At the airport in Amsterdam, at the request of Germany, a Russian man suspected of financing the banned terrorist organization “Islamic State” was detained. This was reported by the Berlin prosecutor's office. The detainee's name is Yusup B., he is 29 years old, the report says. According to investigators, the suspect transferred funds to ISIS, which were used to train members of the organization and purchase weapons.

For about 10 years, a Russian citizen who worked at the US Embassy in Moscow was an agent of the Russian special services. about this The Guardian writes with reference to its sources. The publication knows her name and position, but they are not given in the material.

The defense of former Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev demanded that the court quickly recover 130.4 million rubles from him. fine This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press secretary of the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, Emilia Khil. However, the court cannot yet grant this request, she added. According to a court representative, it is impossible to carry out the sentence while the criminal case is in the cassation court.

The candidate for mayor of Moscow from the A Just Russia party, Ilya Sviridov, on Friday held a meeting of the initiative subgroup to hold a nationwide referendum on raising the retirement age. “We must force the government to withdraw the anti-people bill and propose another reform,” he said.

, controlled by Oleg Deripaska’s En+ group, Irkutskenergo has announced a competition to lease a site “ for organizing an energy-intensive business,” optimal “for data processing centers and mining,” said in a statement. the energy company Plot with an area of ​​21,800 sq. m located within the boundaries of Irkutsk. The company provides cable supply with a capacity of 14.8 MW to the border, but the tenant will have to independently launch network equipment on the site.

Thousands of North Korean workers work in Russia, despite the UN ban. about this The Wall Street Journal writes with reference to data from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Labor. In September, the UN Security Council banned foreign governments from issuing new work permits for North Koreans, although existing labor contracts could be extended. The number of North Korean workers has fallen worldwide, except in Russia and China, a US official said.

US citizen John Martin, detained in Chukotka, got lost due to difficult weather conditions, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. “About two weeks ago, he decided to go out to the open sea and, due to difficult weather conditions and due to the lack of navigation aids, spent several days at sea and thus ended up on Russian territory,” Zakharova explained the appearance of the American off the coast of Russia (quotes from Interfax).

Within a year, the Accounts Chamber may request for itself more powers to combat corruption in order to become a center of competence in this area, said its chairman Alexei Kudrin (quoted by Interfax). Currently, the auditor’s powers in this area are not actually spelled out in legislation, Kudrin said; on the contrary, he intends to focus on this.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev appointed Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko as chairman of the commission on the Cossacks. This is stated in the relevant government order published on the official legal information portal. Before this, the chairman of the commission was Igor Barinov. He will remain on the commission , but will become Mutko's deputy.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced that the State Duma will hold “major” parliamentary hearings dedicated to raising the retirement age. They are scheduled for August 21st. Thus, the deputies will interrupt their vacation for a day, which ends on August 27. According to Volodin, after the vacation, the deputies will begin a regional week, and from August 27 to September 9, parliamentarians will work in their constituencies.

Exchange operator Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) intends to create a “global ecosystem” for digital money, within which users will be able to pay, sell and buy cryptocurrency. This is stated in the message from ICE. The project was called Bakkt. “Bakkt is designed to enable users and institutions to seamlessly buy, sell, store and spend digital assets,” the operator explained on Twitter. Bakkt already cooperates with large corporations such as Microsoft , Starbucks, BCG and others.

The bridge across the Kerch Strait added tourists to Crimea, but did not change the situation radically: Russians, all other things being equal, prefer Turkey, where there are more Russian tourists than anyone else and 1.5 times more than German ones. According to ATOR, a Russian tourist brings 725 million euros per month to Turkish hotels, which Crimea is far from achieving, as there is no infrastructure.

The developer has suspended sales of real estate in its residential complexes / Urban Group The company "Dom.rf" and the bank "Russian Capital" (100% of shares belong to "Dom.rf") from August 6 launch a program of refinancing mortgage loans for equity holders of Urban Group. This is stated in the message of "Dom.rf". Rates under the program start from 8.75% per annum and depend on the ratio of the loan amount to the value of the collateral.

The first results of the investigation into the murder of journalists in the Central African Republic indicate that the Russians were victims of robbers. This was reported on the Twitter account of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “The first results of investigative actions in the Central African Republic indicate that the Russians were attacked by unknown persons for the purpose of robbery and were killed while trying to resist,” the Foreign Ministry said.

The last Western hotel chain operating in Crimea, the American Best Western Hotels & Resorts, left the peninsula due to sanctions, Reuters reports , citing two hotel employees. According to the agency, the hotel continues to operate, but under a different name. In the 2000s. it began to be called “Best Western Sevastopol”, now the hotel calls itself “Hotel “Sevastopol”. The Best Western brand has disappeared from the design and reservation systems.