The total cost of new contracts signed by Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft during the Max International Aviation and Space Salon exceeded $ 1 billion. Andrei Boginsky, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, stated this, Interfax reports. Boginsky noted that only with the Yamal airline a contract was concluded by about $ 700 million.

The probability of implementing a conservative scenario of socio-economic development of Russia with an oil price of $ 40 per barrel during 2016–2018 is small. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev, Interfax reports. “I believe that the probability of implementing this scenario is low, but we had to calculate it. Of course, we do not exclude it.

The daughter of the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov Zhanna appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a complaint about an ineffective investigation of the murder of her father. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to lawyer Vadim Prokhorov.

The court recognized the Pacific Motor -Building Company (TMK) bankrupt, reports PrimaMedia. The debt of the company, which built a bridge across the Golden Horn Bay in Vladivostok and was one of the contractors for the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome, reached 6.8 billion rubles. Including, a salary debt to 644 employees amounted to 900 million rubles. The Arbitration Court of the Primorsky Territory introduced bankruptcy proceedings at the TMK.

The Instagram photo service added the opportunity to upload photos and videos in the proportions of a rectangle in addition to a square form, according to the official blog of the social network. Users can now publish, in particular, landscape (horizons) and portrait (vertical) pictures. The proportions of the width and length of the added content can be located in the interval from 1.91 to 1 to 4 to 5.

The mark of the hand of Mikhail Gorbachev on the Berlin Wall. Reuters / Hannibal Hanschke On August 25, it became known about Estonia's plans to erect the wall on most of the land border with Russia. The Department of Police and the Border Guard of the Republic reported the details: the fence two and a half meters high will be strengthened with barbed wire, video cameras and drones will be used, and more than six hundred border riotes will be placed in the water area of ​​Lake Peipsi.

The main stock index of China Shanghai Composite completed the auction on August 27 by 5.3%tall, rising to 3083 points. As the Associated Press indicates , the rise in the indicator has become the strongest over the past two months. On August 26, the People’s Bank of China, after completing the main exchange session, poured 140 billion yuan ($ 21.8 billion) into the financial system, CNBC reports .

Since October, the Government of the Moscow Region will block the access of officials to foreign messages and cloud services, the press service of the regional governor said . As specified, a technical blocking of access to such services from jobs will be introduced. It is not specified whether in the government they plan to prevent officials from using foreign messengers from mobile phones.

Sberbank bought the debts of Russian oil companies on syndicated loans of foreign banks for $ 1 billion, said Bloomberg, deputy chairman of the Bank of the Bank Maxim Poletaev. According to him, the bank redeemed this portfolio with a discount, and it will provide a good margin. Poletaev added that the transaction took place two weeks ago. Sberbank wanted to buy more, but banks refused to sell all the debt. Poletaev also said that other Russian banks were purchased part of the debts.

The American television network Discovery Communications and the National Media Group (NMG) agreed to create a joint venture "Media Alliance". It will manage, in particular, Russian -speaking versions of the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC and Eurosport television channels. This was reported on the official website of the NMG.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed to cancel the ban on the remote sale of alcohol. Notification of the preparation of the relevant government decree is published on the Unified Portal of Disclosure of Information. There is no text of the draft resolution yet. The materials to the document indicate that the withdrawal of the ban can positively affect the entire segment of the online trade in food products.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a decree on the protection of Ukrainian interests in the Crimea, thereby instructing the country's government to begin work on compensation for losses from the transition of the peninsula to the Russian Federation. This was reported on the website of the Ukrainian leader.

Class differences existing in our time are explained mainly by the difference in the quality of the resulting education ... F. Fukuyama. End of history and the last person, 1992 Every year on the eve of September 1 - Knowledge Day - articles and reports on the degradation of domestic education appear in the press.

The American state of Louisiana neutralized and arrested a man who opened fire in a mini-market at a gas station in the town of Sanset, the Bnonews portal reports . Two people became victims of shooting. According to the publication, the attacker resisted during the detention, but did not manage to shoot at the police. During the operation, the man was wounded.

The state prosecution requested 17 years in prison for the former State Duma deputy Mikhail Glushchenko, accused of complicity of organizing the murder of the parliamentarian Galina Starovotova, Interfax reports. After the request, he was hospitalized, the announcement of the sentence was postponed to August 28. Glushchenko’s defense asked him to be released from criminal liability.