10K 2 min. ... The column is led by Dmitry Polonsky Photo: Sergey Rasulov/NewsTeam, Kommersant The Anzhi football club urgently put up most of its stars for sale. Having spent about €0.5 billion on a sports project over two and a half years, its owner Suleiman Kerimov will be forced to try to return at least part of the funds in three weeks.

Stealing car license plates for ransom has been invented a long time ago. But recently, this scheme has become widespread: the criminals have clearly realized that no one will be able to identify them using the mobile phone number from which they communicate with the “client”.

A drunken tram thief was detained in Odessa. He turned out to be a former employee of the Odesgorelectrotrans utility company, who resigned two weeks ago of his own free will, reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Odessa region. At the police station, the man said that he was relaxing in a bar located near Starosennaya Square, where he drank alcohol. Going out into the street, I saw a tram car with no one in it.

The Ministry of Agriculture approved the law “On Veterinary Medicine” The Ministry of Agriculture has finally agreed on a new version of the law “On Veterinary Medicine”. Of several versions of the bill prepared over the past three years, the most liberal one has been chosen: the discussed subordination of all regional veterinary services to Rosselkhoznadzor will not happen.

The chairman of the Central Election Commission of Georgia, Zurab Kharatishvili, resigned two months before the presidential elections in the country. As stated by the commission's press secretary, Eka Azarashvili, the reasons for this decision will be made public at the end of this week. Presidential candidates must register with the Central Election Commission by September 7. The country's presidential elections are due to take place on October 27. Based on materials from Radio Liberty

The Kyiv District Administrative Court decided to reject the claim of MP from the UDAR faction Sergei Kaplin against Prime Minister Mykola Azarov regarding the failure to provide a response to the deputy’s request within the time limits specified by law, the party’s press service reported. The court ruling states that the deadline for a mandatory response to a deputy’s request is 30 days. At the same time, Mr.

The press service of the government of the Amur region reports on an assessment of preliminary damage from floods in the region. This amount is 3 billion rubles. According to First Deputy Chairman of the regional government Vera Shcherbina, damage to agriculture alone amounted to 2 billion rubles. Also, about 300 km of roads were washed away, 75 sections were seriously damaged, and 29 bridges were destroyed. Mrs.

Governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev approved the Strategy for the development of the investment sector of the region until 2020, the press service of the head of the region reported. The document was developed in accordance with the Strategy for the socio-economic development of the Rostov region for the period until 2020 and provides for the further development of industrial parks and improvement of the public-private partnership mechanism.

But the Bureyskaya hydroelectric power station is close to the beginning of the discharge The anomalous flood on the Amur is gradually changing its configuration. The peak of the flood on the Zeya River is subsiding: the pressure on the Zeya hydroelectric power station dam has weakened, and the reservoir level has not increased over the past 24 hours.

Local authorities estimate damage from flooding in the Amur region at 3 billion rubles. “To put it very roughly, today we estimate the damage at about 3 billion rubles. These calculations are preliminary and will be updated after the water begins to recede,” said First Deputy Chairman of the regional government Vera Shcherbina. She also stated that as a result of the flood, about 300 km of roads were washed away, 75 areas were seriously damaged, and 29 bridges were destroyed.

The United States has opened 18 of 19 embassies and consulates in the Middle East and North Africa that were closed last week due to the terrorist threat, RIA Novosti reported on August 12, citing US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. "Credible threats" are the reason why the embassy in Yemen's capital Sanaa remains closed, as well as the consulate general in Lahore, which was closed and partially evacuated separately from all other missions in the middle of last week.

In the coming days, a group of specialists from Gazprom OJSC will arrive in Perm. The governor of the region, Viktor Basargin, reports this in his blog. They will arrive for the purpose of selecting enterprises “to place orders for the needs of the company.” “A.B.

The director of the recreation center in Tarusa, where tourists were beaten on Saturday night, came to the police after learning that he was considered the instigator of the fight. He completely denies his involvement in what happened. On Saturday, unknown persons at a recreation center in the city of Tarusa started a fight with vacationers, 12 people turned to doctors for help.

Number 112 will unite all emergency services - doctors, firefighters and police. The system will be implemented throughout the country gradually. The call will be free for subscribers. Psychologists note that operators of a single service must have appropriate training.

Turkish authorities have decided to close the cultural center and trade mission in Lebanon, where the Turkish pilots of Turkish Airlines were kidnapped, for security reasons. The kidnapping of the pilots was claimed by the Lebanese Shiite group, Zuwar al-Imam al-Rida.