The United States “are ready to support Ukraine in negotiations with Russia,” ITAR-TASS reports with reference to Barack Obama’s statement at a meeting with Ukraine President Poroshenko in the White House.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozi announced his intention to return to politics. On his Facebook page, he wrote that he would take part in the election of the chairman of the leading opposition party of the Fifth Republic - the “Union in support of the popular movement”. “After careful thought, I decided to nominate my candidacy for the post of chairman of my political family,” wrote Sarkozy.

Russia, the European Commission and Ukraine are considering the date on September 26 to conduct tripartite gas negotiations. This was announced on September 19 by the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak, reports Interfax . According to Novak, all three parties are currently agreeing to hold a meeting in Berlin on September 26.

Rosselkhoznadzor considers the possibility of introducing a temporary restriction on the import of grapes and apples from Ukraine. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the head of the department, Sergei Dankvert. “We warn our Ukrainian colleagues that we will be forced to introduce a temporary restriction if they are not responsible for being released,” he said.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Valery Geletey announced the possibility of the fourth wave of mobilization, reports UNN . Geletey made a corresponding statement in Warsaw, where an agreement was signed on the creation of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania of a joint military brigade. “The fourth stage of mobilization is also possible,” said the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.

Municipalities can get the right to increase the tax rate on real estate of individuals, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. According to the newspaper, the transition to a new tax base led to the fact that the amount of housing tax could be tripled, so it was decided to gradual growth in the tax burden (20% per year). According to the vice-governor of the Moscow Region Alexander Chupakov, the Moscow Region region proposed to increase the maximum rate by 3 times.

The last survey of the YouGov service showed that 54% of the Scots voted to preserve Scotland as part of the UK, reports Reuters . At 01.00 Moscow time, the counting of the referendum on the independence of Scotland began. The calculation will go throughout the night, individual results will be announced separately in 32 regions of Scotland. In order to vote, more than 4 million people came to the plots. The results will be announced on Friday.

The Government of the Russian Federation is ready to partially remove the ban on the sale of alcohol via the Internet, the newspaper Kommersant reports with reference to its own source in the government. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed Rosalkogolregoling and other relevant authorities to work out this issue on Monday.

As gradually it turns out, the topic of economic sanctions is inexhaustible. Before the United States, Canada, Australia and the EU countries to impose sanctions against Russia, and Russia, in turn, respond with counter-sanctions on how new reasons to expand the stoplist. Additional prohibitions relate to the supply of technologies and services for deep -sea, marine Arctic and shale projects in the Russian Federation or Russian waters, if they have "oil production potential".

The Coordination Center of the National Domain of the Internet (administrator of domains .ru,. RF and .SU) announced readiness to disconnect Russia from the global network. “The infrastructure of national domains, built in 20 years, will withstand any attacks.

A bill limiting the share of foreign shareholders in the Russian media up to 20%has not yet entered the government. This was announced by ITAR-TASS Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov. “ When he is agreeing with all departments, a single position of the government will be formed. I think that every initiative has its pros and cons , ”said Nikiforov.

The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Alexander Shokhin, discussed with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev arrest the chairman of the Board of Directors of the AFK System Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Interfax reports.

On September 18, at a solemn, although funny ceremony at Harvard University, Annals of Incredible Research, handed the next laureates by ignobelian prizes for scientific research, which "forced to laugh at first and then think." The prize was awarded for the twenty -fourth time. The real Nobel laureates, who were present at the event in the amount of six people, presented awards.

The company ESD America, which specializes in the sale of mobile devices protected from wiretapping, has discovered unknown telecommunications interception stations near the Belo House and the US Congress. This was reported on September 19 by The Washington Times . The head of the ESD America Forest Goldsmith states that the stations most likely belong to foreign structures.

The World Bank allocated $ 2.5 billion to Ukraine for the development of the economy and the social sector. This was announced in her article , published on the organization’s website, said the vice president of work with the countries of Europe and Central Asia Laura so. According to the results of her visit to Ukraine, she talked about the deepening of the economic crisis and high geopolitical tension in the region.