Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina at a government meeting with President Vladimir Putin said that the Bank of Russia is ready to extend certain anti-crisis measures for Russian banks. “Decisions were made to ease banking regulation so that our banking system can adapt. We curtailed some of the measures because the banks no longer needed them, and some were going to be phased out on October 1.

As a result of an explosion at an oil mill in the city of Balakovo, Saratov region, one person was killed and three more were injured, Interfax reports with reference to a message from the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. It is noted that all the victims were hospitalized. Meanwhile, the website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the region reports only three victims. Information about the explosion at the plant was received at 15:05 Moscow time.

The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Valery Shantsev, sent an appeal to the president with a request to delay the introduction of changes to the federal law on state defense procurement. The head of the region announced this today during a visit to the Nizhny Novgorod Machine-Building Plant (NMZ OJSC, part of the Almaz-Antey air defense concern).

In the last week of August, the traditional Tomatina festival takes place in the Spanish city of Buñol. Every year, thousands of tourists come to the Spanish village to throw tons of ripe tomatoes at each other. The battle begins daily at 10 am and lasts only an hour. The big tomato battle, in which everyone is for himself, is in the Kommersant photo gallery.

The criminal investigation into Sakhalin businessman and banker Nikolai Kran for tax evasion has been completed and will be transferred to the Yuzhno-Sakhalin City Court. “Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Gulyagin approved the indictment in a criminal case against the director of LLC IC Energostroy Nikolai Krahn.

The Government of Bashkortostan has approved a regulation on the Mortgage Fund of the Republic, into which the most liquid state assets with a total value of 10.6 billion rubles should be contributed, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reports. The document has not yet been published. The decision to create the fund was provided for in the “anti-crisis plan” developed in February. The list of property contributed to the fund has not yet been specified.

The Volgograd court postponed consideration of Gazprombank's claim against the Agro Invest holding The Arbitration Court of the Volgograd Region postponed until September 8 a meeting to consider Gazprombank's claim against the Agro Invest holding for the recovery of 140 million rubles and foreclosure on the mortgaged property, according to a message on the court's website.

They are selling their real estate in Moscow The authorities of the Moscow region began to sell real estate they owned in Moscow. These assets can bring about 6 billion rubles to the regional budget. The regional administration began to sell off its properties, since all regional officials must move to Krasnogorsk by 2018. It will be difficult for the authorities to find buyers now: investors prefer to invest in housing abroad or land.

A criminal case was opened against the head of the interdistrict Federal Tax Service inspection in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug under Part 1 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (exceeding official powers). According to the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the region, in June 2012, an employee of the Federal Tax Service illegally removed interim measures from a real estate property owned by the debtor company.

The prosecutor's office accused Alexander Igonkin of conducting illegal inspections The regional prosecutor's office submitted a complaint to the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor department for the Saratov region, Alexander Igonkin, accusing him of conducting inspections “in the absence of grounds and without coordination with the prosecutor's office.” According to the regional prosecutor's office, the reason for the inspection was a collective appeal from individual entrepreneurs from Engels

City Duma deputies decided not to stop the dismantling of advertising structures An initiative group of Perm deputies yesterday proposed introducing a moratorium on the demolition of illegal advertising structures until the city authorities develop and the Duma approves a scheme for placing media in the city. Perm prosecutor Andrei Nazarov and a representative of the regional government opposed this, advocating for the demolition of the structures.

In the Georgian city of Gori, an armed attack was carried out on a branch of the VTB Georgia bank, which is a subsidiary of the Russian VTB, Interfax reports, citing local media. According to them, an armed robber, who was presumably alone, entered the bank building just before it closed, after which he managed to escape with the stolen money. The bank branch building is cordoned off by police, and forensic experts are working on the spot.

The Board of Directors of OJSC Belebeyevsky Plant Avtonormal (BelZAN) will consider six transactions with Novikombank at a meeting on August 27, it follows from the company’s materials.

At a meeting on Wednesday, the Presidium of the capital's government decided to merge two departments - social protection of the population of Moscow and labor and employment. As Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin was told by his deputy for social development, Leonid Pechatnikov, the departments largely duplicated functions. “We propose to create a unified department - the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Moscow Population,” said Mr. Pechatnikov.

Two Penza projects are recommended for the award of grants in the amount of 300 thousand rubles Two projects presented by young people from the Penza region were recommended for the award of grants totaling 300 thousand rubles following the results of the fifth session of the All-Russian youth forum “Tavrida”, which ended on Tuesday, August 25.