The head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Oreshkin considers the current ruble exchange rate justified and expects to preserve it at the current values ​​in the coming months, Interfax reports. “The factors that influenced the ruble in the first half of the year are no longer of such importance, and we expect that the ruble will be quite stable and will remain near the current values ​​that we consider reasonable ...

The New York police will refuse 36 thousand Lumia smartphones running on the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, due to the fact that Microsoft has officially stopped supporting this system. According to The New York Post , we are talking about the Lumia 830 and Lumia 640XL devices, which were purchased over the past two years as part of the NYPD Mobility Initiative program, the total budget of which is $160 million.

At the youngest dollar billionaire in history, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Provocialla Chan's wife, was born a second child. The girl was called August. As after the birth of the eldest daughter, Maxim, parents turned to a newborn with a touching letter. “Welcome to the world! Mom and I will be very happy to see who you will become in him.

“We continue the “Border” project, and today we will find ourselves on the Russian-Lithuanian border on the Curonian Spit. And I would like to compare not large cities, but villages,” writes the blogger in LiveJournal . “For us, a village is almost always a death sentence. It’s devastation, poverty and hopelessness. But villages are different. For example, on the Curonian Spit there are several small villages on both our and the Lithuanian sides.

After the studies of the “West -2017” personnel and the technique of participants in the armed forces of Belarus and the Russian Federation, they will return to the places of permanent deployment until September 30, the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces said - the First Deputy Minister of Defense of Belarus Oleg Belokonev, on Tuesday, August 29, at a briefing in Minsk.

The son of the actor from the "interns" of the roots of Makarov , suspected of beating to the death of the St. Petersburg blogger Stanislav Dumkin in the park named after Gorky, detained in Moscow. "23 -year -old Korney Makarov is now being taken to investigators for interrogation," the source of TASS and RIA Novosti said. According to the TASS source in law enforcement, the young man decided to voluntarily surrender to investigators. He is accompanied by a lawyer.

Objects copying famous European monuments in the center of Yoshkar-Ola, built under the former head of the region Leonid Markelov, are creating “colossal financial difficulties” for the Mari El authorities. Acting head of the republic Alexander Evstifeev stated this in an interview with TASS .

The Supreme Court of Russia softened until the 18 years and nine months of the colony the verdict to Hasan Zakaeva, who previously convicted for 19 years for complicity in a terrorist attack in the theater center at Dubrovka in 2002, TASS reports. "The verdict of the Moscow District Military Court is changed in terms of sentencing," the decree of the judicial board of the Supreme Court said in response to complaints of the convicted person and victims.

Law consultant of US President Donald Trump Michael Cohen, who previously held the post of executive vice president of Trump Organization, in January 2016 addressed the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov to help the construction of the Trump Tower tower in Moscow, the newspaper The Washington Post . The publication notes that at the disposal of the editorial office there was the content of the relevant electronic letters of Cohen.

Russian violinist, Honored Artist of Russia Dmitry Kogan died in the 39th year of his life. According to preliminary information, the reason was the oncological disease that the musician suffered. TASS reported about Kogan’s death on Tuesday, August 29, his personal assistant Zhanna Prokofieva. “Yes, this is true,” the agency’s interlocutor said. At the same time, a source surrounded by Kogan told TASS that the cause of the death of the musician was an “cancer”.

The European Cultural Parliament ( ECP ) sent an open prosecutor of the Russian Federation and the Russian government an open appeal against the criminal prosecution of the artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov , who is under house arrest on charges of fraud. "We, members of the European Cultural Parliament, protest against the arrest of our member and friend Kirill Serebrennikov.

The operational support of the case of the director Kirill Serebrennikov, who is currently under investigation on charges of fraud and under house arrest, is engaged in the Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Control of Terrorism - the FSB unit, which overshadows theaters, exhibitions and museums, RBC reports, familiar with the course of the case and close to the special service.

Egor Sedov “A missile from North Korea flew over Japan towards the United States and crashed into the ocean. How do we understand this? It’s very simple,” the publicist writes on his Facebook page. “There is no state “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”. Don’t look at the maps, it’s just a piece of paper. But what is there? There is a bandit group that has seized power in part of the Korean Peninsula. There is a leader of the group (nickname: Plump).

In just over a month since the launch in Russia of a program for exchanging old iPhones for new ones with a surcharge, retailers have sold about 10 thousand devices under this scheme, which is just over 2.5% of monthly iPhone sales in Russia, Vedomosti writes with reference to materials from partners of several electronics manufacturers. According to employees of several retail chains, several hundred Apple smartphones are exchanged via trade-in in Russia every day.

The monument to the service dog named Amur was erected in Petrozavodsk in the center of the Karelia Mandyological Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Karelia, the “capital on the One” reports on August 28. "The service dog Amur died on May 3 during the detention of an armed criminal," says the inscription at the monument at the entrance to the building.