The amount of money supply in the national determination as of August 1, 2009 amounted to 13 trillion 121 billion rubles. Against 13 trillion 161 billion rubles. On July 1 of the same year, the Department of External and Public Relations of the Bank of Russia reports. Thus, the amount of money supply decreased by 40 billion rubles, or by 0.3%. Recall that as of January 1, S.G. The volume of money supply in the national definition was 13 trillion 493.2 billion rubles.

Today it may be announced that the shareholders of the Don-Stroy group of companies have agreed with the VTB bank to settle debts of more than $ 500 million, Kommersant writes. According to the newspaper, VTB will receive a control package (50% plus one promotion) Don-Stroy Invest CJSC for only 500 rubles. The parties also agreed to share all the Don-Straoy projects.

The Moscow District Military Court today refused to return the case to the prosecutor’s office to sell women to slavery to Europe and the Middle East, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. One of the participants in the process said that the court also refused to recognize a number of evidence unacceptable and exclude them from the case file. Today, new lawyers joined the process, and they were given the deadline until September 29 to get acquainted with the progress of the case.

Consumer prices for gasoline in July rose by 7.1%, from the beginning of the year - decreased by 4.1%. The prices of gasoline manufacturers in July rose by 9.7%, in six months their growth amounted to 57.9%, the Federal State Statistics Service reports. In July, an increase in consumer prices for gasoline automotive was noted in 80 constituent entities of Russia. The most significant it was in the Republic of Khakassia - by 17.0%.

Russia and Mongolia agreed to create a joint venture for the extraction of natural uranium. The agreement was signed in Ulan-Bator following negotiations between the presidents of Russia and Mongolia Dmitry Medvedev and Tsahiagi Elbegdorge.

The ARCTIC SEA dry cargo is arrested for further inspection, the investigative committee said in the Russian Prosecutor's Office. The ARCTIC SEA dry load has passed under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation. “To establish all the circumstances of the crime, the investigation intends to find out what cargo transported the ship. Due to the fact that the ship can be examined only after the court arrest was imposed on it, the Investigative Committee came to the court to arrest the vessel.

On August 18, 2009, de jure ended the process of Georgia's exit from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). He began to start on the last day of last year's Five Day War. On August 12, 2008, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said that his country would not remain in the same organization with the invaders.

The most titled participants in the Russian team in skiing are a three -time Olympic champion Yulia Chepalova and the Olympic champion Evgeny Dementiev wrote a statement to the Russian skiing Federation with requests to withdraw them from the Russian national team and reports on the completion of a sports career. They did this immediately after the International Sports Federation (FIS) accused them of using the forbidden drug recombinant erythropoetin (Repo).

AvtoVAZ President Boris Aleshin leaves his post in connection with the transition to another job. According to media reports, he accepted the proposal to head the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute named after Zhukovsky ”(TsAGI). On the basis of TsAGI, Aleshin intends to create a structure that will oversee the development and testing of civil and military aircraft in Russia, Kommersant writes.

The Ford Automobile Plant in the Leningrad Region, in Vsevolozhsk, will temporarily suspend production from August 31 to September 11, Finmarket reports. According to Ekaterina Kulinenko, Director of Public Relations, the company adapts its production capacities to a reducing demand in the Russian automobile market. According to the forecast, this year 1.4 million new cars of all manufacturers will be sold in Russia, which is 2 times less than last year.

The net profit of Gazprom for in the first quarter of 2009 decreased by 2.6 times last period last year - to 110.2 billion rubles. The revenue from sales over the specified period increased by 2.2% compared to the same period of 2008 and amounted to 931.4 billion rubles. At the same time, operating expenses increased by 18.8% to 648.8 billion rubles. Profit from sales also decreased by 22.7% - to 282.6 billion rubles, and the profit to tax decreased by 2.6 times - to 147.2 billion rubles.

"The copyright law has not existed for a long time, it has been canceled. Now there is a fourth part of the Civil Code instead of the law. And an attack on a non-profit cultural and educational site is a form of racketeering," said BFM.ru editor-in-chief Anton Nosik. "The activities of the Russian author’s society have nothing to do with why copyright is protected in the world. There is an understandable concern of copyright holders, when they invest, time and money in the copyright object.

An attempt to give a definite assessment of the war between Georgia and Russia, which occurred on August 8-12, 2008, may seem premature, and for a very good reason. The fact is that the wider conflict of which this catastrophic explosion was a part is far from over. A year has passed, but Georgia is still in a whirlpool of political and military contradictions.

In the center of Moscow on Wednesday morning, a sports car crashed worth several hundred thousand dollars, reports Vesti.ru . The Alpina B6 car was moving at high speed along the weapon alley towards the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street. On the wet road, the driver lost control, and the car flew into the sidewalk and crashed into the wall of the house. At the same time, the car hung on the concrete base of the downed sign. In an elite foreign car, the front and bottom were badly damaged.

In Moscow, on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, the Presidential Management Machine shot down a traffic police officer, RBC reports. The day before, an employee of the road-post service regulated the movement near the Ukraine Hotel. There he was shot down by a car with a flashing beacon. An ambulance carrier was driving near the scene, which took the policeman to the hospital. There, doctors stated a closed head injury from him. Currently, an employee of the traffic police is in a coma.