Photo: depositphotos The Central Bank temporarily stopped reducing the key rate and kept it at 11% per annum. What will happen to interest rates on loans and deposits? On Friday, September 11, the Central Bank decided not to lower the key rate for the first time this year. The Board of Directors of the Central Bank kept it at the current level - 11% per annum.

The launch of the first line of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, scheduled for the end of 2016, was postponed to a later date, TASS reports . According to the deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom, Alexander Medvedev, this is due to the political crisis in Turkey. Turkey's political forces failed to form a government after parliamentary elections in June. Currently, a temporary cabinet of ministers is sitting in the country.

In the southeast of Moscow, an Infiniti driver hit a traffic police officer. This was reported by the Moscow agency with reference to the press service of the capital police. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the incident occurred on Zolotorozhskaya embankment, near house 1. The driver of a foreign car, when turning, did not allow a traffic police officer on a motorcycle to pass. As a result of the accident, the policeman suffered a broken wrist.

North Ossetia stopped receiving signals from local and federal television channels after a powerful lightning strike struck a television tower in Vladikavkaz. This was reported by TASS with reference to the director of the Alania State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Timur Kusov. According to him, lightning struck the TV tower at approximately 22:30 Moscow time.

Open Russia coordinator Maria Baronova explained the origin of a large sum of money discovered by police in the organization’s office in Kostroma Open Russia coordinator Maria Baronova.

The university has risen by 10 points in the ranking of master's programs in management Master in Management Photo: vk.com/spb1724 St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) has improved its results in the Financial Times ranking. According to the ranking for master's programs in management Master in Management , the Higher School of Management (GSOM) of St. Petersburg State University immediately rose by 10 points and took 46th place, remaining the only representative of Russia in the ranking.

The Northern Fleet (SF) began large-scale exercises involving 14 warships, four nuclear and diesel submarines and ten support vessels. This was announced by the head of the press service of the Northern Fleet, captain 1st rank Vadim Serga, Interfax reports . He said that this is the first large-scale exercise conducted by the joint strategic command of the Northern Fleet. According to him, within their framework, naval aviation plans to carry out about 20 different sorties.

The Pentagon views Russia's latest actions at the Syrian Air Force base in Latakia as possible preparations for the construction of a forward-deploying air base, a US Defense Department spokesman said on Monday. “We have seen movements of equipment and people that indicate that they [Russia] will use the base south of Latakia as a forward deployment base,” Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis said (quoted by Reuters ).

Russia has stationed several tanks at an airbase in Syria, Reuters reports , citing two unnamed American officials. One of the agency’s interlocutors clarified that we are talking about seven T-90 tanks at the Syrian Air Force air base near Latakia. Russia has also stationed artillery at a base near Latakia, which is less than an hour's drive from the Syrian city of Tartus, the site of a permanent Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean, two of the agency's interlocutors said.

Low commodity prices could last for years, Morgan Stanley said, calling for preparations for a “long winter” in these markets with oil prices as low as $35 a barrel. Photo: REUTERS 2015 “We need to prepare for a long winter in commodity markets,” Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, told Bloomberg by phone from New York. According to Sharma, the 200-year history of commodity prices shows that they tend to rise for ten years and then fall for 20 years.

The founders of the national rating agency will contribute 115.4 million rubles to its capital. The agency is already discussing candidates for the board of directors and recruiting employees Curator of the national rating agency Ekaterina Trofimova (Photo: RIA Novosti) The collection of applications for participation in the capital of the national rating agency is closed, the list of 26 investors has been finalized, board member Gazprombank Ekaterina Trofimova told RBC.

The new head of the Google project, which is developing the technology of an unmanned vehicle - the Googlemobile, has become an automotive industry veteran, former CEO of Hyundai Motors America, John Krafkick. reports this Reuters with reference to a company message.

Mexican tourists were shot at by military helicopters and planes, which mistook them for terrorists. Mexican authorities demand Cairo to thoroughly investigate the incident The fact that the tourists were fired at from planes and helicopters was stated by Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu, who, in turn, refers to the stories of Mexican tourists who survived the attack, reports Reuters .

Gubernatorial candidates from United Russia in Mari El and the Amur region won with a margin of 1% of the vote.

Over the past 24 hours, militias violated the ceasefire eight times in Donbass, reports the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). According to the report, the positions of the Ukrainian military were fired upon from small arms and mortars.