On July 16, public hearings were held in the city of Uddoml of the Tver region on preliminary materials for assessing the impact on the environment (EIA) of the operation of power unit No. 1 of the Kalinin NPP at the capacity of the reactor installation of 104% of the nominal. The organizer of the event - local authorities of the Udomelsky district with the support of OJSC "Concern Rosenergoatom".

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko denied the involvement of Ukrainian security forces in the crash of the Malaysian Boeing-777 airliner in the Donetsk region. This was reported on the website of the administration of the Ukrainian president. “We emphasize that the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not commit any action to defeat the goals in the air,” the report said. Earlier, Interfax , citing sources in the aviation industry, announced the collapse of a passenger aircraft near Donetsk.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrived on Wednesday evening at the Moscow metro station "Victory Park", where he laid flowers in memory of the train who died in the Tuesday of the accident. It is reported by ITAR-TASS .

In the capital's metro at the VDNKh station, a young man died after falling under the wheels of an arriving train. reports this Interfax with reference to the press service of the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred at 00:03 on July 17. A young man born in 1989, for an as yet unknown reason, fell on the tracks of the VDNKh station. The driver applied the emergency brake, but a collision could not be avoided.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that Washington’s sanctions against the Russian Federation indicate the dishonest competition of the United States in the arms market. The politician announced this on his Twitter page. According to Rogozin, US sanctions against leading enterprises of the Russian defense industry are illegal.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) intends to create a system for monitoring tariff plans of airlines on equal terms of equal routes by the end of the year. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the deputy head of the department Anatoly Golomolzin. According to him, the database will be linked to the main sources of information on the tickets sold. “The system is constantly forming a tickets for flights, as well as all factors affecting air transportation,” Golomolzin said.

The authorities of Israel and the leaders of the Hamas movement, which controls the gas sector, agreed on the conditions of the complete ceasefire on July 17. It is reported by Reuters with reference to anonymous Israeli officials. Presumably, the agreement on a complete ceasefire and the beginning of peace negotiations will enter into force on July 18 at 6:00 in the morning (7:00 Moscow time).

Another version appeared in the investigation of the causes of the disaster in the Moscow metro: the composition could get off the rails due to an outsider on the tracks, the Kommersant newspaper reports . This version was announced at a meeting chaired by the deputy mayor of urban planning policy and the construction of Marat Khusnullin. In favor of the new version, they say numerous chips on concrete between the rails discovered by experts during the study of the train crash.

Great Britain will seek an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the collapse of the Malaysian aircraft in Ukraine, which was allegedly shot down by one of the parties conflicting in the east. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the permanent representative of the United Kingdom at the UN Mark Laalla Grant. I reacted to the death of the MH17 flight and the European Foreign Service.

On July 16, public hearings were held in the city of Uddoml of the Tver region on preliminary materials for assessing the impact on the environment (EIA) of the operation of power unit No. 1 of the Kalinin NPP at the capacity of the reactor installation of 104% of the nominal. The organizer of the event - local authorities of the Udomelsky district with the support of OJSC "Concern Rosenergoatom".

The police are checking on the fact of complaints from the customers of the Neva travel agency, which suspended its activities, the Russian News Service reports with reference to the press service of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. At the moment, 16 statements from citizens have already been adopted.

On July 16, public hearings were held in the city of Uddoml of the Tver region on preliminary materials for assessing the impact on the environment (EIA) of the operation of power unit No. 1 of the Kalinin NPP at the capacity of the reactor installation of 104% of the nominal. The organizer of the event - local authorities of the Udomelsky district with the support of OJSC "Concern Rosenergoatom".

The number of defendants in a criminal case of an accident on the blue branch of the Moscow metro can grow following searches in the office of Ingeokom. This was reported by Interfax with reference to its own source. “We do not exclude that after the investigative actions, the seizure of documentation and surveys, the number of suspects in the criminal case of an accident in the metropolitan subway will increase,” the agency quoted the words of the interlocutor familiar with the situation.

The Russian stock market was opened by a fall after the introduction of the United States new sanctions against a number of large Russian companies, Interfax reports. In the first minutes of trading, the MICEX index fell by 2.46%, the RTS - by 3.29%. The VTB shares (4.2%), Gazprom (2.8%), Lukoil (3.3%), Norilsk Nickel (1.9%), Sberbank of Russia (3.4%) and a number of other companies that apply to American sanctions were also fired.

As a result of the passage through the territory of the Philippines of the first typhoon of Glend, at least 38 people died, eight more were missing. It is reported by RIA Novosti . According to local media, at least seven thousand houses were destroyed. Earlier, 20 dead were reported as a result of a natural disaster. The province of Keson suffered most of all, the element affected 95% of its territory. In total, about one million Filipinos suffered from Glenda.