Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has made personnel changes in the government, the state news agency Sana reports. He replaced the ministers of economy and foreign trade, industry, domestic trade, higher education, tourism and appointed one minister without portfolio, the report said.

Employees of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia suppressed the activities of a group of people suspected of extorting money for assistance in resolving issues within the competence of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision. According to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the suspects acted under the guise of proxies of Rostechnadzor officials.

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine allowed Diesa LLC to acquire Technopolis-1 LLC. Diesa LLC owns the Eldorado chain of electronics and household appliances stores, represented by 90 retail outlets in 46 cities. The Technopolis retail chain owns about 65 stores in 36 cities of Ukraine. Based on materials from RBC-Ukraine

Four residents of the Chelyabinsk region were detained in Ufa on suspicion of stealing license plates in order to obtain ransom from the owners. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Bashkiria, men with screwdrivers in their hands tried to remove another license plate from a car in one of the courtyards of the Ordzhonikidze district at night. The investigation believes that the group is involved in similar thefts; several hundred of them were registered.

The investigation into corrupt practices of Microsoft employees and partners continues. On Wednesday evening, Microsoft acknowledged that a months-long investigation into bribery of foreign officials and partners in China, Bulgaria and Italy had been extended to Russia and Pakistan. Photo: REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/Files, Reuters The Wall Street Journal reported that the investigation into corrupt practices of Microsoft Corp.

Seven people received burns while extinguishing a fire in a crude oil tank in the Irkutsk region, a representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region told RIA Novosti on August 22. Extinguishing a fire in a 5 thousand cubic meter tank. m, which contained 3 thousand “cubes” of oil, has been going on since August 21. The fire was localized, but then the burning tank collapsed.

JSC Ak Bars Aero paid 150 thousand rubles. compensation for moral damage to a resident of Samara - the daughter of a pilot who died in a helicopter crash in the spring of 2012 in Tatarstan, Natalya Tsoi, press secretary of the Samara Region Prosecutor's Office, told the Interfax-Volga region agency on Wednesday. “At the time of the accident, the daughter of the deceased was 17 years old.

The Russian leadership is discussing the issue of reorganizing the Ministry of Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Disaster Relief into a more effective structure, which will be operationally subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. The current head of the military department, Sergei Shoigu, addressed President Vladimir Putin with a corresponding proposal.

Contracts T-shirts with the name of Wales national football player Gareth Bale, owned by London's Tottenham, have already appeared in Real Madrid club stores, reports the British edition of the Mirror. Real Madrid are engaged in lengthy negotiations in the off-season to acquire the 24-year-old Welshman. According to media reports, the midfielder could cost Madrid more than €100 million. "R-Sport"

Governor of the Saratov region Valery Radaev met with the chief architects of Saratov and Engels. The main topic of discussion was the modernization of historical city centers. Valery Radaev noted that today issues of urban planning are closely related to the prospects for economic development of territories, and the expansion of large cities is accompanied by the restructuring of planning, transport and engineering infrastructures, and the replacement of old housing with new ones.

Russia may abandon joint aircraft manufacturing projects with Ukraine, such as the An-124 Ruslan and An-70. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin said this in an interview with Kommersant. “If they don’t make a decision now, then later we will simply be forced to localize all production. And we will refuse their services completely. Who will they work with? With the Chinese? Sell to the Chinese? China has also advanced far in this regard.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has made personnel changes in the government, the state news agency Sana reports. He replaced the ministers of economy and foreign trade, industry, domestic trade, higher education, tourism, and appointed one minister without portfolio, the report said. Based on materials from Sana

Political councils are waiting for explanations from the heads of Kaliningrad and Omsk The Political Council of the Kaliningrad branch of United Russia will discuss the situation with the foreign real estate of the wife of the mayor of Kaliningrad Alexander Yaroshuk.

Oil tank with a capacity of 5 thousand cubic meters. m, which burned for more than a day in the Irkutsk region, was extinguished. “Work on site continues as hot tank structures threaten to re-ignite. The burning container with oil and the surrounding area are being drained and cooled to completely eliminate the fire and its consequences,” reports the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Irkutsk Region.

A verdict has been handed down in the case of the flood in Krymsk, in which 153 people died In Krymsk, a verdict was announced for municipal officials found guilty of negligence during the flood of July 6-7, 2012, which led to the death of 153 people. Three of the four defendants will be sent to penal colonies for terms ranging from three and a half to six years.