Proposals from Congress and the US State Department to tighten anti-Russian sanctions sent Russian markets into a fever for two days. The situation was especially affected by the publication of Kommersant, which contained a congressional proposal to prohibit seven Russian state-owned banks from conducting operations in the United States, and foreign investors from buying new issues of Russian OFZs.

Danish jewelry company Pandora A/S announced the resignation of its CEO Anders Friis. This is stated in a statement from the company's press service. Friis will officially leave his post on August 31. The press release indicates that the company is seeking candidates for this position. Pandora also announced the appointment of Jeremy Schwartz as its new chief operating officer. He previously ran the cosmetics manufacturer Body Shop.

Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov increased the number of shares indirectly owned by him in Quadra from 24.75% to 79.56%, the company announced today. Thus, the entrepreneur received the official status of a person controlling the issuer.

08 August 2018, 23:54 / Business UC Rusal may start working at the warehouse Due to sanctions, the company risks being left without long-term contracts, under which it sells more than 80% of its products Polina Trifonova Vitaly Petlevoy If the US position on UC Rusal does not change soon, its aluminum risks remaining in warehouses / Bloomberg / Contributor / Gettyimages An almost 18% drop in sales in the second quarter of 2018, while production remained unchanged (supplies to the American and

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the idea of ​​American senators to recognize Russia as a sponsor of terrorism, included in the bill on new anti-Russian sanctions, as “beyond reasonable.” “There are a lot of hotheads working in the legislative bodies of different countries,” Peskov commented on the senators’ initiative. – And, of course, these heads sometimes make very emotional statements that are beyond the bounds of reason.

The Central Bank of Russia increased the official euro exchange rate on Friday, August 10, by 3 rubles. up to 76.83 rubles/euro. The official dollar exchange rate set for Friday is 66.29 rubles/$ (+2.7 rubles). At 12.22 Moscow time, the dollar on the Moscow Exchange was worth 65.9 rubles. (+36 kopecks), euro - 76.35 rubles. (+22 kopecks). The ruble is quickly depreciating on news of new US sanctions against Russia.

The story of the giant shark was marinated in various Hollywood studios for 20 years, and was eventually released with active Chinese participation / Warner Bros. Ent. I want to write about this movie in all caps. The Mariana Trench is deeper than you thought! If you reach the bottom, there will be a knock from below! That was not a shark! That was a megalodon! Two megalodons! A lapdog overboard! Pippin, come back!

VTB , which previously indirectly controlled a 15% stake in Safmar Financial Investments, has completely withdrawn from the company’s capital, according to the materials of the information disclosure center. The buyer of the package, as well as the details of the transaction, are not disclosed in the bank’s materials. One of the structures of the Safmar group - JSC Daglis - on August 2 sold 15% in the financial holding Safmar Financial Investments (SFI) for 10.2 billion rubles.

Roskomnadzor received the first response from Yandex regarding the incident with indexing Google Docs documents, a representative of the regulator told Vedomosti. Read on vedomosti.ru On the night of July 5, Internet users en masse drew attention to Yandex’s unexpected ability to search through other people’s Google Docs documents. The issue contained documents with information similar to personal data; Yandex even returned results for the query “passwords”.

After Novaya Gazeta published a video of torture in a Yaroslavl penal colony, FSIN employees justified the torture by educational work (they say, how else to keep the criminal element in check) and only 11 days after the publication apologized to the victim. However, there is every reason to believe that this is not a single incident, but a practice of the penal system. There are 18 people in the video.

Russian military personnel in Syria destroyed a drone launched from militant-controlled territory. The aircraft was shot down on approach to the Russian Khmeimim airbase. The head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria, Alexey Tsygankov, spoke about this, Interfax reports .

The FIFA World Cup stadiums should reach self-sufficiency within five years - by 2024, follows from the instructions of President Vladimir Putin following a joint meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of Physical Education and Sports and the Supervisory Board of the Russia 2018 Organizing Committee.

The searches at the Moscow office of the Open Russia movement are being carried out as part of the YUKOS case, said Svetlana Petrenko, an official representative of the Investigative Committee. “A number of investigative actions are being carried out as part of the YUKOS case, including in the office of Open Russia,” she told RIA Novosti. Earlier, Open Russia reported that Investigative Committee officers were conducting a search in the Moscow office of the movement.

In Belarus, journalists who were previously detained for illegal access to the news feed of the state agency BelTA have been released. They confessed to the acts incriminated against them. This is stated in the message of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the country.

The Central Election Commission has received three new applications to hold a referendum on raising the retirement age, CEC member Vasily Likhachev told reporters (his words were reported by Interfax). This also follows from the announcement of the commission meeting, which will take place on Friday. On Wednesday, the Central Election Commission approved the questions of three initiative groups for the referendum with similar wording.