The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources was unable to co-finance by 1.84 billion rubles. the budget of Buryatia and the Irkutsk region within the framework of the national project "Ecology" due to non-compliance with the cash payment plan, for this reason there was a risk of non-fulfillment of targets for cleaning Baikal in 2019.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan has opened new criminal cases against Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of the country's President Islam Karimov, who died in 2016, the supervisory agency said in a statement . Law enforcement officials believe that Karimova is involved in the theft of government funds by concluding transactions that do not correspond to the interests of Uzbekistan, as well as in the extortion of other people’s property on an especially large scale.

The situation on world markets is ambiguous. On the one hand, the US economy continues to grow relatively strongly, and its major stock indices remain close to record levels. On the other hand, signs of an approaching recession in the United States and economic problems in other countries are encouraging investors to buy government bonds and other safe assets. Market participants are hoping the annual symposium of central bankers in Jackson Hole this week will provide some clarity.

London-based research group Forensic Architecture has collected evidence of Russian military participation in the battles near Ilovaisk in August 2014, The Guardian reports . Read on vedomosti.ru According to the group, the evidence includes numerous satellite images of Russian armed convoys in Ukraine. Evidence also comes from numerous photographs of the T-72B3 tank, a model that the researchers note was only used by the Russian armed forces at the time, the researchers concluded.

US President Donald Trump has confirmed that he has discussed the idea of ​​buying Greenland from Denmark. He stated this during a press approach, which was broadcast by the American television network C-Span. Read on vedomosti.ru “We discussed this, I don’t know how this became known. Denmark owns it [Greenland]. We are good allies with Denmark, we defend it, like other large parts of the world.

On September 6, the Alekseevsky District Court of the Belgorod Region will consider petitions for parole of football players Pavel Mamayev and Alexander Kokorin, as well as Kirill Kokorin, the court's press service reported . The hearing will be held in Correctional Colony No. 4 in the Belgorod Region, where they are serving their sentences. Kokorin and Mamaev were detained and arrested in October 2018 for participating in two fights in central Moscow.

I have never written a column on such a bright and 1000% positive occasion as the rescue of 233 people by the commander of the Airbus 321 Damir Yusupov, who, together with the second pilot Georgy Murzin, managed to land the plane with the engines turned off and the landing gear retracted in a field. The plane's engines failed immediately after takeoff from Zhukovsky Airport due to a collision with a flock of seagulls.

The online voting system does not yet seem reliable / Valery Sharifulin / TASS In order to conduct the experiment on remote electronic voting in the elections to the Moscow City Duma, "an appropriate system is provided to ensure the secrecy of the vote and the expression of the will of voters." This is stated in the appellate ruling of the Supreme Court (published on its website), which recognized the procedure for conducting the experiment approved by the Moscow City Electoral Commission (MGIK)

Frankie Zapata over the English Channel on his hoverboard / Steve Parsons / PA Images French inventor Franky Zapata crossed the English Channel in early August on a hoverboard he built with five jet engines. His flight at 170 km/h took 22 minutes. Airbus' flying taxi should appear by the 2024 Paris Olympics. "We are at an exciting time in the history of aviation," the giant Airbus quotes its former CEO Tom Enders as saying.

VTB and the M.video-Eldorado group will begin testing a fast payment system using QR codes in September, the bank said in a statement. Clients of banks connected to the system will be able to make purchases using QR codes in one M.video store and one Eldorado store in Moscow. After the end of the pilot project, the fast payment system will be scaled to all stores of both networks .

The chances of concluding a trade deal with China will decrease if Hong Kong laws are violated, CNN reports , citing a statement by US Vice President Mike Pence. “We don't want China's markets to suffer. In fact, we want them to prosper,” Pence said during a speech at an Economic Club event in Detroit, Michigan.

The Moscow City Court left in custody activists Daniil Beglets and Sergei Fomin, accused in the case of mass riots in Moscow on July 27, reports . Interfax Read on vedomosti.ru At the same time, the Investigative Committee softened the charge against Begletets, told his lawyer Ilnur Sharapov TASS. According to him, initially the Fugitive was accused of a serious crime under Art.

The arsenal of measures to intimidate participants in protest actions is expanding: as in 2012, state enterprises have joined the case, filing million-dollar lawsuits against the organizers of protest actions for damages. But this time, private firms are ready to join the budget organizations, as they are not afraid of reputational losses. In the month since the start of the summer Moscow protests, the ruling bureaucracy and its security forces have tried many ways to intimidate the protesters.

Alrosa to the has lowered its diamond sales forecast for 2019 from 38 million to 32–33 million carats, according company’s statement. At the same time, it increased its production forecast from 38 million to 38.5 million carats. Read on vedomosti.ru According to the document, diamond sales in the second quarter decreased by 22% compared to the previous quarter – to 8.3 million carats. In the first half of the year they fell by 16% year-on-year to 18.9 million carats.

Alexey Druzhinin / TASS One of the key topics of the talks between Russian and French Presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron, which took place on Monday at the French president's summer residence, Fort Brégançon, on the Cote d'Azur, was the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine within the framework of the "Normandy Four" (France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia). Both leaders told journalists this before the start of the meeting.