RIA Novosti, citing a source in law enforcement agencies, reports: Alexander Kalinin, who heads the Christian State - Holy Russia organization, is currently detained along with three associates in the case of setting fire to a car near the office of lawyer Alexei Uchitel Konstantin Dobrynin, "has a criminal record for murder, robbery and forgery of documents. The same information, citing its own source, is confirmed by RBC .

Vedomosti reports: State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that the parliament may order software for monitoring and analyzing deputies' speeches in the media and social networks. According to him, there are already developers ready to take on this task. The system will be able to determine how effective deputies are in implementing election programs and promises. But first, the parliamentarians' consent to the processing of their personal data is required.

Ilya Yashin, who became the head of the Krasnoselsky District Council of Moscow, refused a personal car with a driver, which, as it turned out, was assigned to him according to his position. He himself spoke about this in the first video of his video blog “Municipal Chronicles” on the YouTube channel.

TASS reports: Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of the head of the Samara region Nikolai Merkushkin. Acting Governor appointed senator from the Samara region Dmitry Azarov. Merkushkin was offered the post of special presidential envoy for interaction with the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples.

On September 25, the long -awaited elections of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences will be held. Which were initially supposed to go back in March 2017. Then 1162 Academician and corresponding member came to Moscow from all over the country and from abroad. But the elections did not take place ( see NT No.

The head of a group of Russian military advisers, Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov, who died in Syria near the city of Deir As-Zor, served in the territories controlled by Donbass separatists in 2016. In March 2016, in Donetsk, under the pseudonym Primakov, he took command of the “1st Army Corps of the DPR Ministry of Defense”, and in April of the same year he led the battles with Ukrainian troops in the Avdiivka and Yasynuvata area, Grani.ru reports .

website The VTsIOM published a survey “Savings and income: how much money do you need for happiness?” According to the survey, only 36% of Russians have savings. 63% of respondents said that their families do not have savings. 29% of Russians believe that it is best to keep savings in banks, 46% are sure that it is preferable to invest in real estate.

Why Kurdish referendum can become a prologue for new shocks in the region Photo: Flickr.com/jan Sefti The fact that the authorities of the Kurdish autonomy in Iraq, proudly called Iraqi Kurdistan, want to hold a referendum on the independence of the region and the adjacent disputed territories, became known in June 2017.

“Ugra”, “discovery”, Binbank-it seems that these are not the latest financial institutions from the TOP-30, which is sanitized by the Central Bank. What caused the credit market crisis and who will be as follows-the regular expert of the magazine, banker Oleg Vyugin, former chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of the Bank and the 1st Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank in 2002-2004 answered the questions of The New Times.

The ex-owner of Uralkali, billionaire from Perm Dmitry Rybolovlev, who is the president and owner of the Monaco football club, is likely to be forced to leave the dwarf principality due to illegal actions, reports the French weekly Journal du Dimanche .

Meduza reports that Russia's Gazprom has moved up to the top spot in the Platts rating of global energy companies. The leader of the last 12 years, American ExxonMobil, dropped to 9th place. On the second - German E.ON SE, on the third - Reliance Industries from India. The Russian Lukoil also entered the top ten, the company occupies the 6th place. In total, 12 companies from Russia were among the 250 largest energy companies in the world.