REUTERS/Richard Carson The FSB is concerned that a Western company will gain too much influence in a key market for Russia, sources say The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia is stopping the largest deal in the Russian drilling business - the sale of 45.65% of Eurasia Drilling Co. (EDC) oil services company Schlumberger for $1.7 billion, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing two knowledgeable sources.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, commenting on the verdict against Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, called the trial unfair. “I agree with Sentsov’s words: the occupiers’ trial cannot be fair by definition. Hold on, Oleg. The time will come, and those who organized your trial will themselves find themselves in the dock,” Poroshenko wrote on his Facebook page.

Employees of the Federal Tax Service came to the office of the Anti-Corruption Foundation of oppositionist Alexei Navalny with an inspection, FBK director Roman Rubanov said on his Twitter microblog on Tuesday. “The tax office came to FBK and checked whether it was our office or not,” Rubanov wrote. He published a photo of the order issued to employees of the Federal Tax Service to check the address for its actual compliance with the data of the constituent documents.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not planning a trip to Paris to meet with French President Francois Hollande, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday , citing the Kremlin press service. “No such trip is planned in the near future,” said a representative of the press service, the agency’s interlocutor. Earlier, French President Francois Hollande announced his next meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Paris.

South Korea has turned off the loudspeakers that were broadcasting propaganda against the DPRK in the border area, Yonhap news agency reported , citing the head of the South Korean Ministry of Defense, Kim Min-seok.

The North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don on Tuesday, August 25, sentenced Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in prison, TASS reports . The court found Sentsov guilty in the case of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea. The court sentenced the second defendant Alexander Kolchenko to ten years in prison. The judge noted that the court took into account the period of detention for Sentsov from May 11, 2014, and for Kolchenko - from May 16, 2014.

photo TASS The economy will definitely not go down, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development believes The head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev, believes that the Russian economy has already reached the bottom and there will be no further decline, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday . “Yes, there is,” the minister answered when asked if he had the feeling that the Russian economy had already found the bottom.

Roskomnadzor removed from the “black list” a link to an article about a narcotic substance in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which was previously recognized by the court as containing prohibited information, reported on Tuesday, August 25. the agency’s website “The information declared prohibited by the court has been edited,” the department explained.

Rospotrebnadzor ordered the removal of cleaning and detergents from foreign companies such as Henkel, Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive from store shelves, writes . the Kommersant newspaper The letter from the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, which Kommersant has, reports on laboratory studies of household chemicals and detergents. Research has revealed that some of the products do not meet regulatory requirements for sanitary-chemical and toxicological safety indicators.

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photo TASS Russian service JungleJobs raised funding in the amount of $0.5 million The Impulse VC funds, in which the structures of billionaire Roman Abramovich participate , and The Untitled invested $500,000 in the Russian recruitment service JungleJobs, RBC reported on Tuesday, August 25, citing Impulse VC partner Kirill Belov.

The Henkel concern rejected Rospotrebnadzor's claims, saying that the presence of a state registration certificate is a sufficient basis for promoting products within the framework of the law, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday, August 25, citing a statement from the company's press service. Henkel emphasized that one of the parameters subject to mandatory control before releasing household detergents and cleaning products onto the market is toxicological safety.

The former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense, Evgenia Vasilyeva, who received a court sanction for parole, left the territory of the correctional colony, Interfax reported on Tuesday, August 25. The agency's correspondent said that Vasilyeva left the territory of correctional institution number one in the village of Golovino, Vladimir region. She and her lawyers left in a black Toyota Camry with tinted windows. All of them refused to talk to journalists.

Users of some providers do not have access to the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday, August 25. Users from different regions of Russia began reporting on social networks about the lack of access to Wikipedia. According to some users, the English version of the site also does not work for them. Wikipedia confirmed this information. “In general, the situation is clear: by morning the full version will stop working for most users.

Food inflation in Russia for the first half of 2015 amounted to 10.6%, while in the European Union, food prices fell by 0.1%, according to Rosstat data published on Tuesday, August 25. In annual terms (compared to July 2014), food prices in the country fell by 0.5% in July 2015, and in the EU by 0.8%. In general, inflation in Russia in the first half of the year reached 9.4%, while in the European Union it turned out to be zero.