In detail Photo: Alexander Koryakov / Kommersant The Colonel was drawn to the “Motherland” Ikhtiyar Urazalin decided to become the head of the district in the Astrakhan region 05.08.2014, 0:00 Deputy Chief of Logistics of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ikhtiyar Urazalin began his election campaign in the Astrakhan region.

The European Commission confirmed the agreement on a meeting between European Commissioner for Energy Günter Oettinger and the head of the Russian Ministry of Energy, Alexander Novak, which will take place on August 29, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the EC press service. In an interview with FAZ , Mr. Ettinger said that he intends to make a new attempt to resolve the gas dispute between Moscow and Kiev and achieve guarantees of uninterrupted energy supply for Ukraine.

MUR officers caught the leader of a gang of raiders Employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department detained a criminal authority nicknamed Malysh and two of his accomplices from Tajikistan, suspected of committing robbery attacks on collectors as part of an organized ethnic group. According to investigators, on July 30 in Moscow, suspects attacked Chinese citizens and stole a bag containing 8 million rubles. According to the police, Malysh refused to cooperate with the investigation.

The Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region introduced a bill to the State Duma that would allow maternity capital funds to be spent on the purchase of new Russian cars. The corresponding document is posted in the State Duma’s electronic database.

New Shia-Sunni front opened in Lebanon Following Syria and Iraq, another country in the region - Lebanon - was drawn into the confrontation with Islamic radicals. Fighters from the Jabhat al-Nusra group fighting in Syria and linked to Al-Qaeda crossed the border, starting battles on Lebanese territory. The country's authorities announced that they were ready to confront the radicals, who were also opposed by the Shiite movement Hezbollah.

OJSC ChTZ-Uraltrak has switched to a part-time work week, reports Znak.com. In some departments of the plant, employees go to work only twice a week. It is planned that this schedule will be in effect until September; in the future, the operating hours will be changed taking into account real needs.

For the first time in four years, she excelled at the WTA tournament Tennis Previous photo Next photo 1 / 2 Svetlana Kuznetsova did not hide her delight after winning a modest tournament in Washington Photo: AP/Nick Wass Serena Williams became the fifth tennis player in history to top the WTA rankings for at least 200 weeks. Photo: AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez Svetlana Kuznetsova beat Japanese Kurumi Nara in the final of the tournament that ended in Washington.

Over the seven months of 2014, more than 27 million 49 thousand tons of cargo were loaded at the stations of the Far Eastern Railway, which is 5% lower than the same period last year. For some items there is an increase in production volumes: petroleum products - 6.4 million tons (+2.4%), timber cargo - 2 million 551 thousand tons (+14.8%), ferrous metal scrap - 134 thousand tons (+17%), ferrous metal - 440.5 thousand tons (+47.1%), cement - 684.1 thousand tons (+6.3%).

One of the shareholders of Ecoprombank, Vladimir Nelyubin, believes that the bank’s large shareholders could easily solve the bank’s problems, but they do not want to do this. In an interview with the New Companion newspaper, Mr. Nelyubin stated that “shareholders with a larger share should care about the bank an order of magnitude more than I do. If Pyotr Ivanovich Kondrashov, as he says, has 53% through his offshore companies, then in theory he should “move” many times more than I do.

A counter-terrorist operation regime has been introduced in one of the settlements of the Chegem region of Kabardino-Balkaria, reports the operational headquarters in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

Incumbent governors will go to the polls without strong opponents Yesterday the deadline for gubernatorial candidates to submit signatures of municipal deputies for the September elections ended. A peculiarity of the campaign was that serious competitors of the current heads were either removed in batches before registration, or were unable to collect the required number of signatures.

The contract of the Ufa Land Resources Department for the development of 9.3 hectares in the block of Salavat Yulaev-Aiskaya-Bakalinskaya-Mingazheva streets will be received by Ufa LLC Bereg. The company became the only participant in the action held by management today. She agreed to pay the initial price of 67 million rubles for the right to lease the site for five years.

In Novosibirsk, an investigation into a case against a group of people accused of a series of thefts of expensive foreign cars has been completed. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Novosibirsk Region. As investigators established, four residents of one of the neighboring republics, aged from 22 to 30 years old, were looking for parked foreign cars.

Previously, Rospotrebnadzor and the court declared the rules for their use illegal The Moscow Department of Transport reported on the growing popularity of electronic tickets - the Troika card: it is already used by 20% of metro passengers, that is, almost 2 million people. Over six months, the popularity of this ticket increased by 10%. Previously, Rospotrebnadzor and the arbitration court declared the rules for using Troika illegal, but the metro is in no hurry to change them.

FAS assessed violations in the auction for the Amur settlement The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia for the Omsk Region revealed violations in the open competition announced at the end of June by the Omsk municipality for the construction of a residential microdistrict in the Amursky village for the resettlement of citizens from dilapidated houses with a total cost of 1.38 billion rubles.