Dmitry Shusharin. Photos of faces The seventieth anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was one of the main topics of discussion in the media and blogosphere. And, apparently, all week, until the seventieth anniversary of the beginning of World War II, unleashed by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in the alliance with each other, the events of August-September 1939 will be discussed equally intensively and passionately. Although it is difficult to name what the Kremlin agitprop does and does.

No "prohibitive steps" in the field of legal regulation of the Internet are planned in the near future. Igor Shchegolev, Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, assured Ekho Moskvy of this.

About 95 percent of the goods belonging to tenants have already been taken out of the territory of the Cherkizovsky market. According to ITAR-TASS, Vladimir Malyshkov, head of the Moscow consumer market and services department, said this on Wednesday. According to the official, the remaining five percent is counterfeit, "which has no owners," and as soon as the "court cases" for this product are over, it will be destroyed.

Former collector Alexander Shurman, who was detained in June for stealing 250 million rubles, was brought from the pre-trial detention center to the hospital for a psychiatric examination, reports Life.Ru. As Shurman’s lawyer Timur Valiev said, “Alexander will stay in the hospital for about a month. All this time, psychiatrists will observe him. It is still difficult to say whether the examination will affect the outcome of the investigation.

After resigning from the post of president of AvtoVAZ, Boris Aleshin will go to work at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI), writes Vedomosti . On the basis of TsAGI, Aleshin expects to create a new structure that will monopoly oversee the development and testing of civil and military aircraft in Russia, reports Kommersant . Sources of the publication say that it will be a kind of NASA.

The court granted the petition of the state prosecution and returned to the prosecutor's office the case of an attempt to bribe the editors of Novaya Gazeta to eliminate violations, ITAR-TASS reports. The petition was supported by the defendant Dmitry Kopylov and his lawyer. The prosecutor noted that two Kopylovs appear in the materials of the criminal case - one is Dmitry Anatolyevich, and the other is Dmitry Vladimirovich.

There were no Russians on board the An-12 cargo plane that crashed in the Congo. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the Russian consul in this country. According to preliminary data, four citizens of Ukraine died in the crash. According to Life.ru, there were also citizens of Moldova on board. Earlier, Reuters, citing representatives of the Ministry of Transport of the Congo, reported that five Russians and two local residents died as a result of the crash.

NASA experts have postponed a planned Wednesday attempt to launch the Discovery shuttle due to problems with the fuel tank valve, RIA Novosti reports citing Reuters. On Tuesday, the first launch attempt was postponed due to weather conditions (a thunderstorm broke out in the area of ​​​​the cosmodrome). The second attempt to launch the shuttle was scheduled for 01.10 Wednesday ET (09.10 Moscow time). Discovery has two more attempts to launch before August 30th.

In Primorye, a criminal case has been initiated against the director of the 30th shipyard of the Ministry of Defense Maxim Kutyanin. According to RIA Novosti, the investigation believes that the director did not pay wages to workers for 5 months in order to receive subsidies for the enterprise. On July 20, 56 workers of this enterprise suspended work for two weeks in protest. They demanded payment of wage arrears.

The pirates who captured the Arctic Sea destroyed the documents of all crew members. This was reported to Life.ru by a source close to the investigation. In his opinion, this was done for one purpose: they wanted to get rid of the sailors. The publication does not exclude that the lack of documents has become one of the reasons why the crew members of the dry cargo ship are still being held in Moscow.

Five Russians and two local residents died as a result of the An-12 cargo plane crash near the capital of the Congo on Wednesday, Reuters reports, citing representatives of the Congo's transport ministry. According to the agency, the bodies of the seven dead were found at the crash site 20 kilometers from Brazzaville, where the An-12 was heading. The Russian authorities have not yet confirmed the death of Russian citizens in a plane crash.

70 percent of the employees of the Moscow State Traffic Inspectorate were tested for knowledge of the rules of the road, and 7 percent of them flunked the exam. According to RIA "Novosti", this was stated to journalists by the head of the traffic police department of Moscow, Sergei Kazantsev. According to him, those who did not pass the exam will be given the opportunity to retake the exam.

A consortium of Gazprom, the German concern E.ON and the Dutch company Gasunie has approached banks with a proposal to finance the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline in the amount of 3.9 billion euros or $5.6 billion, Reuters reports, citing sources in the banking environment. The requested amount includes a loan of 3.1 billion euros for a period of 16 years, guaranteed by export credit agencies Hermes and Sace, as well as the German government.

Traffic police inspectors will be deprived of the privilege not to wear seat belts when driving. According to ITAR-TASS, this was stated by the first deputy director of the traffic safety department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, militia major general Vladimir Shvetsov. "Now the Ministry of Internal Affairs is amending the current rules. According to current legislation, traffic police officers may not wear seat belts. We want to remove this privilege," Shvetsov said.

The gas pipeline from Russia to South Ossetia was put into operation on Wednesday, Interfax reports. Previously, South Ossetia received liquefied natural gas from Russia, as well as fuel through the Agara-Tskhinvali gas pipeline from the Tbilisi-Kutaisi main pipeline. The total length of the new gas pipeline is 162.3 kilometers, and its design capacity is 252.5 million cubic meters of gas per year. The construction of the pipeline was started at the end of 2006.