Early elections to the Greece Parliament will be held on September 20, Reuters reports citing a source in the Greek government. According to the interlocutor of the agency, Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will make an official statement on early elections later. On August 14, the Greek parliament approved the conditions of the third program to assist Athens from international creditors. More than 40 deputies from the ruling party "Siriza" refused to adopt the draft law.

The Kazakh tenge is devalued and transferred to a free swimming mode in a very similar way to how the Russian ruble moved to a similar trading regime last November. In both cases, a strong factor that influenced the decisions of central banks, of course, was a drop in oil prices. Both in November and now, oil price has fallen to about $ 50 per barrel (and now even lower).

The Federal Customs Service (FCS) proposed to introduce criminal liability for illegal import into Russia of goods falling under the grocery embargo. Information on the relevant bill is posted on the federal portal of regulatory acts. The document is under development.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) can allow Iran to independently carry out inspections of its nuclear facility in Birchin, reports the Associated Press with reference to the agency of the IAEA agreement with Tehran. The document states that the operations will take place using Iranian authorized equipment, which corresponds to the technical specifications of the agency. The Iranian side will report to the Magate, providing photos and video materials from the object.

A bill on administrative responsibility of legal entities for a bribe committed abroad was submitted to the State Duma. Information about the bill is published on the government website.

The head of the Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin in 2014 received the rank of emergency and plenipotentiary ambassador, a source in the Kaliningrad Region administration told Kommersant and confirmed the temporarily acting governor of the region Nikolai Tsukanov. Tsukanov added that the corresponding extract from the presidential decree entered the election commander of the Kaliningrad region. The election commission could not confirm or refute the receipt of such a document.

Two suspects of involvement in the explosion in Bangkok themselves came to the police, reports BBC News. Men came under suspicion after the police studied the video from the scene. According to the Thai authorities, the men told the police that they work in tourist guides and are not related to the explosion. Police officers interrogate the suspects. According to law enforcement agencies, at least ten people were prepared an explosion, and the preparation began at least a month ago.

Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, during a television show, announced his resignation to the country's citizens. He said that immediately after the appeal, he would give the president of the country to Prokopis Pavlopoulos a petition for the addition of his powers and on the resignation of the government. “You need to decide again whether we can continue our policy and the path that we are now going in negotiations with creditors.

South Korea response of the DPRK’s positions after the South Korean territory was subjected to artillery shelling from this state, Agence France-Presse reports . Blows from the DPRK were directed along the loudspeaker installed near the demilitarized zone on the border with South Korea, the South Korean Ministry of Defense said. The loudspeaker was not damaged. There are no victims in the South Korean territory.

In Google Play (Applications for the device with Android OS), the game "Antisanctions: Burn Import!" “Russia in response to sanctions introduced a food embargo. Do not miss the smuggling - hold the border on the castle. The game for each patriot of his country, ”the application describes the application. The game is made in the genre of Arkada. The user is invited to click on the images of products (fruits, vegetables, meat and dairy products). When pressing them, products explode.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko never spared the epithets addressed to his "older brothers" from Russia. It was worth arising in the relations of the two countries of any conflict, and Lukashenko was not nothing to be stolen to brand the Russian leadership for barbarism , stupidity and brainlessness , scam and so on. Everyone is accustomed to this, first of all - in the Kremlin, where the Escapades try not to notice.

The world boxing champion Roy Johns Jr. wrote a statement about the provision of Russian citizenship, Interfax reports. “I hope that my act will help create a bridge between Russia and America. I want to buy real estate here. I will divide myself equally between the two countries: I want to box there and box here, I want to execute rap there and fulfill it here, ”the athlete said before writing a statement.

The Moscow City Court decided to recover ten thousand rubles from the NTV television company in favor of one of the creators of the Russian Movement Alexander Belova (real name Potkin), his lawyer Sergei Badamshin told Interfax . The court canceled the decision of the Presnensky court of Moscow, which did not satisfy the claim for compensation for moral damage.

The Bank of Russia sharply raised the courses of the main world currencies. On August 21, the dollar will cost 66.96 rubles, 1.24 rubles more compared to the previous day, and the euro - 74.47 rubles (more than 1.77 rubles). On August 20, on August 20, at the foreign exchange of the Moscow Exchange, both currencies updated the maximums from the beginning of February this year: the dollar at the very beginning of the session exceeded 67 rubles, and with the euro struck 75 rubles in the afternoon.

The city election commission of St. Petersburg refused to hold a referendum on the transfer of the Isaac's Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Interfax reports. The Gorizbirk refused to register an initiative group that wanted to hold a referendum. The reason for the refusal is a too vague formulation of the question, to which the voters were supposed to answer.