The Russian Foreign Ministry sent a note to Kyiv with information about its intention to prepare a second humanitarian convoy to eastern Ukraine in the coming days, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a briefing on Monday. Lavrov noted that Moscow has offered Kiev a list of goods that are being prepared for shipment, and is ready “for the closest cooperation” with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ITAR-TASS reports .

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (No. 1284 in the global ranking of billionaires according to Forbes, net worth: $1.3 billion) decided to dissolve the Verkhovna Rada, early parliamentary elections are scheduled for October 26, follows from a message posted on the official website of the President of Ukraine on Monday. 25-th of August. Parliament will continue to work in its current composition until the elections.

Aeroflot, due to falling demand for air travel, may reduce its carrying capacity by postponing some aircraft deliveries to a later date, the airline's CEO Vitaly Savelyev told reporters on Monday. “We are waiting for September. And if we see that at the end of nine months there is definitely a decline, then we will decide,” ITAR-TASS quotes Savelyev . The carrier's general director did not specify which deliveries might be delayed.

The regional department of Rospotrebnadzor suspended the activities of the McDonald's fast food chain in Stavropol due to violations in the field of ensuring sanitary standards identified during the inspection, the reported on Monday, August 25. press service of the Rospotrebnadzor department for the Stavropol Territory “For identified violations against a legal entity, administrative cases have been initiated under Article 6.6, Part 2, Articles 14.43, 15.12.

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The co-founder of the largest Russian Internet company Yandex, Arkady Volozh , will leave the post of CEO of the Russian Yandex LLC from September 1, but will remain the head of the global Yandex, the search engine’s press service reported on Monday, August 25. The new general director of the Russian division of Yandex will be Alexander Shulgin, who until now held the post of financial director of the company.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a government order reassigning Vladimir Yakunin (No. 9 on the list of the most expensive top managers in Russia - 2013, total compensation for the year - $15 million) to the position of head of JSC Russian Railways (RZD) for another three years . Medvedev notified Yakunin of this at a meeting on Monday, according to the government website. At the meeting, Medvedev recalled the experience of Yakunin, who has headed Russian Railways since 2005.

Masha Fadeeva Author A beach in the Louvre, a nanny in Moscow, an open-air library and other items on the list of plans for the last week of summer From September 1, new laws come into force in Russia and around the world; Entertainment, attractions and services that can only be used in the warm season are a thing of the past. The Forbes guide will help you not to miss the things you need to do in the last week of summer 2014. There may not be a chance next season.

Investigators have opened a criminal case into the death of 24-year-old passenger Artem Chechikov at Sheremetyevo airport under Part 2 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence due to improper performance by a person of his professional duties), said official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Vladimir Markin in Monday.

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VKontakte conducted an examination and called forgeries the signatures of the founder of the social network Pavel Durov on additional agreements to the employment contract of the company’s former top managers Ilya and Igor Perekopsky, on the basis of which they demand a “golden parachute” from the company in the amount of 30 million rubles, the ITAR agency reported -TASS with reference to the representative of the Russian Internet company Alexander Korkin.

The American magazine Forbes put Russian Maria Sharapova in first place in the list of the highest paid tennis players in the world, estimating her income between June 2013 and June 2014 at $24.4 million. According to Forbes, most of this amount, $22 million, came from Sharapova’s advertising contracts and commercial collaborations with Nike, Avon, Samsung, Tag Heuer, Evian and Head.

for the third year in a row Ashton Kutcher, who plays the lead role in the TV series “Two and a Half Men,” tops the ranking of the highest paid television actors compiled by American magazine Forbes . Forbes estimated Kutcher's total income for the period from June 2013 to June 2014 at $26 million. In addition to filming the series, the actor collaborates with Nikon Coolpix and Lenovo.

The ex-treasurer of the American oil company ExxonMobil, Humphreys Donald, acquired a 0.0006% stake in Rosneft, ITAR-TASS reported on Monday, August 25, citing the press service of the Russian oil company. Humphreys Donald is currently an independent director of the board of directors of Rosneft.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced the government's resignation on Monday, Reuters reported . Valls submitted a petition for the resignation of the government he led to the country's President Francois Hollande. The President accepted the resignation and instructed Valls to form a new government. This should be done “in accordance with the direction determined for the country by the President,” the Elysee Palace said in an official statement.