85 years ago, on July 7, 1933, Mykola (Mykola) Skrypnik, deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and head of the State Planning Committee of Ukraine, one of the architects of the Ukrainization ("indigenization") policy in the republic, committed suicide in Kharkov. The suicide was provoked by a campaign launched against Skrypnik, connected with the Russification of Ukraine that had begun. They demanded that Skripnik renounce his views and write a letter of repentance.

Three hundred years ago, on July 7, 1718, 28-year-old Tsarevich Alexei, the son and former heir of Peter I, died in the Peter and Paul Fortress. Previously, he was sentenced to death on charges of treason. According to the official version, death occurred from apoplexy. After the verdict was passed, Alexei was subjected to torture, which could lead to death.

Robert Müller and Donald Trump US President Donald Trump will come to the special prosecutor to investigate Russian intervention in the elections to Robert Muller if he proves that the president has violated the law and the interrogation is necessary for the investigation. This was stated by Trump's lawyer Rudolf Juliani, reports The New York Times. “If they come to us and show the grounds that they discovered something and this (interrogation.

SIZO-1 in Omsk. Photo: fsin-atlas.ru In Omsk, 46-year-old Sergei Polyakov and his wife Anastasia, who are suspected of belonging to Jehovah's witnesses, were sent under arrest, reports on the Jehovah Witnesses in Russia. Polyakov sent to the Omsk SIZO-1. When the court was undergoing to choose a preventive measure, it is not specified. The husband and wife were detained on July 4 after mass searches, which passed at least four residents of the region.

SEC "Winter Cherry" after a fire. Photo: Sledcom.ru In the case of a fire in the Kemerovo shopping center "Winter Cherry" was detained by the head of the fire extinguishing service of the 1st detachment of the Federal Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Kemerovo region Andrei Bursin, according to the website of the Investigative Committee.

Sergey Grigoryants. Photo: Grigoryants.ru In Moscow, a car ran into the 77-year-old Soviet dissident and human rights activist Sergei Grigoryan in the courtyard of his house. According to Mediazona with reference to the victim himself, this happened on Thursday. The car hit a human rights activist on the leg. He was taken away by an ambulance, gypsum was applied to the victim in the hospital. As the Echo of Moscow clarifies , the driver disappeared.

DPRK production missiles. Photo Newsru.com Pyongyang’s determination to abandon the nuclear program may shake after the visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Pyongyang. This was stated by a representative of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, reports Reuters with reference to the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea. The Pyongyang called the results of negotiations with Pompeo "extremely alarming".

Bombing in dere. Photo: Syriahr.com The rebels in Muhafaz Der in the south-west of Syria agreed to stop the resistance of the army of the dictator Bashar al-Assad, they say in the Russian Ministry of Defense. It is claimed that the leader of the rebels came to an agreement with the Assad troops through the mediation of the Russian Center for the reconciliation of the warring parties.

US State Department. Photo: state.gov The US State Department condemned the recognition of Radio Liberty and the Voices of America Media, “foreign agents” in Russia. “The Russian authorities continue to suffer the freedom of the press and the independence of the media,” said the representative of the State Department of Hiser Neurt.

Levko Lukyanenko. Photo with personal FB page In Kyiv, at the age of 89, a participant in the Soviet dissident movement, a Ukrainian politician, Hero of Ukraine Levko Lukyanenko, died in a hospital. This was written on Facebook by the former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Yavorivsky. A few hours before, Yavorivsky said that Lukyanenko was in intensive care. Lukyanenko was born in 1928 in the village of Khripovka, Gorodnyansky district of the Chernihiv region of Ukraine.

Teresa May. Photo: tmay.co.uk British Prime Minister Teresa May approved a plan for the country's phased exit from the European Union. The application about this is posted on the website of the British Cabinet of Ministers. The plan provides that Britain and the EU will create a free trade zone. At the same time, Britain undertakes to harmonize its trade rules in the future, including agricultural products, with European ones, but only as much as these norms provide unhindered trade.