The US dollar and the euro are growing on the Moscow Exchange, the ruble increased the decline to the dollar and the euro after the reports that the US senators have prepared a bill on the introduction of new sanctions against Russia, Interfax reports. The US dollar amount amounted to 63.39 rubles ./ $ 1 at 19:00 in Moscow, which is 34.5 kopecks above the closing of previous trading. The euro cost 73.61 rubles/EUR1, rising to 10 kopecks.

Some of the fountains in St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad were disconnected on the day of the Airborne Forces on August 2. It is reported by Interfax. The press service of the State Unitary Enterprise Vodokanal St. Petersburg reported that the fountains were disabled on Moscow Square and in the Alexander Garden. It is clarified that they stopped working at the request of the district administrations.

The Savelovsky Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of the top manager of the Urban Group Andrei Puchkov. According to TASS, he is accused of abuse of powers that resulted in grave consequences. Puchkov was the general director of the Urban Group (is one of the largest builders of the Moscow Region), as well as the Ivastroy company, which was part of it. He left his post in April 2018. Earlier, Kommersant wrote that a criminal case was opened against the leadership of the Ivastroy company.

France Minister of Culture Francoise Nissen awarded the title of commander of the Order of Arts and Literature to Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov. This was reported by the French radio station RFI. “In accordance with the decree signed on Thursday, the Minister of Culture of France Francoise Nissen, Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, who is under house arrest in Moscow, becomes the commander of the Order of Arts and Literature during the year,” the report said.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, his son, deputy Igor Lebedev and deputy chairman of the party faction in the State Duma, Money were victims of hackers from the LURK group. It is reported by Znak.com with reference to several sources in the law enforcement agencies and a lawyer of one of the participants in the process over hackers. According to them, the hackers stole more than 4 million rubles from Zhirinovsky, his son had 99 million rubles, and the money - almost 1.7 million euros.

The UN police conducted a ballistic examination in the case of the murder of journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, operator Kirill Radchenko and director Alexander Rastorguev, but cannot open their bodies, Mediazona reports with reference to a source in the Central African Republic, familiar with the course of the investigation. According to the source, the autopsy cannot be carried out due to the fact that the UN does not have the necessary specialists.

The behavior of the Trump administration in relation to the aluminum company Oleg Deripaska looks like a sign of inexplicable surrender to Russia, writes in The New York Times Seth Hitten. The Insider offers a complete translation of the article. Even now, when new evidence is emerging that someone, most likely, in Russia, again intervenes in the American elections, about at least one of the closest Russian oligarchs closest to Vladimir Putin can be forgotten.

Journalists killed in Central Africa were warned of the danger of the selected route. According to RBC, the Minister of Information of the country told about this. According to him, the journalists before death resisted attempts to pick up the car.

US senators submitted a bill on new sanctions against Russia in response to the Kremlin’s intervention in the American elections, the annexation of Crimea, as well as a policy in Syria, Reuters reported . The bill was proposed by senators Lindsay Graham, Bob Menendes, Core Gardner, Ben Cardin, John McCain and Gene Shahin.

The Investigation Center finds out the reasons why Orhan Jemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko in the Central African Republic refused to escort and chose just such a route. This was announced on Facebook by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is the sponsor of the Russian Mercenaries project, within the framework of which a trip was organized. “As for safety. It would be strange for my part to impose a solution to this problem with professional military commissars with extensive experience.

The jury of the Non -Great Cinema Prize "Lavra Branch" posthumously awarded the award for his contribution to the film, director Alexander Rastorguev, who was killed in the Central African Republic, reports Rain. The Council of the Prize made this decision unanimously. The prize laureate in this nomination was supposed to name the “these days”, the documentary statement said. The award ceremony will be held on December 12 on the closing day of the Artdokfest documentary movie festival.

The Strand Magazine magazine will publish the previously not published the story of the American writer Ernest Hemingway, “The Garden Room”. It is reported by Associated Press. The events described in the 1956 story unfold during the Second World War in Paris. At the time of Hemingway's suicide in 1961, many of his works remained unrelated.

The examined bodies of the Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic of Russian journalists did not find traces of torture on them. According to Interfax, this said the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova.

The arrested head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow Region Alexander Shestun for the fourth day holds a hunger strike in the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center. According to Interfax, an employee of the socio-observation commission Yevgeny Enikeev said this. According to him, Shestun protests against refusing to certify the power of attorney in the name of his wife to submit documents to the election commission, as well as preventive measures in the form of arrest.

Citizens of Ukraine Fedor Khladir, Dmitry Fedorov and Andrei Kolpakov were arrested on charges of complicity of cyber tide for American companies. This was reported by the Ministry of Justice of the United States. The detainees are presumably members of a hacker group, known as Fin7. According to the Ministry of Justice, more than 100 American companies, including restaurants, gaming and hotel businesses, suffered from the actions of the 2015 group.