Russian President Vladimir Putin received an invitation to the wedding of Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and plans to attend. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. According to Peskov, Putin will “drop by” for the wedding ceremony on his way to Berlin, where he has already scheduled a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Tour operators do not intend to sell last-minute deals to Turkey for the velvet season in 2018, and prices will increase by 10% compared to the same period in 2017. This was stated in the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR). The Association explained the increase in prices by increasing the cost of fuel for aircraft and reducing subsidies for it from the Turkish government. If last year the average amount of subsidies was 35-40 dollars per tourist, now it will be 10-15 dollars.

11 Russians serving sentences in Ukraine wrote a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to exchange them for Ukrainian prisoners. This was stated by the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova on Facebook. According to her, statements were written by Vyacheslav Vysotsky, Valery Ivanov, Alexander Valekhidis, Vladislav Grechin, Viktor Ageev, Oleg Doronin, Denis Sidorov, Evgeny Shatalov, Alexei Sedikov, Alexander Sattarov and Farukh Kamalov.

In Moscow, the "Mother Mars" began. Despite warnings from the prosecutor's office and meteorologists . Read here Coming to the inconsistent campaign “Mother Mother” in Moscow brought soft toys with them and left them at the Supreme Court building, the Novaya Gazeta correspondent reports.

The United States has added the Russian company Profinet and its CEO Vasily Kolchanova, as well as the Chinese company Dalian Sun Moon Star International logistics Trading and Singapore-registered SINSMS, to new sanctions lists due to cooperation with North Korea. The document was published on the US Treasury website.

Novopushkin’s square, the beginning of the march: people gather, despite the rain and a fluid wind. Photo: Anna Artemyeva/"New Gazeta" In Moscow, the inconsistent campaign “Mother Mother”, on which the demands were put forward, were held without detentions and to free the defendants who are now in jail from the custody of the “new greatness”. Despite the heavy rain, the march still took place.

On the evening of August 14, the media reported that Crimean banks have stopped emission and maintenance of Visa and Mastercard cards Photo: RIA Novosti Clients of Genbank (the second largest Bank of Crimea) began to massively complain about the deviation of payments. The press service of the bank confirmed that Visa and Mastersard maintenance were terminated, and advised customers to switch to cards of the Russian Payment System "Mir".

The Dzerzhinsky District Court in Novosibirsk sentenced a 27-year-old man to 2.5 years probation in the case of public incitement to extremism (Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee . Three years ago, in September 2015, a man on the VKontakte social network posted "a text that contained ...

Andrey Bykov - about Eduard Uspensky Photo: RIA Novosti I got my first hours thanks to Assumption. The father was sent to Bulgaria to a book fair, there was a large company, mostly science fiction writers - Lukyanenko, Lazarchuk, I knew all of them in childhood, because then everyone was like -minded people. Or they weren’t, but this was not visible, because not everyone still managed to quarrel. And my father asked what to bring to me, and I wanted the first hours and ordered them.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a visit to the Mashuk educational forum, said that social networks lack positive content. It is reported by TASS. Israil Tamaev, co-author of the Alexander Shiryaev Animation Studio project, told the president how content is produced for student studios. Tamaev also noted that this content is mainly distributed in social networks, in the future the studio intends to cooperate with TV channels in the regions.

The priest and creator of the Alexander Museum is fired after criticism of the garbage training grounds Sergiev Posad. Photo: RIA Novosti In the suburbs, another scandal due to landfills. In Sergiev Posad, the priest of Father Victor is fired, who spoke to the Minister of Ecology of the Moscow Region Alexander Kogan with criticism of the project to build a solid household waste training ground.

Mikhail Degtyarev, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs and candidate for mayor of Moscow from the Liberal Democratic Party, filed a lawsuit to remove his opponent Mikhail Balakin from the election. The lawsuit was registered on the website of the Moscow City Court.

The Ministry of Digital Development, Telecommunications and Mass Media has sent a positive review of the draft law on the abolition of criminal penalties for extremist publications and reposts on the Internet (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), RNS reports with reference to Deputy Head of the Department Alexei Volin . “We wrote a positive review of the parliamentary bill on the decriminalization of likes and reposts,” Volin said.

The FBI will provide protection to lawyer Yevgeny Ryzhov because of the threats that come to him from unknown persons in the United States. This was reported to RBC by FBI detective Stephen Coin. According to him, because of Ryzhov's report about the threats, the bureau opened a criminal case, the investigation of which was joined by the Florida State Police and Interpol.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ordered the Presidium of the Moscow City Court to consider a complaint against the arrest of Anna Pavlikova, a defendant in the New Greatness case, reports . RAPSI The fact that the Supreme Court demanded for review the March decision of the Dorogomilovsky court on the arrest of Pavlikova became known in early August.