In recent weeks, Vladimir Putin has focused his public agenda on respecting the most important rights of potential voters. On Saturday, at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Local Self-Government, he demanded that officials not engage in “bureaucratic football” and take into account the opinions of residents when developing and implementing improvement plans.

Flooding in northern Vietnam has killed 26 people, Reuters reported , citing government data. Fifteen people are missing, and the search is hampered by washed-out roads and occasional landslides.

The button is being stifled by the reduction in prices for smartphones / E. Razumny / Vedomosti Of the 16.7 million mobile phones sold in Russia in the first half of 2017, push-button phones accounted for 25.6%. This follows from materials from a partner of several electronics manufacturers (an employee of one of the retailers confirmed his data). Over the year, their share decreased by 5.7 percentage points against 3.3 percentage points in the first half of 2016.

07 August 2017, 08:25 / Business Polish Foreign Ministry: Warsaw is ready to buy gas from the United States, but at a competitive price Vedomosti Warsaw has not yet made a decision on importing American liquefied natural gas (LNG), said Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski in an interview with RIA Novosti. “We have not yet decided to import gas from the United States.

Since the end of last year, Lenta has had problems attracting new customers / Alexander Demyanchuk / TASS Russian retail trade has become grey and monotonous, complained Lev Khasis, former CEO of X5 Retail Group and now First Deputy Chairman of Sberbank, a year ago: “It is grey because the trade offer that market participants bring to the consumer is also becoming the same. Large and small stores sell the same goods at approximately the same prices” (quoted by RNS).

Sotol Project JSC, through which Grigory Berezkin’s ESN group acquired 65% of RBC from Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim, sent an offer to the minority shareholders of the media holding to buy out their shares at RUB 7,775. for paper. Unified Social Tax structures own 69.19% of RBC PJSC . Read on vedomosti.ru The offer period is 75 days from the date of receipt of the offer (that is, from August 7), RBC reported.

Nina Stemme played Shostakovich's heroine with power and passion / Salzburger Festspiele / Thomas Aurin Gloomy concrete walls and endless labyrinths of staircases stretch to the sky, locking the wretched inhabitants of the courtyard-well in a vale of poverty and hopelessness. The light of the sun does not penetrate into the dismal, littered courtyard, where the disenfranchised scum of society live.

Employees of the cybercrime department of the Chernihiv region detained a man suspected of distributing the Petya.A ransomware virus. This is stated in a message on the website of the National Police of Ukraine for the region. According to the police, a 51-year-old resident of the city of Nikopol was responsible for spreading the virus.

The Eighteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal (Chelyabinsk) refused to satisfy AFK Sistema's appeal challenging the seizure of the company's assets under the claim of Rosneft for 170 billion rubles. A representative of AFK said that Sistema will appeal the decision of the appellate court in the cassation instance. The court seized the shares of MTS , Medsi and BPGC belonging to AFK and Sistema-invest JSC as part of the Rosneft lawsuit.

07 August 2017, 11:07 / Business Tkachev believes that Russia needs 3-5 years to close the vegetable market by 90% undefined Vedomosti Russia needs 3–5 years to cover 90% of the market with its own vegetables. “We need at most five, at least three years so that we can close our vegetable market by 90%,” said Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev on the Rossiya 24 channel. Tkachev noted that over three years Russia has increased vegetable production by 30%.

Holders of Trust notes now have hope of getting back their lost investments / Denis Abramov / Vedomosti Holders of Trust credit notes have filed several lawsuits against the bank in arbitration court, according to the card index. Before that, they lost to Trust in Basmanny Court, trying to get back the money invested in the bank's credit notes.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's advisers are busy personally editing routine congratulatory telegrams, while there are still 38 vacancies in the State Department's leadership, The New York Times reports , citing sources in the Foreign Ministry. As a result, work in a number of important areas remains virtually paralyzed, and a narrow circle of advisers - just a few people - is forced to handle operational activities instead of working on foreign policy strategy.

07 August 2017, 09:00 / Finance Kommersant: The Ministry of Finance has prepared a project for the liberalization of compulsory motor liability insurance Vedomosti The Ministry of Finance is ready to give insurers the right to regulate MTPL tariffs, but only in a downward direction, as follows from the finalized draft amendments to the law on motor third party liability, writes Kommersant with reference to the document.

The government has approved the passport of the priority project "Formation of a healthy lifestyle". According to the website of the Cabinet of Ministers, the goal of the project is to increase the share of citizens who lead a healthy lifestyle to 50% by 2020 and to 60% by 2025. In particular, officials intend to reduce tobacco consumption and improve legislation regulating the advertising of alcohol, tobacco and unhealthy diets.

August 07, 2017, 15:27 / Business / News Gref: Sberbank notes the recovery of lending in the small business segment undefined Vedomosti Sberbank notes the recovery of lending in the small business segment, the increase in the first half of the year was about 6%, said the head of the bank, German Gref, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “For now, we are reducing the loan portfolio only in two segments: the municipal and subfederal segments, and also for the largest enterprises.