The Russian Ministry of Economic Development believes that the United States will not be able to leave the World Trade Organization (WTO) due to opposition from business - regardless of the wishes of President Donald Trump. Moreover, outside the WTO, the American economy is likely to get worse, the ministry said in a commentary. “The American economy will also suffer from playing without rules. The US is the world's second largest exporter.

The European Union’s proposal to the United States to mutually zero out duties on passenger cars is “not good enough,” US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg. European consumers are accustomed to buying their own cars, not American ones, Trump explained. In his opinion, the EU in its trade policy towards the United States is “almost as bad as China, only a little less.” The American leader also again expressed dissatisfaction with the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The website of the Bill Clinton Presidential Library contains previously unpublished transcripts of conversations between the former US President and the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin. In a conversation on September 8, 1999, Yeltsin told Clinton that he had chosen Vladimir Putin, who became chairman of the Russian government in August of that year, as his successor . “It took me a long time to think about who might become the next president of Russia in 2000,” Yeltsin said.

31 August 2018, 18:52 / Business Gazprom management allowed dividend growth for the first time warned Gazprom But the priority is to spend money on the investment program and reducing the debt burden, Vitaly Petlevoy Investors immediately reacted to these statements - Gazprom rose in price by 2.3% / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti The top manager of Gazprom admitted for the first time that based on the results of this year, if the current dynamics in gas prices and exports remain the same, the

“There is every reason to believe” that the Kiev regime is behind the murder of the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today. “The head of the DPR, Zakharchenko, was killed in Donetsk during a terrorist attack,” she told reporters.

Former Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev, serving a sentence in a correctional colony in the Tver region, was hospitalized in a prison hospital. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the Deputy Chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow, Eva Merkacheva.

From September 1, Sberbank will launch a mobile application for children, SberKids. The bank itself announced this. The application is intended for children from 6 to 13 years old. In it, parents will be able to issue a virtual prepaid card for their child. Parents will have the opportunity to transfer pocket money to it. To do this, parents will also need to install the application.

The American Library of Bill Clinton did not coordinate with the Kremlin the publication of negotiations between the former US President and the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin concerning Vladimir Putin. Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters about this. “No, they did not agree, there were no consultations,” Peskov said. He added that there is a practice of declassifying such conversations.

31 August 2018, 17:58 / Business Sheremetyevo will stop announcing the names of late passengers Vedomosti Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport will no longer announce the names of late passengers. This decision was made due to the need to comply with the requirements of the law “On Personal Data,” the airport’s press service reported.

At a large defense enterprise - the plant named after. Sverdlov near Nizhny Novgorod - an explosion occurred. The plant itself reported that there was a “pop” in the mine disposal building. According to news agencies, there are dead and injured. The plant, in particular, is engaged in the production of explosives and ammunition. According to the company, the building where the bang occurred is cordoned off, and the plant does not report any casualties.

The Russian National Guard called Alexei Navalny’s accusations of purchasing products at inflated prices “falsified and provocative.” This is stated in a message that appeared on the website of the Russian Guard a week after Vedomosti’s request for comment.

Smolny approved a rally for supporters of oppositionist Alexei Navalny against raising the retirement age in St. Petersburg on a single voting day on September 9. this Navalny’s headquarters reported with reference to an official letter from the Committee on Law, Order and Security of St. Petersburg. “We were offered to move the meeting to Lenin Square [near the Finland Station], and leave the date and time the same - September 9, 2 pm.

Law enforcement officers of the self-proclaimed DPR detained suspects in the attempt on the life of the head of the republic, Alexander Zakharchenko. this with reference to a source in the security forces of Donetsk. reports Interfax According to the agency’s interlocutor, several “Ukrainian saboteurs” and persons associated with them were detained. The arrest took place on Bohdan Khmelnytsky Avenue.

Aeroflot will open new international flights from the winter schedule (from October 28): to Colombo, Dublin, Gothenburg and Ljubljana, the company’s press service reported. The company will fly to Colombo (the capital of Sri Lanka) five times a week, to Dublin and Ljubljana - daily, and to Gothenburg (the second largest city in Sweden) - six times a week.

An explosion of a gas-air mixture occurred at one of the enterprises of PJSC Kuznetsov in Samara, TASS and Interfax report . According to preliminary data, two people were killed in the explosion. The explosion occurred when four workers were cleaning a liquid oxygen storage tank, an ambulance service representative told Interfax. “During dry cleaning, the gas-air mixture ignited, and two workers inside the tank died,” the agency’s source said.