminal case of the Aeroflot SSJ100 plane crash at Sheremetyevo is pilot errors, reports . Kommersant According to the newspaper, 14 minutes after departure from Sheremetyevo, the aircraft commander Denis Evdokimov contacted the dispatcher via a backup communication channel. He reported that the SSJ100 was struck by lightning and that an electrostatic charge that penetrated the fuselage caused the main radio communications link to fail.

07 May 2019, 22:13 / Finance Russian foundation files lawsuit against Lithuania for billion euros The fund acts in the interests of former banker Vladimir Antonov, who is in prison Ekaterina Litova Danila Shostak / TASS Banker Vladimir Antonov, serving a sentence for theft of 150 million rubles. at the Sovetsky bank, decided to sue Lithuania over the nationalization of its former bank Snoras.

Russians' distrust of officials' income declarations may be due to the fact that they are not sufficiently informed about the system for checking these documents, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Read on vedomosti.ru He noted that there is a complex system of units in different organizations that, together with fiscal services, are involved in checking the declarations of officials. She works full time.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reappointed the rector of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Yaroslav Kuzminov for a new five-year term, the reports government press service . Kuzminov recalled that the government works closely with the university he heads, and told Medvedev about the development of the university. Read on vedomosti.ru According to him, by 2018, HSE had transformed from the socio-economic university it was in 2010 into a classical university.

The Sheremetyevo press service published the chronology of the actions of the airport rescue team after the emergency landing of the SS100 passenger aircraft. The commander of the aircraft, which had 73 passengers on board, decided to return to the departure airport 10 minutes after takeoff - at 18.12 Moscow time. He informed the airport dispatcher that there was a loss of radio communication and automatic control of the aircraft.

The parametric recorder from the Aeroflot SSJ100 aircraft, which made an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo on May 5, was severely damaged. This was reported in a press release of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC). Read on vedomosti.ru “The parametric recorder was subjected to intense temperature effects and received serious damage,” the report says. The other “black box” - the sound one - is in satisfactory condition, the IAC noted.

May 07, 2019, 06:27 / Business / News Business asked the Ministry of Finance to postpone the inclusion of the hotel tax in the Tax Code undefined Vedomosti The public organization “Opora Rossii” appealed to the Ministry of Finance with a request to postpone the inclusion of the hotel tax in the Tax Code until the law on tourist housing is adopted. about this writes Kommersant with reference to a copy of the letter.

The Central Bank of Russia received 434.6 billion rubles in 2018. losses, according to the regulator’s annual report. Interest income of the Central Bank in the reporting period increased by 218.2% to 361.7 billion rubles. The regulator's assets increased to 39.4 billion rubles. versus RUB 30.8 billion in 2017 Read on vedomosti.ru At the end of 2018, the regulator received 135.5 billion rubles from Sberbank. in the form of dividends.

The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources is preparing to introduce a ban on the sale of disposable plastic tableware. this reports RIA Novosti with reference to Minister Dmitry Kobylkin. “We are preparing for restrictions; it takes time to understand and make” such a decision, he noted. Kobylkin did not specify the timing of the ban .

The Ministry of Economic Development predicts that by the end of May, inflation will remain at the level of 0.3%, and on an annual basis will drop to 5.0–5.1%, according to the ministry’s materials. In April, price growth was 0.29%, in annual terms it decreased to 5.17%, according to the Ministry of Economic Development. Read on vedomosti.ru The final April figures turned out to be slightly lower than the forecasts previously given by the ministry.

The alleged participant in the attack on journalist Oleg Kashin, Vyacheslav Borisov, was detained in St. Petersburg, reports the joint press service of the city courts. Borisov was detained on suspicion of kidnapping the general director of the Zaslon plant, Alexander Gorbunov.

07 May 2019, 00:41 / Opinions Levada, man and center The task set by Levada to go “from opinions to understanding” has become more difficult Alexey Levinson The task set by Levada to move from opinions to understanding has become more difficult At the end of April it was Yuri Aleksandrovich Levada’s birthday. He was born in 1930 and came to sociology in the mid-1960s.

The Sheremetyevo press service has published a chronology of the airport's emergency rescue team's actions after the emergency landing of the SSJ100 passenger plane. The aircraft commander, with 73 passengers on board, decided to return to the departure airport 10 minutes after takeoff - at 18:12 Moscow time. He informed the airport dispatcher that radio communication and automatic control of the plane had been lost. The plane was landing in a normal mode, the airport said in a statement.