The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) warned that increasing value added tax (VAT) by 20% from January 1, 2019 could lead to uncontrolled growth of housing and communal services tariffs, RIA Novosti reports. The corresponding letter President of the RSPP Alexander Shokhin sent the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, proposing to introduce a number of changes to the legislation in the field of housing and communal services.

Enter registration of personal electric vehicles, such as Sigvei, gyro scooters, monocoles, was proposed in the State Duma. The author of the initiative also proposed supplementing the rules of the road with points on the behavior of the owner of the electric vehicle. The proposal to register personal electric vehicles and supplement the SDA was nominated by the State Duma deputy from the LDPR faction Vasily Vlasov.

The Russian government will form a “general vision of the issue” at the proposal of the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov on the seizure of over the supernivorities of the companies of mining-metallurgical and chemical complexes on August 17, TASS reports. Recall, Belousov proposed to withdraw from 14 companies as excessive income for 2017 513.7 billion rubles. This money is proposed to be directed to the implementation of May decrees.

The General Director of the Russian Council for International Affairs (RSMD) Andrei Kortunov commented on the Kremlin’s attitude towards US President Donald Trump in the light of Washington announced by Washington against the Russian Federation. According to Kortunov, in Moscow they do not see a direct connection between the preparations of the US Congress on the tightening of sanctions and the American leader Donald Trump.

The Leninsky District Court of Orenburg chose a preventive measure for the mayor of the city of Yevgeny Arapov-an arrest for a period of two months, reports AiF-Orenburg . The official is accused of receiving a bribe in the amount of 600 thousand rubles, he himself rejects the charges. Arapov was detained on August 14, being in the hospital for treatment. On the same day, the regional Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against him.

Chinese archaeologists spoke about the tomb they found, relating to the rule of the Mongolian dynasty of the Yuan (1271 - 1368). The tomb is located in the urban district of Yangzjuan the province of Shanxi. It was discovered back in 2012, and four years later the archaeological report was published in Chinese. Now the article in English has been dedicated to this find. The tomb is an octagonal room with a pyramidal arch.

Simon Zhavoronkov Combat robot :: ys [waiz]:: /flickr.com Russia is ready to support the proposal of France and Germany about the adoption of the Declaration to the UN, which would have said the importance of maintaining human control over autonomous weapons systems. This initiative in late August in Geneva will be discussed by representatives of more than 80 countries and international organizations.

The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure Vladimir Omelyan wrote on Facebook that "today he signed a historical document", according to which "only bears will go to Moscow, as in the good old days." Subsequently, the minister explained to reporters that the new restrictions that he wrote about will be affected not only by the railway passenger message.

The Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Olga Vasilieva said that she would offer the government to tighten the requirements for adoptive parents - including by reducing the "limit" of adoptive children in one family, TASS reports . “Now we have [maybe] up to eight [children]. This is not a kindergarten, this is not a family orphanage. This is another form, ”Vasilieva explained.

Skolkovo resident Prosoft Biometrix introduces biometric identification technologies to create a safe check-in regime in Czech Data Centers. As the company Biosmart SRO, the European representative office of Prosoft Biometrix, readers of biometric data on the vein of the palms and fingerprints of the fingers, are equipped with large data centers of the Master Internet, SRO, providing services in the field of data storage and Internet services are equipped.

The Mosgorizbirkom rejected the request of the Moscow Regional subgroup of the Communist Party of the Communist Party for registration for the All -Russian referendum on pension reform, Interfax reports. “The basis for refusing to register this initiative subgroup is that the Moscow City Electoral Commission on August 9 registered another initiative subgroup of the referendum of the Russian Federation with a similar issue,” the representative of MGIK Rome Kuznetsov explained the refusal.

The former deputy head of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Moscow Denis Nikandrov was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison in a maximum security colony, RBC reports. The court also decided to deprive Nikandrov's title of Major General.

The Moscow City Court granted the investigator’s petition in the case of the theft of budget funds in the Seventh Studio and left the director Kirill Serebrennikov under house arrest until September 19, TASS reports . The accused himself of the theft, who has been in custody for more than a year, at a court hearing stated that during all this time the investigation did not introduce facts justifying the need to isolate Serebrennikov from society.

The Russian national football team after the home World Cup improved its position in the ranking of the International Football Federation (FIFA) at once to 21 positions, rising from the 70th to 49th place. Recall that before the start of the 2018 World Cup, the Russian team occupied the worst place in its history in the FIFA ranking-and the lowest among all participants in the final stage of the mundial.

The Office of the President of the Russian Federation chose a contractor who will restore the gold coating on the dome of the National Capitol in the Cuban capital of Havana, according to the public procurement website . In this case, the name of the company is not indicated. The cost of the contract - about 642.5 million rubles - will be paid from the federal budget. It is assumed that work will start this month and end by the end of 2019.