The host of the program "Alone with Everyone" Yulia Menshova announced the closure of the program that aired on Channel One. about it She wrote on Instagram. Menshova notes that the program was closed solely at "her wish and urgent request." “For 4 years on the air, we filmed 600 episodes, and it was a very difficult job, although infinitely interesting. I did not want this program to become a routine and reduce its quality.

The trial of ex-minister Alexei Ulyukaev began Photo: RIA Novosti On August 16, one of the most high -profile processes of recent years began in the Zamoskvoretsky court - in the case of the extortion of a bribe by the Minister of the Ministry of Economic Development at the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin. Alexei Ulyukaev was detained in November 2016. In the trunk of a service car, a bag with 2 million dollars was found.

Memory of Vera Glagoleva Photo: RIA Novosti Actress Vera Glagoleva died at the 62nd year of her life. It is painful, incorrectly looking for words to the necrologist of a beautiful young woman, a meeting with whom were joy, discussions of future work. And there was still a lot of laughter. And in the final - quick farewell: "To the soon!" Almost the entire population of the USSR knew it, and in the mid -eighties, readers of the Soviet screen called the best actress.

What is behind the unexpected threats of North Korea? Photo: EPA/KCNA The mysterious Mr. Lee Jeon Ho fled from North Korea to the capitalist south in October 2014 - nothing is still reported about the method and route of its disappearance. Before the escape, he held a high general post of deputy head of the secret “department 39” of the Central Committee of the Korea labor party, which oversaw both legal and illegal operations to supply the DPRK by foreign currency.

The Investigative Committee does not see a connection between the violence in the department and the death of the detainee (video) In Krasnoyarsk, a criminal case has been opened on abuse of power by a police officer who beat a detainee. The man later died. On August 15, the video from surveillance cameras was posted on the Internet by the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The tragedy occurred on June 4, 2017 in department No.

VTB Group has decided to reduce mortgage rates to 9.5-10% for finished housing and 9.7-10% for new buildings, reports . RIA Novosti The reduction in mortgage rates will take place on August 17, the agency notes. Earlier, on August 10, Sberbank announced a reduction in interest rates on mortgages on housing loans for the purchase of new buildings and apartments in the secondary market. The minimum amount of the down payment for the purchase of finished housing has also decreased.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered to allocate 555 million rubles to flood victims in Primorye. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the presidential envoy of the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev. According to the plenipotentiary, it is planned to allocate funds from the federal budget after the August 17 meeting.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) for the Chelyabinsk region admitted that the use of the Our Father prayer in microcredit advertising is a violation of the advertising law, "because it may be offensive to the feelings of believers." This is stated on the website of the service. "For" voted 17 out of 19 members of the expert council of the department, as well as 270 out of 660 participants in the survey on the website of the service.

The Lomonosovsky District Court of Arkhangelsk has fined Dmitry Kozlov, an activist of the Last Address movement, 15,000 rubles, reports on Facebook. his lawyer Ivan Pavlov The reason for initiating an administrative case was that Kozlov installed a memorial plaque on the house, which is recognized as an object of cultural heritage.

The Kalininsky District Court of Cheboksary sentenced a 37-year-old local resident to one and a half years in prison on probation. The court found her guilty of beating and insulting five police officers (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code, article 319 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the Investigative Committee (IC) for Chuvashia. On the night of April 23, the police received a complaint about a violation of public order in one of the city cafes.

The perinatal center of the Bryansk City Hospital No. 1 received a sanitary and epidemiological conclusion from Rospotrebnadzor the day after the facility was put into operation. The center was handed over on March 1, 2017, and the conclusion was issued on March 2. This is stated in the response of the Russian Ministry of Health, according to Transparency International - Russia. Officially, a month is allotted for the issuance of a sanitary conclusion.

The country's President Vladimir Putin believes that VAT on flights to Kaliningrad should either be subsidized or stopped as an exception for this area. This is reported by Interfax. According to the president, such a decision will benefit investors, citizens, business, and "the situation will change for representatives of law enforcement agencies." Putin also said that he knows the attitude of the Ministry of Finance to this issue.

Representatives of the largest American IT companies have asked the US Supreme Court to restrict access to information that helps to search for users using a mobile phone, reports The Verge. Restrict access to such information is offered to law enforcement agencies, the publication clarifies. The appeal was signed by Apple, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Dropbox and nine other companies.

Entrepreneur Aram Petrosyan, accused of taking hostages at a Citibank branch in central Moscow, has partially pleaded guilty in court. On August 16, the hearing of the criminal case against the businessman began at the Moscow District Military Court. “I admit my guilt in part. I expect punishment proportionate to my actions, but I do not plead guilty to terrorism.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow denied the defense of ex-Minister Ulyukaev, who is accused of taking a bribe of $2 million, in a petition to return the case to the prosecutor's office. “Our client is being charged with something that has never been charged,” Ulyukaev’s lawyer said in court. Before the court session, ex-Minister Ulyukayev read a book. Answering journalists' questions about what he reads, Ulyukaev said: — I read Chekhov. This is a great Russian writer.