The United States will send 600 soldiers with heavy weapons to the Baltic and Poland countries in October, reports Stars and Stripes . According to the publication, we are talking about M1 Abrams tanks, infantry combat vehicles and armored personnel carriers.

The Pentagon insists on the purchase of Russian -made multi -purpose helicopters for Afghanistan, which is opposed to the US Congress, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Deputy General Director of Rosoboronexport Igor Sevastyanov. “Despite the protests of the congressmen, various replacement options, the transition to American production, the American military at the Pentagon level stubbornly insist on the purchase of Russian helicopters,” said Igor Sevastyanov.

A gang of killers was detained in Odintsovo Personnel: Vesti.ru In the Moscow Region on the night of August 13, five participants in the criminal group from North Ossetia were detained , on the account of which, according to investigators, 25 murders. The UK does not exclude that the detainees are involved in the murder of the mayor of Vladikavkaz Vitaly Karaev in 2008.

The APR-42 airline Airlines Nordstar made a forced landing at the Krasnoyarsk airport after takeoff. It is reported by Interfax . “At 8:49 local time, the ATR -42 plane flew out by the Krasnoyarsk -Irkutsk flight, but after the departure, the alarm about the partial malfunction of the power supply worked. The aircraft commander decided to return to the departure airport, ”the airline said. It is noted that the plane landed safely at 9:58 local time in Airport "Emelyanovo".

Russian Daria Klina won the bronze of the European Athletics Championship in Long jumps. In the final of the competitions that are held in Zurich, Klina showed the result of 6 meters 15 centimeters. The athlete admitted to journalists that during the tournament she was tormented by pain in the heel, writes ITAR-TASS . “I repelled the heel for a long time, but today the pain in it worsened,” the athlete noted. - Now she hurts so much that you can’t even touch.

On Thursday evening, a column with Ukrainian humanitarian aid for residents of the ATO region, which includes 26 trucks, arrived in Starobelsk in the Luhansk region. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the civil service of Ukraine for emergency situations. “At 19.30 on August 14, a column with humanitarian aid arrived in the city of Starobelsk (Lugansk region), which went from the city of Kharkov.

The Association of Tour Belarus will be able to help tourists “Winds of Wandering”, located abroad, only after the company officially announces the suspension of its activities. This was reported to " Interfax " by the press secretary of Rosturism Irina Schegolkova. She recalled that the director of the Wind of Wandering ceased to communicate with the employees, and they themselves suspended the company's activities. At the same time, they did not send an official notification to Tour Labor.

Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich spoke about the preparation of amendments to the list of agricultural products prohibited for import into Russia. It is reported by Interfax . “The monitoring Commission agreed that until tomorrow, proposals for amendments to the list of prohibited types of products for a number of categories of the population would be prepared for the list of prohibited for the import of products,” the minister at a selector meeting with regions heads.

Specialists of the Rospotrebnadzor Office in the Sverdlovsk region found in the American whiskey Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey suspicious chemicals, unusual for the composition of whiskey, the press service of the department reports. In addition, it was found that the turnover of alcoholic beverages "Jack Daniel'S Tennessessy whiskey" and "Jim Bim. American whiskey. Bourbon ”is carried out with a marking that is inappropriate to established requirements.

The Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin said that the funded part of the pension should be made voluntary. He reported this in an interview with Izvestia . Topilin criticized the situation when the FIU collects accumulative contributions and transfers them to non -state pension funds. “When about 300 billion rubles are transferred to the funded part annually - a very good business is obtained. When you get free money, it relaxes and relaxed for many years, ”he remarked.

Tikhon Kraev Photo: A.Velekin The Central Election Commission held a reporting meeting at which he announced the elections on September 14 highly competitive: 63 parties will take part in them. Yes, there are nuances, but the word has already been uttered. Everything that is next is completely, a completely different story. The nuances are that non -parliamentary parties were able to register mainly where preliminary qualifications were not required, this very filter.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the military-industrial complex (defense industry) in the government, said that the program for import substitution of components for the Russian “defense” and related industries will be prepared in the coming months, Interfax reports. “In general, we plan to complete all these decisions in all categories of import substitution by November,” said Dmitry Rogozin at the Technology in Engineering forum as part of the Oboronecspo - 2014 exhibition .

President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with deputies and senators in Crimea said that Russia adopted sanctions regarding import restrictions in order to support the domestic manufacturer. The broadcast of Putin’s speech is conducted by the Rain TV channel on Twitter. “We must equip the country and not break the connection with the outside world, but do not forget about our interests,” he remarked. Next was Sergey Naryshkin.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a government law on international sanctions for supporting and financing terrorism in Ukraine, Interfax reports. The law, which was approved in the first reading on August 12, provides for the possibility of imposing more than 25 types of sanctions to other countries, foreign legal and individuals who, according to Kiev, finance terrorism and support the Crimean Department from Ukraine.

The exoatlet project, which became the winner of the Startups contest at the Startup Village 2014 conference, was defended at the Expert Council and became a full participant in the Skolkovo Foundation. Among other things, this will enable the Russian exoskeleton developer to claim a fund's grant. The current prototype of the medical version for the rehabilitation of Exoatlet is shown on the "Days of Innovation" of the Ministry of Defense.