Tajik President Emomali Rahmon transferred an agreement with Russia to the lower house of the country's parliament on the Lower Chamber of the Russian military base in Tajikistan, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the Committee on Defense, Security and the Rights of the Lower House of Parliament Amirkul Azimov. According to Azimov, the agreement will be considered in the very near future. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a ratification agreement in early May.

The Ministry of Defense will put in military units 30 thousand DVDs with films of domestic production for soldiers, Izvestia write. The list of films is approved by the Main Directorate for Working with Personnel (GURLS). It contains both Soviet cinema classics - “Peter the Great”, “Captain's daughter”, “Major Whirlwind”, “Autumn Marathon”, “Go and look”, so modern Russian blockbusters - “Turkish gambrat”, “Thunderstorm gates”.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Ryabkov, who is now on a visit to Damascus, will meet with Syria President Bashar Assad on September 18, Interfax reports with reference to the Syrian ambassador in Moscow Riyad Haddad. On the eve of Ryabkov met with the Foreign Minister of Syria Valid Mualleom.

The number of freed down on the economic amnesty was 780 people. This was reported on September 18 on the website of the Prosecutor General. “As of September 1, the amnesty has already been applied in relation to more than 780 citizens,” the report said. Of the liberated, almost 310 people were accused of fraud in the field of lending, 145 - of violation of copyright and related rights. On July 2, 2013, the State Duma approved the presidential draft resolution “ On the announcement of amnesty ”.

Companies that provide communication services can also be required to frozen tariffs in 2014, Kommersant writes. Among these companies were Rostelecom and Russian Post. The Federal Tariff Service calculated that the predicted losses of the Russian Post in 2014, due to frost, can grow from 6.1 billion to 8.3 billion rubles. This will lead to a loss of stability of the institution, non -payment of loans, and will also slow down the growth of employees' salaries.

In Turkey, a trial of 32 police officers and 132 ordinary police officers began, the Turkish television channel NTV reports. They are accused of excessive use of force against demonstrators during the dispersal of protest promotions in June-July 2013. We are talking about police officers from Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Hatai. Recall that the protests in Turkey began in the summer with the action in defense of the Gezi Park in Istanbul. As a result, five people died, many were seriously injured.

The number of readers of the microblog of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday reached two million, the Prime Minister himself announced this. “Thanks to everyone who reads this blog. You are already more than 2 million! ”Medvedev wrote in the microblog. The Twitter account of the Government Chairman in 2010 during a visit to the Twitter headquarters in Silicon Valley.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny considers it necessary that nationalists exist in a legal field and have their own deputies. He stated this on the air of the Rain television channel. According to Navalny, this will avoid ensuring that the right-wing radicals "run around the gateway and broke their heads to someone." Navalny also supported the idea of ​​conducting annual “Russian marches” - he explained that such a phenomenon also demarginalize certain people.

The State Duma in the final third reading adopted a law on the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIA Novosti reports. For "331 deputy voted with the necessary 226 votes. 106 deputies were against the law and one - refrained.

The Parliament of St. Petersburg approved on September 18 in the first reading a bill obliging officials and deputies to disclose their own expenses, Baltinfo reports. The bill provides that information on the expenses of deputies and members of their families will be published on the Internet and transmitted to the media.

The Rain TV channel plans to charge a viewing fee in the near future, according to the channel’s website. In the near future, the editorial office plans to limit access to the direct broadcast and partially to the archive of television programs. News and some programs will remain free, but the channel’s press service did not specify which ones.

In Transnistria, a stabilization fund was created, which is replenished, in particular, through the sale of Russian gas to the population, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday. The publication notes that funds transferred to the fund from communal organizations are spent on the needs of the presidential administration, the KGB and other departments. At the same time, Transnistria is in no hurry to extinguish the debt to Gazprom - at the moment it is more than $ 4 billion.

The Ministry of Finance laid in the budget of 2016 423.5 billion rubles from the sale of 19.5% of Rosneft shares. It is reported by Interfax . This amount will be received in the form of dividends from OJSC Rosneftegaz. The agency also calculated the budget expenditures for the next three years. In 2014, they will amount to 13.977 trillion rubles, in 2015 - 15.361 trillion, in 2016 - 16.391 trillion.

The state urgently will allocate funds for the construction of Akku NPC in Turkey, which Rosatom is engaged in, Kommersant writes. The amount of investments will amount to about 100 billion rubles. Despite the reduction in budget expenditures, the state will allocate 22.45 billion rubles to Rosatom this year. In the next two years, the company will receive about 73 billion rubles. The funds were released by shifting the terms of the arms program.

The Ministry of Labor believes that every fifth Russian will deposit retirement to increase its size. This, according to RIA Novosti , at a meeting of the tripartite commission to regulate social and labor relations, was stated by Deputy Minister of Labor Andrei Pudov . The new pension formula that was developed in the department includes a mechanism for increasing the pension if the citizen decides to postpone the exit to it.