Alexander Timofeevsky - About the verdict to the director Oleg Sentsov Photo: Vasily Deryugin / Kommersant The North Caucasus District Military Court on Tuesday, August 25, found the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov guilty of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea. The director was sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security colony - despite the fact that one of the two witnesses of the prosecution refused to testify, saying that he had given them under pressure.

The Dawn spacecraft sent fresh photos of the dwarf planet Cerera, which is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Most of all, this planet is known for mysterious luminous spots (which, according to one version, can be ice or salt). But on it there is a mountain in the form of a pyramid about six kilometers high. This mountain is clearly visible in one of the new photos taken from a height of about 1500 kilometers on August 18-19.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation recommended that banks conduct stress tests taking into account that the dollar could cost more than 100 rubles. "They haven't asked for 200 rubles yet, but they asked to estimate a three-digit figure," said Andrey Shalimov, deputy chairman of the board of Vozrozhdenie Bank. RBC, citing the chairman of the board of a major bank, reports that the price in question was 100-120 rubles.

The prosecution asked the court to sentence Vadim Timofeev, accused in the case of the Yak-42 plane crash near Yaroslavl in 2011, to six years in a colony-settlement. “We believe that the civil claims of the Khrunichev center and the Lokomotiv hockey club must be dismissed due to the fact that the case has been separated into a separate proceeding,” said prosecutor Elena Ronzhina.

Interview of the former regional Vladimir Oleinik, who declared himself a candidate for president of Ukraine Photo: Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix In August 2015, former Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov announced in Moscow about the creation of the “Committee for Salvation of Ukraine”.

The Government Commission for Legislative Activities has approved a draft law by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation that expands the requirements of the law on rallies. According to the document, the protests will include bike rides and the installation of tents, which means they, like rallies, will require approval. When the bill will go to the State Duma, it is not known. The actions may turn into spontaneous demonstrations, the Ministry of Internal Affairs fears.

Vladimir Putin could agree on the transfer of Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport to the control of entrepreneurs Alexander Ponomarenko and Arkady Rotenberg. As Forbes writes, citing three sources close to the preparation of the relevant decree, the document is in the presidential office. According to one of these sources, the decree has already been signed by Vladimir Putin, but has not yet been published.

In the first half of 2015, food prices in Russia rose by 10.6 percent. This is evidenced by the data of Rosstat, published on August 25. At the same time, in the EU countries, according to the agency, consumer prices for food were declining and in the first half of the year, food prices fell by 0.1 percent. Inflation in Russia in the first half of 2014 amounted to 9.4 percent. In the EU, inflation over this period turned out to be zero.

Vox explains how the Black Monday will affect the lives of ordinary people Photo: Spencer Platt / Getty images / AFP / Scanpix The Financial Times estimated that over a few days of the collapse of exchange indices, the world shares market lost five trillion dollars. This amount exceeds the GDP of Japan, but does this mean that it will become worse for not only investors, but also ordinary people who are far from investments in the action?

The exchange rate of the Russian ruble in trading on the Moscow Exchange on August 25 rose significantly, fully winning back the losses of the previous day. The dollar, as of 16:00, costs 68.59 rubles, which is 2.36 rubles less than the day before. For the euro on the stock exchange they give 78.58 rubles. Compared to the closing level of previous trading, the European currency fell by 3.67 rubles.

The territorial department of Rospotrebnadzor is conducting an unscheduled inspection of the Henkel plant in the Perm Territory. This was announced by Natalya Ponomareva, Deputy Head of the Occupational Health Supervision Department of the Rospotrebnadzor Department for the Perm Territory. Henkel's official representative in Russia, Natalya Ovakimyan, told TASS that the company is aware of the ongoing audit.

The Estonian Police and Border Guard Department announced its intention to build a fence on the border with Russia. This will be done to prevent violations of the border. The height of the wall will be two meters, the total length will exceed 108 kilometers - thus, approximately two thirds of the land border between Estonia and the Russian Federation will be equipped with the wall. The fence will be equipped with barbed wire.

Former Defense Ministry official Yevgenia Vasilyeva left the women's correctional colony number 1 in the village of Golovino, Vladimir Region. Vasilyeva left the colony two hours after the Sudogodsky District Court of the Vladimir Region granted her request for parole. According to lawyer Vasilyeva, after her release, she will continue to work at the Gridnev and Partners law office.

The results of the main anti -corruption case of Russia in one table Photo: Dmitry Korotaev / Kommersant The Sudogodsky District Court of the Vladimir Region satisfied the petition for the early-conditional liberation of Evgenia Vasilyeva, the main person of the case of Oboronservis.

From the Max 2013 air show-to Max 2015: what has changed? Photo: Vitaly Ankov / RIA Novosti / Scanpix In Zhukovsky near Moscow, the MAKS-2015 air show opened-the largest Russian exhibition of military and civil aviation, which takes place once every two years. As a rule, it is to her that airlines try to confuse the signing of major contracts, and manufacturers are to show the latest news, to tell what was done in the reporting two years.