The State Aviation Service of Ukraine decided to impose a complete ban on civil aviation flights over the eastern regions of the country in connection with the fall of the Malaysian aircraft near Torez. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine. In particular, the country's authorities completely closed the airspace over the Donetsk, Lugansk and part of the Kharkov region.

Uralsib bank temporarily suspended the reception of deposits from US citizens. As ITAR-TASS reported in the press service of a credit institution, this is due to the American law “On tax discipline in relation to foreign accounts” (Fatca). A few hours earlier, information appeared in the media that a number of banks had taken similar steps. In Sberbank and Promsvyazbank, this information refuted this information.

On Thursday, July 17, in the airspace of Ukraine, near the Russian-Ukrainian border, a passenger aircraft Boeing 777 of the Malaysian Airlines was shot down. The liner was followed by Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. 298 people were killed on board - 283 passengers and 15 crew members. According to the Vice President of Hayb Gorter, there were 154 Netherlands, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysian, 11 Indonesians, six British, four German and Belgium, three Filipinos and one Canadian.

A new wave of sanctions, the introduction of which the Ministry of Finance of the United States announced on July 16, may directly affect the Russian economy. Previously, sanctions affected influential citizens and their companies and only indirectly reflected in the country's economy, now truly system -forming companies, such as Rosneft and VEB, have fallen into the sanctions sheet.

The delays in the movement of the Filevskaya line of the Moscow metro are associated with the removal of garbage from the blue branch on which the accident had previously occurred. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the leadership of the metropolitan subway. “This is due to the fact that a technical train that takes out technological garbage and oversized structures follows,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

1. The next “Western” period of Russian history ended. Regular student years in the history of Russia are needed; This is the time of re -equipment and accumulation of capital. Then follows the war with the West. Yesterday they talked about the "pan -European house"; They wrote that Russia is a European power, and by a misunderstanding (Tatars and Bolsheviks) fell out of European history. Today is the next shift of the milestone. Russia turned to Asia, with Western illusions, it is over.

The shell killed eight people at a pedestrian crossing in Lugansk on July 18. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the resource "Novorossia" controlled by the authorities of the self -proclaimed republics. “A few minutes ago, in Lugansk, on the quarter, friendship fell into a pedestrian crossing. 8 people died on the spot. The ambulance is taken away, ”the message is indicated.

Employees of the rescue services of Donbass discovered the second on -board self -recorder of the Boeing 777 aircraft, which fell near Donetsk. It is reported by RIA Novosti . Earlier, fighters of the militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic, under whose control there is the place of the fall of a aircraft, said that they managed to find the airliner on -board recorders. According to them, these black boxes will soon be transferred to representatives of the Russian Federation, not Kyiv.

All foreigners entering the country can be obliged to undergo dactyloscopy and photographing, after which the photos and fingerprints will be stored in a special database. The State Duma deputy from Fair Russia, a member of the budget committee Mikhail Serdyuk made a corresponding proposal, write Izvestia on Friday. In his opinion, such measures will contribute to increasing the security of both Russian citizens and the entering foreigners themselves.

The request of Great Britain on the convocation of an emergency meeting in the situation in Ukraine after the disaster of the Malaysian Boeing, which was allegedly shot down by the air rocket, is satisfied. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the permanent representation of the United Kingdom under this international organization. “We received confirmation. The meeting will take place on Friday at 10 in the morning (18:00 Moscow time - Polit.ru) and will be open, ”they said there.

The crash of the Boeing-777 passenger aircraft Malaysia Airlines, which occurred on Thursday near the village of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, was not an accident, the aircraft was shot down in the air. This was announced on Thursday by US Vice President Joseph Biden, ITAR-TASS reports. Earlier, the Wall Street Journal, citing the American authorities, said that US intelligence has data on launching a rocket in the region and approximately during the crash of the Malaysian side.

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) appointed Russian athlete Ekaterina Yuryeva in the form of disqualification for eight years for using doping. This was reported by the press service of the organization. In addition, IBU decided to cancel all the results of the athlete from the moment she was taking a positive test from her on December 23, 2013. Yuryev, in turn, has the right to appeal this disqualification within 21 days.

OSCE observers gained limited access to the place of Boeing in the southeast of Ukraine. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to the deputy spokesman of the OSCE, Natasha Rajakovich, the observers were provided with “some but not complete access”, although the area of ​​the catastrophe zone is quite extensive, with a perimeter of tens of kilometers. Rajakovich denied the information that in the direction of employees of the mission working at the crash site, shots were fired.

The correspondent of the Russian television channel Russia Today in London Sarah Firt quit due to disagreement with how the channel illuminates the collapse of the Malaysian Boeing 777 in the east of Ukraine. According to The Daily Telegraph, Sarah, who worked at RT for about five years, said that the TV channel decided to blame the Ukrainian authorities without waiting for the investigation.

The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated at a meeting on diversification of sales markets and sources of industrial supply of industrial products on July 18 in Kyiv, which is necessary for a complete restriction of bilateral trade with Russia. It is reported by Interfax . “My forecast is as follows: we need to prepare for the fact that we will have an almost complete restriction of trade with Russia in a bilateral format,” Yatsenyuk said.