The Home Disaster Insurance Law comes into force on August 4. Insurance programs will be tested in 14 pilot regions, reports the All-Russian Union of Insurers (VSU). This list includes the Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Tver, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Belgorod and Omsk regions, as well as Transbaikal, Perm, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar and Khabarovsk territories.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky confirmed that the head of his office, Andriy Bohdan, wrote a letter of resignation, but there is no talk of dismissal. It was written in advance and as of today has not been signed .

A regular bus traveling from Volgograd to Stavropol got into an accident at night in the Stavropol Territory. This was reported by the region's governor, Vladimir Vladimirov, on Instagram. According to him, the bus drove into the oncoming lane and collided with a truck. According to preliminary data, five people died in the accident. Another 19 sought medical assistance, of which 15 were hospitalized, five are in critical condition.

02 August 2019, 18:21 / Economics The National Welfare Fund doubled in July And its liquid part reached 5.7% of GDP Elizaveta Bazanova Sergey Konkov / TASS The liquid part of the National Welfare Fund (NWF) reached 5.7% of GDP, and the entire fund doubled in July to 7.86 trillion rubles, the Ministry of Finance reported. This growth is associated with the transfer in July to the National Welfare Fund of currency purchased from additional oil and gas revenues in 2018.

The Moscow prosecutor's office issued a warning to Anti-Corruption Foundation lawyer Lyubov Sobol in connection with plans to hold an uncoordinated protest on August 3. This was reported on the website of the capital's prosecutor's office. Read on vedomosti.ru The message named Sobol as the organizer of the event. It says that calls are being spread on the Internet to take part in the procession along the Boulevard Ring on August 3 - from the Nikitsky Gate to the Pokrovsky Gate.

The antimonopoly authorities of Russia and Belarus can “delicately” influence telecom operators to cancel roaming between the two countries. Deputy head of the FAS Anatoly Golomolzin announced this at a meeting in Polotsk, TASS reports . Read on vedomosti.ru There should be a one-time reduction in rates in mutual settlements and inter-operator rates in roaming, which will lead to a reduction in retail tariffs, Golomolzin said.

State channels have disclosed part of their financial indicators according to RAS, as follows from SPARK-Interfax data. attention to this was the first to draw RBC . The two largest state broadcasters – VGTRK and Channel One – turned out to be the most unprofitable in their core activities.

02 August 2019, 10:00 / Finance A domestic chip for contactless payment will be built into Mir cards undefined Vedomosti The National Payment Card System (NSCP) has certified the first Russian-made chip for contactless payments; it will be used in the Mir payment system. about this .

The information that the former general director of Pyaterochka and Magnit Olga Naumova will head Dixy is not true, the company’s press service reported. that Naumova could be appointed general director of Dixie Kommersant previously reported , citing sources. According to the newspaper’s interlocutor, her arrival may be related to the store renovation program launched by the company in 2019. Naumova was involved in updating stores in Pyaterochka and Magnit.

August 02, 2019, 13:08 / Business / News Oil prices are recovering from a record 7% drop undefined Vedomosti Futures for Brent oil for delivery in October rose in price today at trading in London by 12.30 Moscow time by 2.15% to $61.8 per barrel. This comes after the price fell more than 7% to $60.5 per barrel on Thursday, Bloomberg data shows .

The Finvision company of businessman Artem Avetisyan sent the Cypriot Evison, through which Baring Vostok controls 41.6% of Vostochny Bank, a pre-trial claim demanding compensation of 12.6 billion rubles. losses, writes RBC . Vedomosti has reviewed a copy of the document.

The owner of the patent for “a method and system for determining the location of an object on the territory,” Alexander Zemskov, filed a lawsuit against Delivery Club LLC (manages the food delivery service Delivery Club, part of the Mail.ru Group). This follows from the files of the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow, . Kommersant noted This court has already rejected the initial claim, and will consider the appeal in August.

Trust Bank increased its stake in PJSC United Carriage Company ( UWC ) from 5.7 to 25.5225%, according to the materials of the credit institution. In July of this year, Trust became the owner of 5.7% of UWC shares, having received them from Otkrytie Holding as a debt payment.

Deputy head of the office of the Ukrainian president Ruslan Ryaboshapka called nonsense the information that the head of the office Andrei Bogdan wrote a letter of resignation, reports UNIAN . “This is nonsense... you can’t wait,” he said. Ryaboshapka added that this information is “specially being circulated in the media.” Read on vedomosti.ru Zelensky's press service refused to comment on this information.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow, in a case of mass riots, arrested a student of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) Yegor Zhukov, a video blogger from the headquarters of politician Dmitry Gudkov , writes Mediazona. Previously, Zhukov tried to run for the Moscow City Duma. Read on vedomosti.ru In turn, HSE Vice-Rector Valeria Kasamara asked the court not to take Zhukov into custody, reports Interfax .