Roscosmos has appointed Igor Svetlov, the former head of the testing center for refueling complexes at the Yuzhny Space Center, as the new director of the Vostochny Space Center (Amur Region), the reported on Wednesday, July 8. department’s press service The message clarifies that the Vostochny cosmodrome is under the control of the space center. “Svetlova presented the acting staff of the Vostochny Space Center. General Director of TsENKI Rano Juraev.

Russian Post has stopped providing profile activation services on the Gosuslugi.ru website due to difficulties in agreeing on new tariffs for the provision of services with Rostelecom, reported on Wednesday, July 8.

The issue of providing state guarantees to Uralvagonzavod is under special control of the government, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said on Wednesday. “This issue is under special control, we will not allow any failures in this part,” quotes Interfax his answer to the question when a decision will be made on issuing state guarantees to Uralvagonzavod. Manturov recalled that a preliminary positive decision had already been made at the ministerial level.

The self-proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics called on the UN Security Council and leading world powers to establish an international tribunal to investigate war crimes in Donbass, of which they accuse Ukrainian security forces, the Lugansk Information Center reported on Wednesday, July 8. The head of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky and the head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko made a corresponding statement at a joint briefing in Donetsk, the report clarifies.

Law enforcement officers detained 37 people on suspicion of organizing prostitution, including the editor-in-chief of Flirt magazine and her husband, the reported on Wednesday, July 8. press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Lifenews notes that the editor-in-chief’s name is Stanislav Kazakova, and her husband, who is the owner of the publication, is Dmitry Zyablitsev. The remaining 35 detainees are dispatchers who, according to investigators, received calls from clients.

Photo by Reuters Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, speaking in the European Parliament on Wednesday, said Athens' new proposals for bailouts in exchange for reforms and debt restructuring would not be a burden for European taxpayers, Reuters reports . “I’m not one of those politicians who says that foreigners are to blame for all of Greece’s ills,” he said.

The number of Russian tourists who travel abroad in the first six months of 2015 decreased by 40% compared to the same period in 2014, Interfax reported on Wednesday, July 8, citing the head of Rostourism Oleg Safonov. He clarified that the number of foreign tourists who decided to come to Russia increased by 16% over the same period.

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) experienced a disruption on Wednesday, reported . CNN “The outage has been going on for over an hour,” the message says. The NYSE suspended trading at 11:32 local time (18:32 Moscow time), Bloomberg previously reported . The NYSE announced the cancellation of all outstanding securities trading orders. “We are currently experiencing technical issues that we will try to resolve as quickly as possible,” exchange spokeswoman Marissa Ernold told the agency.

The Central Election Commission approved a draft resolution on methodological recommendations for monitoring campaigning on the Internet, the TASS agency reported on Wednesday, July 8. According to this document, bloggers with an audience of more than 3,000 people or more per day must comply with the rules of election campaigning on the same basis as the media. Thus, the media and popular bloggers are actually equal.

FSB officers conducted searches at the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center defense shipyard in Severodvinsk, TASS reported on Wednesday, July 8, citing a source at the enterprise. The Zvezdochka press service declined to comment. The regional department of the FSB stated that they had no information on this topic.

The Irish bank IBRC, which is in the process of liquidation, and the Russian A1, part of the Alfa Group founded by billionaire Mikhail Fridman , decided to reconsider the terms of the return of former Quinn Group assets due to the economic situation, reported the Vedomosti newspaper on Wednesday, July 8. with reference to the joint statement of IBRC and A1.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statement that Russian authorities were sponsoring hackers was inappropriate, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, July 8. “This is an absolutely inappropriate statement and an absolutely unfounded accusation,” TASS quotes Peskov .

Irina Ryabovol Author Seville, Vancouver, London, Berkshire and other cities where Game of Thrones, Supernatural, Downton Abbey and other serial hits were filmed In Girona, Spain, extras are being cast for the sixth season of the popular television series “Game of Thrones,” which will begin filming in September. Catalan Girona is not the first city in Spain in which the series is filmed. The first to become famous was Seville in Andalusia, which is visited by 2 million tourists a year.

Photo by RIA Novosti The State Bank demands almost 40 billion rubles for losses on the peninsula The State Oschadbank of Ukraine (Oshchadbank) filed a lawsuit against Russia demanding compensation for losses incurred by the bank after the annexation of Crimea to Russia, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at a meeting of the Ukrainian government on Wednesday, July 8.

Rospotrebnadzor is appealing the decision of the St. Petersburg Arbitration Court, which, in response to a lawsuit filed by the Magnit network of billionaire Sergei Galitsky, recognized the sale of products subject to food sanctions as legal, according to the agency’s website. Rospotrebnadzor insists that Magnit illegally sold prohibited products.