Special score of the speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Peloshi, along with the delegation, successfully arrived in Taibay. Before landing, he was accompanied by aircraft of the Taiwan Air Force. Photo: Reuters Earlier, the PRC authorities extremely negatively reacted to the possibility of such a visit: the Su-35 fighters, which went to the Taiwan Strait, were raised into the air.

Maniac or misinformation - which is known about the murders in the self -proclaimed LPR On July 19, reports appeared on social networks that the girl’s body was found on the playground in Lugansk. One of Twitter users claims that it was her friend-17-year-old Alina Kalina. Since then, in social networks, local residents began to disseminate information that this is not the only case and a maniac was operating in the city. "Cold" says what is known about the murders in Lugansk.

On the morning of August 2, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk announced the beginning of the mandatory evacuation from Donbass. The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the Azov regiment with a terrorist organization and banned it in the country. The United States also imposed sanctions against Alina Kabaeva, Vladimir Saldo and Konstantin Ivashchenko. It became known the name of another deceased sailor from the cruiser "Moscow" - his name is Yegor Shkrebets.

Activist Roman Balyasin spray-painted over the letter Z on a poster with the name of the city of Zheleznogorsk. Officers of the regional department of the FSB were waiting for him nearby - they then attacked and beat the man, including with truncheons. Balyasina says that the attackers called him a "Ukrainian fascist" and demanded to give them the password to the phone. Then he was taken to the UK and searched.

The company organizing the English exam ETS banned Russians from registering for the TOEFL. Russians also cannot send the results of an already passed test to universities. ETS said that this decision is due to the requirements of the US Treasury. It is not known what exactly the requirements of the regulator are. In March, ETS and IELTS announced that they were suspending exams in Russia and Belarus, but there was no talk of a complete ban for Russians. Source: Mediazona

The court sentenced in absentia to nine years in prison a Russian citizen Anton Korolev, who joined the Azov regiment. According to investigators, in March 2015, Korolev joined the Azov regiment. There he received combat training. After that, he began to participate in the battles in the Donbass. In 2018, Korolev was put on the wanted list. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine refused to extradite the man.

The United States once again expanded its sanctions lists: this time they included Alina Kabaeva, several Russian businessmen (Andrey Guryev and his son Andrey, Andrey Melnichenko, Alexander Ponomarenko, Dmitry Pumpyansky, Viktor Rashnikov) and the occupation "mayor" of Mariupol Konstantin Ivashchenko. The list also included Kirill Stremousov, the deputy head of the occupying "military-civilian administration" of the Kherson region, and Vladimir Saldo, the "head" of the Kherson region.