Maria Blokhina Ukraine, Kherson region. The line on the border with the Crimea at the Chonggar checkpoint on August 8, 2016. RFE/RL The Moody's International rating agency has published an analytical note that states that the tension growing between Russia and Ukraine is a threat to the restored Russian economy, which also negatively affects its credit rating. Agency experts believe that recent events in Crimea can contribute to the extension or even tightening of anti -Russian sanctions.

The Russian national team is deprived of the gold of the Beijing Olympics of 2008, received in the 4x100 m relay race. Such a decision was made on August 17 by the International Olympic Committee in connection with the positive doping of the participant of this relay, Runiye Julia Cherma-shayanskaya. According to media reports, after the rechecking of the Cherma -shain sample, she gave a positive result to two prohibited substances - Stanozolol and Turinabol.

To the completion of the Zenit Arena stadium on Krestovsky Island, the Committee for the Construction of St. Petersburg will redistribute 2.6 billion rubles with an targeted investment program for the construction of social facilities, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the committee.

Tariffs for freight car can become variable. The Ministry of Transport offers to increase them for the navigation period, from April to November - in order to reorient the cargo flow on the waterways. The corresponding proposal was announced at a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council for the development of domestic water transport in the country, Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov.

The Minister of Justice of Turkey, Bekar Bozdag, on his Twitter page, said that the government adopted amendments to the law, and about 38 thousand prisoners will be able to be released. 16) Bu Düzenlemenin Sonucu ilk etapta kapalı ve açık Ceza Infaz kurumlarından yaklaşık 38.000 kişi Tahliye olacaktır. - Bekir Bozdağ (@bybekirbozdag) August 17, 2016 He also explained that this measure is not an amnesty and refers only to the persons who have committed crimes until July 1, 2016.

Anton Bykov While Brazil proceeds to Kafe and Mania, that is, to breakfast, we summarize the results of 11 days of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. For the Russian national team, this was not the best day. Synchronists Svetlana Romashin and Natalya Ishchenko took gold in a duet, becoming four -time Olympic champions, but this victory was predictable. A much more unexpected result was shown by the casket of Roman Anoshkin, who won the bronze medal.

This year, the second planned indexation of pensions can be replaced by a one -time payment - the corresponding decision remains for the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the head of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev, “ Vedomosti ” write with reference to two federal officials.

Poet Nikolai Oleinikov was born on August 17, 1898 Private bussiness Nikolai Makarovich Oleinikov (1898-1937) was born in the village of Kamenskaya (now the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region) into the family of a wealthy Cossack. Graduated from the 4th grade of the Donetsk District Men's School. After several years of further study at a real school, he entered the Kamensk Teachers' Seminary in 1916, where he seriously studied literature and mathematics.

The investigation of the case against the “racers” on Mercedes-Benz Gelandewagen Abduvahoba Majidov, Ruslan Shamsuarov and Viktor Uskov was completed. According to the Investigative Committee, they are accused of the threat of violence against representatives of the authorities and insulting representatives of the authorities. Recall on May 22, 2016 young people staged a motor car with government officials.

Nikita Belogolovtsev Olympiad in China The Russian national team is deprived of the gold of the Beijing Olympics of 2008, received in the 4x100 m relay race. Such a decision was made on August 17 by the International Olympic Committee in connection with the positive doping of the participant of this relay, Runiye Julia Cherma-shayanskaya.

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin refused a claim with a demand for removing Yandex from Yandex to several articles on the “right to oblivion”, RIA Novosti reports. The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg terminated the proceedings in connection with the receipt of the application for the abandonment of claims in full. One of Prigozhin’s lawyers Igor Eliseev told the agency that his client’s decision was caused by the “imperfection of the law”.

Russian Su-34 bombers inflicted a group aviation blow to the objects of the Islamic State (IG) group banned in the Russian Federation in the Syrian province of Deir Ez-Zor. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, they dumped the fragmentation-functional bombs of the OFAB-500 . According to the military, as a result of the air raid, 2 command posts and large field camps of terrorists were destroyed, more than 150 militants and foreign mercenaries were eliminated.

The Corsican city of Sisco became the third in a row the village in France, whose authorities officially banned the wearing on public beaches of the Muslim swimsuit - Burkini, AFP reports. The mayor of Sisco Angei-Pierre Vivoni explained that the ban was a reaction to the clashes of citizens with immigrants from North Africa last Saturday on the city beach. The brawl, which arose due to the appearance of women in Burkini, led to serious injuries in four people and the burning of three cars.

The attackers who attacked the DPS post in the suburbs bought an ax in one of the economic stores before the crime. The suspect was recorded by a video surveillance camera. On the frames provided by the GSU SK in the Moscow region, a man in a red sweatshirt with a hood and with a backpack enters the store and asks the saleswoman to bring him an ax. After some time, another young man approaches him.

A source in the Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the statement of the US State Department that by using the Iranian air base for its combat aircraft, Russia violated the UN Security Council (Sat), TASS reports. According to Kosachev, the formulations used by the State Department are “attracted by the ears”.