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The number of individual entrepreneurs (PIs) in Moscow in the first five months of 2019 increased by 12.5% ​​over the same period last year, the press service of the Capital Economic Policy Complex reported on Thursday.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved changes to the territorial planning scheme of the Russian Federation, which included the construction of the Novatek offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG).

The Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Krechmer, said that anti-Russian sanctions should be lifted. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal law ratifying the Protocol to the Treaty with South Ossetia on Alliance and integration.

Russia and China have outlined steps to create a joint scientific lunar station. 

The police found in the Omsk underground rehabilitation centre for people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction.

Moscow ranked third in the world in the number of dollar billionaires living in it. This is stated in the rating published by Savills based on Forbes magazine.

Google was fined 700 thousand rubles for selective filtering of search results, according to Roskomnadzor.

The State Duma at a meeting on Thursday adopted in the third and final reading amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The builders completed the laying of rails on the railway part of the Crimean bridge, told reporters on Thursday at the information center of the bridge

The head of the Federal Chancellor of Germany Helge Brown commented on the possibility of the resignation of Angela Merkel because of her health. According to her, the politician feels well and is not going to quit before the expiration of his full term in 2021.

Deputies of the lower house of parliament adopted a bill in the second reading, which is aimed at stimulating the development of viticulture and winemaking in Russia.

 

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov does not know how or when the cake promised by the Turkish pastry will be delivered to the Kremlin as a sign of gratitude for the Russian C-400 supplies to Turkey, but I am sure that the food will be welcome.

The Russian Defense Ministry denied  information about the participation of Russian special forces and ground forces in battles with pro-Turkish militants in Syria, "Interfax" reports about it.

The son of the head of the Council of Europe's Department of Policy and Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, Pavel Lobov, Peter, was detained in the Moscow region with narcotic drugs.