Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who is on an official visit to the Amur Region, ordered the preparation of an intergovernmental agreement with China on the construction of a cable car that will connect Blagoveshchensk and Heihe, Interfax reports on Friday, August 21. Medvedev announced this at a meeting with the acting governor of the Amur region, Alexander Kozlov. Kozlov noted that the cable car will contribute to the development of tourism in the region.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said at a meeting with Ukrainian public figures that in conditions of war there cannot be any fraternal peoples, according to the official website of the Ukrainian leader. “We don’t have any fraternal peoples during the war. There is a united Ukrainian people heading to Europe, and there is a Russian people who are in a deep crisis,” Poroshenko said.

Alfa Bank intends to apply to the arbitration court to declare bankrupt Stroygazconsulting LLC, founded by Ziyad Manasir and acquired by Gazprombank and the United Capital Partners (UCP) fund of Ilya Shcherbovich in April, Interfax reported on Friday with reference to data from the Unified Federal Register information about the facts of activities of legal entities. Alfa Bank also notified of its intention to bankrupt Stroygazconsulting’s subsidiary, SGK-Avtostrada LLC, the agency notes.

Getty Images 40 years ago, the leadership of Germany relied on dialogue with the Soviet bloc, without forgetting the ultimate goal - the unification of Germany The life expectancy of Western politicians is visible proof of the success of the society they built. Egon Bahr lived to be ninety-three years old. Ninety-seven-year-old Helmut Schmidt, his party comrade and former federal chancellor, is still alive.

The Wikipedia administration has still not fulfilled the requirement to remove an article about methods of preparing drugs from the site, which jeopardizes access to the entire resource, the press service of Roskomnadzor reported on Friday, August 21, on the VKontakte page. The department reminded that the period specified by law for removing illegal information from the site is expiring.

photo TASS/Mikhail Klimentyev Yakunin's resignation is the beginning of a new perestroika, although, probably, the inhabitants of the Kremlin and the government would not formulate it that way even in a nightmare The resignation of Vladimir Yakunin from the post of head of Russian Railways is no less important for the history of our country than the April plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, whose 30th anniversary was celebrated in the spring.

The European Commission has extended Gazprom's deadline for preparing and submitting a response to antimonopoly claims until the end of September, Interfax reports , citing Gazprom's statement on Friday, August 21. Previously, Gazprom had already received a delay in responding to this case until mid-September. In June, Gazprom was given an additional six weeks to study the European Commission's notice of claims and prepare a written response to the company.

The exchange rate of the dollar on Friday, August 21, reached a maximum of 69.07 rubles, which is 1 ruble 12 kopecks higher than the closing level of the previous trading day, according to data from the Moscow Exchange. Earlier, the exchange rate of the euro at its maximum reached 78.49 rubles, which exceeded the value of the previous close of the exchange by 2 rubles 11 kopecks.

Film adaptation of a true fact - how in the mid-1980s London gays united with miners in the fight against the policies of Margaret Thatcher In recent weeks, we have been paying attention to Hollywood super-action films, leaving out, in particular, Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” (but only because we wrote about it in detail in one of the Cannes reports ). It's time to remember the arthouse.

The Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office, at the request of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, seized a Bentley car and two apartments in the Gstaad ski resort, belonging to the ex-wife of former Finance Minister of the Moscow Region Alexei Kuznetsov Zhanna Bulakh, according to the website of the Prosecutor General's Office. According to the Russian department, Kuznetsov and Bulakh purchased apartments and a car with funds received from illegal activities in Russia.

The Bank of Russia sharply raised the euro exchange rate over the coming weekend to the level of 76.67 rubles, which is 2 rubles more than the level of the previous day, according to the regulator’s materials published on Friday, August 21. On August 20, the Central Bank estimated the exchange rate of the European currency at 74.57 rubles. This is a six-month maximum for the EU currency: the euro was worth 76.83 rubles on February 4.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) fined MTS 100,000 rubles for advertising about the abolition of roaming, the reported on Friday, August 21. agency’s press service The agency recognized the operator’s advertisement “We have canceled roaming in Russia” as unreliable and inappropriate in July.

Reuters/Kim Kyung-hoon The State Duma believes that due to the new OS, the data of Russian officials may become available to foreign intelligence services Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Nikolai Levichev (A Just Russia) proposed that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ban the use of the Windows 10 operating system developed by the American corporation Microsoft in government agencies and state-owned companies. Levichev’s appeal was published on the parliamentarian’s website on Friday, August 21.

The Sudogodsky District Court of the Vladimir Region on Friday, August 21, granted the lawyers’ request and postponed the consideration of the issue of parole of former Defense Ministry official Evgenia Vasilyeva, convicted in the Oboronservis case, Interfax reports . Consideration of this issue has been postponed to Tuesday, August 25. Earlier, Evgenia Vasilyeva’s defense asked the court to postpone the hearing for at least a week.

US authorities have suspended annual military exercises with South Korea near the borders of the DPRK due to the worsening situation on the Korean Peninsula and threats from Pyongyang, the Associated Press reports , citing US Department of Defense officials on Friday, August 21. According to the interlocutors, the United States is monitoring the situation, but is not taking any steps towards military preparations.