White House. Photo from Whitehouse.gov White House spokeswoman Sean Spicer resigned, reports The New York Times. The reason was his disagreement with the decision of President Donald Trump to appoint financier Anthony Skaramucci as the director of communications. As noted by the publication, Trump asked Spicer to continue his work.

Stanislav Rumyantsev. Photo: R47.FSSPRUS.RU In St. Petersburg, on suspicion of bribery, the deputy head of the Department of the Federal Bailiff Service for the Leningrad Region Stanislav Rumyantsev was detained. This was reported by the press service of the city headquarters of the TFR. Rumyantsev oven in the Office of the FSSP material and technical support.

State Duma. Photos of faces The State Duma adopted in the third reading the law on toughening responsibility for declining to suicide. Information about this appeared on the initiative page in the base of bills of the lower house. Amendments are made to part 4 of Article 110.1 of the Criminal Code (declining to suicide, which resulted in suicide or attempt on it). Now for such actions will face from five to ten years in a colony.

Daniil Pelich. Photo with a personal VK page. The Blagoveshchensk City Court arrested for ten days a citizen of Ukraine, a participant in the action on June 12 Daniil Pelikh for posts with Nazi symbols located on his VK page. He himself informed the OVD-Info about this. Pelikha was found guilty under part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (demonstration of Nazi symbols).

The door of the office "For human rights". Photo by D. Zizkova/Grani.ru A criminal case was instituted against the expert of the movement "For Human Rights" by Pyotr Kuryanov. This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the chairman of the movement of Leo Ponomarev. Kuryanov is charged with part 1 of Article 294 of the Criminal Code (interference in the activities of the court in order to prevent the administration of justice). He faces up to two years in prison.

DPRK. Frame of Channel One The American authorities are going to forbid their tourists to visit the DPRK. This was reported by the BBC with reference to representatives of two travel companies organizing trips to North Korea. Information about the impending ban was confirmed in Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours. The services of the latter were used by the American student Otto Wormbir, who returned to the United States in a coma after 17 months of imprisonment in the DPRK and soon died.

Office of the Bank "Ugra". Source: Gazeta.ru The Central Bank sent materials to the Prosecutor General’s Office confirming the position of the Ugra Bank Regulator. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Central Bank. On the eve of the supervisory authority demanded to cancel the orders of the Central Bank of the introduction of the Provisional Administration in Ugra.

One hundred years ago, on July 21, 1917, the Socialist-Revolutionary Alexander Kerensky became Minister-Chairman of the Provisional Government, retaining the post of Minister of War and Navy. He unsuccessfully tried to reach an agreement on the support of the government by the bourgeois and right-wing socialist parties, restored the death penalty at the front and appointed General Lavr Kornilov as supreme commander.

Picket at the State Duma against Internet censorship. 2014. Photo: Grani.ru The State Duma adopted in the third reading the law on the ban on the use of VPN and anonymizers for access to blocked sites. This is reported by Interfax. The initiative was introduced to the State Duma on June 8. The law obliges the owners of anonymizers and VPN to independently limit their users access to resources from the register of prohibited, otherwise the services themselves are threatened by blocking.

Google logo In 2016, the Russian authorities took first place in the number of requests for the removal of information from YouTube and other Google services, demanding from the company to remove any content 13209 times. This follows from the company's report . In the first half of 2016, Russian authorities demanded that Google delete information 2045 times. In the second half of the year, the number of such requests increased to 11164. Most of the requests are motivated by "national security".

The Siemens - Gas Turbine Technologies Plant near St. Petersburg. Source: Abnews.ru The German concern Siemens confirmed that the four turbines manufactured in 2016 for the project in Taman were illegally delivered to the Crimea. This was reported on Twitter Reuters. In this regard, the corporation intends to completely withdraw from the capital of the Russian company Interewomatics.

Alexey Pichugin. Photo: Old.khodorkovsky.ru The Commission on the Cl Health of the Orenburg region rejected the petition of the pardon of the former head of the economic security department of Yukos Alexei Pichugin, sentenced to a life sentence. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the governor and the government of the region.

Dmitry Bogatov (left) in court, April 7, 2017. Photo: Dima Shvets / Mediazone The investigation sent a petition to the Presnensky district court to transfer under house arrest mathematician Dmitry Bogatov, who was in a pre -trial detention center in a fabricated case of calls for terrorism and the preparation of riots. This was reported by his lawyer Sarkis Darbinyan. The hearing is scheduled for 12:30 pm Monday July 24.

Vitaly Portnikov "Siemens" runs away from Russia. We can say, stroke. After the use of the German turbines in the annexed Crimea became obvious, the company decided to withdraw from joint ventures with Russian partners and stop the supply of equipment to state enterprises. This is only the beginning of the outcome - in order to protect yourself from possible legal persecution, Siemens will sooner or later have to abandon the presence in Russia. And not only to him.

Picture with "doused green" monument Alexei Volkov, coordinator of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Volgograd, made a suspect in the case of the rehabilitation of Nazism. This was reported on the VK page of the headquarters. Volkova is suspected of part 3 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code (public desecration of symbols of military glory, a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles, or 360 hours of compulsory work, or a year of correctional).