The Ministry of Finance proposed reducing allocations for the state armaments program (SAP) for 2021–2023 by 5%, writes RBC. This is stated in the methodology for distributing budget allocations published on July 20 as one of the ways to balance the budget. A 5% reduction in the state program was discussed at a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on July 7, the publication writes.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 84, has been hospitalized with an inflamed gallbladder, reported state news agency SPA . Now the monarch is undergoing a medical examination, details about his condition are not reported. Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has been King of Saudi Arabia since January 2015. Since 2011, he was the Minister of Defense, before that, for 48 years, he was the governor of the province of Riyadh.

The Khabarovsk governor, instead of Sergei Furgal, will be Mikhail Degtyarev, the author of the project for the ban on the dollar and the renovation of five -story buildings For almost two weeks in the Kremlin, they came up with whom to appoint the new head of the Khabarovsk Territory in order to simultaneously extinguish protests, not to offend Vladimir Zhirinovsky and not lose control of the region.

Almost two weeks after the arrest of Khabarovsk Governor Sergei Furgal, President Vladimir Putin removed him from office and appointed 39-year-old LDPR State Duma deputy Mikhail Degtyarev as acting head of the Amur Region. The Bell explains who he is and what to expect from him. From fencing to the LDPR He was born in 1981 in Samara (Kuibyshev), where he graduated from the aerospace lyceum and aerospace university (former Kuibyshev Aviation Institute).

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The Moscow Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has filed a case against Simple (Simple Company LLC). One of the largest wine importers and distributors in Russia is suspected of illegally advertising the delivery of alcoholic products. The FAS was contacted by the recipients of the SimpleWine online showcase mailing list: their email addresses received an advertisement that offered to buy alcohol “without leaving home”.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, reacted to his inclusion in the US State Department sanctions list of a photo in an arsenal with Kalashnikov machine guns in each hand. "Pompeo, we're taking the fight! Further it will be more interesting!” — he wrote in Telegram. Today, the US State Department blacklisted Kadyrov for his involvement in a serious human rights violation. Together with him, his wife Medni Kadyrova and daughters Aishat and Khadizhat were included in the list.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law abolishing the special procedure for the court in serious cases. By petitioning for a special procedure and fully agreeing with the prosecution, the accused can expect that the judge will not impose on him a punishment of more than two-thirds of the maximum under the article. His case is considered without trial, and the convict loses the right to appeal the verdict. Now a special procedure is applied only in criminal cases of small and medium gravity.

навальThe most discussed topic on Moscow social media this week was a spat between opposition leader Alexei Navalny and top investigative reporter Ivan Golunov. The disagreement is the latest battle in a long-running conflict between Navalny and a group of prominent journalists. Navalny alleges that many journalists have an inflated opinion of themselves, that they only care about their own, and that their profession is outdated.

Last week saw a series of high profile arrests, this week came the protests. Most significantly, there were big demonstrations over multiple days in the Far East city of Khabarovsk after the detention of local governor Sergei Furgal. There were smaller protests in Moscow. Khabarovsk has seen daily protests this week, but the biggest took place Saturday, the first weekend after Furgal’s arrest .

Politician Alexei Navalny announced the closure of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) due to a lawsuit from Moscow Schoolboy, a company associated with "Putin's chef" Yevgeny Prigozhin, for 88 million rubles. “Our name is dear to us, but, as I have said many times: FBK is not an office or a piece of paper from the Ministry of Justice. FBK is people,” the oppositionist claims.

President Vladimir Putin appointed Acting Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, State Duma Deputy (LDPR) Mikhail Degtyarev. Sergei Furgal was removed from office due to loss of confidence. At a meeting with Putin (via video link), Degtyarev said that he was ready to urgently fly to Khabarovsk. He named the sustainable work of the regional government, preparation for the heating season and the fight against coronavirus as priorities.

The OPEC+ deal, which limited oil production, was the main factor in the decline in industrial production in Russia in June (yoy). Of the minus 9.4% drop of 6 p.p. to the annual figure fell precisely on it, analysts of Raiffeisenbank calculated. According to Rosstat, in June, industrial production in annual terms decreased by 9.4% after a decline of 9.6% in May.

Assistant Minister of Health Alexei Kuznetsov told RIA Novosti that only volunteers of the Ministry of Defense received the drug for coronavirus. So he commented on the Bloomberg report that representatives of the business and political elites gained access to the vaccine back in April. “The vaccine did not enter civilian circulation,” Kuznetsov emphasized.

President Putin has not been vaccinated against the coronavirus, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today. “No, it [the vaccine] is not certified yet. Still, it’s probably not very good for the head of state to use an uncertified vaccine, ”Peskov said. It is too early to talk about vaccination in Russia, he noted, and when a proven vaccine appears, people from risk groups will be the first to receive it.