The leadership of the People’s Bank of China in two days has reduced the yuan year by almost 3.5%, this is the strongest drop in the course since 1994, when China has moved from a rigidly fixed to a controlled floating course and reduced it immediately by a third. The NBK called a decrease in the course one -time - according to representatives of the department, it is caused by a change in the methodology for calculating the Yuan reference course.

The initiative of a member of the Federation Council Vladimir Poletaev to ban the drivers whose experience is less than three years, to drive powerful cars, caused a sharp criticism of deputies of the State Duma. According to Kommersant FM , representatives of the relevant State Duma Committee on transport assured the publication that they would not support this proposal.

The government develops a proposal to transfer all large river ports to the management of the unified structure of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. This was announced by Presidential Assistant Igor Levitin at a meeting of water transport. “All sea ports are already overseeing one owner who builds relations with the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Something similar must be done on the rivers.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the deputy and chairman of the Permanent Committee on State Construction, Rules and Local Self -Government of the Sakhalin Regional Duma of Sergey Zaritsky, who was previously detained on suspicion of bribery, the website of the RF IC said. The case was opened under part 5 of article 291.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (mediation in bribery).

In the northern bark of E , the countryh-premier of the country Choi Yong Gon was shot , in front of Ayet, the Renhap agency . According to the source of the agency, the North Korean minister was killed by order of the head of state Kim Jong -un . Choi Yong Gon, as noted in the message, paid his life for critical statements about the policy pursued by the current leader of the DPRK.

In the Protvino near Moscow, an explosion thundered at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Lifenews reports. According to the channel, the explosion occurred in a cooling installation located in one of the premises of the institute. And in Protvino now the beauty Pic.twitter.com/t0NXLBEXXJ - Squid (@Lana_banana18) August 12, 2015 In the Ministry of Emergencies, the explosion information was refuted. “There was no explosion.

Falsified products should be destroyed, as well as the sanctions, said the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert. About this writes " Interfax ." “Fines are secondary. Primary - destroy at the expense of those who produce it. They discovered in the store - it means, at the expense of the store, ”says Dankvert.

The prosecutor's office asked the court to sentenced the former soldier of the Russian base in Gyumri Valery Permyakov to 10 years in prison for desertion and theft of weapons. It is reported by Interfax . On August 12, a consideration of the case of the desertion of Permyakov began in the Gyumrian garrison military court. The accused himself had previously pleaded guilty. The examination found it sane.

On August 12, 1900, the famous sniper Semyon Nomokonov was born. Personal business Semyon Danilovich Nomokonov (1900-1973) was born in the village of Delyun in Transbaikalia in a family of hereditary hunters of the Khamnigan Tungus. He spent all his childhood in the taiga, at the age of seven he picked up a gun, and for 10 years he was considered a real hunter and had the nickname "The Eye of the Korshun." At the age of 15 he was baptized. At baptism, he received the name Semyon.

The German media were outraged by the use of bombs with the inscription "On Berlin!" On the exercises of the marine aviation of Russia. The corresponding article was published in the largest German tabloid Bild. The attention of the newspaper was attracted by the pictures with the bombs that the An-26 bomber published on the Flot.com Navy portal was equipped. On one of the bombs was the inscription “On Berlin!”, On the other - “For Stalin!”.

Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who is accused of mass murder, pleaded guilty of desertion, as well as illegal wearing and ammunition. It is reported by RIA Novosti . It is noted that at the same time Permyakov, during the trial, refused to testify. The defendant asked to accept the testimony that he gave during the investigation.

In Japan, Pokech Pikachu Pokemonov was held. According to The Daily Mirror , more than a thousand people in the costumes of a character from a popular cartoon walked along the streets of Iokogama. The procession took place in the Minato Mirai area, a well -known concentration of museums, shopping and office centers and cafes. It is noted that the procession of Pokemon Picachu is held in Yokogam annually.

The Russian Foreign Ministry did not explain the reason for the statements of the head of the ministry Sergei Lavrov during a press conference of the heads of diplomatic departments of Russia and Saudi Arabia, said “ Moscow says ”. In the video with a press conference, one can hear the minister say the word “moron”, followed by something similar to an obscene statement. “I can say that everything he said substantively is in the transcript, it was heard on the record.

The petition posted on the Change.org website from the abolition of the Decree of the President of Russia on the disposal of sanctions products was signed by over 350 thousand people. On August 6, the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin entered into force , according to which, illegally transported to Russia, sanctions products are subject to destruction.

The president’s consideration is a decree on the establishment of a state prize for human rights activists and philanthropists, Kommersant reports with reference to sources in the Presidential Administration and the Council of Human Rights (HRC). According to the head of the HRC Mikhail Fedotov, the first awards of the prize will be held in 2016. The amount of the Prize fund will be 6 million rubles.