Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that state regulation of prices, in particular for food products, is a road to nowhere, but the authorities must monitor prices to prevent distortions, RIA Novosti reported on Friday, September 19 . “Price regulation, which is supported by some individual political forces, is a road to nowhere. We have been through it all, it is impossible.

Scottish Prime Minister Alex Salmond admitted defeat in the independence referendum, during which almost 60% of Scots opposed secession from the UK, AP reported . “I accepted the results of the referendum with regret, but we accept the legitimate choice of the Scottish people,” the agency quotes Salmond as saying. The Scottish Prime Minister noted that more than 1.6 million Scots voted for independence. “But this was not enough.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev advised Western countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia in connection with the crisis in Ukraine to abandon attempts at economic blackmail, a Forbes correspondent reported on Friday from Sochi, where an international investment forum is taking place. “History shows that attempts to put pressure on Russia were unsuccessful,” Medvedev emphasized. He recalled that Russia has been subject to sanctions many times over the past century.

The American oil and gas company Exxon Mobil and Rosneft have suspended oil drilling on the Arctic shelf, Bloomberg reported on Friday, September 19, citing sources familiar with the situation. According to the agency's interlocutors, drilling work was suspended several days after the United States and the EU, as part of expanded sanctions, imposed a ban on Russian assistance in the development of Arctic and deep-sea fields, as well as shale oil fields.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that, starting from 2015, will double state funding for parties that received at least 3% of the votes in parliamentary elections, ITAR-TASS reported on Friday, September 19 . Current legislation provides for funding for such parties in the amount of 50 rubles, multiplied by the number of votes received by the federal list of party candidates.

Scotland made its choice and refused independence. Photo report Scotland has been a member of the union with England and Wales for 307 years (since 1707) and will remain so in the future. The referendum on 18 September asked one question: “Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?” Just over half - 55.3% of Scots opposed secession from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Emotions and details of the referendum are in our gallery.

The head of the Ministry of Transport, Maxim Sokolov, said that the ministry will “politically and strategically” support Aeroflot’s new low-cost airline, the created Low Cost Carrier LLC in September, Interfax reports on Friday, September 19 .

St. Petersburg is among the 13 cities that will host matches of the 2020 European Football Championship, according to a message on the official website of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The Northern capital of Russia will host a quarter-final match and three group stage games. The two semi-final matches and the final will take place in London. UEFA has decided to hold the European Football Championship in 2020 not in one or two countries, as is traditionally the case.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev believes that Russia should not return to a mobilization economy, even despite tough sanctions from the European Union and the United States. “This is a path to a dead end,” Dmitry Medvedev noted during a speech at the Sochi-2014 investment forum. “We need a market economy even under sanctions.

The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Alexander Shokhin, discussed with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev the situation surrounding the head of AFK Sistema Vladimir Yevtushenkov and recent changes in his status, Interfax reports on Friday, September 19 . “I had the opportunity to talk with Dmitry Anatolyevich on this topic. We just discussed these procedural norms and came to the conclusion that yes, now we can really talk about two things.

The Russian metallurgical company Evraz plc has confirmed plans for an IPO of its Evraz North America division in North America, according to a company message posted on the website of the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The offering documents have not yet been filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), but this may be done in the near future.

Two Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled from a base in Scotland on Friday to intercept two Russian Tu-95 bombers flying in international airspace near the UK's borders, the Daily Mail reported . It was the first time the fighters had carried out this mission since the Lossiemouth base in Scotland took up duty to patrol the northern edge of UK airspace.

The Russian government has agreed to partially lift the ban on the remote sale of alcohol, in force since 2007, and instructed the Federal Service for Alcohol Regulation (RAR) to analyze the feasibility of this ban, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Friday , citing sources in the Cabinet of Ministers. Instructions were given to RAR and other relevant bodies at a meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich also took part in this meeting.

photo by Max Novikov for Forbes Preliminary vote count results give victory to opponents of Scottish independence - 60% voted against secession from the United Kingdom Opponents of Scotland's secession from the UK are winning the referendum held on Thursday, September 18, according to preliminary results of the vote count in Scottish regions, the British newspaper The Guardian reported .

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has begun an investigation into rising prices for socially important products in the Primorsky and Altai territories, Voronezh, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Sakhalin, Samara, Sverdlovsk regions and a number of other regions, the press reported on Friday.