Domestic demand in Russia has not grown for the second month In August 2014, domestic consumption made a zero contribution to the growth of the Russian economy. While Rosstat data points to an unexpected acceleration in retail trade dynamics year-on-year, another setback in capital investment has caused overall domestic demand to stagnate for the second month in a row. The only source capable of providing an increase in GDP in this situation remains external demand.

At the end of the second quarter of this year, more than 350 branches of Russian banks operated on the Crimean Peninsula. The specificity of the Crimean banking system is that almost all of it is controlled by banks of regional significance. Large federal structures are not yet ready to open their offices here.

People's Deputy of Ukraine Anatoly Gritsenko (Batkivshchyna faction) claims that the text of Law No. 5081 on the special status of a number of districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions was changed after its adoption by the parliament, Interfax reported on September 18. “I confirm. The text of Law 5081 “on special status” has been changed,” Anatoly Gritsenko wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday evening.

A judge has denied the defense of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused in the United States of committing the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, a hearing to move the trial outside Massachusetts. Judge George O'Toole said he would make this decision based on the documents at his disposal, which in fact can be considered a refusal to change the location of the trial, RIA Novosti reports. According to American law, someone accused of a crime must be tried in the same place where the crime was committed.

ECONOMY class what is happening in the economy of the Perm region in the collection “Economy of the Region” The development of design documentation for the new airport terminal complex of OJSC Perm International Airport has begun. In the spring, Perm International Airport OJSC held a competition and selected a designer for the new terminal. It became Spectrum-Holding LLC. The contract price was 87.4 million rubles.

The Law on Control and Supervision should be adopted by mid-2015 The place of the new law on state and municipal control (supervision) in the legislative system should be determined by the end of 2014. It should be adopted in the first half of 2015. In any case, such a period, according to Kommersant’s information, is proposed by the government commission on administrative reform.

FOR ADVERTISING RIGHTS To date, more than three thousand people have already applied for compensation for the costs of summer vacations for young Vladivostok residents. Let us remind you that parents of children 6.5–15 years old living in the Vladivostok urban district can receive compensation. Compensation is provided in the amount of 50% of the cost of the trip, but not more than 8 thousand rubles.

UTair Aviation delayed the flight from Yekaterinburg to Istanbul by 14 hours due to a technical malfunction of the aircraft, ITAR-TASS reports. According to Dmitry Tyukhtin, director of strategic communications at Koltsovo International Airport, a technical malfunction on the Airbus A321 was discovered during a pre-flight inspection by airport technical staff. Flight UT-4476/TK-476 was supposed to take off from Koltsovo at 08:25 local time, but the departure was tentatively delayed until 22:30.

The conflict in eastern Ukraine brings new victims The truce in eastern Ukraine is in jeopardy. Yesterday, the Donetsk City Council confirmed information about at least two deaths per day as a result of artillery shelling. The idea of ​​a political settlement of the conflict through the laws adopted the day before by the Verkhovna Rada on the special status of certain regions of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions is also on the verge of failure.

Ex-Omsk City Hall official's fine was replaced with a prison sentence The Omsk Regional Court has toughened the punishment for the former deputy head of the administration of the Soviet District of Omsk, Valery Usatov, who was sentenced several months ago to a fine for bribery. Yesterday, a panel of judges changed the sentence, deciding to place the ex-official in a maximum security colony for two years. For Usatov, this turn was unexpected.

On October 13, 2005, at the Slovakia-Russia match in Bratislava, a fight broke out between fans of the teams. The clash, which occurred after Russian fans left the stands of the stadium, involved approximately 80 people from both sides. The meeting ended in a goalless draw, and the Russian team lost its chances of qualifying for the World Cup.

A plant for the production of steel doors is planned to be built in the Ulyanovsk region Toreador Active LLC (Ulyanovsk region) plans to invest 100 million rubles in the construction of a plant in the region for the production of metal entrance doors, the press service of the regional government reports. The enterprise will be located in the Zavolzhye industrial park (eastern suburb of Ulyanovsk) on a land plot of 15 thousand square meters. m.

September 18, 2014, Orenburg. – The Orenburg branch of Sberbank of Russia offers its clients a “boxed” insurance product. Box insurance is a unique joint program of Alfa Insurance OJSC and Sberbank of Russia OJSC for insurance of individuals. The “boxed” insurance program includes insurance for bank card holders, property of individuals, as well as a program for creating savings.

On the territory of the special economic zone (SEZ) “Titanium Valley”, preparation of the site for the construction of the production complex of VSMPO-New Technologies LLC has begun. At the moment, work has begun on the construction of the building, in particular, as part of the design of the production complex, dynamic tests of piles are being carried out, reports the information policy department of the head of the region.

Vladimir Medinsky on the possible consequences of cultural sanctions against Russia and the fate of the “Fundamentals of Cultural Policy” First persons Photo: Yuri Martyanov, Kommersant / buy photo The Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation VLADIMIR MEDINSKY spoke in an interview with YURIY YAROTSKY about how realistic it is to introduce sanctions against Russia in the field of culture, as well as about what is happening with the project “Fundamentals of State Cultural Policy”.