Press release TTK-South-East (TTK-YuV), a regional enterprise of the TTK Company, reports the results of activity in the broadband Internet access (BBA) services market for the first half of 2014. Revenues from the provision of broadband Internet access services to the population increased by 12% compared to the first half of 2013 and amounted to 30 million rubles.

Two explosions occurred in Ghazni province in eastern Afghanistan. Nine people became their victims. The first killed six police officers who were heading to a checkpoint previously attacked by Taliban militants. The other three dead were civilians who were blown up by a roadside mine, ITAR-TASS reports, citing a representative of local authorities. Read more about the situation in the country in the Kommersant article “Afghan elections bogged down in calculations.”

NK Naftogaz of Ukraine reported that if Kiev imposes sanctions against Russian companies, gas transit through Ukrainian territory to Europe will be carried out by companies that are not subject to sanctions and will enter into direct agreements with Naftogaz. “The introduction of sanctions limiting the transit of resources may limit or exclude the further provision of gas transportation services to certain counterparties by NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine and PJSC Ukrtransgaz.

90 years ago, Ogonyok talked about the path of cinema to the broad Soviet masses 90 years ago, “Ogonyok” talked about how difficult the path to the broad Soviet masses of the most important of the arts, which, according to Lenin’s definition, was cinema for us.

The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Omsk Regional Court last Friday upheld the decision of the first instance to extend for six months the arrest of the ex-head of the Omsk branch of Ak Bars Bank and former city council deputy Alexander Dmitriev, who was extradited a month ago from Latvia on charges of fraud and abuse of power. Mr. Dmitriev’s lawyer, Andrei Motovilov, sought to have the arrest cancelled.

Today we started accepting documents from citizens wishing to take the position of head of the administration of Zarechny, Penza region. According to PenzaNews news agency , documents from potential candidates will be accepted until Friday, August 22.

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Ukraine by telephone with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Monday. “The head of the Russian state assessed the causes of the crisis in this country. Attention is focused on the catastrophic consequences of the military operation carried out by the Kyiv authorities in the south-eastern regions and the need for urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to the conflict zone.

The redeployment of personnel and military equipment to the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region has begun, where the active phase of air defense and missile defense exercises will take place. “The first train with S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems, special engineering equipment, as well as logistical means for setting up a field camp to accommodate personnel arrived at the Ashuluk training ground,” a representative of the press service department told Interfax.

Renaming is not always good for the company Malaysia Airlines, which has tragically lost two aircraft since the beginning of the year, is considering changing its name, according to media reports. Experts warn that this measure rarely has a positive effect in the long term. One of the exceptions is the American airline ValuJet, which decided to take this step after a number of incidents, including a major plane crash.

Economic sanctions against Russia are no longer targeted. It is too early to assess how strong their influence will be: there is too much uncertainty, it is unknown how far they will go and what the response to them will be. But Russian companies are already forced to adjust their plans.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, instructed the government to establish a system for monitoring the situation on the food market in the country and to involve in this work, in addition to the relevant departments, commodity producers and retail chains. Mr.

In the Czech Republic, a special biological protection center of the country's Ministry of Defense has been prepared, which is ready to receive people infected with the deadly Ebola fever, including from abroad, RIA Novosti reports, citing local media.

What is Yevgeny Roizman’s comrade-in-arms accused of and how does this threaten the mayor himself? Yekaterinburg City Duma deputy Oleg Kinyev is accused of organizing the murder of a lonely pensioner in order to obtain her apartment. While investigators are looking into the involvement of mayor Yevgeny Roizman in the story, Vlast was looking into how a little-known Novouralsk doctor Oleg Kinyov came to great power and a big criminal case.

Alexander Lukashenko said that Belarus must fulfill its obligations to protect the market of the union state during the transit of goods through its territory to Russia. “When talking with the President of Russia, we talked about protecting the Russian market. That is, we must fulfill our obligations to protect the union market (we have a single customs office in the customs space) regarding the transit of goods from the West through Belarus to Russian territory.

The day before, the Yekaterinburg football club “Ural” played a draw with “Krasnodar” in the second round of the Russian championship. The score of the match is 1:1. Krasnodar player Joaozinho managed to convert the penalty, to which Ural was able to respond with a goal from Chisamba Lungu, the press service of the Ural club reports. Ekaterinburg football players managed to get their first point in the new Premier League season; the team's next opponent will be Zenit. Kommersant-Online