Despite the surge of sympathy for the USSR and the yearning for a "strong hand" experienced by the country, work to perpetuate the memory of the victims of Stalin's repressions continues and even expands. True, it is now being carried out not so much by the state as by private individuals and public organizations. The importance of this work is evidenced by the fact that efforts to preserve memory, as a rule, grow into important and socially significant phenomena.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has instructed the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs to hold urgent consultations in the "Normandy format" at the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "I instructed Minister Pavlo Klimkin to hold urgent consultations at the level of the Foreign Ministries of the Normandy Four countries on the development of the situation in Donbas," Poroshenko wrote on his Twitter account on Monday, August 10.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry assessed the night battle near the village of Starohnativka in the Volnovakha district of the Donetsk region as a sign of escalation of the situation in Donbass and intends to inform the countries of the "Normandy Four", the EU and NATO about the aggravation of the situation.

August 10, 2015, 11:23 am / Business Sakhalin Energy's net profit increased in the first quarter by 48.8% to 47.2 billion rubles Vedomosti project The Sakhalin-2 is also still the subject of disagreement between Gazprom and Rosneft. Rosneft . planned to build the Far Eastern LNG plant in the south of Sakhalin and transport up to 8 billion cubic meters m of gas per year from three northern fields, for this it needs access to the Sakhalin-2 gas transportation system.

The Investigative Committee reported that the investigation into the plane crash over the Istra Reservoir is under the control of the Investigative Committee leadership. According to updated data from the investigation, nine people, including two minors, died in the collision of the Cessna seaplane and the Robinson 44 helicopter; the bodies of eight were found. The investigation believes that the main version of the incident is pilot error.

In Russia, Leonid Slutsky proved everything to everyone, winning the national championship, the Russian Cup and the Russian Super Cup twice with CSKA, including making a golden double – winning both the championship and the national Cup in one season – something that only three coaches have managed to do before him in the 23-year history of Russian football – Oleg Romantsev, Valery Gazzaev and Luciano Spalletti. In Russia, the national team is the peak of a football coach's career.

August 10, 2015, 00:30 / Finance Unicredit exchanged a Ukrainian bank for a share in the banking business of Alfa Group This deal could be the beginning of closer cooperation between Alpha and the Italian group Daria Borisyak Natalia Biyanova Alfa Bank may become the largest foreign bank in Ukraine / E.

August 10, 2015, 00:38 / Business Warren Buffett prepares for biggest takeover For Precision Castparts, a supplier to Boeing and Airbus, he can pay more than $30 billion Tatyana Bochkareva Buffett believes that for the company's reliability it is worth constantly having a $20 billion cash pot, and he is ready to spend the rest / Mary Altaffer / AP Buffett's company may announce the takeover of Precision Castparts as early as this week, WSJ and Bloomberg report, citing sources.

A selection of the most interesting publications in the publications co-founders of Vedomosti dated August 10, 2014. Politics At the end of July, the United States added little-known companies to the sanctions list.

09 August 2015, 23:43 / Business Nokian Tires reduced sales in Russia But the company is increasing the export of tires from a plant in the Leningrad region Vladimir Shtanov Nokian Tires does not disclose sales in units, but indicates that they also decreased in Russia - due to “the weak economic situation and the switching of consumers to cheaper segments and brands” / A.

Russia's GDP in the second quarter of 2015 fell by 4.6% compared to the same period in 2014. This preliminary assessment was given by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) on Monday, August 10. “The physical volume index of gross domestic product in the second quarter of 2015 relative to the corresponding period in 2014, according to preliminary estimates, amounted to 95.4%,” Rosstat reported.

09 August 2015, 22:57 / Economics It will be possible to stipulate in advance the terms of the company's takeover in shareholder agreements Due to the lack of necessary mechanisms, companies entered into such agreements in offshores Elizaveta Bazanova Business can get new tools that simplify mergers and acquisitions / A.

August 10, 2015, 11:57 / Business / News OPEC states may hold extraordinary meeting - Algerian Energy Minister undefined Vedomosti OPEC countries are negotiating the possibility of holding an emergency meeting in the face of a sharp drop in oil prices caused by excess supplies of raw materials to the market, Algerian Energy Minister Salah Khebri said.

10 August 2015, 00:34 / Media Kremlin Media wants to buy Muz-TV for $20 million The TV channel can enter the patriotic media holding of Vladimir Kiselyov Anastasia Golitsyna Kremlin Media is ready to buy Muz-TV along with its debts / M. Stulov / Vedomosti Kremlin Media LLC offered the YuTV holding to purchase the cable music channel Muz-TV from it, a source in the music market said and was confirmed by a person close to the owners of the asset.

09 August 2015, 23:37 / Business Russian oil companies turned out to be the most efficient and profitable in the world But investors still don’t want to invest in them, experts say Alina Fadeeva Russian oil companies now lack only quality management / Maxim Shemetov / Reuters At the same time, the ratio of EBITDA to revenue increased the most for Rosneft and increased slightly for Lukoil, Bashneft and Tatneft, and the least for Gazprom Neft .