Прогнозований дефіцит бюджету України в 2021 році становитиме 6% ВВП – про це повідомив на «Форумі МСП. Перезавантаження» 4 вересня прем’єр-міністр України Денис Шмигаль.

За словами Шмигаля, сукупний державний та гарантований державою борг на початок 2020 року становив 85 мільярдів доларів і станом на зараз знизився до близько 83 мільярдів.

«Подальша фінансова стратегія – це виконання бюджету, бюджет реалістичний формуємо. Плановий поки що показник дефіциту бюджету наступного року ставимо у районі 6% (ВВП – ред.). Зростання валового внутрішнього продукту наступного року плануємо, макропрогноз 4,7%. Це ті показники, на яких ми зараз будуємо бюджет наступного року», – сказав він.

Шмигаль додав, що пріоритетами уряду наступного року буде розвиток внутрішнього ринку та продовження роботи з міжнародними партнерами. Водночас він зазначив, що Кабінет міністрів хоче поступово зменшувати залучення закордонних коштів.

«Залучення зовнішніх коштів ми хочемо рік від року зменшувати, ми хочемо розвивати внутрішній фондовий і фінансовий рік», – заявив прем’єр-міністр.

Сьогодні під час години запитань до уряду у Верховній Раді Денис Шмигаль підтвердив,  що Кабінет міністрів внесе проєкт бюджету на 2021 рік на розгляд парламенту до 15 вересня.
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2 вересня Печерський райсуд Києва вирішив примусово стягнути з державного «Приватбанку» майже 10 мільярдів гривень на користь компаній братів Суркісів для забезпечення позову
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Національний банк України встановив опівдні 4 вересня довідкове значення курсу 27 гривень 74 копійки за долар, це на 5 копійок більше за офіційний курс на сьогодні.

«На торгах по долару попит перевищує пропозицію за рахунок покупок іноземців. Цим швидко скористалися спекулянти, які намагаються підтягнути котирування продажу максимально вгору», – так описували ранкову ситуацію на міжбанківському валютному ринку експерти сайту «Мінфін», які відстежують перебіг торгів.

За даними Finance.ua, станом на 13:20 котирування складали 27 гривень 69,5–72 копійки за долар. Це менше за пікові значення (27,75–77), але вище за рівень відкриття торгів (27,68–70).
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This week on Healthy Living, what does going back to school look like during the Coronavirus pandemic? For more on school safety, we hear from Dr. Esther Ngumbi, Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, and we hear from some of you in Nigeria on reactions to school openings. These stories and more on the show this week. S1, Ep60
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Євро подорожчав на 13 копійок, свідчать дані на сайті Національного банку України.

На 7 вересня вартість євро встановлена на рівні 32 гривень 86 копійок.

Долар подорожчав на чотири копійки – до 27 гривень 73 копійок.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is getting heat over a solo hair salon visit in San Francisco at a time when California businesses are limited by concern over coronavirus.But Pelosi’s spokesman said she was complying with the rules as presented to her by eSalon SF.
“This business offered for the Speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business,” said spokesman Drew Hammill in a statement. “The Speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this establishment.”
Footage aired by Fox News Channel shows Pelosi, her mask around her neck rather than on her face, walking through the establishment. A stylist follows her, wearing a mask.
The salon owner said she rents chairs to stylists, one of whom let her know in advance that Pelosi wanted a wash and a blow dry. California guidelines on salons vary by county, but San Francisco officials have not yet permitted indoor salons to open. The owner said she considered the service “a slap in the face” to business owners who have been forced to close.
Conservatives pounced, casting Pelosi as a hypocrite.
“Speaker Pelosi has pushed policies that would keep our economy closed and our small businesses shut down. But for herself?” Senate Republicans tweeted. “A salon visit whenever she pleases.”
Pelosi says Republicans could help create the conditions to safely reopen if they would only “listen to the scientists.”
“Republicans are rejecting the funding needed for testing and tracing to crush the virus and safely reopen schools and the economy,” she wrote in a letter Friday to her Democratic colleagues.
 
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Australian businesses and government departments continue to be targeted by cyberattacks by a “sophisticated state-based actor,” according to senior officials in Canberra. They have insisted the threat is intensifying and could interfere in Australia’s economy and political systems.Australian Defense Minister Linda Reynolds on Thursday warned that cyberattacks were blurring the lines between war and peace. She has said malicious activity targeting Australia had increased in recent months.Her comments came as Australia’s first annual cyber threat report, compiled by intelligence officials, was released. The Australian Cyber Security Center said it received almost 60,000 reports of cyber-crime in the past year — or one every 10 minutes.The spectrum of offenses is broad. At one end the report says, there are opportunistic cybercriminals after companies’ and individuals’ money. At the other end “are sophisticated and very well-resourced state-based actors who are seeking to interfere” in Australia’s affairs.Reynolds said the threat is getting worse.“Cyber-enabled activities have the potential to drive disinformation, and also directly support interference in our economy, interference in our political system, and also in what we see as critical infrastructure, but more widely across many businesses and organizations in our economy,” she said.Canberra won’t reveal who is behind the cyberattacks, but intelligence sources are blaming China for the intrusions.In June, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the country had suffered a large-scale cyberattack across “all levels of government, industry, political organizations, education [and] health.”Officials have said that in the intervening period the attacks have continued.This week, Rachel Noble, the head of the Australian Signals Directorat, a government intelligence agency, gave a rare speech. She warned it was becoming “near impossible” for agencies to successfully fight crime and espionage.Civil liberties groups have said expanding the powers of Australia’s spy agencies would undermine privacy and could lead to an abuse of authority. 
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The mayor of Rochester, in the U.S. state of New York, has suspended seven police officers in connection with the suffocation death of an African American man apprehended in March.Mayor Lovely Warren suspended the officers Thursday. The victim, Daniel Prude, can be seen in video taken by an officer’s body camera completely naked as he sat on the ground in a light snow with his hands cuffed behind him.Warren said the police had misled her for months about the circumstances surrounding Prude’s death. She said Police Chief La’Ron Singletary had led her to believe that Prude’s death was the result of a drug overdose. The mayor said the video was “entirely different” from the chief’s depiction.Singletary has denied a cover-up.The video was released Wednesday because the Prude family had submitted a public records request.The U.S. has been roiled by protests because of a series of deaths of African American men and women in police custody.Prude had been having mental health issues. He lived in Chicago but was visiting his brother in Rochester. His brother, Joe, had him admitted to a hospital for an evaluation hours before the police encounter. After his release from the hospital, he went back to his brother’s house where he once again began displaying erratic behavior and left.The few clothes he had on when he left the house were gone by the time the police encountered him, after receiving calls from his brother and other people.The police say once they restrained Prude, he began to spit, and so they placed a spit sock over his head, a hood that covered his head and prevented Prude from spitting on the police.Prude immediately asked for the hood to be removed and asked for a gun. When he tried to get off the ground, police were seen in the video rushing to him and pushing his face into the ground. Eventually, his pleas to remove the hood stopped. When police asked him a question, there was no reply. He died seven days later when he was taken off life support.Mayor Warren said Prude “was failed by the police department, our mental health care system, our society, and he was failed by me.”The medical examiner ruled Prude’s death a homicide caused by “complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint.”New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the case.
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More than a dozen students gathered outside the University of Oklahoma’s administration building Thursday to protest what they say is an inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic.Students are violating the university and the city of Norman’s mask mandates at bars, restaurants and at fraternity and sorority functions, OU student Kellie Dick, a senior from Shawnee, told The Associated Press.”We really need people to wear their masks, I don’t want this to kill any more people than it already has,” Dick said.There are a reported 909 newly confirmed coronavirus cases in Oklahoma on Thursday and 14 more deaths due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health.The department reported 61,027 cases and 835 deaths, up from 60,118 confirmed cases and 821 deaths on Wednesday. The actual number of cases in Oklahoma is likely higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people can be infected and not feel sick.The students presented a list of 12 demands that include online classes for most subjects, twice-weekly free coronavirus testing for OU students, faculty and staff and limit and adopt a policy prohibiting social gatherings of more than 25 people.University chief COVID officer Dr. Dale Bratzler earlier Thursday told the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education that there are no known transmissions of the virus in classrooms, but that the virus spread occurs in areas OU cannot control.”Our biggest challenge is we can’t mandate a mask when a person is in their residence hall and so that means that there may be students obviously in their room with roommates where they’re not masked,” Bratzler said. “And then, you don’t have to look very far on social media to find pictures of people without masks when they’re off campus … that’s plagued us.”The director of university health services at Oklahoma State University, Chris Barlow, said OSU faces similar problems, with students wearing masks while on campus, but shedding them when they leave.”We’re finding a lot of students that are testing positive overall are off-campus, that seems the largest concentration that we have right now is with off-campus populations,” Barlow told the regents, who oversee all colleges and universities in the state.OU reported 135 coronavirus cases as of Tuesday while Oklahoma State, which updates its numbers weekly, reported 279 virus cases as of Sunday.For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms that clear up within weeks. But for others, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, the highly contagious virus can cause severe symptoms and be fatal.The White House Coronavirus Task Force continues to recommend a statewide mask mandate in Oklahoma, which Gov. Kevin Stitt has said he will not issue.The task force’s August 30 report, released Wednesday by the health department, also calls for closing bars and limiting the number of people allowed inside restaurants. 
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The U.N. children’s agency said Thursday it would lead the world’s largest and fastest procurement and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines from dozens of makers in the next two years so that no country lacks access.UNICEF and the World Health Organization co-lead a COVID-19 A workers sanitizes a metro coach in New Delhi, India, Sept. 3, 2020.On Wednesday, Nepalese protesters defying a government coronavirus lockdown to take part in a religious festival clash with riot police, in Lalitpur, Nepal, Sept. 3, 2020.Amnesty’s report highlighted the deadly toll COVID-19 has had on frontline workers. Overall, at least 7,000 health workers have died of the virus.Other countries with high mortality rates include the United States, Brazil and India, where health worker death tolls stand at 1,077, 634 and 573, respectively, Reuters reported. The three countries have the highest number of deaths and confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins.Mexico ranks eighth in the world with 616,894 confirmed cases, but fourth overall in deaths, with 66,329.According to a Reuters analysis of data from the Mexican government, health care workers in that country are four times more likely to die than in the U.S.”Many months into the pandemic, health workers are still dying at horrific rates in countries such as Mexico, Brazil and the USA,” Steve Cockburn, head of Economic and Social Justice at Amnesty International, told Reuters. “There must be global cooperation to ensure all health workers are provided with adequate protective equipment, so they can continue their vital work without risking their own lives.”Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 and has downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, said Thursday Brazilians will not be forced to receive a vaccination, when they become available.Brazil on Thursday tallied more than 4 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and is second in the world with 124,614 deaths.”Many people want the vaccine to be applied in a coercive way, but there is no law that provides for that,” Bolsonaro said in a Facebook live chat with his supporters, according to a Reuters report.Several COVID-19 vaccines are being tested in Brazil. The government has bought 30 million doses of a vaccine that is being produced by Oxford University/AstraZeneca. Three others are in Phase 3 clinical trials from makers Sinovac Biotech of China, Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical subsidiary Janssen, according to Reuters. 
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Газойль (аналог дизпалива) «Новошахтинського заводу нафтопродуктів» (Росія), який контролює дружина голови політради партії ОПЗЖ Віктора Медведчука Оксана Марченко, бензовозами постачається в окупований Росією Крим. Про це йдеться у розслідуванні програми «Схеми: корупція в деталях» (проєкт Радіо Свобода та UA:Перший).

«Новошахтинський завод нафтопродуктів» розташований у Ростовській області Росії, більшою часткою підприємства володіє дружина Віктора Медведчука Оксана Марченко, що зазначено в декларації політика.

Журналісти зв’язалися з російськими компаніями-дилерами, які реалізовують продукцію заводу родини Медведчука. Менеджери одразу декількох компаній-дилерів із Краснодарського краю («ЮЛК-Альянс», «Стройпроминвест» і ТК «Югдизель») підтвердили, що працюють і на Крим, а саме: доставляють газойль із «Новошахтинського заводу нафтопродуктів» на півострів бензовозами.

Всі три компанії прорахували вартість дизпалива з доставкою в Крим, а також надіслали паспорт на газойлевий дистилянт «Новошахтинського заводу» на підтвердження свого досвіду реалізації товару з російського заводу Медведчука.

Віктор Медведчук відмовився надавати коментар до розслідування.

«Щодо бізнесу – я ніяких коментарів нікому не даю», – повідомив він журналісту «Схем» біля Верховної Ради.

«Новошахтинський завод нафтопродуктів» не відповів на журналістський запит.

Також журналісти «Схем» з’ясували, що нафтопродукти із заводу Медведчука-Марченко постачаються танкерами в США, де політик перебуває під санкціями з 2014 року. Зокрема, їх отримує американська нафтопереробна корпорація ExxonMobil.

Доставка відбувається танкерами з нейтральних вод Чорного моря в порт Г’юстона (США), але контракти укладені не напряму, а через швейцарську фірму-посередника з орбіти депутата Держдуми Росії.

 
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U.S. President Donald Trump attempted to clarify Thursday comments he made a day earlier urging his supporters to vote twice to ensure their votes are counted, comments that have sown confusion over his intended message and caused Facebook to label his claims as misleading.   In tweets on Thursday, the president asserted that sending in absentee ballots and then going to the polls to check that your ballot arrived and if not to vote in person would serve as a check against a mail-in voting system he has repeatedly predicted, without evidence, will result in corruption, miscounting and unacceptable delays.  President Donald Trump boards Air Force One to attend a campaign rally in Latrobe, Pa., Sept. 3, 2020, at Andrew Air Force Base, Md.”On Election Day, or Early Voting, go to your Polling Place to see whether or not your Mail In Vote has been Tabulated (Counted). If it has you will not be able to Vote & the Mail In System worked properly. If it has not been Counted, VOTE (which is a citizen’s right to do),” said Trump on his personal Twitter account.   We placed a public interest notice on two Tweets in this thread for violating our Civic Integrity Policy, specifically for encouraging people to potentially vote twice. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Sept. 3, 2020.”The president does not condone unlawful voting,” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany replied repeatedly when pressed at a briefing Thursday on whether she would acknowledge it is illegal in the United States to vote twice in the same election.  The press secretary accused the media of taking out of context Trump’s comments.  “The president wants enfranchisement, not disenfranchisement,” McEnany added.  “It is illegal in all 50 states and under federal law to vote twice,” said Ellen Weintraub, a commissioner and former chair of the Federal Election Commission.   Weintraub, a Democratic Party appointee, also said on Twitter “there’s still no basis for the conspiracy theory” that postal balloting will lead to a rigged election, as Trump has repeatedly asserted.  There are 61 days until Election Day. It is illegal in all 50 states and under federal law to vote twice. As any federal officeholder or law-enforcement official should know.And there’s still no basis for the conspiracy theory that Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden meet with people in a backyard in Wauwatosa, Wis., Sept. 3, 2020.The Democratic Party nominee, Joe Biden, challenging Trump in November’s election accuses the incumbent of “trying to delegitimize” the process. “The way to overcome this is to vote. Vote, vote, vote,” the former vice president told Atlanta’s WSB-TV in a Wednesday interview. “And there’s not a shred of evidence, not a shred of evidence that mail-in voting is fraudulent.”  National Security Correspondent Jeff Seldin contributed to this report. 
 
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