Only 7% of Russians have no complaints about the actions of the authorities. Such data is followed from the Levada Center survey. A significant number of Russians - more than 40% - blames the government in that it cannot control the increase in prices and the fall of income from the population. The number of Russians who are convinced that the government is corrupt and acts primarily in its own interests is also growing.

As a result of the earthquake in the central part of Italy, at least 120 people died. According to Reuters, this was stated by Prime Minister of the country Matteo Renzi. Only 368 people were injured only in the cities of Akkumoli and Akatrich, which are in the immediate vicinity of the epicenter of the earthquake. On August 25, a special meeting of the government of the country will be held, at which problems will be discussed related to overcoming the consequences of a natural disaster.

Vladimir Putin instructed to conduct a sudden test of combat readiness of the armed forces. As TASS reports , the defense minister Sergei Shoigu stated this. “Today, in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces, another sudden check has begun.

French fashion designer Sonya Rickel, founder of the fashion house Sonia Rykiel died in Paris in 87 years of life, reports Le Figaro. The last few years of life, Rickel has suffered from Parkinson's disease. The place and time of the funeral of the fashion designer has not yet been named. At the age of 17, Rickel settled down at her first job as a window designer of one of the textile stores. In 1962, she made the first sweaters and clothes for pregnant women.

The man who seized the hostages in the Bank of the Bank in the center of Moscow was taken by the employees of the Federal Security Service for interrogation, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to him, the invader had a bomb dummy. The source did not rule out that the FSB would further investigate the case. He specified that the invader could avoid criminal punishment, as he surrendered himself.

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The Aksaisky Court of the Rostov Region arrested two more participants in the “Tractor Marsh” to Moscow, the “Caucasian Knot” reports with reference to the member of the Public Supervisory Commission of the Krasnodar Territory Olga Golubyatnikov. Oleg Petrov and Nikolai Maslov were sentenced to administrative arrest for 10 days. The day before, activist Sergei Vladimirov received the same period. Over the past day, the court examined the cases of 12 participants in the Tractor Marsh.

The Director of the Property Department of the Ministry of Culture, Boris Mazo, pleaded guilty to the “Restorer case”. This was told by his lawyer Alexei Kupriyanov during a meeting in the Moscow City Court, Interfax reports. He also said that Mazo had concluded a deal with the investigation.

Illegal clothing and shoes are about a third of the Russian market. This was told by the director of the Department of Development of Internal Trade, Light Industry and the Consumer Market of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Pak, TASS reports. “The market of clothing and shoes in Russia is in second place after food, it is about 3.7 trillion rubles.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow accepted the lawsuit of the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin to the Novaya Gazeta, reports Echo of Moscow with reference to the press service of the court. Pre -trial preparation in the lawsuit will be held on September 8. The parties will express their position, the court will appoint a day of consideration on the merits, specified in the Basmanny Court of Moscow.

Today, the trade representative of Ukraine Natalia Mikolskaya said that Livanov’s appointment by the new special representative of the President for the development of trade and economic relations with Ukraine will not force Kyiv to withdraw claims against Russia in the WTO. Meanwhile, the WTO recently issued the second decision against the Russian Federation, this time against restrictions on the supply of pork from the countries of the European Union.

The shareholder of the Russian Bank Nikolai Shamalov and his son, the co -owner of Sibura, Kirill Shamalov, who is considered the son -in -law of Vladimir Putin, entered the ten richest family clans of Russia. In the Forbes rating, the Shamalov family takes fourth place. The publication estimates Kirill Shamalov’s condition of $ 2.3 billion, $ 1.1 billion more than six months ago. Nikolai Shamalov has assets in the amount of $ 100 million, according to the publication.

International observers from the Bureau for Democratic Institutes and Human Rights OSCE and the Mission from the CIS will not be present in the Crimea in the elections to the State Duma. As Interfax reports, a member of the CEC Vasily Likhachev announced this. Likhachev told what such a statement was done by the head of the Bureau Jan Peterson.

The Russian economy is still stuck at the bottom. Such a conclusion follows from the new report of the Higher School of Economics entitled “Comments on the State and Business”. The trend for reducing indicators of economic activity is still relevant. As stated in the report, internal private demand grew by 0.6%in July. It looks modest against the background of a fall by almost 3% over three previous months.

Rosfinmonitoring proposed to oblige banks and non -credit organizations to inform the authorities about “public officials”. We are talking about Russian officials and politicians who are associated with foreign and international organizations recognized as undesirable in Russia. This provision is contained in the draft order of the department published on the portal of draft regulations.