On Thursday, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of a US citizen Evgeny (Eugene) of the spector in the espionage case. The spector also has Russian citizenship. As Interfax was informed in court, the court granted the investigator’s request to detention the spector. The meeting was held, as the courts about espionage and state spying are usually held, closed, since the case materials are classified.

Adjara The independent Georgian edition of Batumelebi ("Batumsy") published the results of a journalistic investigation and documented on the basis of the data of the State Register of Georgia, which, after a large -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine and resettlement from 100,000 to 120,000 citizens of Russia, Russians began to massively buy up not only apartments in Georgia for construction for construction households.

After the start of the war with Ukraine, from Russia, according to various estimates, from 400 thousand to a million citizens left. Among them are opposition politicians, journalists, civilian activists opposing the war. Since the fall of last year, several Russians who left the country announced attempts to poison them.

The co -chair of the Voice movement Grigory Melkonants on Thursday was detained and taken to the Investigative Committee for interrogation as a suspect. This was announced by the telegram channel "Voices" with reference to lawyer Mikhail Biryukov. In the evening, it became known that after the interrogation, Melchonyants was not released, he was sent to a temporary detention center. As expected, on Friday the court will choose a measure of restraint in a criminal case, - reports Rain.

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina (archival photo) The Russian authorities will not yet establish standards for sales by exporters of foreign exchange earnings and introduce restrictions on the movement of capital to strengthen the ruble exchange rate. This is written by "Vedomosti" with reference to sources close to the government.

25 years ago, on August 17, 1998, the first truly “capitalist” financial and economic crisis in the country's recent history began in Russia. On this day, the Russian government, headed by Sergei Kiriyenko and the Central Bank, led by Sergei Dubinin, published a joint statement in which the government announced a unilateral restructuring of public debt (which actually meant default), and the Central Bank about the sharp expansion of the boundaries of the currency corridor.

The ruling in Afghanistan the radical movement "Taliban" banned all the political parties in the country, saying that such activities contradict Islamic laws. It is reported by the Voice of America. The decision was announced the day after the actual leaders of Afghanistan celebrated the second anniversary of the return to power in Kabul.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans to build a high -speed railway from Moscow to Donetsk and Lugansk occupied by Russian troops. According to him, he already discussed this idea with Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin and the chairman of the board of Sberbank German Gref. “Banks will certainly be connected to this work. They see good economic and financial prospects here.

The Danon dairy plant near Chekhov, Moscow Region, July 22, 2017. The departure of the Danon company, known to Russians, among other things by yogurt, Zlishka, from the Russian market and the breakdown of Russia's relations with a dairy giant led to a sharp drop in procurement prices for milk in the Chelyabinsk region. According to the farmers of the region, since the beginning of the year the cost of a liter has decreased by four rubles.

Finland and Estonia, despite the ban, allowed three Russian aircraft to cross their aircraft on August 17, so that they would not fall into the thunderstorm. This was reported to RBC in the Federal Air Transport Agency. Aircraft of the airlines "Russia", "Ural airlines" and "North Wind" operated flights to Kaliningrad and vice versa. Flying over neutral waters, they fell into a thunderstorm and were forced to enter the airspace of Finland and Estonia, the department said.

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Information digest "Freedom time", August 17 Information digest "Freedom time", August 17 A criminal case has been opened against the co -chair of the movement in defense of voter rights "Voice" by Grigory Melkonian under an article on the organization of the work of an unwanted organization; In Russia, criminal liability for the distribution of a video of the drones and the work of the air defense can be introduced; The minority of Echo Moskvy CJSC could not achieve the preservation of the

In connection with the recently issued by the next sentence to Alexei Navalny, many spoke about the specifics of the special regime for serving the sentence . And then a sad reality revealed - even quite competent people, including professional journalists, affirm completely amazing and not true things: as if the first ten years of being in such colonies convicts are prohibited from correspondence with the outside world, date, transmission and the like.

The FSB interrogated two young children, a girl and a nine -year -old boy, in a communal case on re -discrediting the Russian army, which was initiated against their mother - lawyers from the Arkhangelsk region Lydia Prudovskaya. According to the publication "Kholod", Prudovskaya’s children were officially called for interrogation as witnesses. They were interrogated separately from each other in the presence of a teacher-psychologist and a representative of the guardianship authorities.