Joint US and South Korean military exercises were conducted off the eastern coast of the country in response to a ballistic missile launched by North Korea, Reuters reports . Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the North Korean missile was intercontinental and called for a strong response.

"We are negotiating with the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending, so far they have suggested trying to reach a mortgage rate of 9%, understanding that the Central Bank rate is being reduced in small increments. In this regard, mortgages should be reduced gradually, the preferential mortgage rate should be 7%," he said.

On the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet for the first time with his American counterpart Donald Trump. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov revealed some details of the upcoming personal contact. According to Peskov, the conversation will take place in the format of separate negotiations, and not “on their feet” on the sidelines of the forum.

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There is still no dominant moral assessment of Stalin's repressions / E. Stetsko / Vedomosti Only 10% of Russians do not know about Stalin's repressions, according to VTsIOM data. Most Russians (90%) know that repressions took place. The least informed are people aged 18-24, 24% of whom do not know about the repressions, and of those aged 25-34, 18% do not know about Stalin's repressions.

China Energy Company may buy part of Rosneft's retail business, which it plans to spin off into a separate structure by the end of the year / M. Stulov / Vedomosti As a result, the retail business can be valued at $2-4 billion excluding debt and provided that the net profit of the segment is 49.3 billion rubles per year, Vakhrameev calculated.

The number of Turkish citizens coming to Russia is returning to the 2015 level, said Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova. "In 2016, the number of Turkish citizens coming to Russia decreased by 70%. If in 2015 210,000 entered, then in 2016 - 61,000.

Read also: North Korea has shown that it is capable of threatening US territory North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the intercontinental ballistic missile launched on July 4 was capable of carrying a large and heavy nuclear warhead, Reuters reports . He acknowledged the launch as a success, stressing that the DPRK now has a full range of strategic weapons, including atomic and hydrogen bombs, as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Nikolay Nikiforov hopes that by the end of this year, half of the civil servants will have installed Russian office suites / Evgeny Razumny / V In 2019, 80% of government officials’ computers must have domestically produced office suites and operating systems installed.

70–80% of the cost of projects can be financed by Chinese and Russian funds / Segezha Group Segezha Group (a timber industry holding company owned by AFK Sistema ) announced that it could build two pulp and paper mills in Russia together with the Chinese engineering corporation SAMS (SAMCE) – in Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Karelia, as well as reconstruct the existing pulp and paper mills: Sokolsky and Segezhsky. The agreement on this was signed on July 4.

Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev believes that Russia will be able to completely replace imported food within 5-7 years. “Over the past three years, we have practically reduced food imports from different countries by 2.5 times. This is a huge achievement, this is a huge victory for our villagers, peasants,” he said at the opening of the All-Russian Field Day 2017 in Kazan.

04 July 2017, 23:51 / Business Exclusively by subscription ExxonMobil, Chevron against tightening sanctions against Russia Their lobbying could make it difficult to pass a bill in the US Congress Bradley Olson Peter Nicholas American companies opposed tightening anti-Russian sanctions / Gregory Bull / AP ExxonMobil, Chevron and other energy companies, following US President Donald Trump, opposed the bill to tighten anti-Russian sanctions.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) weighing from 250 g to 30 kg must be registered from July 5, follows from changes made to the Air Code. Read on vedomosti.ru The FSUE Zashchitainfotrans, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Transport, will be responsible for registering drones. Sberbank Deputy Chairman Stanislav Kuznetsov said in June that the bank had held the first negotiations with the leadership of the Federal Air Transport Agency on regulating the use of drones by banks to deliver cash.

A letter to President Donald Trump asking for clemency was a desperate gesture from Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the United States for preparing to transport drugs. As the convicted man's wife Viktoria Yaroshenko told Interfax, he can no longer fight for acquittal. Izvestia wrote about the letter asking for clemency earlier. "Konstantin feels even worse than before. He is morally broken, his spirit is down after his mother's death.

MTS Provides Subscribers with Unlimited Access to Social Networks and Messengers for 120 Rubles Per Month / SMARTMONEY In June, VKontakte and Megafon announced the imminent launch of the VK Mobile operator, which does not limit user traffic to all content on the social network. MTS decided to introduce this option now, based solely on subscriber demand; this is in no way connected with the launch of VK Mobile, Solodovnikov assures. MTS launches the "VSeti" option.