For some countries, a disaster not covered by insurance could be a close analogue to the end of the world. A couple of years ago, when wildfires were raging in California, I was surprised by a report from an American TV channel. The fire victims who answered the reporter’s questions were not particularly upset about their lost property – everything was covered by generous insurance.

Abbas Araghchi promised to move to the third phase of debt reduction in another 60 days / Ebrahim Noroozi / AP Photo Iran is starting to enrich uranium above the 3.67% level envisaged by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday. According to him, Tehran continues to insist on the need to preserve the nuclear deal, and the refusal to partly fulfill its obligations is a response to the actions of European countries.

Last week, the public interested in the Russian economy witnessed a clarification of macroeconomic relations between the Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin and the Central Bank (CB). The minister publicly questioned the Bank of Russia's competence in macroeconomics to force it to take action to limit the growth of consumer lending.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that his team is doing everything to return to their homeland Ukrainian sailors arrested in Russia on charges of violating the state border. Read on vedomosti.ru “We are working day and night to bring captured sailors home. And I’m doing everything so that words about returning finally turn into tight hugs with our guys,” the president wrote on Twitter.

The Political Affairs and Security Committee of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution calling the Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines potential means of political and economic pressure on supply-dependent countries. The committee meeting was broadcast on YouTube. Read on vedomosti.ru The author of the resolution entitled “Energy Security in the OSCE Region” is Lithuanian parliamentarian Ruta Milute.

The President awarded the title Hero of Russia posthumously to four crew members of the AS-34 nuclear deep-sea station, on board of which a fire occurred last Monday. Among them is Captain 2nd Rank Dmitry Solovyov, who, according to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, managed to save a civilian specialist and closed the hatch of the emergency compartment behind him.

The government of the Irkutsk region will conduct its own inspection of the mayor of the Nizhneudinsky district Sergei Khudonogov, reports Interfax citing the press service. Based on its results, the regional governor Sergei Levchenko will make a decision. Read on vedomosti.ru The basis for the inspection was the demand of Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko to fire Khudonogov for using public services to restore his house after the flood.

The scope of the FSB's activities, as we learn about them from the news, is constantly expanding - and it's not about legislative innovations. Representatives of the special service are increasingly becoming involved in high-profile criminal cases, where large and very large sums are involved: now it has come down to banal gang robbery.

Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti X5 Retail Group plans to launch a parcel delivery and pick-up service through Pyaterochka convenience stores. The retailer reported this in a customer survey. X5 began developing the infrastructure for delivering goods that are not intended for sale in its networks a year ago. For example, the retail company began delivering orders from third-party online stores and marketplaces. The retailer invested in automated pick-up points for online purchases (parcel terminals).

Deutsche Bank will carry out a large-scale restructuring that will last until 2022, according to the bank's message. It provides for the reduction of 18 thousand employees. Read on vedomosti.ru Deutsche Bank plans to significantly reduce its investment division. It will leave the equity trading market but will continue to operate in the equity capital markets. In addition, the bank will reduce the volume of fixed income transactions.

On Saturday evening, the deadline for submitting documents to the Moscow City Election Commission to register candidates for deputies of the Moscow City Duma expired. Previously, 417 people announced their desire to compete for 45 parliamentary mandates, of which only 21 (representatives of United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the My Moscow association) are current parliamentarians, Interfax’s interlocutor at the Moscow City Election Commission reported.

The Moscow garrison military court on Friday sent five FSB officers into custody and two more under house arrest, Interfax reported. The court did not name their names and positions, but, according to the Rosbalt agency, two employees of the FSB Special Purpose Center were under house arrest, and two operatives from the “K” department (overseeing the banking sector) of the FSB Economic Security Service and three more were in custody.

08 July 2019, 00:24 / Business Sheremetyevo began paying movers from 200,000 rubles per month But so far this has not helped solve the problem with luggage at the airport Alexander Vorobyov Sheremetyevo lacks another 400 loaders / Valery Sharifulin / TASS The Ministry of Transport expects that the situation with baggage handling at Sheremetyevo will normalize by August 15, the ministry reported following a meeting on July 6, which was held at the airport by Transport Minister Evgeny Dietrich.

The leader of the Ukrainian party “Opposition Platform - For Life” Viktor Medvedchuk told how he met Russian President Vladimir Putin and how he became the godfather of his daughter. An interview with the Ukrainian politician was aired on the Rossiya 1 TV channel. Read on vedomosti.ru According to Medvedchuk, he first met Putin in the early 2000s, when he was deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

07 July 2019, 14:53 / Business / News Russian Railways will use more than 70% of its profits for dividends for last year undefined Vedomosti The government decided to allocate 74% of the company’s profit according to RAS, or more than 13 billion rubles, to pay dividends to Russian Railways ( RZD ) for 2018. this TASS reports with reference to Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov. He did not specify how exactly the dividends would be paid - money or property.