REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny Company reports show that devaluation profits are partly balanced by losses from lower oil prices and rising costs for imported equipment Yegor Gaidar, in his book “The Death of an Empire,” describes in detail how in the late 1980s, the Soviet leadership, in the face of falling oil prices, tried to find funds to finance budget obligations without carrying out overdue reforms.

Russia has removed specialized food products for athletes from food sanctions imposed on Western countries, the reported on Tuesday, September 22. government press service The message indicates that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a resolution on this on September 16. Now the embargo will not apply to food for athletes, provided that the Ministry of Sports confirms the intended purpose of the imported products.

Ex-senator, founder of the bankrupt Mezhprombank Sergei Pugachev clarified the amount of the claim against Russia filed with the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Reuters reported on Tuesday, September 23, citing a statement by the banker’s lawyers. According to the agency, the amount of claims amounted to $12 billion. On September 21, agency sources reported $10 billion.

The authorities returned to the idea of ​​criminal liability for the issue of virtual currencies, which was considered during the discussion of regulation of this market, but was not included in the government bill, Interfax reported on Tuesday, September 22, citing a source in one of the departments of the financial and economic bloc .

The authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) propose to hold local elections in Donbass on February 21, 2016, follows from the statement of the authorized representative of the LPR at the contact group negotiations in Minsk, Vladislav Deinego, published on Tuesday on the website of the Lugansk Information Center.

Ukrainian citizen Nadezhda Savchenko, accused in the case of the death of Russian journalists near Lugansk, on Tuesday in court refused to admit her guilt and demanded interrogation using a lie detector, Interfax reports . “I demand that I be interrogated using a lie detector, I’m not lying, I have nothing to hide, but will you pass this test,” Savchenko said.

President Vladimir Putin invited the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, to a budget meeting, where the Ministry of Finance’s proposals to increase the mineral extraction tax on oil for producing companies are expected to be considered, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday, September 22. “This is a meeting with the president, he invites whoever he wants,” explained the head of the oil company, answering a question about the purpose of his presence at the event.

REUTERS/Ivan Sekretarev/Pool Both provide savings for retirement At a meeting on Tuesday, September 22, the Ministry of Finance will present to President Vladimir Putin two options for sequestering the budget for 2016, RBC writes , citing materials from the ministry at its disposal.

The Central Bank of Russia opposes the introduction of restrictions on the use of cash foreign currency, which will lead to a surge in crime and corruption, the reported on Tuesday.

TASS/AP Photo/Jeff Chiu The car project was codenamed Titan Apple has decided to speed up the creation of its own electric car and has set a goal of releasing it by 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported , citing sources. Apple spent more than a year researching the likelihood of the project, during which company representatives, among other things, met with two groups of officials in California, the publication notes.

The shipyards in the port of Saint-Nazaire in France have begun dismantling Russian equipment installed on two Mistral-class helicopter carriers, the contract for the supply of which to Russia was terminated by Paris due to the crisis in Ukraine, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing an official representative company Direction des Constructions Navales Emmanuel Godez. “Specialists have already begun dismantling the equipment,” he told the publication.

photo Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS The Russian authorities support regional self-determination in other countries, but at home they prohibit even talk about real federalism During the Cold War era, radically opposing interpretations were given to various world phenomena on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Those whom some called “liberators” were branded by others as “terrorists”, and vice versa.

An American F/A-18 jet fighter-bomber crashed near a US Navy base in northern California, the Associated Press reports on Tuesday, September 22. At the moment, the causes of the crash are being investigated. The agency reports that the plane crashed into a field 4.8 km from a military base, and the pilot managed to eject and land by parachute. Base spokesman Mark Calero assessed the pilot's condition as "good." The fire at the accident site was quickly extinguished.

The Moscow state institution “Avtomobilnye Dorogi” commented on published photographs showing paving slabs being rolled into asphalt on Prechistenka Street and named the reasons for such an architectural decision, the Moscow agency reported on Tuesday, September 22, citing a statement from a company representative. The interlocutor explained that the asphalt laying work is being carried out at the request of the owner of the adjacent building.

The Thirteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal in St. Petersburg will not consider the complaint of Rospotrebnadzor against the decision of the lower arbitration court, which allowed trading in sanctioned products, since the Thunder company (Magnit retail chain) of billionaire Sergei Galitsky abandoned its complaint, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday, 22 September.