The dollar broke through the 67 ruble mark - and this despite rising oil prices. Investors are fleeing emerging markets, and this could be for a long time Fears of a global recession and uncertainty due to the trade war between the United States and China are beginning to truly reach Russia - if in early August the ruble became cheaper against the backdrop of falling oil, now it is against the backdrop of rising oil. The dollar exchange rate today briefly broke through the level of 67 rubles/$.

The set of evidence about the radiation accident on August 8 near Severodvinsk is expanding: RFERL has published a video of a conversation between an unnamed military man and residents of the village of Nenoks about the incident. The video was posted on a local resource on Saturday, so it went unnoticed. Quote. “Here there was work on checking one of the rocket engines. But this rocket engine is powered by nuclear isotopes. There was an emergency situation and as a result of the explosion.

The Pentagon officially announced the testing of a ground-based cruise missile with an intermediate range of more than 500 km. The US held them less than seven months after the US and Russia suspended the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which bans ranges from 500 to 5,500 km. From the moment of testing, the contract can be considered dead de facto. What happened.

Putin spoke for the first time about mass protests in Moscow - before that, outlined the president's position, saying that there is "certainly" nothing out of the ordinary in the rallies, and the Kremlin does not coordinate the reaction of the security forces, but considers their actions justified. Dmitry Peskov What happened. For the first time, Putin has personally commented on the protests in Moscow.

Ordinary shares of "Lukoil" today at the maximum rose in price by almost 6% to the level of closing the previous trading - up to 5282 rubles. for paper. Lukoil announced that it was buying back shares under the buy back program at 5.45 thousand rubles. for paper until August 28. Shareholders offered almost 82.9 million shares for redemption.

GDP growth in July accelerated to 1.7% on an annualized basis after 0.8% in June this year, according to the "Business Picture" of the Ministry of Economic Development. The statistics for July shows a recovery in GDP growth after the first half of the year. For seven months of the year, GDP growth is estimated at 0.9%, in the second quarter growth also amounted to 0.9%.

On Monday, August 19, the dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange exceeded 67 rubles for the first time in six months. The movement of the rate is associated with the flight of investors from risks in all emerging markets due to the trade conflict between the US and China and the events in Argentina. The ruble is losing ground similarly to the currencies of developing countries.

The united editorial office of RBC (which includes the rbc.ru website and the RBC newspaper) has changed leadership : instead of the co-heads of the editorial office, Igor Trosnikov and Elizaveta Golikova, it will be headed by Pyotr Kanaev. The former Editor-in-Chief of RNS and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Economic Service of TACC, since 2017, has served as First Deputy Co-Head of the united editorial office of RBC.

The largest manufacturer of wiretapping equipment for the "Yarovaya Law" - the holding company "Citadel", associated with Alisher Usmanov's partner Anton Cherepennikov, invested in the startup "Bastion" of the 23-year-old son of the head of the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB Sergei Korolev, the "Russian Service of the BBC" found out .

On Monday, the State Duma, which is on vacation, held an extraordinary council to discuss the issue of foreign interference in the internal affairs of Russia in connection with the Moscow protests, as well as the problem of news aggregators, which deputies consider to be spreading fake news . What's happened. The issue of aggregators, which primarily concerns Yandex.News, was decided to be postponed until autumn for consultations.

The general director of the Rostec state corporation, Sergei Chemezov, linked the mass protests in Moscow not with external influence, but with the irritation that has accumulated in society. He stated this in an announced interview with RBC. Quote. “Obviously people are very angry and that’s not good for anyone. In general, my civic position is this: the presence of a healthy opposition is for the benefit of any body, representative assembly and, ultimately, the state.

Transneft asked the government to give it control over all points of delivery of oil to the system and develop a unified certification of laboratories that analyze the quality of oil. It was proposed to Rosstandart and Rostekhnadzor to do this, according to the government website . Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev supported the idea. What do the oilmen want?

Budget expenditures for the first half of this year were executed by only 42.5% (an anti-record for 7 years), for national projects the figure is even lower - about a third, head of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin said on Twitter, presenting the joint venture report. It follows from this that the additional budget revenues from the MET and the VAT increase for the half year (770 billion rubles) almost equaled the balance of unused state funds for 2018 (760 billion rubles).

The Ministry of Economic Development proposed, instead of a new toll road Moscow-Kazan, to build a highway only to Vladimir, and then to reconstruct the existing M7 Moscow-Ufa highway, Vedomosti found out . This will reduce the costs of the project by half (from 539 billion rubles to 279 billion rubles), the department believes.

The government recommended that schools limit the use of mobile devices - the recommendations have already been sent to the regions, the press service of the Ministry of Education reported. They explained that 61% of students, 89% of parents and 90% of teachers supported limiting the use of mobile phones by schoolchildren during lessons. Quote.