The sharp escalation of the trade war between the US and China is the main worrying news in the world. Donald Trump on Monday accused China of manipulating the yuan, investors panicked and began to shift into defensive assets. For Russia, which, fearing sanctions, was actively shifting gold reserves into yuan, the devaluation should also have been an unpleasant surprise. What's happened?

The main world news is a sharp deterioration in affairs on the American-Chinese front Photo: Flickr The sharp escalation of the trade war between the United States and China is today the main alarming world news. Donald Trump accused China of manipulating the Yuan course, investors panicked and began to transfer to protective assets. For Russia, which, fearing sanctions, actively shifted the STR in the yuan, the devaluation also had to be an unpleasant surprise.

On Monday, August 5, the euro continued to strengthen against the ruble and reached a maximum in almost a month and a half. As of 20:00 Moscow time, the European currency was worth 73.2 rubles, while at the close of trading on Friday it was worth 72.47 rubles. The dollar remained below Friday's closing levels (65.27 rubles) all day and only after 19.30 Moscow time reached 65.4 rubles.

Russian developer ABBYY has bought the American company TimelinePI, the creator of a platform for analyzing and optimizing business processes, Vedomosti reports . The parties have not disclosed the amount of the deal, but experts estimate it at $20 million. Philadelphia-based TimelinePI was founded in 2015. Its know-how is real-time business process assessment, including risk and employee productivity.

The authorities of the city of Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, located 10 km from the burning ammunition depot in the village of Kamenka, are asking residents to prepare for a partial evacuation. Quote. “The area of ​​possible destruction includes areas with a total population of about 11,000 people. These areas are being evacuated,” a source in the city administration told Interfax. “Attention to the residents of the city of Achinsk.

Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Defense and the Foreign Ministry to provide a mirror response to the US deployment of systems that violate the defunct Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Putin held the United States fully responsible for breaking the treaty. Last week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed the destruction of the INF Treaty solely on Russia, which allegedly violated it for many years.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow on Monday, August 5, arrested three more participants in the rally on July 27 in support of independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma. Vladislav Barabanov, Daniil Konon and Sergei Abanichev were arrested until September 27 and will spend two months in jail, like the six previous defendants in the case. The investigation accuses all those arrested of participating in mass riots (part 2 of article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

US President Donald Trump today called the decision of the People's Bank of China to depreciate the yuan "almost to a historic low" a "serious violation" and urged the Fed to take a closer look. China's decision to weaken the currency by 229 basis points, to almost 7 yuan per dollar, is a new escalation in the trade conflict with the United States, writes Bloomberg.

A fire with explosions breaks out at a large ammunition depot in the village of Kamenka near the city of Achinsk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the villagers are being evacuated, the Interfax-Siberia news agency reported, citing the unified duty dispatch service of the Achinsk region. The warehouse with more than 70 hangars is located in close proximity to the village of Kamenka and 10 km from the center of Achinsk. of powerful explosions have appeared on social networks Videos .

Financier Aleksey Frenkel, convicted in 2008 as the customer behind the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov, intends to testify about the involvement of the Magomedov brothers in contract killings and money laundering. This was reported by RBC with reference to Frenkel's lawyer Eduard Gladilin. Details.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow placed under arrest until September 27 Vladislav Barabanov, accused in the case of the July 27 riots, reports TASS . Later, on August 5, the court will begin considering the investigation's petition for the arrest of three more people - Sergei Abanichev, Sergei Fomin and Daniil Konon. Barabanov is 22 years old, he comes from Nizhny Novgorod.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations suggests that the human factor has become the cause of most natural fires in the regions with the most severe situation. This is indicated by the localization of outbreaks near roads, the ministry writes.

In early July, the High Court of London arrested the property of businessman Boris Mintz and his three sons around the world for $572 million. The claims of Trust Bank , which accumulates bad debts of banks sanitized by the Central Bank, and Otkritie are related to fraudulent actions on the part of Mintz on the eve of the bank's reorganization "Discoveries" and "Bank Growth".

Now in the Sberbank Online application it will be possible to pay for purchases via QR codes instead of cards: from August 5, the service began to scale throughout the country, the service will be fully available in all regions by the end of summer, RBC writes . Details. To make a purchase, a Sberbank customer can use the app to scan a QR code placed at the checkout, and cashiers, in turn, will receive information about the payment in the Sberbank Business Online mobile app.

The database of 70,000 Binbank clients is sold online for 5 rubles per person, reported Kommersant , citing DeviceLock, which develops programs to protect against data leaks. The leak was made at the stage of the temporary administration introduced into the bank. The leak occurred due to a vulnerability that DeviceLock reported to Binbank in the spring.