Yuri Vitrenko, the commercial director of NAC NAC Naftogaz Ukraine, said in an interview with the Ukrainian Fifth Canal that the company was going to increase Gazprom’s requirements in the Stockholm court in a gas transit by more than $ 5 billion. Vitrenko noted: “We expect that in our claims we will receive fair compensation from Gazprom.” In case of increase in the amount of the lawsuit by another 5 billion dollars, the total amount of claims will exceed $ 18 billion.

On the building of the US President Donald Trump Trump Soho in New York, a projection with the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian flag appeared, Business Insider reports. Photos of the hotel building on his Twitter were posted by Deputy Director of Cap Action Igor Volsky.

Evgeny Davydovich, who previously headed the Svyaznoy Bank and the Reteiler of the Svyaznoy, is now going to take the post of chairman of the board of Binbank.

The Russian athlete Sergey Shubenkov took second place in 110 meters with barriers at the World Cup in London, Interfax reports. In 2013, Shubenkov won the World Cup bronze in Moscow, in 2015 he won gold at the World Cup in Beijing. In the same year, the athlete was removed from participation in international competitions due to a doping scandal, which led to the deprivation of membership of the All-Russian Athletics Federation in the International Federation of athletics federations (IAAF).

The Moscow City Hall approved the standard for decorating apartments of “improved comfort class”, which should be provided to residents of five-story buildings under the renovation program, Interfax reports. At a meeting on August 8, the city hall adopted a resolution “On approval of the requirements for improved decoration of equivalent residential premises provided in return for residential premises in apartment buildings included in the Renovation Program of the Housing Fund in Moscow”.

Former head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Alexei Ulyukaev, accused of receiving a bribe of $ 2 million, declared his innocence and called the case against him a provocation, reports RBC . “Not just a provocation, but, I would say, a vile provocation,” the ex-minister told reporters after a court hearing in his case, which took place on August 8 in the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow.

On August 8, 1849, the revolutionary Vera Zasulich was born. Personal business Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (1849 - 1919) was born in the village of Mikhailovka, Gzhatsky district of the Smolensk province in the family of a small noble nobleman. When the girl was three years old, her father died, and she was brought up at the aunts of the village of Byakolovo near Gzhatsk. In 1867 she graduated from a private boarding house, where they taught foreign languages ​​and prepared governesses.

"Kommersant" in the article "Though the right not to grow" writes that the regions are preparing the rules of temporary seizure of authority. “ Employees know their price”: the share of candidates, unyielding salaries, is growing on the labor market. “ Voters were called into a bright past”: how and why do the act and governors collaborate with their predecessors. “ Tribal leaders are not better than dictators”: poverty may be caused by state power over society and vice versa.

The reason for the departure of the TV presenter and editor -in -chief of the Starhit project Andrei Malakhov from the program “Let them talk” and from Channel One is a quick replenishment of the family and Malakhov’s desire to spend more time with the family, according to the StarHit website. According to the publication, the wife of Andrei Malakhova Natalya Shkuleva is expecting a child. Spouses officially did not announce the possible replenishment of the family.

Deprived of the citizenship of Ukraine, ex-governor of the Odessa region and ex-president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, during the visit, Vilnius said he did not apply for Lithuanian citizenship, although he was grateful to Lithuanian politicians for such an offer, Interfax reports. “No, I have to return Ukrainian citizenship, it was taken illegally.

The Bank of Russia submitted an application to the Arbitration Court of Moscow on the recognition of the Yugra bank bankrupt, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the arbitration file.

The request of Russian society to stability goes to the periphery and is replaced by a request for changes. This, as TASS reports, said the general director of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) Valery Fedorov at the Youth Forum "Territory of meanings on Klyazma". According to Fedorov, the Russians feel uncertainty in tomorrow due to the fact that the economic crisis in the country has ended, and the large-scale rise did not begin.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) opened cases against the “big four” of Russian mobile operators “for the establishment and maintenance of monopoline high prices for communication services in national roaming,” according to the FAS website on August 8. Antimonopoly affairs against Vimpelcom (Beeline brand), MTS, Megafon and T2 Mobile (brand Tele2) were opened on August 3.

VKontakte social network allowed advertising cryptocurrencies not prohibited in Russia of cryptocurrency exchanges, blockchain services, startups and business related to mining and bitcoins, the social network said . “The advertising of cryptocurrencies should be reliable and conscientious, without groundless guarantees. Ads should not violate the remaining rules for placing VKontakte advertising, ”the social network emphasized.

Scientists have found a new method for determining the autopsy for doping tests, which allows you to conduct a legally reasonable forensic examin on test tubes with samples, reports Europe online Magazine. According to the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach, the discovery was made during research at the Lausanne Judicial Medical Institute.