19 August 2015, 18:33 / Finance The dollar exchange rate exceeded 66 rubles for the first time in six months The euro jumped to 72 rubles, the price of Brent fell below $48 per barrel Ilya Usov The dollar exchange rate soared to 66.035 rubles. at 17.53 Moscow time, and a few minutes later, by 18.08 Moscow time, for the American national currency they gave 66,181 rubles / M.

OSCE representatives note that both Ukraine and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics are not complying with the agreement on the withdrawal of heavy weapons. This was reported on Wednesday, August 19, by Interfax. "The parties continue to complicate our control over the withdrawal of equipment. Last week, we visited nine storage sites for withdrawn equipment on the Ukrainian side, two of which were abandoned," said the head of the OSCE mission to Ukraine, Alexander Hug.

A symbolic exhibition is also planned to mark the anniversary in Moscow. As reported on the website of the Rosatom corporation, from September 1 to 29, the Manezh will host the exhibition "70 Years of the Nuclear Industry.

The trauma must have been severe, because its effects are still felt today. The need to display status symbols – and the kind that were customary to possess 20 and 30 years ago – is astounding. In fact, the president’s press secretary cannot boast of a watch worth a house, and the head of a giant state corporation cannot seriously claim that attempts to find out the size of his income are an attack on the safety of his family.

"Auchan" filed two lawsuits with the Moscow Arbitration Court against the Rosselkhoznadzor Administration for Moscow, Moscow and Tula Regions, Interfax reports . The lawsuits were registered on August 10, and one of them is scheduled for hearing on September 17, according to data in the court's card index. The essence of the lawsuits is not disclosed. In mid-July, the department inspected four hypermarkets of the chain in the capital region.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has begun holding the largest joint exercises of its airborne forces since the end of the Cold War, TASS reports , citing the US Army Europe Command. More than 4,800 servicemen from 11 countries are taking part in the multinational maneuvers called Rapid Response 15: Bulgaria, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the US and France. The exercises began on August 15 and will last until September 13.

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American software developer F5 Networks Inc. has closed its office in Tomsk, a source in the company told Interfax. According to him, 69 people worked for F5 in Tomsk. "Most were offered a move to Silicon Valley, to San Jose," he added. "Almost no one refused." "Nobody is naming the reason for the closure. But, as far as I know, the company has long had concerns about sanctions and counter-sanctions," the agency's source noted.

PJSC Bank Otkritie Financial Corporation filed a lawsuit against Transaero airlines in the Moscow Arbitration Court. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday, August 18, according to court materials. CJSC is indicated as a third party in the claim Gazprom Neft-Aero ; the amount of claims is 1.293 billion rubles. The lawsuit is not posted on the court's website.

August 19, 2015, 16:10 / Economics Central Bank: only structural reforms can slow down the decline The economy must adapt to the new reality in the oil market Elizaveta Bazanova The oil market has moved to a new reality / Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg The approach is absolutely correct, the need for structural reforms in the economy is obvious, says Vladimir Tikhomirov from BKS .

Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas has promised that his country will do everything to secure the release of Eston Kohver, a security police officer convicted of espionage in Russia. He is quoted by Delfi. "The abduction of Eston Kohver from the territory of the Republic of Estonia by FSB officers on September 5, 2014, and his subsequent detention was illegal from the very beginning," he said.

August 18, 2015, 11:17 pm / Business Transneft sells Ukrainian oil product pipeline The contender for this asset is a little-known German entrepreneur Galina Starinskaya Now JSC "Yugo-Zapad Transnefteprodukt" belongs to Transneft / E. Egorov / Vedomosti wanted to buy Ukrainian oil product pipelines Lukoil and then transfer them to a Russian-European consortium.

In the North Caucasus District Military Court, the state prosecutor asked during the debate of the parties to sentence Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov to 23 years in a maximum security penal colony on the combined charges and a two-year restriction of freedom. This was reported by RAPSI. Sentsov is accused of attempting to create a terrorist community in Crimea and preparing terrorist attacks.

According to Vedomosti's source, negotiations are underway with Iran on the sale of S-300VM4 systems, a modification of the S-300V system / Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said in Tehran on Tuesday that the Iranian side is planning to purchase three divisions of S-300 systems from Russia, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.

The heads of federal and municipal Russian museums have spoken out in defense of the exhibition "Sculptures We Don't See" currently taking place at the Manezh, which was attacked last week by activists from the public movement "God's Will." According to TASS, they demanded that those responsible be punished and that measures be taken to ensure that such attacks never happen again.