As the governor Merkushkin fights for alcoholic excise taxes. Favorites from the transcript Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS - Today we will consider a very important question for us. Important from different points of view. These are problems of counteracting illegal circulation of alcoholic beverages. It is very important in general for the country. We know that. It is extremely important for the Samara region. Why? Because here we have a lot of problems, as it is nowhere in other regions.

The Investigative Committee found no reason to change the preventive measure for the arrested ex-director of the Gogol Center Alexei Malobrodsky. This was reported on the website of the Human Rights Council (HRC).

US President Donald Trump has fired strategic adviser Stephen Bannon. This is reported by Reuters, citing White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have come to the decision that this will be Steve's last [day of work]. We are grateful for his work and wish him all the best,” she said. Previously, the media reported on Trump's intention to fire Bannon.

As a result of an attack by an unknown person in the Finnish city of Turku, two people were killed. Eight people were injured. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the local police. Earlier it was reported about one dead as a result of the incident. On Friday, in the center of the city of Turku in Finland, a man attacked passers-by on the street with a knife. The police detained the attacker - during the arrest he resisted - they shot him in the leg.

The TV channel and radio station Life stop their broadcasting, a source of Novaya Gazeta in the holding said. this with reference to two sources Earlier, RBC reported . RBC wrote that on August 18, the team would be announced changes, a source for Novaya Gazeta confirmed this information. According to him, today the staff of the channel announced the reduction. He suggested that about 30 employees could be fired. The first wave of cuts, he said, took place in the spring.

UPDATE 20:10 (Moscow time) The action in the center of Grozny took place. It passed near the Akhmat-Khadji Kadyrov Memorial Complex - at the very beginning of Putin Avenue. The signatories of the letter to Chaika were collected at the police department, from there they were put on a bus and centrally brought to the place. After the protest, they put me back on the bus. 18:55 (MSK). Magomed Tazbiev became ill. With a suspicion of a heart attack, he was taken away by an ambulance.

Employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia will not be able to influence the principle of encryption of blockchain technology. Most likely, the special services intend to develop their own encryption algorithm for Russian blockchains used in government agencies.

The Volga District Military Court has sentenced retired GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov to 1 year and 6 months in prison in a strict regime colony on charges of extremism, reports . Interfax Taking into account the unserved sentence under the previous sentence, Kvachkov will have to spend 2 years in a colony. Kvachkov was found guilty under the article of the Criminal Code “Inciting hatred or enmity” for a video message posted in the public domain.

Russian tourists are in no hurry to abandon tours to Spain after the terrorist attack in Barcelona. Over the past day, there was not a single refusal, Maya Lomidze, executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR), told Novaya Gazeta. “There are no people wishing to return to their homeland ahead of schedule over the past day. Demand, of course, will decrease in the next two weeks, but we do not expect tour cancellations.

The Catalan police announced the arrest of a fourth suspect in connection with the attacks in the cities of Barcelona and Cambrils, according to a tweet from the department. The identity of the detainee has not been released. Three alleged terrorists remain on the wanted list, including the van driver who hit pedestrians in Barcelona. It could be Musa Ukabir, the younger brother of the previously detained Dris Ukabir. Five more attackers were killed in Cambrils on the night of 18 August.

UPDATED Korovin later tweeted that doctors diagnosed him with a torn ligament. Employees of the Russian Guard broke the arm of the candidate for municipal deputies Vadim Korovin. He spoke about this on Twitter. According to Korovin, when he parked near the city hall building, “officers from the departmental security came up to him and said that it was impossible to park there.” He refused to leave the car. Now he is at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute.

Law enforcement authorities have detained a third suspect in connection with the terrorist attacks in Catalonia. The police announced this on Twitter. A third person has been detained in Ripoll in connection with the attacks in Cambrils and Barcelona. Earlier it was reported about the detention of two suspects in Alcanar and Ripoli. One of them is a native of Morocco, the other is a resident of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa.

The Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of Russia began to check information about the beating of relatives of Chechens from the village of Krasnaya Turbina, accused of preparing to participate in an illegal armed group. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the HRC Mikhail Fedotov. “I received this information from human rights activists and now I am checking it through the Human Rights Council under the head of the Chechen Republic,” he said.

As a result of an attempt to commit a terrorist attack in the Spanish city of Cambrils, seven people were injured. This is reported by the Catalan police on Twitter. The terrorists tried to knock down pedestrians in an Audi A3 car, but the police managed to open fire on them. Six civilians and one policeman were injured in the incident. According to the country's law enforcement agencies, four attackers were killed on the spot, the fifth died later from his wounds.

Together we, it turns out, earn billions Peter Sarukhanov / "New" Statistics know the excess. Especially about citizens' income. Previously, I somehow did not pay attention, but now I noticed a curious line in the reports of the state statistics organs. As calculated, residents of Chuvashia together earned 125 billion 426 million rubles in January-June 2017. I would like to quickly clarify the population of the republic and honestly divide this impressive amount into all.