The Ministry of Transport proposed that the government and the Ministry of Finance partially compensate airlines for fuel costs in order to prevent an increase in ticket prices. According to the results of 2018, aviation kerosene may increase in price by 30%, said Transport Minister Yevgeny Ditrikh. Airline losses due to rising fuel costs are estimated at 50 billion rubles, with 22.5 billion proposed to be compensated, the minister said.

Edward Uspensky died, reports the Moscow 24 television channel with reference to the writer's wife. Also, TASS reported about the death of Uspensky with reference to his daughter. Igor Stomakhin / Photoxpress According to Mash telegram channel, Assumption died on the evening of August 14 in his house in New Moscow. In recent years, the writer suffered from oncological disease. Uspensky was 80 years old.

Pixabay Russia's biggest social network has come under fire for collaborating with police in a ramped-up crackdown on irreverent Internet memes. After promising to introduce new privacy settings that will supposedly make it harder for law enforcement to monitor accounts and reposts, Vkontakte now says it will publish a transparency report about the Russian government's requests for user data. Representatives for the company outlined the plan to the BBC .

Moscow "Spartak" played a draw with the Greek club PAOK in the second leg of the third qualifying round of the Champions League. The game ended with the score 0:0. Spartak lost the first match with a score of 2:3. On aggregate, Spartak failed to reach the next round of the Champions League qualification and will continue to play in the group stage of the Europa League. Of the Russian clubs in the Champions League, Lokomotiv and CSKA will play.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow arrested the leader of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov, for 30 days, Interfax reports. He was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules for holding mass events. Udaltsov was detained on the afternoon of August 14.

The former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his past business partner Leonid Nezvlin have unveiled a new foundation called “Justice for Journalists,” which will “organize and coordinate international investigations into violent crimes committed against journalists.” According to the group’s website , Khodorkovsky and Nezvlin have pledged an “initial sum” of $5 million to fund the organization, which is run by an advisory board that includes Khodorkovsky, Nezvlin, American journalist David

VKontakte plans to publish "general statistics of requests" that come from authorities and relate to user data. This is reported by the Russian service of the BBC. What information is meant by "general request statistics", the publication does not specify. “We plan to make the process more transparent and share the overall statistics of requests,” VKontakte said.

Businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former business partner Leonid Nevzlin set up a fund to investigate crimes against journalists, Justice for Journalists. This was reported on Khodorkovsky's Facebook page. states The foundation's website that Khodorkovsky and Nevzlin have allocated five million dollars for the work of the organization; it is specified that this is the "initial amount".

To begin the pardon procedure, director Oleg Sentsov must himself make a corresponding request to Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is stated in the response that the director’s mother Lyudmila Sentsova received from the Russian Presidential Administration, the Ukrainian TV channel Hromadske reports. Sentsov’s sister Natalya Kaplan told Hromadska that the director “definitely” will not write a petition for pardon. Update .

The Investigative Committee was detained by the mayor of Orenburg Evgeny Arapov. He is suspected of receiving a bribe. According to the SK, Arapov and his deputy Gennady Borisov received 600 thousand rubles from the director of an unnamed company "for the protection in the field of construction." Of this amount, 400 thousand rubles were intended for Arapov, 200 thousand - Borisov.

Sentsov's weight loss, a march through Moscow, and Barnaul's protest Tuesday, August 14, 2018 This day in history. On August 14, 2013, the messaging app Telegram was launched on iOS. The alpha version of Telegram for Android officially launched a couple of months later, on October 20, 2013.

Galina Onishchenko / Alamy / Vida Press Meduza has learned that the son of a top Russian federal official owns the “Verum” organization, which markets itself as a community to protect the rights of the deceased. Denis Loginov (whose father, Andrey, serves as a deputy cabinet head for Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev) launched Verum in late 2016.

New sociological research shows that a narrow majority of Russians today (53 percent) say they think nobody was right in the August 1991 coup d'état attempt by members of the Soviet government to take control of the country from Soviet President and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Correction: The 2019 NDAA suspends upgrades to OC-135B Open Skies USAF observation aircraft and suspends Open Skies Consultative Commission work on infra-red or synthetic aperture radar sensors, while requiring some reports to Congress on the security and utility of the Open Skies Treaty, but it does not stop, suspend, or freeze the agreement. Meduza apologizes for the mistake. By signing the fiscal year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act , Donald Trump agreed to defund U.S.

A regional court in Novosibirsk has overturned a January 2016 ruling that banned a satirical map of Russia’s “near abroad.” The authorities previously declared the map to be a work of illegal extremism because it identifies countries along Russia’s border with racist epithets. Created by the artist Alexey Kudelin (better known by his pseudonym, Vasya Lozhkin), the map actually lampoons racists and xenophobes, depicting their view of the world in hyperbole.