And communist candidates attract voters with rap In the elections of regional heads, not only traditional campaigning is used, but also non-standard advertising techniques. In support of the acting head of the Kaliningrad region Nikolai Tsukanov, a video was launched in which foreign actors and athletes “praise” him.

Investors are ready to make aircraft for export here Chinese Jiangsu Baoli and Xi`an Aircraft will invest $200 million in the production of short-haul MA-600 aircraft in Komsomolsk-on-Amur with a capacity of 50 aircraft per year. This project may become an alternative to the plans of Rostec and Bombardier to localize the Q400 in the Russian Federation, which were thwarted due to sanctions, but the Chinese are counting on the Russian Federation, primarily as an assembly site with tax incentives.

In the north of Moscow, a warehouse with consumer goods caught fire, reports the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Moscow . According to the department, the fire area is 800 square meters. m. It is reported that the fire occurred in a warehouse at Ilmensky proezd, building 1. “Upon the arrival of the first fire and rescue units, it was established that consumer goods were burning in a separate one-story metal building on an area of ​​800 square meters. m.

The company opens a software development center in Russia Foreign IT companies are trying to gain a foothold in the Russian market in the context of the import substitution program announced by the authorities. As Kommersant learned, the German software developer SAP is opening a custom software development center in Russia. At the first stage, there will be only eight programmers in the Russian office, although competitors such as Luxoft and EPAM have several thousand of them here.

In Guatemala, the court decided to keep the country's former president Otto Perez in custody during the investigation, reports Reuters . The Prosecutor General's Office has already announced the president's involvement in bribery, customs fraud, and his collaboration with banned organizations, although the president has not yet been formally charged. Hearings in the case of a corruption scandal at the top of power will continue tomorrow.

The head of the Russian Presidential Administration, Sergei Ivanov, denied earlier information that the structure he heads plans to reduce the staff and salaries of employees. “Bullshit,” Interfax quotes Mr. Ivanov as saying. Let us recall that earlier Bloomberg, citing sources, reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the eve of the election campaign, is preparing to announce job cuts in his administration.

Shareholders of OJSC Togliattiazot (ToAZ) entered into an agreement to transfer a majority stake to the Credit Mediterranee SA fund. “As part of this transaction, OJSC Togliattiazot completes the transfer of ownership to the Credit Mediterranee SA fund of an infrastructure asset for transshipment of liquid ammonia in the port of Taman, Krasnodar Territory,” the company said in a statement .

Demand for LTE devices is increasing in the Urals A year after the launch of fourth-generation LTE (4G) mobile networks in the Urals, a noticeable increase in sales of devices that support this communication standard began. According to operators' estimates, in the first half of 2015 the share of LTE gadgets in the total volume exceeded 20%. In addition, the market participants themselves had an influence, in order to stimulate the consumption of data traffic, maintaining low prices for devices.

Investigation The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, during the investigation of a criminal case initiated following an accident involving two buses in the Khabarovsk Territory, established the guilt of the second participant in the accident, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Khabarovsk Territory reported.

Entrepreneur Gennady Timchenko said that he has no plans to sell or reduce his stake in the petrochemical holding SIBUR. "Don't know. If I don’t have money, if the Americans become completely insolent, then I’ll have to sell. If not, then I won’t sell anything,” RIA Novosti quotes Mr. Timchenko. However, he noted that he does not consider the sales volume to be more than 10–15%.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said that Russia and Venezuela agreed to continue consultations with international oil producers to stabilize the market situation. “There are agreements to continue consultations on this issue between OPEC countries and non-OPEC countries,” RIA Novosti quotes Mr. Novak. He noted that other countries have not approached Russia with similar proposals.

Journalist Pavel Sheremet about the conflict between Mikheil Saakashvili and Arseniy Yatsenyuk Mikheil Saakashvili said that he does not intend to become prime minister of Ukraine. Meanwhile, signatures are being collected on the website of the Ukrainian president for a proposal to appoint the head of the Odessa region as prime minister.

The editor-in-chief of MIA Rossiya Segodnya, Margarita Simonyan , in an interview with the radio station Moscow Speaks, called the messages about the merger of Rossiya Segodnya and the TASS agency that appeared earlier on the website of the radio station Ekho Moskvy and on the website of the magazine Snob.ru as nonsense. First Deputy General Director of TASS Mikhail Gusman did not comment on this information.

The average bribe amount for the past year was 613 thousand rubles The average bribe in Russia has tripled. Now it is estimated at 613 thousand rubles. Just a year ago the amount was 218 thousand rubles. The indicators were calculated based on citizens’ appeals from September 1 last year to August 31 this year to the All-Russian anti-corruption public reception “Clean Hands”.

As of 6:40 Moscow time, during trading on the Intercontinental Exchange, the cost of October futures for the North Sea Brent crude oil mixture increased by 0.02% to $50.51 per barrel. The price of WTI oil rose by 0.73% to $46.59 per barrel.