The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said that she did not hear any rude words from Sergei Lavrov at a press conference of the heads of diplomatic departments of Russia and Saudi Arabia. She stated this in an interview with the radio station “Moscow Speaks”. “I was at this press conference and didn’t hear anything like that. I can't comment on what I haven't heard. A man coughed, I don’t know what he had.

The TV channel “360 Podmoskovye” published a video recording of a fire that occurred a few hours earlier on the territory of the Institute of High Energy Physics in the city of Protvino, Serpukhov district, Moscow region. According to the eyewitness who sent the video, the fire lasted no more than 20 minutes. The recording shows a high column of dark gray smoke rising into the air above the building of the institution.

The average bill in the city over the year increased by 200 rubles and exceeded a thousand The average bill for restaurants and other catering establishments in St. Petersburg increased by 200 rubles over the year and exceeded a thousand, reports the 2GIS company. Analysts and market participants believe that only the luxury segment could provide such an increase, while in other restaurants and cafes the figures remain at last year’s level or even fall. According to 2GIS, as of July 2015, St.

Most of the largest retail banks did not maintain double-digit rates on ruble deposits. In the fall, the situation may change, and the profitability of individual deposits will increase. Should we wait for new offers from banks? Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC The yield on ruble deposits continues to decline. In the first ten days of August, the maximum interest rate that the Central Bank expects dropped to 10.41% per annum.

The drug shipment weighing 250 kg seized by the police became the largest in recent times. Photo: gnk.spb.ru The organizer of a large drug trafficking network was detained in St. Petersburg. According to the press service of the regional department of the Russian Federal Service for Drug Control, the group’s monthly turnover was about 200 kg of hashish, 10 kg of cocaine and 10 kg of MDMA (ecstasy).

The next meeting of negotiators to resolve the conflict in Donbass is in jeopardy. Kyiv and the rebels each called elections according to their own rules, accusing each other of violating the Minsk agreements Photo: TASS The meeting of the working group on political issues within the framework of trilateral negotiations on Donbass, scheduled for August 12, may be disrupted.

The prosecutor's office of the Irkutsk region, during inspections, came to the conclusion that the regional forestry agency does not take timely and complete measures to extinguish forest fires in the region. A warning was issued to the head of the agency, according to a message on the website of the Irkutsk prosecutor's office. According to the department, there are currently 26 forest fires in the region, including in the territory of the Pribaikalsky National Park.

The EBITDA indicator of the business of the German energy concern E.ON in Russia fell in the first half of 2015 by 40%, to €160 million. The reasons for the decline in the company's report were the weakening of the ruble and low sales. Overall, E.ON's underlying net profit fell 27% in the first half to €1.165 billion due to increased use of renewable energy in Germany and lower oil prices. At the same time, thanks to cold weather, revenue for the same period increased by 5%, to €57.3 billion.

The Moscow Prosecutor's Office sent an application to the Moscow City Court to recognize the unregistered interregional public association “Ethnopolitical Association “Russians” as extremist and to ban it. This was reported by the press service of the supervisory agency.

Photo: Alena Kondurina/RBC Crocus Group President Aras Agalarov told RBC why in Russia it is impossible to save on road construction using new technologies and how the builders of the 2018 World Cup stadiums will meet the strict government budget. “I personally looked at about 60 stadiums” — Your Crocus Group is building two of the six stadiums that will host matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup - in Rostov-on-Don and Kaliningrad.

A criminal case has been opened in St. Petersburg after a teenager was beaten Special purpose officers "Typhoon". This is reported by press service of the city prosecutor's office. The incident, according to the department, occurred back in February 2015. Then special purpose officers "Typhoon" of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, while on the premises pretrial detention center No.

Islamic State terrorists posted the personal data of dozens of American military personnel and State Department officials online with a call to kill them Photo: AP The list was posted on one of the social networks, reports. the Herald Sun In total there are 1.4 thousand people. The positions of military personnel and officials, their telephone numbers, email addresses and credit card numbers are provided.

Photo: TASS PARNAS filed a complaint against the refusal of the election commission of the Kostroma region to register the list. In this region, Alexei Navalny’s associates have a real chance to recover in the elections, say sources close to the party in power. Complaining will help The Central Election Commission received a complaint from PARNAS about the refusal of the Kostroma Election Commission to register the list, commission press secretary Anna Fomenkova told RBC.

According to the Federal State Statistics Service, consumer prices in Russia have not changed for three weeks in a row - from July 21 to August 10 Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC For the first full week of August (from the 4th to the 10th), consumer prices in Russia did not change, according to a message from Rosstat.

In Russia, a state award for human rights defenders may be established in the near future. The idea originated back in 2013, but has not yet been implemented Ceremony of presenting state awards in the Kremlin (Photo: TASS) A state award for human rights activists and philanthropists may appear in the near future.