The budget deficit is growing amid a significant increase in tax revenues The Federal Tax Service reported on the replenishment of the federal budget for seven months of this year. The budget received 1.8 trillion rubles from tax authorities. This is 34% more than in the same period last year. However, the federal budget deficit in July, according to the Ministry of Finance, amounted to 151 billion rubles.

Fears of a second wave of the crisis led to a decline in stock indices The American stock market experienced a severe sell-off, closing on Wednesday at its lowest levels this year. Yesterday, the fall continued - this is how markets reacted to the US Federal Reserve System (FRS) statement about a slowdown in economic growth. As Vremya Novostei already reported, the Fed decided to use cash from expiring mortgage bonds to purchase additional US government bonds.

Sautin, 36, won his 18th medal at the European Championships At the European Aquatics Championships in Budapest (Hungary), Thursday brought the Russian team two awards, won in different types of the competitive program.

The government of Bashkortostan has gone online Five ministers of Bashkortostan immediately started blogs on LiveJournal, following the new president of the republic Rustem Khamitov, whose diary was already visited by more than 34 thousand people in five days after its opening.

The new management system for the North Caucasus is not working yet The unprecedented reprimand given by President Dmitry Medvedev last Wednesday at a meeting in Sochi to officials responsible for the situation in Dagestan suggests that the current contour of governance of the North Caucasus, formed only at the beginning of this year, can be adjusted again.

- Nikolai Nikolaevich, the topic of the meeting of the Bureau of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences was, it would seem, not acute - preparation for the celebration of the anniversary of the Victory. Why did the tone change from academic to ideological? - In fact, the topic is sensitive: almost on the eve of the anniversary, it became clear that the program of festive events was structured as purely political.

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Nationalism ruined the Yugoslav federation Leading politicians, statesmen and public figures of the former Yugoslavia have now made an agreed decision to hold an international summit conference “Lessons of the Balkan War: 20 years later” next year. This war began in June 1991... The mullah climbed onto the minaret of the main mosque in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and shouted: “Believers, my watch was stolen! If a Muslim did this, let him return them to the mosque.

The President instructed the government to monitor the consequences of the ban on grain exports Yesterday, at a meeting in Taganrog on the situation on the grain market, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev demanded that the government begin grain interventions as quickly as possible, prevent rising bread prices and help exporters who, after the government imposed an embargo on grain exports from August 15, may be threatened by lawsuits from counterparties.

— Alexander Oganovich, did the commission manage to make progress in discussing pressing historical problems compared to the August meeting? - I must say that the task of the commission is not to consider issues on the merits. We are not a scientific body, that was determined from the very beginning. The task of the commission is to develop measures and coordinate efforts to counter attempts to distort the history of our country, in particular the Great Patriotic War.

Ten years ago, the Kursk submarine sank “So what happened to your submarine Kursk?” - “She drowned.” These are famous phrases from the famous dialogue between American television journalist Larry King and Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 22, 2000. She drowned - this is the only thing that is still absolutely known about the tragedy of the submarine, which occurred exactly ten years ago.

Metropolitan police officers were shot by brother hijackers One police officer was killed and two were wounded as a result of a shootout with criminals that took place in Moscow on Thursday night. According to preliminary data, the massacre was carried out by two brothers from Dagestan, whom law enforcement officers caught while trying to steal a car. One of them was seriously wounded in the shootout and died in the hospital yesterday morning, the second managed to escape.

This summer's abnormal heat and fires in Russian peatlands could lead to a new round of climate debate in the international arena. Subjects for discussion may include questions about reducing the anthropogenic impact of humans on nature and increasing the share of alternative energy. Director of the Department of Hydrometeorology of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Belarus, Candidate of Technical Sciences Maria GERMENCHUK, discusses this in an interview with Vremya Novostey.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers do not have time to change drug packaging in accordance with the new Russian law On the eve of the entry into force of the law “On the Circulation of Medicines,” foreign drug manufacturers maximally increased the supply of their products to Russia, accumulating a trading stock in warehouses that was almost twice as high as usual.

The teams played their first friendly matches of the season The first national team match day after the World Cup opened a new cycle in the life of national teams. Some like Brazil, Italy, England and France are looking to forget about failure and start a new life with a clean slate, Argentina is still immersed in scandals with the appointment of a new head coach, Spain and Holland are looking at a reserve that will help them stay at the top.