JSC Federal Passenger Company (FPK), a subsidiary of JSC Russian Railways (RZD), plans to launch double-decker trains from Moscow to 12 cities in Russia, according to the draft updated Transport Strategy until 2030 on the website of the Russian Ministry of Transport. In addition, the company plans to launch double-decker trains between Moscow and Adler by the end of 2013.

As a result of an accident in the south of France on Sunday night, Russian tourists could have been injured, reports local Le Parisien. The bus carried three successive drivers: a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a Ukrainian, as well as 44 passengers, among whom, according to preliminary data, were tourists from Russia, Ukraine, Spain and France, As a result of the accident, two people died: a 55-year-old Spanish woman and a French citizen. Approximately 30 more people were seriously injured.

Lon Snowden, the father of former CIA employee Edward Snowden, who told the media about the surveillance of US intelligence agencies on users, said that he received a Russian visa, reports the Associated Press. He will arrive in Russia with family lawyer Bruce Fein, the publication notes. However, nothing is known yet about the date of his visit to the country. Lon also said that he had not communicated with his son since the moment he received political asylum and entered Russian territory.

Investment issue with the Forbes Woman application on sale from August 22 Abramovich as the Russian dream Elizaveta Osetinskaya, editor-in-chief Which businessmen are loved in Russia? According to a recent Superjob study commissioned by Vedomosti and data from Medialogy, Roman Abramovich (No. 13 on the Forbes list) is the most recognizable and second most popular entrepreneur. Abramovich's popularity is as expected as it is inexplicable.

South Korean airline Asiana Airlines will pay compensation in the amount of $10,000 to each passenger injured in a plane crash in July this year at San Francisco airport, AFP reports , citing a company representative. As the agency explains, the airline has begun offering cash to the 288 surviving passengers of the Boeing 777 to pay for their medical expenses and other needs before management approves the final compensation amount.

The leadership of the Central Election Commission of Russia supports the legislative initiative of the ruling party to make ballot boxes from transparent or translucent materials, Secretary of the Central Election Commission of Russia Nikolai Konkin told the Interfax agency . “This is important because, first of all, we are talking about uniform requirements for equipment used in elections in Russia. From an expert point of view, this is useful,” the agency quotes him.

A Russian citizen was injured in an accident with a bus that occurred on Sunday night near the French city of Fitou, ITAR-TASS reports , citing the words of an employee of the local prefecture. According to the agency, the Russian received minor injuries. His life is not in danger. The condition of the remaining Russian citizens is still unknown.

The number of victims of a gas explosion in a multi-storey residential building in the center of Lugansk has increased from six to 18, the local newspaper Vostochny Option reports , citing the press secretary of the city prosecutor's office Olga Dyachenko. According to her, during an explosion in a house at the address: st. Shevchenko, 4, 1 person died. He turned out to be a man who was in apartment No. 318 at the time of the explosion.

The US National Security Agency shows the greatest interest in the foreign policy and economy of Russia, Germany and China, reports the German magazine Spiegel, citing documents obtained by the publication. As the magazine notes, in April 2013, the NSA secretly created a list of its main “targets.” Among them were China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, Afghanistan, Germany and other countries, as well as the European Union.

Three Russian citizens were hospitalized after an accident with a bus that occurred on Sunday night in the south of France, the Interfax agency reports , citing the duty commandant of the Russian Embassy in Marseille. As he told the agency, a married couple was admitted to a Perpignan hospital with bruises. Another Russian citizen with a spinal injury was sent to hospital in Narbonne.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who underwent hernia surgery Saturday night, could be released from the hospital on Sunday afternoon, CNN reported , citing Twitter posts from Ofir Gendelman, Netanyahu's press secretary. According to him, the operation went without complications. Due to the prime minister's hospitalization, the weekly Sunday cabinet meeting was cancelled, Gendelman added.

Deputy of the Astrakhan Regional Duma Oleg Shein sent a letter to the head of the capital's prosecutor's office Sergei Kudeneyev with a request to check the legality of the privatization of the apartment provided to the acting mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin, Shein says in his blog. According to the deputy, neither Sobyanin nor his daughter had the right to privatize the apartment if it was provided as a service apartment. As an argument, Shein refers to federal law No.

The Kaluga region police opened a criminal case into an attack on tourists at a recreation center near Kaluga, according to the website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. As noted in the message, a criminal case was initiated under the article “intentional infliction of moderate harm to health from hooligan motives,” the punishment for which includes imprisonment for a term of up to 5 years.

The general director of a recreation center in the city of Tarusa, Kaluga region, is suspected of attacking tourists, reports the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region. According to the department, the attack occurred on Sunday night. A man called the duty station of the Tarussky Ministry of Internal Affairs and reported that a mass fight was taking place at the tourist center.

On Saturday evening, unknown persons blinded three Aeroflot aircraft with a laser, Interfax reports , citing a source in the air traffic control service of Sheremetyevo Airport. According to the source, the incidents occurred when international flights were landing. The first incident was recorded at approximately 23:27 with aircraft A-321 flying from Nice, and the second at approximately 23:30 with aircraft A-319 arriving from Stockholm. Another aircraft was blinded 20 minutes later.