The head of the FSA, the British financial regulation and supervision department, Adar Turner supported the idea of ​​a global tax on operations with foreign currency and is sure that the world financial sector has become too much. How to tame world finances, he told Prospect on the eve of a meeting in London next week of finance ministers and chapters of the Central Bannies of the Big Twenty.

On August 28, a failure occurred in the work of the most massive social network of Runet VKontakte. For a while, the so -called applications stopped working in it - small programs, usually gaming orientations that are launched directly from the social resource website, the newspaper - gzt.ru reports. Some applications stopped loading, and those that were still loaded did not work anyway.

The anathema to the journalist of the newspaper "Pskov border" Oleg Dementieva, who was proclaimed by the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church , will not enter into force until this issue is considered by Patriarch Kirill. "According to the current church legislation, such decisions come into force only if the patriarch was approved. There was no patriarchal decision, at the moment the issue is under consideration.

Defender Dmitry Chigrinsky will play for the Donetsk Shakhtar on Friday in the match for the European Super Cup against the Spanish Barcelona, ​​after which he will go to the camp of the Catalans. According to Reuters , the fact of the upcoming transition was confirmed by the mentor of the current owners of the UEFA Cup Mirce Lucescu. Chigrinsky himself noted that he was looking forward to the release of the Kampa Nou lawn as part of his new team. “The deal took place, I suppose,” said Lucescu.

FSUE "Film fund of the Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio" concluded the first exclusive seven-year agreement with Fancy on the production and sale of toys in Russia and the CIS using characters from Soviet cartoons. The turnover can reach 30-50 million rubles a year, which will also want to receive directors, scriptwriters and composers of cartoon, writes Kommersant, writes "Kommersant" .

The weighted average US dollar exchange rate to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trade Session of the MMEVB as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, decreased by 7.18 kopecks and amounted to 31.5687 rubles, the Finmarket reports.

In Primorye, a drunken driver crashed into a group of pedestrians walking along the side of the road at full speed: as a result, four people were killed in place, another was taken to intensive care in serious condition. At the same time, the Likhach himself escaped only with bruises and scratches. The accident occurred in the area of ​​the resort village of Livadia (near Nakhodka), where many residents of the Khabarovsk Territory spend summer vacations.

The Orthodox-Muslim dialogue in Russia is now developing intensively and contributes to the strengthening of traditional spiritual and moral values, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill said, congratulating the chairman of the Council of the Russian Mufties (SMR) Ravil Gainutdin on the 50th anniversary and the receipt of the Order for Merit before the Fatherland of the fourth degree.

The American diplomat Richard Holbrook threatened the Afghan President Hamid Karzay with a deterioration in bilateral relations if he re -recovered for a second term, the informed source claims. A special messenger of the United States in the region and the leader of Afghanistan warmly argued about past elections , which, according to some reports, were held with serious violations.

The 17-year-old British young man alone circled the globe on the yacht, overcoming the path of 38.7 thousand kilometers. On Thursday, Michael Perham from Hartfordshire completed his nine-month Odyssey and became the youngest of all who have ever made a round-the-world voyage alone, reports Reuters. Michael began to go to sea at seven years old, and already at 14 he became the youngest of all who, alone, crossed the Atlantic Ocean.

Moscow has developed an energy strategy for the period until 2030. The oil and gas industry, the "pillar of the domestic economy", and in the future it will remain an important industry, the export of oil and gas will grow further. But the new strategy clearly and openly speaks of the "transition to other types of energy." A similar change in the vector, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to the publication of Suddeutsche Zeitung , has risen for a long time.

The tropical storm "Danny", which originated a few days ago in the Atlantic Ocean, will become a hurricane on the next Saturday. Such a warning was made by specialists from the National Center for observing hurricanes in Miami (Florida). According to meteorologists, Danny can threaten both the eastern and northeastern states of the United States. "The storm poses a potential threat to the states of New England and North and South Caroline," the report says.

Russian Ivan Nifontov on Friday won the gold medal of the World Judo championship, which is held these days on the tats of the Akhoy sports complex in Rotterdam. In the final of the weight category up to 81 kg of Nifontov ahead of schedule ("Ippon") forced the surrender of the Belarusian fighter Sergey Shuntikov. In the semifinals, the Russian in the second minute of the fight also achieved a pure victory over the Olyan Ole Bishof Olympic champion.

None of the four Russian clubs (Amkar, Dynamo, Wings of the Soviets and Zenit) was able to overcome the barrier of the qualifying rounds of football European cups. Now the main task of the season - to preserve the sixth place in the UEFA coefficients - will be decided by Kazan Rubin and CSKA. Only three countries - Spain, Italy and Germany - managed to spend all their representatives to group tournaments of European cups of the 2009/10 season, notes Sportbox.ru .

The Norwegian pastor Olaf Fiuks Twain was elected new Secretary General of the World Council of Churches (VSC). The vote was held at the closed session of the Central Committee of the ICC in Geneva on August 27, the Blagovest-info reports with reference to Christian Today . In addition to the pastor of Twain, the candidate for the post of Secretary General was the Presbyterian theologian from Korea Son-Won Park, a member of the Central Committee of the VSC.