The internal readiness of society and the elite itself for the fact that new ones will come and rebuild everything is the fundamental feature of the state architecture of Russia The monuments we travel to see in distant lands are often the result of the work of some ruler and his belief in the possibility of bypassing death. We may not think about the fact that this picturesque view with a temple and a palace was someone's ambitious project.

Boris Berezovsky's son-in-law Georgy (Egor) Shuppe finally escaped extradition from Great Britain to Russia. On August 4, the Westminster Magistrates' Court refused to extradite him to Moscow. The Russian side had two weeks to appeal the refusal to the UK Home Office. She did not do this, reports the Russian BBC service. On August 18, the court returned Schuppe's bail.

Investors Start Selling Emerging Market Stocks / Dado Ruvic / Reuters During the week from August 10 to 16, investors withdrew $251 million from GEM funds (global funds investing in emerging markets), Vyacheslav Smolyaninov, chief strategist at BCS Global Markets, told Vedomosti, citing data from Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR). According to him, there have been no outflows from these funds since the end of December 2016.

In the article “Andrei Borodin again with millions” (No. 152 of 17.08.2017, p. 12) Incomplete comments from VTB Group are provided. Should read: "At the end of 2016, the unresolved problem debt of Bank of Moscow as a result of damages by Borodin and the former management of the bank amounted to approximately 166 billion rubles.

The market for new motorcycles decreased in the first half of 2017 by 40.5% year-on-year to 4,489 units, Autostat reported . The top ten brands in the segment occupy more than 80% of the market. The most popular motorcycle brand in the first half of the year was BMW, which sold 970 motorcycles (-4.4%). The second most popular is Kawasaki, which increased sales by 80.5% to 509 units. (a year ago the brand ranked ninth on the market).

On Thursday, Volodymyr Vyatrovich, director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, announced the demolition of all registered monuments to Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. According to Vyatrovich, individual monuments may remain on the territory of industrial enterprises or in courtyards. Since the adoption of a law banning Soviet and Nazi symbols in June 2015, 2,389 Soviet-era monuments have been dismantled in Ukraine, including 1,320 to Lenin.

In Ukraine, construction of a high-pressure gas pipeline bypassing the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) has begun.

August 18, 2017, 16:50 / Economy / News Gold rose to its highest level since November, exceeding $1,300 per ounce. undefined Vedomosti The price of gold rose on Friday to its highest since November last year, exceeding $1,300 per troy ounce. Quotes for precious metal contracts for December delivery on the New York exchange jumped 0.9% to $1,304.3 per ounce.

64.5 billion rubles The consolidated budget surplus amounted to 14.507 trillion rubles in January-June, the Federal Treasury reported: revenues - 14.443 trillion rubles. A year earlier, the consolidated budget was executed with a deficit of 1.06 trillion rubles. Interfax 0.5% This is how much industrial producer prices fell in July, Rosstat reported. They have been falling since February (see chart).

Obligations to the shareholders of the Triumfalny Quarter residential complex (formerly Kutuzovskaya Mile) from the former investor of the complex, Avanta LLC, were transferred to the FCSR company, Moskomstroyinvest reported with reference to the deputy chairman of the capital committee, Alexander Goncharov. Read on vedomosti.ru “CJSC FCSR assumed the obligations of Avanta LLC and entered into equity participation agreements (SPA) with 103 citizens,” the department’s statement noted.

As a result of the terrorist attack in Barcelona on August 17, a Russian citizen was injured, Rosturizm reports with reference to the situational crisis center of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Read on vedomosti.ru “At the moment, we know about one Russian citizen, an independent tourist, who was at the scene of the terrorist attack and received minor abrasions. She was provided with medical assistance on the spot and refused hospitalization,” the department’s website says.

Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov believes that it is advisable to mothball the construction of the Omsk metro, since it requires a lot of money. “I understood the vicissitudes of the project. Today it is easier to mothball this facility than to invest hundreds of billions of rubles in its completion,” Sokolov said.

One man was killed in a knife attack in the Elberfeld district of the German city of Wuppertal, Bild reported on Friday. The deceased was 31 years old. Another 25-year-old man was injured. The police are currently searching for those involved in the incident. The exact number of attackers is unknown. Earlier on Friday, one person was killed and several others injured in multiple knife attacks in Turku, Finland.

Russians, as well as victims and their families, can receive information about terrorist attacks in Spain by telephone, reports the Department of the Situation and Crisis Center (DSCC) of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Read on vedomosti.ru “Spain - hotlines have been opened to inform citizens about terrorist attacks +34932142124, as well as for victims and their families - +34900400012,” the DSCC microblog of the Russian Foreign Ministry reports on Twitter.

Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Russian businessman Roman Abramovich several times, three or four such meetings in total, Bloomberg reports. Information about this is indicated in a special SF-86 clearance form, which is filled out by all employees in the White House.