Arkady and Boris Rotenbergs Contributed to Boris and Arkady Rotenberg "SMP Bank" will be allowed to work with special accounts of participants in public procurement, Vedomosti reports . This is one of the measures of state support for the sanctions of banks, the explanatory note to the bill says . The interim funds are made by the interim funds of participants in state tenders. To work with such accounts, 18 largest banks were originally selected.

Petersburg. A rally against political repression. Photos of the user Evelgoor from LJ-community NAMARSH.ru The owners of several dozen largest VKontakte publics in an open letter called for decriminalize the 282nd (excitement of hatred or enmity) and completely cancel the 148th article of the Criminal Code (insulting the feelings of believers). The appeal is published on the website of the Association of Professional Users of Social Sets and Messengers (Appsim).

Julius Boyarshinov and Victor Filinkov. Photo: zona.media The defendants in the St. Petersburg case of the "network" Viktor Filinkov and Julia Boyarshinov on Friday, August 17, were taken from the pre-trial detention center-1 in Nizhny Novgorod to the stage. It is reported by the telegram channel Rupression. As stated in the publication, the stage follows in Penza, where another “network” is fabricated.

Terrible: a car of the alleged attacker. Photo: Telegram channel Mash A series of attacks on police officers was committed in Chechnya, officials and security officials say. The regional Ministry of Internal Affairs writes that in Shali about 10 in the morning two unknown with knives "tried to penetrate" into the district OMVD, injuring two police officers. Both attackers, claimed, were killed by return fire. RIA Novosti reports that a certain woman from civilian is also wounded.

Nevsky district court of St. Petersburg. Photo: wikimapia.org The Petersburger Eduard Nikitin, against whom the case is opened under part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity), threatens to send for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric hospital. This was reported by Interfax with reference to Maxim Kamakin, a lawyer of the defendant. On Monday, the first hearings in the Nikitin case will be held in the Nevsky District Court of City.

Fired by entry to the embassy. Photo: cnnturk.com In Ankara on Ataturka Boulevard, unknown people fired at the American embassy. According to CNN Turk, this happened last Sunday at about 5 pm. The victims or material injuries were not reported. Shooting was led from a white car with unidentified numbers. Eyewitnesses reported four to five shots. After shelling, the car disappeared in the direction of General Street. A large number of police officers quickly arrived at the scene.

Vyacheslav Kryukov, Ruslan Kostylenkov, Peter Karamzin, Dmitry Poletaev (from left to right) in court. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru The Moscow prosecutor's office announced the absence of provocations in the actions of the operatives who developed the defendants in the case of "new greatness". This was reported by RBC with reference to the letter of the department to the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Valery Rashkin.

Twenty years ago, on August 20, 1998, in response to the attacks on American embassies in Africa, the US Navy launched cruise missiles at suspected terrorist targets in Sudan and Afghanistan. A drug factory in Sudan where terrorists were believed to be producing explosives and al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan were destroyed. According to American estimates, up to 50 terrorists were killed.

Mikhail Orlov. Photo: eg.ru In Moscow, the case of pop composer Mikhail Orlov, accused of knowingly false report on the terrorist attack. Orlov was the first to report on August 15, Express Gazeta, but the information dispersed widely in mass media after the Sunday publication of Novaya. The 57-year-old composer was imputed part 1 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code, providing for a fine of 200 to 500 thousand rubles, up to 3 years of restriction of freedom or from 2 to 3 years forces.

Denis Bakholdin in court. Photo from FB page Irina Yatsenko Judge of the Soviet District Court of Bryansk Andrei Schalnev extended to the opposition Denis Baholdin, who is charged with participation in the ATO as a volunteer of the “Right Sector”, the term of detention in the pre -trial detention center until September 15. This was reported to the "Franes" by the lawyer of the political prisoner Svetlana Sidorkina.

Michael Cohen. Photo: cnn.com The US authorities are investigating the possible involvement of Michael Cohen, the former lawyer Donald Trump, in banking and tax fraud. It is reported by The New York Times with reference to sources familiar with the circumstances of the case.