On August 7, Argentina filed a lawsuit against the UN International Court, accusing the United States of violating its sovereignty and immunity. What is the matter? A man sitting in a garbage container in the very center of the city is a kind of reminder of default. Buenos Aires, July 31, 2014 /Photo: Rodrigo ABD /AP At the end of July, international rating agencies announced Argentina default for debt obligations. Everyone immediately remembered the Argentine default of 2001.

As a result of sanctions, the Russian economy may not be read 5 trillion rubles Financial sector Vnesheconombank, Gazprombank, Bank of Moscow, VTB and Rosselkhozbank fell under the sanctions of the United States and the European Union, which significantly reduces their ability to lend abroad. This will mean increasing the value of loans within the country and their reduction.

2 ... .. remarks of a moratorium on sanity The dismissal of an official for a sense of shame, a prison wedding, a presidential reflection on the First World War and the shadow side of the Argentine default 7 ... .. Current events of the chronicle of current events. August 4–8 8 ... .. Opinion Summer-2014 Evgenia Albats that hesitation clarifies a lot 10 ... .. Alien Aliens do not go here Why are Russian tops ready to take revenge on the West at a loss to themselves 14 ... ..

In the tourism market - a sudden collapse: seven tour operators declared their bankruptcy one after another. Tens of thousands of people who had already managed to pay for trips lost money. What is happening and is there a way out? Queues and documents - this is how Labyrinet clients now spend free time /photo: Igor Kurushin At the entrance to the Moscow office of the Labyrinth Turkish company on Tsander Street near VDNH - a crowd weary of the sun.

On August 5, the government extended the freeze on pension savings until 2015. A government official who publicly apologized was fired. Today, the authorities are assuring the population: because of the moratorium on savings, money will not disappear anywhere. It is not true. The money of the funded component of the pension will not be transferred to non-state pension funds - we are talking about the requisition of these funds.

Vladimir Putin called the Russian elite for a new Cold War Vladimir Putin called on the Russian elite for a new Cold War. Ministers, oligarchs and hospitalists painfully adapt to these changes. Some are ready for any sacrifice for the chance to take revenge on the West for old grievances.

In the southeast of Ukraine, the battle for Donetsk entered the decisive phase. Shells from volleys of Ukrainian artillery are torn already in the city center. The New Times learned the details of the situation Donetsk, August 4, 2014, a resident of the Petrovsky district, Galina Dudkin, like her neighbors, during an artillery camp is saved in a home -made bomb shelter /Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky /Ap The clashes between the militias and the National Guard have been going on for the fourth month.

The rate of Russian power on the contradictions between the United States and Europe did not play After the tragedy with the Malaysian plane in the sky over the Eastern Ukraine, the West acted as a united front: the USA, the European Union, Japan, Australia and Canada, which are not part of the EU Norway and Swatzatyrie, despite the obvious losses, imposed sanctions against the sectors of the Russian economy.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has been living under international sanctions since its formation. What is the end? Iranian gas platform in the Persian Gulf /Photo: Carou Firouz /Reuters Sanctions against Iran were imposed back in 1979, when the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Tehran because of the capture of American diplomats hostage.

August 4–8 Oleg Sentsov during the process in the Lefortovo District Court. Moscow, July 7, 2014 /Photo: Sergey Fadeichev /ITAR-TASS August 4, Monday With the last word, the defendants of the second wave of “swamp business” Alexei Gaskarov and Elena Kokhtareva performed in court. “If in this country the path to freedom lies through prisons, then we are ready to go through it,” Gaskarov said. “If there is an opportunity, do not plant us,” Kokhtareva, in turn, turned to Judge Natalia Susina.

As sanctions on the Russian oil industry, the rating agency Fitch analyzed In a special press release, Fitch writes that, first of all, deposits in Western Siberia with a degree of production of more than 75% (so-called brunfields) will suffer from sanctions for the supply of equipment. This is due to the fact that these deposits use the same methods of increasing production as for shale oil, the technology for the extraction of which has become the subject of sanctions.

On August 6, the defendant of the “Swamp business” Alexei Gaskarov and his bride Anna Karpova played a wedding in the Moscow pre -trial detention center No. 2 “Butyrka” Anna Karpova, Happy wife Alexei Gaskarova. Moscow, August 6, 2014 In the last one and a half to two years, we are doomed to deja vu. The faint of heart barely manage to cry: "Ka-ak?!" Yes. A few years ago I told my friends: “We have already slipped Brezhnev. We rush directly to Comrade Stalin.

In this world, clearly not the best of the worlds, there are no free breakfast. You have to pay for everything sooner or later For Russians, the time of reckoning for the annexation of Crimea, the ruin of the East of Ukraine and the support of Vladimir Putin with his Ukrainian policy have not yet come. But the first rings of the thunderstorm have already thundered.

On August 1, President Vladimir Putin opened the monument to the heroes of the First World War on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow and gave his own assessment of the tragedy of a hundred years ago Vladimir Putin at the opening of the monument to the heroes of the First World War. Moscow, August 1, 2014 /Photo: Mikhail Metzel /ITAR-TASS “Her (Russia.