The prosecutor's office of the Shevchenko district of the capital opened 2 proceedings based on statements from people's deputies and 1 - on a statement from a policeman regarding today's events in the Kyiv City Council.

The morning debates of candidates for capital mayor will take place without Alexei Navalny. The politician is sure that the ratings of television programs at this time of day are very low. Navalny’s decision to abandon morning broadcasts is understandable, but unprofitable for the campaign, experts say. Photo: Anton Belitsky, Kommersant / buy photo Alexei Navalny refused to participate in the morning television debate.

The company unlawfully collected and processed information about the criminal records of all its employees and applicants. This was revealed during an inspection conducted by the Zavodsky district prosecutor’s office together with the regional department of Roskomnadzor. According to the prosecutor's office, the OJSC had an approved questionnaire form with a question about criminal history.

World practice So-called cooling periods are a popular practice in many developed countries. For example, in the USA, a borrower can unilaterally terminate a loan agreement before midnight of the third day from the date of its conclusion. True, this is possible if the obligations under the contract are secured by a pledge of property that is used as the client’s main place of residence.

A fire broke out in the center of Nizhny Novgorod; seven floors of a ten-story building on Blokhina Street are burning. “At least seven floors are on fire, residents are being evacuated. Some residents are asking for help from windows and balconies,” said a source from RIA Novosti. According to him, the passage of fire trucks is hampered by chains and concrete posts, which car owners use to unauthorizedly fence off parking spaces.

The authorities of the Omsk region declared August 21 a day of mourning for those killed in a collision between a motor ship and a barge on the Irtysh River. The day of mourning will last for 24 hours - until August 22. “Entertainment establishments are recommended to cancel entertainment events,” Interfax quotes regional governor Viktor Nazarov as saying. Those killed in the shipwreck will also be buried at this time.

Work on designing a landfill for processing toxic waste, including oil-containing waste, has been stopped. As the portal ugra-news.ru writes, the head of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ugra, Alexander Tirtoka, stated this in an official letter. The facility was planned to be built 35 km from the city of Nizhnevartovsk (KhMAO).

The head of the construction committee lasted less than a year Chairman of the Smolny Construction Committee (CC) Andrei Arteev resigned after working in this post for only 9.5 months. The reasons for such a sudden dismissal are said to be the unprecedentedly low execution of the committee’s budget, the lack of mutual understanding with the “construction” vice-governor Marat Oganesyan and persistent attempts to spend government money on laser scanning of the city center.

According to the ex-mayor of Yaroslavl, Yevgeny Urlashov, the initiator of his arrest was United Russia. This is due to Mr. Urlashov’s refusal to enter the list of the party in power in the upcoming elections to the regional Duma. “It would be a loud scandal throughout the country, it would be the first time. A coalition could emerge: “Civil Platform”, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and “SR”.

The company could not withstand low aluminum prices The price of primary aluminum on the London Metal Exchange (LME) in the second quarter fell below Rusal's production costs. As a result, the company showed losses and revised upward the plan to reduce aluminum production in 2013: now Rusal intends to reduce it by 357 thousand tons. According to the main owner of Rusal, Oleg Deripaska, only a reduction in production volumes by all players can bring the industry out of the crisis.

Electrolysis production at unprofitable plants will be curtailed Rusal, as promised by its main owner Oleg Deripaska, will close electrolysis production at low-efficiency aluminum plants in the West division. This decision was made by the board of directors of the aluminum holding. As a result, by the end of the year, aluminum production at Rusal enterprises may be reduced by 357 thousand tons, the company reports.

Russian Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev said that the authorities must strictly control the payment of compensation to victims of floods in the Far East. “All the money went to the regions - this is absolutely accurate information. Governors say the money is being actively disbursed. This situation needs to be controlled.

The Saratov region is in fourth place in the PrivFD in terms of the level of provision of the population with cars - there are 256 cars per 1000 people. The Orenburg region (288 cars per thousand inhabitants), Samara region (270 cars) and Tatarstan (261 cars) are ahead of the region. The last place in the PrivFO ranking was taken by the Republic of Mari El (163 cars per thousand inhabitants). The rating was compiled by the analytical center of the AlfaStrakhovanie company.

From eight to twelve people, according to preliminary data, were injured in the explosion in the center of Sofia, which occurred on Sunday evening. Correspondent of Kommersant Publishing House in Sofia Nikolai Marchenko told the details to presenter Oksana Barykina. Photo: AP The parishioners of the Russian church in Sofia, near which the explosion occurred, were not injured.

Alexander Kolbovsky talks with director Vera Glagoleva Vera Glagoleva began filming the film “Two Women” based on Turgenev’s “A Month in the Country”.