As Kholod has learned, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case eight months after police officers beat and insulted Moscow resident Tamerlan Marzoev because of his nationality. "The initiation of a criminal case is certainly a positive event in Tamerlan's history. In this way, the state has acknowledged that the crime was committed by a police officer and that it was not an invention of the applicant.

Russia may deploy missiles "including nuclear weapons" in response to the deployment of American missiles in Germany, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, as reported by TASS. "I don't rule out any options," he said when asked about the possible deployment of nuclear-tipped missiles. Earlier, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told the Rheinische Post that the United States is preparing to deploy its hypersonic missiles in Germany by 2026.

The US Democratic Party has postponed the decision to nominate Joe Biden as a presidential candidate until the first week of August, The New York Times reports . Earlier, several anonymous Democratic Party representatives told Axios that growing pressure from party leaders in Congress and close friends would convince Biden to drop out of the race.

Rosfinmonitoring should be given the authority to block any "suspicious" transactions by Russians. The head of the agency, Yuri Chikhanchin, announced this at a plenary session of the Federation Council, the Agency noted . According to him, the service should have the right to promptly stop financial transactions when there is a suspicion that a crime is being committed.

A team of scientists from England, including Dave Clements from Imperial College London, Jane Greaves from Cardiff University and Nikku Madhusudhan from Cambridge University, have discovered two gases on Venus – phosphine and ammonia – that could indicate the presence of life in the planet’s clouds, The Guardian reports . The results of the study were presented at a national astronomy meeting in Kingston upon Hull, England.

Due to the heat, two southern species of wasps and poisonous spiders Argiope bruennichi have appeared in the capital. Entomologist Roman Khryapin told the Moscow agency about this. "In the Moscow region, they began to record the Pelopea wasp - this is a southern species of wasps that hunt spiders. They can be found in our houses, they build nests from clay. This is a solitary individual, so they do not pose a danger. Giant Scolia appeared only recently - the largest wasps," he said.

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center have created a speech neuroprosthesis that allows a person to reproduce words by representing them in syllables, the journal Neurosurgery reports . The researchers' report says the prosthesis artificially generates speech building blocks based on high-frequency activity in brain regions never previously used to create neuroprosthetics, namely the anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex, as well as the hippocampus.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article on hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) after State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Mikhail Matveyev tried to break up a fight in Samara. This was reported by RBC with reference to the press service of the Investigative Committee.

The mayor of the city of Bogdanovich, Oleg Neifeld, has won moral compensation in the amount of 25 thousand rubles in court, which will have to be paid by a local resident, Irina Kostyleva. The wife of the city resident who went to fight in Ukraine called the mayor a bandit for the redistribution of the funeral services market and the increase in the cost of funerals. The results of the trial were reported by the woman's lawyer, Evgeniya Krotova.

French Abbot Pierre, who died in 2007 aged 94, has been accused of sexual abuse and harassment 17 years after his death, the BBC reports . According to the publication, Abbé Pierre was one of the most revered figures in France, who was involved in protecting the rights of the homeless. He also founded the Emmaus anti-poverty movement.

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Georgian citizen Mikheil Chkhikvishvili with incitement to mass murder. According to the Justice Department's report , the 21-year-old neo-Nazi nicknamed "Commander Butcher" planned to have a man dressed as Santa Claus hand out poisoned candy to "children in Jewish schools" and "racial minorities" during the Christmas holidays in New York City.

In a month of operation, 17 thousand people registered in the dating app TON Dating, 85% of whom were women, the official Telegram channel of the dating service reported . TON Dating is a Telegram bot with a subscription, which is paid only for men. Women who register and verify their account, on the contrary, are entitled to payments in Toncoin tokens. Over the month, the total amount of rewards for women was 3909 TON (about 2.48 million rubles).

More than 1,100 Russians, 400 of whom are women, are waiting for the Finnish authorities to consider their applications for political asylum, the Finnish TV channel Yle reports , citing data from the country's migration service. The delays in processing asylum seekers' applications, Yle reports, are due to the fact that the European Union Asylum Agency (EUAA) has suspended the development of common principles for all member states on how to deal with refugees from Russia.

Residents of the village of Gornovodyanskoye in the Volgograd region have drawn the attention of local authorities to tapeworms in tap water, V1 reported . In response, the head of the village council, Irina Gorshkova, called the complainants supporters of Alexei Navalny and opponents of the president. Svetlana Yashina, a resident of Gornovodyanoye, told the publication about worms in the water. Her husband filled the bathtub with water to bathe the child, but saw a long, elongated protostom.

German sportswear and footwear brand Adidas has been accused of threatening the creative freedom of fashion designers over its efforts to protect its signature three stripes. The accusations against the brand were made by New York fashion designer Thom Browne, who is suing the company in London's High Court, the Financial Times reports . The lawsuit stems from Browne's luxury brand Thom Browne launching hoodies and sweatshirts with the four stripes.