More than 50 UN member states still have not paid their contributions for the current year as of October 9, reported the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Because of this, the organization is already forced to save money, and from November it may have difficulties paying its employees and paying utility bills, the department notes.

The favorable investment climate in Russia is a kind of bureaucratic fiction that can be sacrificed if we are talking about control over strategic national companies. This was once again confirmed by the history of Yandex, whose capitalization fell sharply and heavily due to a bill by a little-known State Duma deputy.

The US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) in 2002 one way or another led to the beginning of a certain arms race, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with RT, Arabik Sky News and Al Arabiya. In his opinion, Washington did this in an attempt to secure clear strategic advantages for itself. Read on vedomosti.ru Russia, in response, began working on strike systems capable of overcoming any missile defense system, the president continued.

The United States is preparing to evacuate 1,000 of its troops from Syria due to the Turkish operation, said Defense Secretary Mark Esper in an interview with CBS News. Previously, Washington redeployed several dozen American troops, removing them from the combat zone. Read on vedomosti.ru “We have learned in the last 24 hours that [the Turks] likely intend to extend their offensive further south than originally planned and further west,” Esper explained of the Pentagon's decision.

A day after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) temporarily blocked the release of cryptocurrency from Telegram, Pavel Durov’s team sent a letter to investors, . The Bell reports with reference to the document The letter says that Telegram has been trying to establish communication with SEC representatives for the past year and a half and is now disappointed with the commission’s decision to settle the issues through the courts.

The Presidium of the Government Commission on Digital Development approved seven roadmaps for the development of end-to-end digital technologies under the national Digital Economy program, a representative of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications told Vedomosti.

The Russian national football team beat the Cypriot team and advanced early to the final part of the 2020 European Championship. The Group I away match was held at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia (Cyprus) and ended with a score of 5:0 in favor of the Russians. Read on vedomosti.ru Goal scorers: Denis Cheryshev (scored twice), Artem Dzyuba, Alexander Golovin and Magomed Ozdoev. Cyprus national team defender Konstantinos Laifis was sent off in the 28th minute.

The lawyer of the ex-governor of the Chelyabinsk region Boris Dubrovsky, Rustam Kurmaev, does not know about the initiation of a criminal case against his client, he told Vedomosti about this. On Friday, lawyer Igor Trunov, who previously represented the interests of another ex-governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Mikhail Yurevich, said that a criminal case had been opened against Dubrovsky.

Economics / State investments and projects The article was published in No. 4919 dated 10/14/2019 under the title: 100 billion rubles for those lagging behind Lagging regions will receive another 100 billion rubles for national projects So the government is going to involve them more actively in the implementation of Putin’s program October 14 00:34 Ekaterina Mereminskaya / Vedomosti Share this article with your friends! This material is available only to paid subscribers of Vedomosti.

According to the latest data, 33 people became victims of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan, reports the Kyodo agency . Another 19 are still missing, and about 180 were injured of varying severity. Read on vedomosti.ru The disaster struck Japan on October 12; Hagibis became the most powerful typhoon in the last few decades. At the epicenter of the storm, wind gusts reached 65 km/h. Twelve prefectures have been declared at the highest alert level.

The Russian Military Space Forces bombed four Syrian hospitals in early May, The New York Times (NYT) reports , citing its own investigation. According to the publication, it was based on stories and videos of eyewitnesses, recordings of pilots’ conversations and flight logs that journalists received from anonymous sources. Read on vedomosti.ru According to the NYT, all four hospitals were shelled within 12 hours on May 5–6 while suppressing pockets of resistance to government forces.

According to Ankara, Turkey has taken full control of Sulyuk and Tel Abyad / AP The Turkish Armed Forces and allied Syrian opposition groups are continuing Operation Peace Spring against the Syrian Kurds: fighting is underway for the cities of Tel Abyad and Ras al-Ayn, Reuters reports. On Sunday, Turkey captured part of the city of Sulyuk, 10 km from the border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Lenin Moreno, President of Ecuador / AFP Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has cancelled state fuel subsidies to reduce the budget deficit under the terms of an IMF loan. The subsidies have been in place for half a century and cost the treasury about $1.3 billion a year, more than 1% of GDP. After they were cancelled on October 3, gasoline prices instantly increased by a quarter and diesel fuel by 2.5 times. At first, the taxi and truck drivers' unions were outraged.

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Sullivan oversees Russian-American cooperation in counterterrorism and strategic security / Jacquelyn Martin / AP US President Donald Trump nominated Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan for the post of ambassador to Russia on Friday, the White House website reported. As a State Department official told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Moscow has already agreed to accredit him. Dow Jones also reported Russia's preliminary consent to this candidacy.