As Kommersant learned, yesterday’s weekly operational meeting with the participation of the Governor of the Voronezh Region Alexei Gordeev ended with his unexpected appeal. The head of the region tried to refute allegedly rumors that he met with the former vice-speaker of the city duma, businessman Leonid Zenishchev, and enlisted his support. “I declare with responsibility that there was no meeting,” said Mr. Gordeev and asked law enforcement officials to pay attention to this information.

But he hopes for help from the Central Bank Today on the foreign exchange market there has been a sharp weakening of the ruble exchange rate. US dollar quotes reached 32.92 rubles/$, and the exchange rate of the pan-European currency exceeded 43.7 rubles/€. The strengthening of foreign currencies was facilitated by reduced demand for rubles after the end of the tax period.

The number of tour operators is growing every year, and therefore the tourism market is filled with offers. Despite this, more and more residents of the Russian Federation prefer planning their holidays independently. Some people are not satisfied with the prices of ready-made tours, some like spontaneity, others cannot accommodate certain dates due to work schedules. Photo: Courtesy of Innovative Travel Technologies Inc.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service intervened in the auctions for the distribution of construction sites in Ufa The Ufa City Hall was able to find tenants for only two construction sites out of four put up for auction. Auctions for others caused complaints from market participants and subsequent proceedings in the Federal Antimonopoly Service. Analysts note that city authorities have reduced the supply of plots for construction, which leads to rush demand for urban land.

Internet Rospotrebnadzor proposed allowing authorized bodies for monitoring illegal information on the Internet to independently identify prohibited information and make decisions on banning access to it. Currently, web resources are included in the register of prohibited information based on recommendations from Rospotrebnadzor (suicide), Federal Drug Control Service (production and distribution of drugs) and Roskomnadzor (child pornography). The latter is also a registry operator.

The amount of retail trade turnover in Yekaterinburg for six months of 2013 amounted to 322.2 billion rubles. This was reported by API with reference to the press service of the city administration. Ekaterinburg retained its leadership in the list of million-plus cities in terms of retail turnover per capita: in January-March 2013 this figure amounted to 107.5 thousand rubles. In second place is Kazan (76.6 thousand rubles).

Context Yesterday, by his decree, the acting President of Dagestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov, changed the structure of the government - it created the position of another deputy prime minister, who will be responsible for interaction with territorial federal authorities and the implementation of federal programs.

The party resource did not help the candidates of Konstantin Okunev The Russian National Union is unable to register its candidates for the upcoming municipal elections in the Perm Territory on September 8. Following the list of candidates for the Kungur City Duma, the former mayor of Osa, Viktor Begun, was refused registration as a candidate for the election of the head of the Osinsky district.

Representatives of China and the European Union agreed to discuss the issue of selling cheap European wines on the Chinese market. Officials on both sides assume that negotiations between Brussels and Beijing on this issue will proceed without delay. According to official EU data, France is the largest European exporter of wine to the Chinese market. Last year, French supplies of this drink brought in 546 million euros out of a pan-European figure of 763 million euros.

Tottenham and Real Madrid are finalizing negotiations over the transfer of the midfielder Negotiations regarding the transfer of the midfielder of the Welsh national team and English Tottenham to the Spanish Real Madrid, which may turn out to be the most expensive in history, have entered the final stage. The London club wants to receive €98 million for Bale, as well as defender Fabio Coentran.

The Federation Council supported the proposal to make the Day of the Baptism of Rus' a public holiday. The Russian Orthodox Church previously came up with such an initiative. Last Sunday, Ukraine celebrated the 1025th anniversary of the baptism of Kievan Rus. Columnist for Ogonyok magazine Dmitry Gubin noticed how often during the celebrations words about the second baptism of Russia were heard. Photo: Photo from the personal archive of D.

The vehicles included in the Heavy Flamethrower System (TOS-1A) will be presented by the Transport Engineering Design Bureau (Omsk) at the IX International Exhibition of Arms, Military Equipment and Ammunition Russia Arms Expo 2013, the general organizer of which is the UVZ Corporation. This was reported by the press service of the corporation.

The FSB prevented a series of terrorist attacks in Dagestan, RIA Novosti reports with reference to NAC. As a result, six bombs with a total capacity of 50 kg of TNT were neutralized. In Dagestan, operatives caught the leader of the Buynaksk gang, Ilmudin Kairbekov, who told about the location of a cache of bombs on the territory of one of the Rosrybnadzor bases in Makhachkala.

A non-profit partnership of fish farmers has been created in the Penza region A non-profit partnership “Penzrybkhoz” has been created in the Penza region, which includes the heads of 12 large fish farms in the region. As reported by the press service of the regional Ministry of Agriculture, under the chairmanship of entrepreneur Ivan Schneider, members of the partnership will collectively resolve issues on priority areas for the development of the fish farming industry in the region.

There were casualties, 15 plant employees were declared missing Several explosions occurred at the Blue Rhino gas plant in Lake County, Florida, USA. According to preliminary information, propane tanks exploded. 15 plant employees who were at the plant at the time of the explosions were declared missing. Florida plant explosion Photo: youtube.com/WorldStarNewsHD On the night of Tuesday, July 30, several explosions occurred at a gas plant in Lake County (Florida, USA).