Which of those in power may fall under the sanctions of the law on foreign assets. Understood by Vadim Zaitsev Debates in parliament will soon continue around options for a law on the status of foreign assets of officials and parliamentarians.

In the final of the tournament in Cincinnati, he defeated the second racket of the world in two games A major tennis tournament in Cincinnati ended in the final, in which the first racket of the world, Swiss Roger Federer, defeated the second, Serbian Novak Djokovic, in two sets - 6:0, 7:6 (9:7). The women's competition, which was taking place in parallel, was won by Chinese Li Na, who defeated Germany's Angelique Kerber in the decisive match - 1:6, 6:3, 6:1.

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95 1 min. ... Spanish Championship First tour. "Mallorca" - "Espanyol" 2:1 (Hemed, 2, 85 - Vacaso, 6). “Sevilla” – “Getafe” 2:1 (Facio, 34; Negredo, 39 (pen) - Alexis, 51). "Celta" - "Malaga" 0:1 (Olenga, 84). French Championship Second round. "Lorient" - "Montpellier" 2:1 (Herrera, 37; Traore, 90 - Aliadiere, 90+3). "Bastia" - "Stade de Reims" 2:1 (Modest, 62 (pen); Ilan 90+4 - Fauverge, 5). "Brest" - "Evian" 1:0 (Bays, 90).

Context The Central Election Commission (CEC) explained what may be responsible for the discrepancies between the number of voters in Russia on July 1 and the number of citizens who were included in the voter lists for the presidential elections on March 4.

OJSC NPO Iskra published a report for the first half of 2012. The company's revenue for the six months of 2012 amounted to 2.76 billion rubles, while for the same period of the previous year it amounted to 1.642 billion rubles. Net profit also increased from RUB 277.702 million. for six months of 2011, up to 404.893 million rubles. for the first half of 2012.

The conviction of a group of residents of the Moscow region for preparing a contract murder, which was entrusted to a person who turned out to be a police agent, has entered into legal force.

As Kommersant learned, on August 16 he left his position as acting. Dmitry Pastukhov, head of the property management agency of the Perm region. The governor's press service told Kommersant that no one has yet been appointed to this position. According to Kommersant, Igor Koshcheev, director of the Regional Real Estate Center (Sverdlovsk Region, BTI), will be appointed to the position of deputy head of the agency.

150 YEARS AGO 205 1 min. ... The Sovereign Emperor, in accordance with the regulations of the State Council and in accordance with the submission of the Chief Administrator of Communications and Public Buildings, deigned to command: 1.

280 1 min. ... The Day of the State Flag of the Russian Federation is celebrated on August 22. On this day in 1991, the tricolor was first officially raised over the White House in Moscow, and the “cloth of... white, azure, scarlet stripes” began to be considered the national flag of Russia. Desecration of the State Flag of the Russian Federation is a crime.

About 140 St. Petersburg residents complained to the city prosecutor's office about violations that allegedly took place at the singer Madonna's concert in St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reported on August 20, citing a representative of the department. Madonna, during her concert in St. Petersburg on August 9, asked residents of the Northern capital to treat people with non-traditional sexual orientation more friendly.

Asia's two leading powers are on the brink of conflict The dispute between Japan and China over the ownership of the Senkaku Islands is escalating into a new regional conflict. In response to the controversial visit to the Senkakus by Chinese activists, a group of Japanese nationalists yesterday landed on one of the uninhabited islands in the South China Sea, planting Japanese flags on it.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 occurred on the night of August 20 off the coast of the island of New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean, RIA Novosti reports citing the US Geological Survey. According to seismologists, tremors were recorded at 08.41 on August 19 local time (02.41 Monday Moscow time). The epicenter of the earthquake was 104 kilometers southeast of the city of Angoram. The outbreak lay at a depth of 77.3 kilometers. There are no reports of casualties, destruction or tsunami threat.

Russia today is one of the world leaders in aluminum smelting, second only to China. At the same time, all production is controlled by the Rusal company owned by Oleg Deripaska. Having visited Khakassia, Denga correspondent Alexey Boyarsky found out why Russian factories do not make anything more complex than foil. Main and only The fact that Russia is one of the world's main exporters of aluminum (3.4 million tons in 2011) is taken for granted.

75 YEARS AGO 210 1 min. ... To change the decision of the Central Committee of July 11, 1937, to allow the Orenburg Regional Committee to classify 3,500 people as repressed category 1 (execution - "Power" ). From the minutes of the Politburo meeting N51, special folder, 1937. Materials prepared by Svetlana Kuznetsova and Evgeny Zhirnov