Baza published an investigation into what the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko was doing shortly before his assassination. The publication claims that he interfered with the economic interests of businessman Sergei Kurchenko, who is close to the family of ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. Who is Kurchenko Before Maidan, Kurchenko owned assets in the fuel energy sector, including the Odessa Oil Refinery and a network of gas stations.

Navalny's poisoning becomes a real risk for the almost completed “northern stream-2” Alexei Navalny came out of a coma and begins to recover, and Russia's problems due to his poisoning are becoming more and more serious. Moscow hopes that the international scandal will not affect the North Stream-2 gas pipeline are not justified. The Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel today for the first time admitted that Germany would refuse to support an almost completed gas pipeline.

How to prevent ineffective infrastructure projects, under what conditions, robotization can contribute to the growth of employment and that in fact, Milton Friedman understood the responsibility of companies: our friends from Econs.online tell about the main blogs of economists.

US President Donald Trump said he would support the termination of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project due to the situation with Navalny. Trump made his statement during a press conference on Labor Day in the United States. According to Trump, with regard to the gas pipeline, Germany "is in a very weak position." He will "support the cancellation of Nord Stream 2 because of the Navalny case." “You didn’t hear about Nord Stream 2 until Trump came [to the White House],” he said.

Navalny’s poisoning became a “black swan” for the Nord Stream 2 project, which was already facing big problems. Today, German Chancellor Angela Merkel directly linked the fate of the project, worth at least $10 billion, with a serious investigation into what happened by the Russian authorities. What kind of project Nord Stream 2 with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters.

Alexei Navalny has recovered from a coma, is gradually disconnecting from the ventilator (ALV) and responding to verbal stimuli, the said today. Berlin-based Charite clinic “The patient has been brought out of an artificial coma and is being switched off from artificial lung ventilation. It responds to verbal stimuli. It is too early to judge the long-term consequences of severe poisoning, ”the clinic said in a statement.

The poisoning of Alexei Navalny (according to the German government - “novice”) is an event that will determine the political situation in Russia for a long time. What options are possible, at the request of The Bell, political scientist Kirill Rogov argues.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel supported Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who linked the fate of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with Russia's response to the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, writes Bloomberg .

In 2018, Vladimir Putin gave the idea to remove the exhibits of the main Russian museums (Tretyakovka, Hermitage) from the storerooms and open cultural complexes throughout the country on their base. Rosneftegaz undertook to finance the project from its legendary Kubyshka, but this year more than a hundred project employees were fired without even paying a salary. "Medusa" told the story of a staring presidential initiative.

Oil quotes fell to the levels of the end of July on the news that Saudi Arabia lowered October oil prices in Asian directions, writes Reuters. The price cut of Saudi Aramco oil for China in October will be $1.4 per barrel, which will mean a discount of 50 cents to the regional benchmark. The market was expecting a $1 decline and a 10-cent discount, notes , and interpreted the larger decline as an attempt to stimulate further demand.

On the Moscow Exchange, the euro exchange rate rose above 90 rubles (+0.89%) for the first time since February 2016, and the dollar broke through the bar of 76 rubles (+0.91%) for the first time since August 2020. The currency is reacting to a decline in the price of oil - the price of a barrel of Brent fell below $42 for the first time since July 30.

United Russia MP Anton Gorelkin asked the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to check Apple Corporation, which makes it difficult for Russian application developers to access their work environment. about this Writes "Kommersant". The deputy told the newspaper that Russian developers had repeatedly complained to him about the identity verification algorithm in the Apple system, without which it is impossible for an application to appear in the App Store online store.

One of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, a member of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council (CC), the founder (with Viktor Babariko) of the new party "Together" Maria Kolesnikova was abducted in the center of Minsk on Independence Avenue, Belarusian media . reported The Tut.by resource refers to a witness of the incident: “Not far from the museum, I saw a parked dark minibus with the inscription “Communication” on the side and the mark “Sobol” on the back.

The new law on the sale of alcohol has already led to problems for some suppliers of cognacs and wines. According to the new standards, the label of the drink must indicate the place of origin and the year of grape harvest, but this is not always possible, writes . RBC The new law “On viticulture and winemaking in the Russian Federation” came into force on June 26, 2020, and after that some producers started having problems with its implementation.

The Cypriot authorities compiled a list of recipients of “gold passports” from the risk group. Most are Russians, including five participants in the Forbes list The new investigation of the Cyprus program of Golden Passports, which was started by the government after the next scandal, threatens more and more Russians. The Cyprus newspaper Politis today published the list of 35 recipients of “Golden Passports” compiled by the authorities of the island, which were at risk.