Shares of the pharmacy chain “36.6” rose by 15 percent in mid-trading on the Moscow Exchange on August 29. This happened after the company officially announced the sale of its securities of the drug manufacturer Veropharm. Shares of Veropharm itself jumped by almost ten percent. The transaction amount, as noted in the message, amounted to five billion rubles.

Video hosting YouTube has introduced a new logo. The image appeared on YouTube's official Facebook and Twitter pages . The new logo first appeared last week in the YouTube mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as in the web page icon (favicon) in some browsers. At the same time, the site itself still displays the previous logo, and the timing of the final transition to the new brand name has not been announced.

In Russia in 2013, sales of cars at prices up to 15 thousand dollars decreased. The newspaper Novye Izvestia reported this in its issue dated August 29, citing data from Autostat. According to Autostat, in the first seven months of 2013, sales of cars in the price category up to 15 thousand dollars amounted to about 380 thousand units, which is 20 percent worse than last year. The share of budget cars in the Russian automobile market decreased by four percent.

Actors Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, who have been married for 13 years, have decided to separate. This was reported by NY Daily News with reference to an official representative of Zeta-Jones, who confirmed information about the discord in the couple’s relationship. According to the actress's press secretary, Zeta-Jones and Douglas are not divorcing yet. In addition, the couple separated temporarily. How long they plan to live separately is not specified.

Two CSKA and Russian national team players - goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev and defender Sergei Ignashevich - were included in the top 100 players of the 2012/13 season according to UEFA. This was reported by the website of the Sport-Express publication. In addition to Akinfeev and Ignashevich, the Russian championship is represented in the list of the best players by CSKA midfielder Pontus Wernbloom, a Swede.

Aggressive calf Why is Lukashenko quarreling with Russia Alexander Lukashenko. Photo: Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA / ITAR-TASS The detention of Uralkali General Director Vladislav Baumgertner in Minsk led to another aggravation in Russian-Belarusian relations. The Kremlin has so far refrained from making harsh statements, attacking the head of Rospotrebnadzor, Gennady Onishchenko, who has already been tested in similar situations, and announcing a reduction in oil supplies to the republic.

An episode of the game between the Russian national team and the Swedish national team on August 29, 2013. Photo: Danichev Alexey / RIA Novosti On August 29, the Russian national hockey team beat the Swedish team in the match of the first stage of the Eurotour - Czech Hockey Games. This was reported on the website of the publication “Soviet Sport”. The meeting, which took place in St. Petersburg, ended with a score of 2:0 (0:0, 0:0, 2:0).

A 56-year-old fan of the Karaganda football club Shakhtar has died in Kazakhstan. The man died after watching a television broadcast of the team's return match with the Scottish Celtic, as a result of which Shakhtar dropped out of the Champions League. reports this Interfax . The fan, who suffered from hypertension, lived in the city of Taraz (at a distance of approximately 1000 kilometers from Karaganda). The man’s relatives told doctors that he was very upset after Shakhtar’s defeat.

In Kyrgyzstan, organizers of recent rallies over the Kumtor gold mine were accused of extortion. According to K-News, a compromising video was shown on local television . The recording, according to KirTAG , was made at the end of July in a cafe in the city of Karakol.

Artist William Turner's country house in Twickenham will be restored, The Independent reports. Part of the money for the restoration of the building (135 thousand pounds) has already come from the English Heritage lottery fund. The total amount required for the complete reconstruction of the building, according to experts, is 2 million pounds (about 3 million dollars). A further £140,000 was donated to the Turner House Restoration Society from the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation.

The financial group Fibo Group became the first Russian company to place its advertising in the Chinese search engine Baidu. this on August 29 Sostav.ru reported . The financial holding Fibo Group specializes in providing online trading services on the international Forex platform. Fibo Group was prompted to launch contextual advertising by the company’s plans to expand into the Chinese market.

New Order bassist and co-writer of most of Joy Division's songs, Peter Hook, said in an interview with Pitchfork that he is going to buy tapes of the bands' recordings. Hook is currently in talks with the current owner of the recordings, Julia Adamson, and hopes to be able to purchase and listen to all the tapes as early as next month. The musician said that he already has definite plans for audio tapes.

The main central defender of the Moscow football club "Spartak" Salvatore Bocchetti successfully underwent surgery in the USA for a knee injury received in the Russian championship match with Kazan "Rubin". The preliminary diagnosis - rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee joint - was not confirmed. The official website of Spartak reports this. Arthroscopy showed that the cruciate ligaments were intact.

American rapper and former member of the House of Pain group Everlast will give a series of concerts in Russian cities. This became known from a press release received by Lenta.ru. The musician will perform in support of his acoustic album “The Life Acoustic”, which includes almost all of his iconic songs (“Stone In My Head”, “Jump Around”, “House Of Pain”). The concerts will take place on October 11 in St.

An accident occurred at a crossing near the Shcherbinka station in Moscow: an electric train crashed into a car and dragged it for about two hundred meters. The driver is in hospital in serious condition. Russian Railways and the Ministry of Emergency Situations initially unanimously declared that the driver himself was to blame for the incident, since he ran a red light. However, after a full recording of the incident appeared on the Internet, the departments had to apologize.