The North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has convicted city residents Tatyana Karpenko and Natalya Grishina, Interfax reports . They were found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack in a shopping center and illegally purchasing and storing explosives. Karpenko was sentenced to 14.5 years in a general regime penal colony, and Grishina to nine years in a general regime penal colony.

September 18, 2017, 12:59 / Business Rosneft decided to build a gas pipeline in Iraqi Kurdistan The financing agreement may be signed before the end of the year Vitaly Petlevoy The company does not disclose the amount of investment / Ari Jalal / Reuters Rosneft . can finance the construction of a gas pipeline with a capacity of 30 billion cubic meters m per year in Iraqi Kurdistan, the company reported.

The government approved an increase in excise taxes on fuel by 50 kopecks. for 1 liter in two stages - from January 1 and July 1, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. According to him, additional budget revenues will amount to 40 billion rubles, Interfax reports . This is a significantly larger increase in excise taxes than provided for by the Tax Code: indexation for inflation of 4%, i.e. by approximately 30 kopecks. for 1 liter of gasoline and 23 kopecks. for 1 liter of diesel fuel.

During the riots near the Illichivsk City Court building near Odessa, 20 police officers and 15 National Guard officers were injured. This was stated in a statement by the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, published on Facebook . A criminal case has been opened under Part 4 of Article 296 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (“Group hooliganism committed with the use of firearms or bladed weapons, or other objects specially adapted or prepared in advance to cause bodily harm”).

Police officers of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow summoned Alexey Pskovitin, a Kemerovo blogger and co-author of the Nemagia YouTube channel, for questioning. Pskovitin reported this on the Nemagiya VKontakte page. One of the project’s lawyers, Sergei Voronin, confirmed to Vedomosti that Pskovitin was summoned to Moscow for questioning as a witness. The blogger will meet with police officers on September 19.

Alarms went off simultaneously at several security facilities on Shevchenko Boulevard, the department's press release states . Law enforcement agencies that arrived in response to the call discovered that a homemade explosive device had been detonated in a drainage ditch.

A bill to punish airlines for overbooking will be submitted to the State Duma. According to Parlamentskaya Gazeta, the amendments were developed by the first deputy chairman of the House Energy Committee, deputy from A Just Russia, Igor Ananskikh. He will propose obliging the carrier to reimburse ten times the cost of a ticket to a passenger who pays for the flight and does not have enough space in the cabin.

First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko awarded letters of gratitude to political strategists who worked in the gubernatorial elections.

A powerful explosion thundered in the center of Lugansk on Monday evening, Interfax reports. According to preliminary data, a monument to fallen paratroopers on Oboronnaya Street in Lugansk was blown up. Firefighters are currently extinguishing the fire at the site of the explosion; information about the victims is being clarified.

18 September 2017, 13:03 / Management The government approved the holiday schedule for 2018 Last year, Medvedev finally approved the holiday calendar back in August Natalya Raibman The Ministry of Labor announced the dates of holidays in 2018 / N. Sharapova / Vedomosti The Russian tripartite commission for regulating social and labor relations approved the schedule of holidays and weekends for 2018 proposed by the Ministry of Labor.

The sharp reaction of the Baltic countries and NATO to the Russian-Belarusian military exercises “Zapad-2017” reflects the depth of the crisis of trust between Russia and its partners and neighbors - European countries. The first stage of the joint Russian-Belarusian exercises that began on Thursday (they are taking place for the third time) has ended, the head of the exercises in Belarus from the Russian side, Colonel General Sergei Istrakov, said on Sunday night.

September 18, 2017, 00:35 / Business Exclusively by subscription Nacimbio has found a partner to create an anti-HIV drug in India Framework agreement signed with Mylan Laboratories Maria Dranishnikova Initially, Mylan will supply Nacimbio substances, then it is planned to establish their production in Russia, explained a person familiar with the terms of the deal / Mylan Laboratories Indian Mylan Laboratories will supply the subsidiary of the Rostec state corporation, the National

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday, September 18, that two Russian Il-76 military transport aircraft violated the country's airspace on Saturday, September 16, during the Russian-Belarusian exercises "Zapad-2017", Interfax reports. According to the ministry, the incident occurred late in the evening of September 16, when two Il-76s flying from the mainland of Russia to the Kaliningrad region entered Lithuanian airspace and remained there for about two minutes.

The volume of income from dividends of state-owned companies and state-owned banks in 2018-2020. provided in the amount of just over 400 billion rubles. annually, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. The corresponding draft federal budget was approved at a government meeting. “As for dividends, indeed, we have provided for the payment of dividends over a three-year period, based on 50% (of net profit under IFRS) for our key companies.

A blind bard and a pop singer became the heroes of the Yakut film "Kerel. Invisible beauty" / FESTIVAL "KINOSHOK" In the first years of its life, which fell in the early 1990s, the Kinoshock festival had no trouble putting together an outrageous program, searching among the films produced at that time in sufficient quantity for particularly expressive examples that shocked in one way or another – artistically or otherwise.