The police detained a person suspected of attacking police officers in the courtyard of the Buckingham Palace in London, the police reported . He was detained nearby, at Mall, adjacent to the palace. As a result of the attack, two police officers were injured, but hospitalization was not required. Eyewitnesses reported that the attacker was armed with something like Machete, but this was not confirmed. No civilian, they say in the police, was injured. The territory of the palace is numb.

The head of the Vostok group of companies, Marat Balasanyan, was accused of fraud with Sberbank loans in the amount of more than 2 billion rubles. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. “As it was established, he and other persons from among the management and owners of the structures of the Vostok group of companies carried out the theft of Sberbank’s money in the amount of 2.36 billion rubles,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Petersburg authorities move places for public events to the outskirts By a decree of August 17, the government of St. Petersburg excluded the Field of Mars from the number of "hyde parks" - specially designated places for public events where rallies and pickets can be held without the consent of the authorities. Now only the outskirts are left for them. The reason is allegedly "numerous appeals from public and other non-profit organizations operating in the territory of St.

What are the comrades of Ivan Skripnichenko, who died after an attack by the Memorial Nemtsov Ivan Skripnichenko, a volunteer at the memorial Boris Nemtsov on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, died after an attack on him during duty. In the evening of August 15, a passerby broke his nose, who entered a verbal skirmish with him. Ivan Skripnichenko.

The board of directors of the Alrosa diamond mining company decided to pay material assistance to the relatives of the miners who went missing during the accident at the Mir mine in the city of Mirny in the Republic of Yakutia. This is stated in the message of the company. According to the company, material assistance totaling RUB 14.4 mln. will be provided to the relatives of eight missing miners.

The faction of "United Russia" in the parliament of the Oryol region, taking advantage of the absolute majority, adopted in the first reading a bill submitted to parliament by the communist governor Vadim Potomsky. The factions of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, A Just Russia and the Liberal Democratic Party voted against the document. This is reported by the publication "Orlovskiye Novosti".

Rescuers raised him from the bottom. 18 people died Bus raised from the bottom of the strait. Photo: RIA Novosti 18 dead at the moment after the fall of the bus with the Tamangakh workers from the pier to the Kerch Strait. 33 people were saved, including the driver. The accident happened in the morning, at 8:07, reports the Ministry of Emergencies. It is reported that the bus was lost before the accident: the brakes refused.

The government allowed 19 universities and four scientific organizations to award degrees. The corresponding order, signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, is published on the government's website. 11 universities out of 19 have the category of "national research university", three educational institutions have the category of "federal university", four more have the right to "independently develop and establish educational standards," the document says.

The playwright and director Ivan Vyrypaev published an open letter in support of the director Kirill Serebrennikov, sent under house arrest in the fraud case. The letter is published on the website of Kinoil. “Let's tell ourselves honestly that the arrest of Cyril Serebrennikov will again remain unpunished for the power that runs Russia today. I see how most of you wrote your letters in support, came to the rally, gave interviews and even turned to the president.

The Central Bank may become the owner of FC Otkritie, which has been experiencing an outflow of customers' capital in recent months. Vedomosti about this . told Four state bankers, a source close to the Central Bank, and two people familiar with the situation “The likelihood of such a scenario is very high, but a decision has not yet been made,” the newspaper writes.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case after a bus carrying workers from the Tamanneftegaz company fell into the Kerch Strait. This was reported on the website of the UK with reference to the relevant order of the head of the department Alexander Bastrykin. The case was initiated under Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of the rules of the road and the operation of vehicles).

Search groups found five children missing in the Tuvan taiga. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the official representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic, Louise Sevil. “Found at 11:10 (local time - ed.). All five of them, everything is fine with them, ”she said. Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Tuva reported that five children aged 10-14 went into the forest for cedar cones and did not return.

A bomb shelter for 1.5 thousand people will be built near the Botanichesky Sad metro station. This is reported by the publication m24.ru with reference to the documents of the Moscow Committee for Architecture. According to the publication, a dual-use civil defense facility of the VU-A-IV type will be built as part of a residential multi-storey complex next to an underground garage for 790 cars.

As a result of the “acoustic attack”, 16 employees of the American embassy in Cuba were injured. It is reported by the Washington Post with reference to the US State Department. Among the victims were "American civil servants and members of the embassy community" in Havana.

From 12,700 to 100 thousand-no one knows the exact number of participants in the Russian-Belarusian exercises Photo: RIA Novosti Before the exercises of the West-2017 there were three weeks left. From August 15, Russian troops arrive in Belarus, and from July 23-units of material and technical supply.