The Central Bank predicted inflation growth Source: Daria Selenskaya / City portals Every day, there are many events in the world that are simply impossible to follow in the news feed. Therefore, in this digest, we collect the main ones. Today, we summarize the results of July 26. The FSB arrested the former deputy minister of defense of Russia Source: Ministry of Defense / YouTube.com Former deputy minister of defense Dmitry Bulgakov was arrested by FSB officers. He was responsible for logistics. According to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Svetlana Petrenko, Bulgakov is a defendant in a corruption case. He was taken into custody. Former deputy minister placed in custody in Moscow Dmitry Bulgakov took up the post of deputy minister of defense in 2008. From 2015 to 2017, he oversaw issues related to the construction of a railway line bypassing Ukraine. In 2015, he was engaged in supplying Russian soldiers in Syria. In September 2022, he was dismissed from his post due to a transfer to another job. Bulgakov became the Inspector General of the Office of Inspectors General of the Russian Defense Ministry The accused in the explosion of a Land Cruiser in Moscow was brought from Turkey to Russia Evgeny Serebryakov, the accused in the explosion of a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado SUV in Moscow, admitted that he planted a bomb under the car on the instructions of the SBU. This was reported by RIA Novosti in relation to the FSB of the Russian Federation. According to Serebryakov, in February 2023, he contacted the state administrator on his own initiative with the aim of cooperating with the Ukrainian special services. He assembled an explosive device and planted it under the car under the guidance of a man named Ilya, who, according to him, offered him to kill an officer of the Russian Armed Forces. This is what the car looked like after the explosion: Molzhaninovo Sinyavinskaya Podrezkovo / T.me The accused was arrested in Bodrum, Turkey, and extradited to Russia. FSB officers handed the suspect over to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for further investigative actions in the criminal case initiated under Part 2 of Article 105 (attempted murder) and Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal trafficking in explosives). The Central Bank raised the key rate for the first time this year. This decision was made at the regular meeting of the board of directors – the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia on July 26, 2024 decided to raise the key rate by 200 bp, to 18.00% per annum. Inflation has accelerated and significantly exceeds the April forecast of the Bank of Russia, the Central Bank website says. The key rate has remained unchanged since December 15, 2023. Before that, it was raised five times in six months, the first increase occurred in August, when the dollar exchange rate approached 100 rubles, and the euro crossed this line. Then the Bank of Russia held an unscheduled meeting, at which it raised the key rate from 8.5 to 12%: the inflation target remained the same – 4%. In the second quarter of 2024, the current price growth, taking into account seasonal fluctuations, averaged 8.6%. In addition, the Bank of Russia raised the inflation forecast for the end of 2024 from 4.3-4.8% to 6.5-7.0%. This follows from the regulator’s medium-term forecast, published after the meeting on the key rate on July 26. The inflation forecast for 2025 changed from 4% to 4.0-4.5%, for 2026 it remained the same (4%). The Central Bank increased the forecast range of the average key rate in 2024 from 15.0–16.01% to 16.9–17.4% per annum, in 2025 — from 10–12% to 14–16%, in 2026 — from 6–7 to 10–11%. A high-rise building caught fire in Ulyanovsk. Adults and a small child died. A large fire broke out in a high-rise building on Korunkova, 2/19 in Ulyanovsk. The fire engulfed three apartments on the third floor, the entire entrance was filled with smoke. Source: ENews112/T.me A 2-year-old child and two women died in the fire in the high-rise building, three adults were injured. This was reported by the Russian Emergencies Ministry. According to local residents, at first there was a sound similar to an explosion, and then a fire started. The Telegram channel “112” reports that the house is not gasified “The cause of the fire will be determined by investigators from the Russian Emergencies Ministry,” the rescuers reported. A state of emergency has been declared in the Chelyabinsk Region. The fire occurred near the village of Kiolim in the Karabash urban district on the Bolshoy Kialim River. Due to a dam break, there is no electricity in the city and the water will soon run out, residents say. A state of emergency has been declared in the Karabash district. Public utilities and other agencies are working at the scene of the crisis to eliminate the consequences of the dam collapse. Rescuers are evacuating local residents. — In the Karabash urban district, due to rains and increased water inflow into the Kiolim reservoir, a hundred meters of the dam embankment were washed away. 20 people have already been evacuated. Specialists are leaving for the house. In the city of Karabash, temporary housing has been set up on the premises of two schools, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported. One person was killed and eight people were killed in an explosion at a gas plant in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Injured An explosion occurred in a condensate shop in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. One person died and eight others were injured, the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations told REN TV. Three people were hospitalized in the Novy Urengoy hospital. The Baza Telegram channel writes that a complex gas cleaning unit exploded. It is assumed that the preliminary cause of the crisis was a violation of the contractor’s technological process. Payments to victims of emergencies and terrorist attacks have been increased by one and a half times. Temporary financial assistance has been increased from 10 thousand to 15 thousand rubles. In case of partial loss of property, a person will pay 75 thousand rubles instead of the previous 50 thousand. In case of complete loss of property, one can count on an amount of 150 thousand rubles (previously it was 100 thousand). In addition, payments will be indexed annually. The amount of payments to relatives of the deceased has also changed. Now they will receive 1.5 million rubles (instead of 1 million). For causing moderate or serious harm to health, the fine is 600 thousand rubles, for minor harm – 300 thousand rubles Another defendant in the Ayaz Shabutdinov case has been arrested in absentia in Moscow Tagansky District Court of Moscow The former general director of the Like Center, which belongs to blogger Ayaz Shabutdinov. Vasily Alekseev is accused of 92 crimes related to fraud on an especially large scale, the press service of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction reports Source: Moscow courts / T.me Alekseev was chosen as a preventive measure in the form of arrest for a period of . two months. However, the former director of the Like Center has hidden from the investigation and is outside of Russia. He was put on the international wanted list. “The period (of arrest) is calculated from the moment of his extradition to the territory of the Russian Federation or from the moment of detention on the territory of the Russian Federation,” the press service of the Moscow courts explains.
FSB arrests former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov, payments to victims of emergencies and terrorist attacks increased by one and a half times – July 27, 2024 – Russia today
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