The sale of a share in the largest bank of Russia - Sberbank was to be the main deal of this year. The Central Bank was going to sell to MICEX and Western exchanges up to 7.6% of Sberbank shares, preserving 50% plus 1 ordinary promotion. The deal was also supported by Sberbank, as its President German Gref advocates a decrease in the state of the state in the banking system, in particular for reducing the share of the Central Bank in Sberbank below the control package, they recall Vedomosti .

Colombian Radamel Falcao is officially proclaimed by Atletico football player and is represented by the Madrid public, who was about to look at the new player of the club at the Vicente Calderon stadium. About 10 thousand people came to stroke the new player. Radamel greeted the audience, worked a little with the ball, and then went to a press conference, where he said a few words.

Asian partners of Apple began assembling the "budget model" of the iPhone 4 smartphone with a built -in memory of 8 GB instead of usual 16 or 32 GB, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters. Informed sources told the agency that sales of the new generation of the old iPhone will begin in September-October. The iPhone 4 modification with 8 GB is believed to compete with Android smartphones in the middle price category.

In the UK, the Royal Court in the London suburb of Wulvich will be sentenced to four Russians accused of group rape of an 18-year-old student from Malaysia at the prestigious private college of London, the British newspaper The Daily Mail reports. The abuse, which lasted for two and a half hours, the rapists were removed on the iPhone.

The Ministry of Finance has prepared a proposal to exchange shares owned by Moscow in companies owning Vnukovo Airport at the General Council, Kommersant reports. At the end of March 2011, at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on the development of the Moscow Air Transport Knot, it was decided to unite two metropolitan airports - Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo. Unlike Sheremetyeva, 100% of the Federal Property Management Agency on the balance sheet, Vnukovo is owned by Moscow.

A resident of Volgograd, detained at the robbery, during the conduct of investigative actions, jumped out of the window of the fourth floor of the police department and crashed to death. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to law enforcement agencies of the Volgograd region. "A local resident penetrated the apartment of one of the multi -storey buildings, where he attacked the owner, hitting him with a knife.

In the West, the achievements of Ukrainian feminists were evaluated, who, with the help of their "naked protests" raise the most acute social problems and constantly provide attention to themselves, which the rest of the opposition sometimes cannot achieve for years. The authoritarian authorities even constant detention and threats cannot stop them, the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes.

British actress Kate Winslet miraculously saved from a fire during a vacation on the Caribbean, belonging to her compatriot - billionaire Richard Branson. The house in which the star of the film "Titanic" lived was caught fire from a lightning strike. Fortunately, everyone in the building managed to escape in the building, ITAR-TASS reports.

Russia suspected Georgia in its intention to illegally penetrate the territory of South Ossetia under the pretext of the so -called "march of the world", which Tbilisi is preparing to spend in connection with the third anniversary of the recognition of the independence of this republic. The date is celebrated on August 26.

In mid -August, the Cyprus government announced a package of measures to strengthen the economy. Among other measures to strengthen the economy of Cyprus, the package provides for changes regarding the payment of real estate tax, reports Zagranhaus.ru . Real estate owners in Cyprus will now be required to pay real estate tax worth from 120 thousand euros (previously, real estate costs from 170 thousand euros), according to the PPROPERTYSHOWROMS portal.

Avianova airline owes about 1.5 billion rubles to service suppliers, Finmarket said with reference to a senior source in the Ministry of Transport. This amount includes debts for fuel, catering, air navigation, airport services, leasing payments for aircraft and others. This week, the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neudko, will hold a meeting with the General Director of the Avianov Vladimir Gorbunov.

The former general director of the Moscow Youth Palace and ex-seeker in the case of Yukos Pavel Zabelin was already convicted in absentia in the second criminal case against him, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said on Tuesday, without specifying when and where the court took place.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin II (Nersesyan) with the 60th anniversary and celebrated its assistance to the maintenance of peace in the Caucasus. This, as RIA Novosti reported, was reported on the eve of the Kremlin press service.

Sberbank, which recently agreed on the purchase of the Austrian Volksbank, is considering the possibility of buying Polish Millennium and Kredyt Bank, which are part of the ten largest banks in the country, Kommersant writes. "Currently," Sberbank "is watching Millennium and Kredyt Bank, put up for sale," says the interlocutor of the newspaper, familiar with the situation.

The famous blogger and public figure Alexei Navalny presented an official iOS application for the project to fight the pits on the roads of Rosyama , launched by him at the end of May. You can download it in iTunes App Store. The application was developed for free by Unreal Mojo and itself, too, for free. According to Navalny himself, the application is “excellent: simple, very convenient and utilitarian.