Due to government decree , users will not have to provide passport data in order to connect to the Wi-Fi network in public places in Moscow, Artem Ermolaev, head of the capital’s information technology department, told ITAR-TASS on Friday. “This will not apply to Wi-Fi points in parks, metro stations, universities, schools, hospitals in the city of Moscow. Use Wi-Fi and enjoy the Internet,” Ermolaev said.

photo ITAR-TASS At first glance, the consumer should benefit from a ban on imports of products from Western countries. But what will Russians face in practice? For the second time in four years, Vladimir Putin is sending the domestic food business into a steep dive. Exactly four years ago (with a difference of two days), he introduced an embargo on the export of grain and flour due to fires and the abnormal drought of the summer of 2010.

The bill prepared by the Ukrainian government to impose sanctions against Russian citizens and companies provides for the possibility of stopping the transit of natural gas through the territory of Ukraine, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk told reporters on Friday. “I spoke about the tools that are written out in the law, including the possibility of stopping any type of transit - both air travel and the transit of resources,” the Interfax-Ukraine agency quotes Yatsenyuk .

photo ITAR-TASS Why Aeroflot's subsidiary became a hostage of the Western sanctions war with Russia Aeroflot CEO Vitaly Savelyev loves ratings. Take any interview with him, and it will simply be “studded” with assessments of the airline’s work from various organizations, agencies, award presenters, and all in excellent form - “the most”, “the best”, etc.

reported on Friday, August 8 The Board of Directors of the Bank of Moscow decided to withdraw from the capital of its Belarusian subsidiary, Bank Moscow-Minsk, Interfax . As the press service of the credit institution informed the agency, the Moscow-Minsk bank will be sold “as part of optimizing the presence of the VTB Group.” “The strategy of the Bank of Moscow provides for work on the territory of Russia; we do not plan to develop subsidiary banks outside the country,” the bank clarified.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) detained five Ukrainian military personnel who arrived on Russian territory and is requesting their detention on suspicion of committing crimes related to the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare on the territory of south-eastern Ukraine, it reported on Friday, 8 August, press service of the Investigative Committee.

reports on Friday, August 8, The High Court of London granted the petition of the Kazakh bank BTA, which demanded that the lawyers of the former head of the board of directors of BTA Mukhtar Ablyazov disclose data on his assets protected by attorney-client privilege, Interfax citing court materials. We are talking about Clyde & Co, Stephenson Harwood and Addleshaw Goddard - law firms.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Who rules Russia: results of a study of the heads of 160 of the country's largest companies over 10 years General Director of Kuzbassrazrezugol Igor Moskalenko is 50 years old. He began his career as a mechanic at the Shadrinsky Automotive Unit Plant, later received a higher technical education and became director of marketing and sales.

Photo by Diomedia Director and owner of the Baby Club network of children's clubs, mother of four children Evgenia Belonoshchenko talks about her passion for freediving I grew up on the Volga. At the age of five, my parents threw me into the river with the words: “Swim!” - and I swam. When I got older, I took up swimming professionally. To get to the pool on the other side of the city, at the age of seven, I, along with other children, hung on the running boards of buses.

Transneft press secretary Igor Demin said that Russia will be able to redirect oil transit flows if its transportation through Ukraine is banned, Interfax reported on Friday, August 8 . At the same time, he warned that in this case, EU countries buying Russian oil would face higher costs. According to Demin, about 14 million tons of Russian oil are pumped through Ukraine every year.

photo ITAR-TASS The sanctions bill provides, among other things, for the possibility of stopping gas transit through Ukraine The Ukrainian government has developed and approved a bill on sanctions against Russia, providing for the imposition of sanctions against 172 individuals and 65 companies, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at a press conference in Kyiv.

photo ITAR-TASS The writer’s novels in the mid-2000s looked like satire and grotesque, but with Putin’s third term, Sorokin’s metaphors began to be reproduced in reality It is well known that life in Russia is built according to the laws of literature.

The subsidiary of Sberbank in Ukraine has suspended operations in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, reported on Friday, August 8. the press service of the credit organization "In pursuance of the resolution of the National Bank of Ukraine dated August 6, 2014 No.

Deputy head of Roskomnadzor Maxim Ksenzov said that by the beginning of September the department will prepare orders and methods for implementing the government decree on identifying Internet users, Interfax reported on Friday, August 8 . At the same time, he clarified that the requirements of the resolution apply to all public Wi-Fi access points, including cafes, restaurants and airports.

Public Wi-Fi operators will only need a code via SMS to identify users, but they were not required to require a paper passport, the head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, Nikolai Nikiforov, wrote on Twitter on Friday. According to him, a user may need a passport only if he came “to a public access point in the village” at Russian Post. The minister noted that such identification of users when accessing public Wi-Fi is a worldwide practice.