In Ukraine, an An-26 military aircraft crashed near Kharkov - there were cadets on board who were conducting a training flight. The plane was carrying military pilots and cadets of the Kharkiv Kozhedub Air Force University. There were 23 people on board (5 crew members and 18 cadets). As of 22:00, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported 20 dead and two seriously injured.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) will be held in 2021 not in Davos, but at another site, which one is still unknown. In the entire history of the forum, he moved from Davos only once - after the September 11 attacks. in a letter to the Swiss newspaper Davoser Zeitung that the forum would change its venue for a year .

Estimated damage caused by a fuel spill at Norilsk Nickel's thermal power plant in Norilsk increased by 43 billion, reaching 191.5 billion rubles, writes RBC. The All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO) has calculated that 40 billion rubles will be required to restore aquatic biological resources in the fuel spill area, and the company will have to reimburse another 3.5 billion to the state as compensation for those water resources that are irretrievably lost .

The Moscow authorities have clarified who should observe the home regime from September 28. At the same time, they will not be fined for leaving the house, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin promised. Restaurants and cafes are also not planning to close yet.

Russian airlines may resume flights to the Czech Republic from October 1, TASS reports citing sources. According to them, Aeroflot plans to operate two flights a week from Moscow to Prague. As a source close to the directorate of the international airport of the Czech capital told the agency, Aeroflot plans to start operating flights to Prague from October 1. Flights will be carried out twice a week - on Thursdays and Saturdays, the TASS interlocutor says.

The dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange exceeded 78 rubles. Euro costs more than 91 rubles. The ruble is falling on news of an increase in the number of new cases of coronavirus infection and rumors of a new lockdown in Moscow. The dollar rose by 1.13% over the day, to 78.01 rubles (as of 16:49 Moscow time). This is the highest value since April 2, 2020. The euro exchange rate added 0.78%. The last time the euro cost more than 91 rubles was in February 2016.

VTB will pay shareholders at the end of 2019 only 10% of the bank's net profit, or 20.12 billion rubles. The state bank's payments will be 20 times less than Sberbank's dividend payments. Initially, VTB planned, like Sberbank, to pay 50% of net profit under IFRS, but in early August it adjusted plans, reducing them to 10%. The dividend yield on VTB shares will eventually amount to only 1.9% instead of the planned 9.7%.

The Kremlin and the Security Council have joined the intensive work mode before the American elections: Russia is alarmed by Joe Biden's growing popularity and in case of its victory can even urgently hold early parliamentary elections, writes Bloomberg.

In the work of the Telegram messenger at about 13:45 Moscow time, a large-scale failure occurred in several countries at once. Problems in the work of the messenger were observed for about 20 minutes. According to the Downdetector website, Telegram malfunctions were observed in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and some European countries. Most often, users complained about the inability to connect and send a message.

UC Rusal, co-owned by Oleg Deripaska, has completed the process of re-registration from Jersey Island to Oktyabrsky Island in the Kaliningrad Region and has become the 33rd resident of the "Russian offshore". In Kaliningrad and Vladivostok, special administrative regions (SARs) were created in 2018, initially to change the jurisdiction of Russian international companies that fell under sanctions.

Russia and the United States must mutually guarantee non-interference in each other's internal affairs, including elections, including with the use of information technology, Vladimir Putin believes. The statement was published on the Kremlin website. Putin suggested that the United States approve a comprehensive program for a practical reset of relations between countries in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT).

Sberbank will pay record dividends for 2019 - 50% of net profit under IFRS, a total of 422.4 billion rubles, according to a report from the state bank. At the end of 2018, Sberbank allocated RUB 361.4 billion for dividends, or 43.5% of IFRS net profit.

Sberbank President German Gref said in an interview with Kommersant that he does not expect 2021 to be worse than the current one. This year, the bank decided to pay shareholders a record dividend for 2019. Gref noted that "there is no second bank in the world, no second company in general, which in a period of such turbulence would allow itself dividends of 423 billion rubles." “So far, nothing suggests that 2021 will be worse than 2020,” Gref answered a question about dividends for 2020.

The Russian company NtechLab, which provided the Moscow mayor's office with facial recognition technology to search for quarantine violators, has launched similar systems in ten more large Russian cities, found out . Kommersant While we are talking about a pilot mode, the company did not name specific cities, with the exception of Nizhny Novgorod. In any case, this means that the system has not yet covered all million-plus cities.

French President Emmanuel Macron was furious after Putin's attempt to explain the circumstances of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny during a telephone conversation last week. The Russian president, among other things, said that the oppositionist could have poisoned himself to discredit Russia, writes Business Insider. The explanation for Navalny's poisoning sharply angered Macron, who usually refrains from confronting Russia directly, French intelligence sources told the publication.