On the occasion of Russian Air Force Day, which is celebrated on August 12, the Ministry of Defense released a number of historical documents that were previously classified. Among the declassified documents, the personal order of Joseph Stalin to bomb Berlin is of greatest interest. The document, addressed to the commander of the 81st Aviation Division, Mikhail Vodopyanov, is handwritten and dated August 8, 1941.

The government does not plan to force entrepreneurs to share excess profits, said First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Russia Anton Siluanov in the “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” program on the Rossiya 1 TV channel. “I know, of course, businessmen who share with the state on a voluntary basis, but, as a rule, these are some kind of charitable events, social types of support. We don’t plan to suggest or hint at this in any way,” Siluanov said (quoted by RIA Novosti).

August 12, 2018, 21:31 / Business / Interviews and profiles Due to which the new head of PepsiCo expects to double the company's growth rate From October 3, the post of CEO of PepsiCo will be taken over by its current president, Ramon Laguarta, Anton Osipov.

Ten people were injured of varying degrees of severity as a result of a shooting in the British city of Manchester, but there were no deaths, said local police . The incident happened in the Moss Side area of ​​the city's south early Sunday morning. “There are several people currently in hospital with various injuries, but fortunately most of them are not life-threatening,” said Chief of Detectives Debbie Dooley.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched a Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the Parker Solar Probe, which is designed to study the Sun. The rocket was launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Center in Florida, with NASA broadcasting live. The launch was scheduled for August 11, but was postponed a day for additional testing of data transmission systems. The rocket should launch a device the size of a small car into a high elliptical orbit.

In 2015, Sentsov was found guilty of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea and creating a terrorist group / Mikhail Pochuev / TASS French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday discussed by telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin the situation with film director Oleg Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike in a prison colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO) for three months.

The proposal by presidential aide Andrei Belousov to confiscate 513.7 billion rubles of excess profits from 14 metallurgical, chemical and petrochemical companies, which arose as a result of the devaluation of the ruble and the favorable global market situation, is conceptually not new, although technically difficult.

Actor of the Sovremennik Theater, People's Artist of Russia Anatoly Uzdensky died at the age of 67. “Anatoly Efimovich passed away in Novosibirsk. Vacation has begun at Sovremennik. He went to the city that had been his home for many years,” the theater said in a statement. The farewell and funeral will take place in Moscow. Uzdensky has played on the Sovremennik stage for the last 13 years.

August 12, 2018, 20:44 / Business Sberbank became a co-owner of the Mikhailovsky GOK The proceeds from the transaction will be used to pay off the company's debt Polina Trofimova Mikhailovsky GOK provides about 18% of the production of iron ore concentrate and sinter ore in Russia / Valery Morev / ITAR-TASS Cyprus Sberbank Investments Limited (a structure of Sberbank) has become the owner of a 10% stake in the Mikhailovsky GOK Metalloinvest, the GOK announced on Friday, August 10.

The leaders of the Caspian Five countries (Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iran) signed a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea. Work on this document has been carried out since 1996. The convention signed today is the “constitution” of the Caspian Sea, said President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. The fifth Caspian summit is taking place in Aktau, Kazakhstan. The Russian delegation is headed by President Vladimir Putin.

Over the past few days, the ruble has fallen against the dollar by 4%, said First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Russia Anton Siluanov. In his opinion, further weakening of the ruble could lead to an increase in inflation in Russia by 0.5 percentage points in annual terms. At the same time, Siluanov noted that inflation today is at low levels. “If we take annual inflation, the dynamics are 2.5%, our target is 4%.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday was the first among the country's leadership to speak out about new sanctions being prepared in the United States against Russia. “If something like a ban on the activities of banks or the use of this or that currency follows, then this can be called quite frankly - this is a declaration of economic war. And it will be necessary, it will be necessary to respond to this war - using economic, political methods, and, if necessary, other methods.

The Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug denied the information that Oleg Sentsov left the colony. He is in prison and continues his hunger strike, the department’s press service told Interfax. “The information that the convicted Sentsov allegedly left the correctional colony is not true,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The US dollar is becoming an unreliable instrument for payments in international trade, said First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Russia Anton Siluanov. In this regard, he did not rule out switching to national currencies when trading oil. “We have significantly reduced the investment of our reserves in American assets.