The government approved a reduction in budget expenditures by almost trillion A large day of reduction in government expenses and the search for new money from taxpayers ended with the adoption of the budget for 2021–2023. The Ministry of Finance managed to approve the previously planned reduction in the expenses of unprotected budget items by 10%, and the programs of the purchase of weapons by 5%.

The Russian Embassy in Berlin sent a note to the German Foreign Ministry on providing consular access to Alexei Navalny, referring to the Vienna Convention, found out . Kommersant According to article 36 of the convention, consular officials can freely communicate with citizens of the sending state and have access to them, the newspaper writes.

The two crashes involving the Boeing 737 MAX model, which killed 346 people, were the result of egregious safety violations by Boeing and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the US House of Representatives panel concluded. After an 18-month investigation, the commission submitted its report. She emphasized that the crashes of the 737 MAX in Indonesia on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopia on March 10, 2019 are not due to a single failure or incorrect actions of the pilots.

Maria Kolesnikova, a member of the Coordinating Council of the Belarusian Opposition, has been charged with public calls to seize power, the investigative committee of the republic said. Under this article, the politician faces from 2 to 5 years in prison. The charge comes a week after Kolesnikova was detained at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border after an unsuccessful attempt to remove her from Belarus failed after Kolesnikova tore up her passport and refused to cross the border.

Music service Spotify accused Apple of uncompetitive behavior due to the release of a single subscription to Apple One services. The developer community will suffer irreparable damage, the company is confident. Apple One allows you to subscribe to multiple services at once, such as Apple Music (a Spotify competitor), Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade at a discounted price. this option Apple announced the day before.

The Ministry of Finance developed a “secret plan” to increase budget revenues, learned “Kommersant”: it is proposed to increase the tax on the extraction of some fertilizers and ores of non -ferrous metals by 3.5 times. Kommersant learned that on September 15, the Government Commission on Forever Activities discussed the draft amendments to the Tax Code. The main part of the project is devoted to amendments to the tax on additional income from hydrocarbons. These amendments were known.

The co-founder of the PandaPoc service, one of the most famous Belarusian technology entrepreneurs, Mikita Mikado, has suspended his project to help the resigned Belarusian security officials. In an interview with the BBC Russian Service, Mikita Mikado explained his decision by the pressure of the authorities on his employees in Belarus. In early September, four employees of the Minsk office of PandaDoc became defendants in a criminal case.

In Moscow, for the second day in a row, more than 700 new cases of coronavirus are detected - this is a record since the end of June. As of September 16, 750 infected people were registered in the capital, with a total of 5,670 new cases across the country. 750 cases in Moscow is a record daily increase in cases of coronavirus infection since June 30, when 745 infected were registered in the capital.

The new hero of the project "Russian norms!" - Producer, co -owner of the AmediaTeka service Alexander Akopov. He told Elizabeth Ossetian, when a dream factory appeared in Russia, how much the production of a good blockbuster costs and why, in his opinion, Alexei Navalny cannot be shown on federal channels. "Without state support, we would not have had commercial cinema" - Is cinema a business? - Yes. - Do you think that Russian cinema needs preferences? - I think not.

The American company Sandvine terminated the license agreement with the authorities of Belarus, accusing them of using its technology to violate human rights. Sandvine products were allegedly used to restrict access to thousands of websites during the protests. Custom code has been added to Sandvine's Internet traffic filtering technology to prevent free information during the protests, the company said in a statement cited by Bloomberg .

Despite only the autumn-winter season, the fashion network sells the remains-due to the pandemic of coronavirus and downtime, they now make up almost a third of the assortment in stores, the Fashion Consulting Group (FCG) reports.

Russians with high incomes, oil workers and smokers will pay for the losses of the Russian budget due to the pandemic and lower oil prices. The Ministry of Finance has published a program of so-called revenue mobilization within the framework of the budget for 2021-2023, which should give the state 1.8 trillion rubles.

Budget losses due to pandemia are compensated by rich, deposits, oil workers and smokers. For losses of the Russian budget, Russians with high incomes, oil workers and smokers will pay for oil prices and oil prices. The Ministry of Finance published a program of the so -called mobilization of income under the budget for 2021–2023, which should give the state 1.8 trillion rubles.

The budget expenditures due to the pandemic in the government want to compensate for the growth of excise taxes on cigarettes-at once by 20%, RBC writes . If the initiative of the Ministry of Finance is approved, the prices for cigarettes will grow sharply, and a third of the market will take counterfeit, the tobackers scare.