The most stolen car brands in Moscow in the first half of 2014 were VAZ, Toyota, Mazda and Mitsubishi, writes the Kommersant newspaper on Friday, September 5, which has police data at its disposal. The leader among thefts in Moscow remains VAZ, followed by Toyota, which for the first time since 2012 overtook Mazda in third place. In fifth place, after Mitsubishi, is BMW, which in 2013 was in ninth place in terms of the number of thefts.

Orhan Cemal Author Daniil Antonov Author Ukrainian prisoners captured by DPR militias while escaping encirclement talk about their attitude to the war and their captivity

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images What is non-sexual infidelity and what should you do if your husband takes on interesting hobbies and new friends “on the side”? Psychologist's advice Usually, the answer to this question is clearly associated with variations on the theme: the husband unexpectedly returns from a business trip, and there... In general, in order to expose the betrayal, he should look into the bedroom, and everything becomes obvious.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (No. 1284 in the global ranking of billionaires according to Forbes, net worth: $1.3 billion), in connection with the signing of a ceasefire protocol in Minsk in eastern Ukraine, ordered the Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to cease fire starting at 18:00 Kiev time (19:00 Moscow time) Friday, September 5, according to the official website of the President of Ukraine.

The Russian oil company Rosneft and the Vietnamese oil and gas corporation PetroVietnam have reached an agreement to create joint ventures to operate in two areas of the Pechora Sea shelf, reported on Friday. the press service of the Russian state-owned company Rosneft's share in the joint venture will be 66.67%, and PetroVietnam - 33.33%.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced the allocation of €15 million in assistance to Ukraine from the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, the reports . organization’s press service According to Rasmussen, NATO countries, following the summit in Wales, developed a package of measures to help Ukraine, which includes four areas: rehabilitation of wounded military personnel, cyber security, logistics, military command and control.

photo ITAR-TASS The Forbes correspondent was captured by nationalists from the Azov battalion, crossed the front line, discovered dry rations of the Russian army and witnessed the beginning of the offensive of the DPR troops on Mariupol Mariupol is an extremely depressing sight. In fact, the city is an appendage to the local giant metallurgical plants (Azovstal, Ilyich Combine, etc.), which tower above the urban development.

NATO has adopted an Action Plan to increase combat readiness, which provides for the constant presence and activity of alliance troops along the western border of Russia, the bloc's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday following the first day of the NATO summit in Wales. “We agreed that we will maintain a constant presence and activity in the air, on land and at sea in the eastern part of the alliance on a rotational basis,” the AP agency quoted him as saying .

Specialists managed to restore the operation of ticket machines in the Moscow metro, which was disrupted due to a software glitch, the ITAR-TASS agency reported on Friday , citing an employee of the capital’s subway department. “The operation of the machines has been resumed,” the agency quotes him as saying. On Friday afternoon, a technical glitch occurred in the operation of ticket machines in the Moscow metro. Around 12:30 Moscow time, the terminals stopped selling travel tickets.

On the morning of September 5, the Ukrainian armed forces attempted a counterattack, as a result of which the army managed to stop the shelling of the suburbs of Mariupol by the forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Forbes correspondent Orkhan Dzhemal reports from the scene. The artillery “duel” took place using Grad, cannon artillery and mortars. At the moment, the artillery attack has stopped, and no explosions have been observed near the city.

The appearance of erotic photographs in the search results of the Sputnik search engine, owned by the telecom operator Rostelecom, could have been caused by a technical error during the beta version test, the ITAR-TASS agency reported on Friday , citing the press secretary of the search engine, Dmitry Chistov. “Perhaps a technical error occurred when updating the beta version of Sputnik. We are resolving this issue,” the agency quotes him as saying.

Former Russian Prime Minister and former head of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin, currently chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, wrote a letter to Barack Obama in which he called on the US President to refuse the Nobel Peace Prize, Interfax reported on Friday . “I believe that you should refuse the Nobel Peace Prize so as not to devalue this high award in the eyes of the world community,” Stepashin wrote. He stressed that the peace prize should go to a peacemaker.

Yauza 12 LLC, whose sole owner is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sibur LLC Kirill Shamalov, acquired a 17% stake in Sibur Holding OJSC, the beneficial owner of which was previously billionaire Gennady Timchenko , reported on the Sibur website on Friday. As a result of the transaction, Kirill Shamalov, who is the son of the co-owner of Rossiya Bank Nikolai Shamalov , taking into account the package he already owned, became the owner of 21.3% of the shares of Sibur Holding, the report notes.

Dane Anders Fogh Rasmussen officially introduced his successor as the new Secretary General of NATO, former Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg, on Friday, ITAR-TASS agency reported . as Rasmussen recalled that Stoltenberg will take office as NATO Secretary General on October 1, 2014. The decision to appoint Stoltenberg as NATO Secretary General and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council in the order of succession was made at the end of March.

The head of the Rostec state corporation, Sergei Chemezov, said that AvtoVAZ is interested in creating joint ventures (JVs) with Chinese suppliers of components in Russia, ITAR-TASS reported on Friday, September 5 . “AvtoVAZ is open to suppliers who supply electrical and electronics for cars, transmissions, suspension parts, engine components, alloy wheels, seats, bearings and other auto parts produced by Chinese companies,” Chemezov said during a visit to Beijing.