The commander of a separate security and escort company and the deputy platoon commander of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Moscow Region have been dismissed from the police. This decision was made following an internal investigation into the attack on the convoy of defendants in the Moscow Regional Court, Irina Volk, a representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, told TASS. They were dismissed for the violations they committed.

About 70% of Russian drivers pay fines for traffic violations in the first 20 days and receive a 50% discount. Sergei Dobryakov, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Ensuring Road Safety of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, told reporters about this. “As for the 50% discount, on average across the country about 70% of people pay fines within 20 days. I believe that this practice has justified itself,” Dobryakov noted.

Perhaps, thanks to the worldwide distribution, The Dark Tower will at least be able to break even / Still from the film The Dark Tower As expected, The Dark Tower, based on the eight-volume series of novels by Stephen King, was not considered a success by many. According to the website rottentomatoes.com, only 18% of reviews in the US were positive, while the authors of the rest treated the film with disdain and/or indignation.

07 August 2017, 23:42 / Business Exclusively by subscription Deripaska made money out of water Eurosibenergo brought dividends to a businessman for the first time - almost 6 billion rubles Ivan Peschinsky Angara energy brought Oleg Deripaska his first dividends / Vitaly Ankov / RIA Novosti / Vedomosti brought Eurosibenergo At the end of 2016, its beneficiary Oleg Deripaska 5.9 billion rubles. dividends.

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German exports fell in June for the first time in 2017. The figure decreased by 2.8% compared to the previous month, adjusted for seasonal and calendar factors, the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Destatis) reported. Imports fell by 4.5%. Germany's adjusted trade surplus was 21.2 billion euros in June, down from 20.3 billion euros in the previous month.

Convicts of Krasnoyarsk Correctional Colony No. 31 complained to the Public Monitoring Commission about beatings, according to a report on the website of the public organization.

An earthquake struck near Jiuzhaigou National Park in China's Sichuan province, killing five people and injuring 63 others, AP reports. Power outages and interruptions in cellular communications have also been reported. Read on vedomosti.ru According to the US Geological Survey, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 21:09 (16:09 Moscow time) at a depth of only 9 km.

At today's meeting on Rosneft's claim for 170 billion rubles. the court refused representatives of AFK Sistema's request to postpone the process due to the fact that two minority shareholders of Bashneft were seeking to join it in the Chelyabinsk Court of Appeal.

Gallery owner Daria Zhukova, who is breaking up with Roman Abramovich, did not organize any meetings between Russian representatives and Donald Trump's people, a source in her circle told Interfax. The startup of former RBC editor-in-chief Elizaveta Osetinskaya reported that Zhukova has extensive connections in the American establishment and that she is acquainted with the president's daughter Ivanka and her brother-in-law Joshua Kushner.

The bank concluded a lease agreement for premises with OOO Dom na Sadovoy as the sole supplier / Evgeny Egorov / Vedomosti Bank "Russian Capital" rented about 2000 sq. m in the business center "Senator" on Sadovaya St., 10 for 10 years for 530 million rubles. Information about this appeared on the government procurement website. On August 7, the bank entered into a lease agreement for premises with Dom na Sadovoy LLC as the sole supplier. The agreement is concluded until June 19, 2027.

Rosprirodnadzor assessed the damage to soils from the operation of the Kuchino landfill in Balashikha near Moscow, which was urgently closed at the request of President Vladimir Putin, at more than 500 million rubles, TASS reports. Read on vedomosti.ru “According to preliminary calculations by Rosprirodnadzor, the damage caused to soils [land of populated areas] located near the landfill amounts to more than 500 million rubles,” said service press secretary Evgeny Novikov.

Rosneft official representative Mikhail Leontyev commented on the information that the company's chief executive officer Igor Sechin has been named as a witness in the case of former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev. "Igor Ivanovich is a law-abiding citizen of the Russian Federation.

The Moscow Regional Court postponed the hearings on the GTA gang case until August 22, TASS reports. Judge Natalia Valikova said the hearings would continue "in any case." "I am informing the defendants to prepare to testify, the hearings will continue in August and September in any case," the judge said.

The second floating support (pontoon system) has arrived from Sevastopol to Kerch, intended for transportation and lifting of the Crimean Bridge arches onto the fairway supports, the Crimean Bridge project website reported . "The floating support, under tow and accompanied by support vessels, left Sevastopol on the evening of August 5 and covered a distance of 190 nautical miles," the press release said.