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Following an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday, August 15, the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia decided to raise the key rate by 3.5 percentage points to 12 percent.

Russian medical universities began to raise the prices of paid tuition.

Tax revenues to the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation for the first half of this year increased by 4%, to 21.7 trillion rubles, said the head of the Federal Tax Service Daniil Egorov.

The number of victims of the emergency in Makhachkala has increased to 30 people, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

The death toll in the explosion at a gas station in Dagestan has increased to 30 people. This is reported by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in Telegram.

FSB officers detained a resident of Crimea who cooperated with Ukrainian intelligence. This is reported by TASS with reference to the department's public relations center.

Unusual fossils have been found at the construction site of the Mitinsky Forest residential complex in Moscow.

Rosatom's revenue in the open part will exceed 2 trillion rubles this year, said Alexey Likhachev, General Director of the nuclear state Corporation.

The first plane landed at the airport of the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region during a runway readiness check, Roscosmos reported.

The movement of vehicles on the Crimean Bridge resumed after a temporary closure, according to the telegram channel, covering the situation on the road approaches to the bridge.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Leader Xi Jinping constantly maintain a strategic dialogue with each other in different formats.

For the first time in Kazakhstan, the Turkish company GenGroup Qazaqstan has started growing bananas in the Turkestan region of the republic (in the south)

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia has put on the wanted list three Ukrainian military leaders accused in absentia of shelling Donbass, follows from the departmental database of the wanted.

Russian potato producers have reduced prices by almost a quarter over the year, or by 23.5 percent, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The Bank of Russia allows the continuation of anti-Russian sanctions until 2026. This is stated in the draft of the Main Directions of the unified state monetary policy for 2024-2026 published by the regulator.