This Sunday, September 8, elections of various levels will be held in 19 regions of Russia. The election campaign is accompanied by scandals: in the capital, most independent candidates were not allowed to participate in the elections to the Moscow City Duma, in St. Petersburg, Acting Governor Alexander Beglov has virtually no competitors , and in the regions, pro-government candidates for governor declare their independence from United Russia, whose rating has collapsed .

With the trade war escalating and signs of an imminent recession in the US, investors fleeing emerging markets predictably flocked to defensive assets. The most traditional gold has risen in price by $120 in a month and for the first time since the spring of 2013 broke through $1,500 per ounce.

Against the background of crisis expectations, gold added $ 100 per month. Should Russian investors buy it? Against the backdrop of an exacerbation of the trade war and signs of the early beginning of the recession in the United States, investors running from developing markets were predictably rushed into protective assets. The most traditional - gold - went up in price by a month by $ 120 and for the first time since the spring of 2013 struck $ 1,500 per ounce.

Novaya Gazeta journalist, municipal deputy of the Khamovniki district Ilya Azar, was detained in Moscow. Quote. “I put the child to bed, went out to smoke on the balcony, three policemen came out of the stairwell and said that I was detained on February 20 [repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies]. They took me to the car right in home clothes and slippers. who is not even two years old, they don't care," the journalist wrote .

The largest deal in the insurance market for Russia - the merger of Sogaz and VTB Insurance under the brand of Gazprom's insurer Sogaz - brought benefits to Sogaz shareholders, Forbes writes . This is billionaire Yuri Kovalchuk, the president’s cousin Mikhail Shelomov and a former assistant to Igor Sechin, the publication writes.

The prosecutor requested the maximum sentence - six years in prison - for a blogger near Moscow, a defendant in the "Moscow case" Vladislav Sinitsa. He is accused under the "extremist" article 282 - "Incitement of hatred or enmity, writes . " Mediazona The meeting in the Presnensy District Court was held in the format of a judicial investigation.

Cyprus repaid ahead of schedule and in full the loan provided by Russia in 2011 to overcome the consequences of the financial crisis. Quote. “The Russian loan of 1.58 billion euros has recently been fully repaid. Cyprus can easily finance its needs by borrowing from international markets,” Cyprus Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Monday. Money.

Vladimir Putin criticized Sberbank for its unwillingness to help flood victims in the Irkutsk region and restructure their debts, writes TASS . Assistance to borrowers was discussed at a meeting in Tulun, where the president visited for the third time in recent months. Quote: “It’s bad that they refuse to meet people who find themselves in a difficult life situation. For such a bank with such revenues, record-breaking in the country as a whole, this is, in general, a frivolous question.

Damage from Hurricane Dorian will be between $25 billion and $40 billion, making it the most expensive hurricane in recent years, Bloomberg writes , citing a forecast by UBS Group analysts. The damage depends on how quickly Dorian reaches the so-called "space coast" of Florida, where NASA and the Air Force have spaceports and launch sites, as well as the sites of SpaceX, Blue Origin and other private companies. Dorian has already been called the most powerful hurricane of recent decades.

For half of 2019, the Russian online trading market grew by a quarter, during this time the Russians made 191 million orders - almost the same as in the whole of 2016, Vedomosti writes, citing Data Insight analysts . This means that in Russia this segment began to grow at a rate above the world. Details.

The owner of the Summa group, Ziyavudin Magomedov, who has been under arrest since last spring, offered to pay for the construction of a gym in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center and provide equipment for it left over from an unrealized wrestling club project, Kommersant . writes What's happened. Ziyavudin Magomedov offered to build a gym in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center with his own money. The idea was prompted by problems with the spine, aggravated by a lack of activity.

The government decided to abandon the fourth largest after the St. Petersburg, Eastern and investment forum in Sochi, the Russian Economic Forum - Krasnoyarsk (KEF), writes RBC. The forum, which has been held for more than 15 years, will be replaced by forums of national projects. They will take place in different regions.

The Nikulinsky Court of Moscow did not satisfy the claim of the prosecutor's office, without depriving the Chomsky family of their parental rights for participating in an uncoordinated action on August 3 with their children. Nevertheless, the court issued a warning to the couple of Peter and Elena Chomsky about the need to change their attitude towards children. Quote.

The trade war between the US and China is forcing investors to shift into defensive assets and, first of all, they run into gold, writes Bloomberg. Since the beginning of the year, it has risen in price by 20%. The price of December futures for gold on Monday on the New York Comex rose by 0.15% to $1522.68 per troy ounce. This is almost 20% higher than the quotes at the beginning of the year. In August, the price of an ounce of gold increased by $100.

The funded part of the pension of Russians, frozen since 2014, will become even less like a pension: the new initiative of the de facto authorities makes it a one-time payment for most future pensioners, writes RBC. What happened. The Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) proposed to raise the threshold amount of pension savings by 2.4 times, below which the pensioner will receive the entire amount at a time, and not in the form of monthly payments.