Jerome Powell On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve System (the Central Bank of the USA) reduced the interest rate by a quarter of a percent to the level of 2.00–2.25 percent per annum. 8 out of 10 members of the Federal Open -based Operations Committee voted for reducing the rate, which determines the rate based on which the federal reserve provides loans to commercial banks.

The development of the political crisis in Moscow was discussed by the politician Leonid Gozman, political analyst Yevgeny Mintchenko, the head of the Yakimanka municipal district Andrei Morev (Yabloko). Mikhail Sokolov was broadcast.

In Moscow, representatives of the Greenpeace of Russia handed over to the presidential administration more than 250 thousand signatures to the petition with the demands to "direct additional forces to combat fire, tell the truth about smoke and help people survive it, as well as review the control zones so that such fires are not repeated in the future." According to ecologists, almost 4 million hectares are in the area of forest fires in Siberia.

Actor of the Moscow Contemporary Theater Dmitry Smolev, who starred in a parody video clip in the image of a drunken traffic police officer, was arrested for eight days. Administrative punishment is imposed for the illegal wearing of a traffic police officer and petty hooliganism.

Oleg Stepanov The police detained the coordinator of the Moscow headquarters of Alexei Navalny Oleg Stepanov at the exit from the special special receiver No. 2 in the mnevniki, where he was serving administrative arrest. This was reported by Twitter of Navalny's headquarters. Oleg Stepanov was detained at the exit from the special detention center No. 2, where he held an 8-day arrest.

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