Today in the US Senate 5 hours discussed Russia's intervention in elections and new sanctions. No decisions have been made yet, but from the interrogation that the senators arranged for the representative of the US Ministry of Finance, we can conclude: in one form or another, the law on new sanctions against Russia will be adopted. One of the authors of the new sanctions bill, Senator Bob Menendes interrogates the representative of the US Ministry of Finance.

"How to put the Russian economy on your knees?" - The US Senate discussed new sanctions and remained extremely dissatisfied with the old Meeting of the US Congress. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Today in the US Senate 5 hours discussed Russia's intervention in elections and new sanctions.

On Tuesday, parliamentary hearings on pension reform were held for the first time in the State Duma (detailed online broadcasts were conducted by Meduza and Vedomosti ). Deputies, ministers, economists, representatives of trade unions and public organizations (there were so many people that some participants in the hearings sat right on the steps) discussed raising the retirement age for 4.5 hours.

Officials disagreed on how much it is necessary to increase tariffs for housing and communal services in connection with the increase in VAT. Earlier, the Ministry of Economic Development proposed to increase tariffs by 4.3% in two stages - by 1.7% from January 1, 2019 and by 2.4% from July 1, 2019. But the Ministry of Energy does not agree with the department and advocates an even greater increase in tariffs - by 5.7%.

Moscow officials proposed to fine and block carpooling services (BlaBlaCar, Yandex.Putka and BeepCar) for violations of the law, for example, if aggregators refuse to transfer data about drivers to the authorities or block their accounts on demand. Details There are such proposals in the new draft law on the regulation of carpooling (shared car rides), which was developed by the Moscow Department of Transport (available to Kommersant ).

National Media Group (NMG), Gazprom-Media and Channel One – that is, all the largest Russian TV channels except those that are part of VGTRK – have removed online broadcasts of their content from the Yandex main page. They say the search engine’s insufficiently active fight against pirated content in its search results is the reason. Yandex counters that it has not received any official claims regarding pirated content.

Microsoft claims that "Russian hackers" associated with the GRU have found a new target - centers of expertise associated with the US Republican Party. We are talking about institutions that criticize the policies of President Donald Trump and advocate increased sanctions against Russia. about it .

After a week-long pause, the Central Bank resumed the purchase of foreign currency for the Ministry of Finance, which was suspended on August 9, during a sharp fall in the ruble. The ruble reacted to the news by falling. Details On August 17, the Central Bank purchased foreign currency for 17.5 billion rubles. This was preceded by the cessation of the purchase of foreign currency from 9 August.

Today, the US Senate will discuss new sanctions against Russia - and he will have a new reason to talk about “Russian hackers”. A new week of sanctions begins on the Russian market - tonight in the Senate will discuss bills on new anti -Russian measures, and tomorrow the first sanctions for the poisoning of the Skripals come into force.

US President Donald Trump will only consider lifting sanctions against Russia if Russia cooperates with the US on issues such as Syria and Ukraine, the US leader said in an interview with Reuters. Details The statement was made in response to a question during an interview. Trump, first of all, has repeatedly stressed that now he is “not at all considering” the issue of lifting sanctions on Russia.