As of 7:07 Moscow time, during trading on the Intercontinental Exchange, the price of futures for North Sea Brent crude oil fell by 2.255% to $46.12 per barrel. The price of WTI oil fell by 0.979% to $40.87 per barrel.

At the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Rostov Region, representatives of the business community, municipal authorities and the legislative assembly discussed changes to the law “On Regional Taxes...” Among the proposals from SMEs is a significant addition to the list of activities for which a tax rate is set in the amount 0% (for first-time registered entrepreneurs subject to the simplified taxation system).

FCS offers to plant more than 1 million rubles for the import of sanctions products The state seemed to admit that measures to destroy food from countries that imposed sanctions against Russia are not enough to complete its imports. The Federal Customs Service (FCS) proposed to introduce a criminal punishment for the import of suction products into Russia.

Monitoring did not reveal excess levels of harmful substances in the air and water in the city of Vilyuchinsk on Kamchatka, where the day before, during loading for disposal of a ballistic missile body without a warhead, a leak of oxidizer residues was discovered, the regional government reports.

Cable operator wins in court over intellectual property rights The All-Russian Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which collects royalties in favor of performers and producers of musical works, lost a lawsuit against the Akado subsidiary in Yekaterinburg. WIPO tried to recover almost 4 million rubles from her. for broadcasting music on the Chanson TV channel.

Former officials of Rostransnadzor Irek Timergazeev and Vladislav Semenov, convicted in the case of the crash of the motor ship "Bulgaria", received the right to parole in connection with serving half of the sentence imposed by the court, press secretary of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Tatarstan Inga Mazurenko told TASS . Officials Irek Timergazeev and Vladislav Semenov were convicted in Moscow in May 2013.

The Russian government has agreed to allocate more than 2 billion rubles to the Black Earth Region regions this year. subsidies for the development of the agro-industrial complex. The corresponding orders were signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on August 18. In particular, Belgorod farmers can receive 621.8 million rubles to reimburse part of the interest rate on short-term loans for processing crop and livestock products.

The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), which is leading the liquidation procedure of the Ufa-based My Bank. Mortgage” intends to verify the circumstances of the institution’s bankruptcy. As follows from the DIA message, if signs of deliberate bankruptcy are detected, the agency will take measures to bring the perpetrators to justice. As of August 1, the liquidator’s statement notes, 1.4 thousand applications for the recovery of 1.42 billion rubles were submitted to the courts to the bank’s debtors.

Six Kirov enterprises submitted applications to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation for inclusion in the federal import substitution program and to receive state support. This is stated on the website of the regional government.

As a result of the accident with the Ufa-Togliatti passenger bus, which slid into a ditch in the Sergievsky district of the Samara region, 22 people were injured, 9 of whom were hospitalized, reports the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Samara region. The road accident occurred on August 21 at 16:10 (MSK+1) at the 1101st kilometer of the M5 Ural federal highway in the Sergievsky district of the Samara region.

The Moscow Arbitration Court refused to satisfy the claims of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Forestry and Ecology of the Perm Territory, which tried to oblige the bankrupt CJSC Uralalmaz (Perm Territory, formerly part of the Ruiz group of Lev Leviev) to reclaim land in the Krasnovishersky district, where the company had previously carried out mining . As stated in the court materials, the ministry was unable to prove the need for reclamation of these lands.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement in which it expressed disagreement with Kiev’s interpretation of the results of the expert meeting in the Normandy format, which took place in Berlin on August 20. “It is puzzling that in Kyiv they hastened to interpret the results of the meeting as “support” of the Ukrainian position by German and French experts. This is not true. The flaws in the Ukrainian partners' argumentation are obvious.

About 300 parking spaces will be left on the Garden Ring The number of parking lots on the Garden Ring in Moscow will be reduced. Kommersant FM was informed about this by the Traffic Management Center. Parking spaces will be removed from areas where sidewalks are not wide enough. This measure, according to officials, will improve the safety of pedestrians and also make their movement more comfortable.

The volatility of the ruble creates risks for joint projects between Russia and China and negatively affects trade between countries, Lin Ji, director of the Department of Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, told reporters. “It’s possible, there is a risk,” RIA Novosti quotes the words of a department representative. Let us remind you that the ruble continues to depreciate rapidly compared to leading world currencies.

The military prosecutor of the Svobodnensky garrison approved an indictment in a criminal case against a number of officials of one of the enterprises in the Far Eastern Federal District, accused of commercial bribery, according to the website of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office . However, the name of the enterprise is not specified in the message.