The all-Russian public organization of small and medium-sized businesses “Opora Rossii” asked Rosalkogolregulirovanie to legalize the sale of alcohol via the Internet, as well as to tighten the punishment up to criminal for those who do this without a license, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Wednesday, August 26, citing a representative organizations.

The government apparatus agreed on a draft decree on the consolidation of Vnukovo Airport, including a list of private investors, Interfax reports , citing a source in one of the relevant departments on Wednesday, August 26. The agency notes that the release of this document will be the next stage of consolidation after the decree of President Vladimir Putin, signed by him on August 1.

The Ukrainian authorities will file a lawsuit against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in connection with the Russian court's sentencing of director Oleg Sentsov, Interfax reported on Wednesday, August 26, citing Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Yatsenyuk clarified that the subject of the appeal will be the violation of the right to justice of Ukrainian citizens in Russia. Kyiv plans to send the corresponding claim to the ECHR on August 26.

photo TASS The company offers to share profits with investors in exchange for technology and financing Gazprom Neft asked the Ministry of Natural Resources to support a new scheme for working with investors, providing for the division of profits with them in exchange for technology and financing and allowing to avoid sanctions, RBC reported on Wednesday, August 25, with reference to a letter from the head of Gazprom Neft, Alexander Dyukov, vice-president.

The head of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, promised on Wednesday to continue to fight inflation, reported . the Kremlin press service “We will act so that inflation continues to decline,” Nabiullina said speaking at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the government. In mid-summer—from June 2 to June 8—weekly inflation in the country slowed to zero for the first time since August 2014. Prior to this, prices rose by 0.1% per week for six weeks in a row.

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, at a meeting in Vladivostok on Wednesday, August 26, criticized officials for using foreign Internet services Google, Yahoo and WhatsApp and demanded that measures be taken to solve this problem, TASS reports . According to Patrushev, the use of foreign resources by officials to resolve official issues poses a serious danger. He noted that such foreign services were used, in particular, by officials in the Khabarovsk Territory.

Getty Images The Big Bang Theory stars made the most money “The Big Bang Theory” star Jim Parsons topped the ranking of the highest paid television series actors compiled by American Forbes. According to Forbes, Parsons earned $29 million between June 2014 and June 2015. In 2014, the performer of the role of Dr. Sheldon Cooper took only ninth place.

The head of EU diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, said that the sentence against Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko violates international law. This was reported in her statement published on the official website of the Foreign Ministry of the European Union.

The investigation has put State Duma deputy Nikolai Parshin on the federal and international wanted list for failing to appear for questioning at the Investigative Committee, the TASS agency reported on Wednesday , citing a source in law enforcement agencies of the Volgograd region. “This is a forced measure; Parshin has not appeared for questioning at the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Volgograd Region for nine months,” the agency quotes him as saying.

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday recognized as legal the arrest in absentia of State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, accused of complicity in the embezzlement of $750,000 from the Skolkovo Foundation, Interfax reported . The appellate instance rejected the complaint in which Ponomarev’s defense asked the Moscow City Court to cancel the arrest of the deputy in absentia as an excessive preventive measure.

Sberbank has decided to enter the capital of the national rating agency being created, Interfax reported on Wednesday, August 26, with reference to a statement by the head of Sberbank, German Gref. Plans to participate in the capital of the rating agency were previously announced by Unicredit Bank, VTB, Rosgosstrakh Promsvyazbank, controlled by brothers Alexey and Dmitry Ananyev , and the BIN group, the main shareholders of which are Mikail Shishkhanov and Mikhail Gutseriev .

Members of the Federation Council proposed on Wednesday to add US Secretary of State John Kerry and his deputies to the sanctions list and ban them from entering Russia in response to the issuance of a truncated visa to Valentina Matvienko to travel to the US for a session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, RIA Novosti reported . A member of the international committee of the Federation Council, Igor Morozov, called for an asymmetric response to Washington.

The candidate from the Democratic Coalition in the elections to the Duma of the Kostroma Region, Ilya Yashin, who was detained on Wednesday at a meeting with voters, is being subject to a protocol under Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code, which provides for up to 15 days of arrest, the oppositionist said on Twitter. Yashin was detained during a meeting with voters, which took place in the courtyard of a house in Kostroma. “Two police officers and an FSB operative approached me.

A serviceman in the Kostroma region opened fire on his colleagues, shot two soldiers and an officer and then committed suicide, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, August 26, citing the press service and information department of the Ministry of Defense. According to the agency's interlocutor, the incident occurred in the guardhouse of a field camp in the Kostroma region. The man opened fire from a machine gun, killing two soldiers and an officer, and injuring two more servicemen.

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