OTP Bank, the Russian subsidiary of the Hungarian corporation OTP Group, intends to expand its operations in Russia. This was reported by the Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA). The agency writes that the bank's rating was raised from "A+" to "AA-". The bank primarily deals with lending to individuals.

In the UK, a 17-year-old teenager attacked a children's dance club with a knife. He killed two and injured several children, the BBC reports . On Monday morning in the town of Southport, near Liverpool, a young man with a knife in his hands entered a dance class where children aged between six and ten were taking part and attacked them. Two children died from stab wounds, another nine were injured, six of whom are in a critical condition.

Thousands of opposition supporters have protested in the Venezuelan capital Caracas after the results of the presidential election were announced, which the government says was won by the country's incumbent President Nicolas Maduro, the Associated Press and Reuters reported. To disperse the protesters, the police and the military used tear gas, El Nacional reports . In response, some of the protesters threw stones at the police. According to the publication, about twenty people were arrested.

Three teenagers accused of sexualized violence against other children have been sentenced in Yekaterinburg, It's My City reports . The three seventeen-year-old defendants studied with their victims at the closed special school No. 124, where, according to the prosecution, humiliation, beatings and rape of some students by others were practiced.

In Poland, local security forces detained Russian Igor Rogov, who was once deputy head of Navalny's headquarters and then worked for Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Open Russia. This was reported by the publication Vot Tak, citing unnamed acquaintances of Rogov. Sota and Port also wrote about the detention, citing sources about Rogov's detention. Rogov was reportedly taken to the prosecutor's office for questioning. He has a lawyer, but the details of the suspicions against him are still unknown.

Belarusian performance artist Alexei Kuzmich Jr. dug up Vincent Van Gogh's grave in a cemetery in the French town of Auvers-sur-Oise. Kuzmich called his performance "Renaissance" and posted a video recording of the action. The author of the performance dressed in a white suit with white shoes, painted his face white and brought a white alarm clock to the grave. The alarm rang, and Alexey Kuzmich told the few spectators that he understood the sadness with which they came to Van Gogh's grave.

Russian musicians, actors, writers and other anti-war artists have been forced into exile, while Vladimir Putin is forcing the artists who remain in Russia to "show their loyalty," The Washington Post reports . According to the publication, after the war in Ukraine began, several Bolshoi Theatre artists left Russia, and the theatre itself stopped touring in Europe and America.

Residents of the Yaroslavl, Ivanovo and Kostroma regions complained about the lack of food products in Pyaterochka stores, in particular water, bread, cereals, vegetables and seafood. This was reported by 7x7. The publication writes that problems with filling shelves in stores in the Yaroslavl region began at least on July 20. In the Ivanovo region, food shortages have been recorded for several weeks, although local residents only began to complain publicly at the end of July.

"Foreign powers" — Russia, China, and Iran — are trying to influence the results of the American presidential election, the US National Intelligence Agency has announced . Russian authorities are hiring American citizens to spread propaganda, according to a report on the election campaign prepared by the agency's director's office at the end of July. Russia is the top threat to the US election, the report says.

A hurricane wind with hail and snow hit Tatarstan. At the Nizhnekamsk airport, a tornado lifted several planes from the airfield, scattered them and crashed them, the Kazan No. 1 Telegram channel reported . The scale of the incident was confirmed by Kommersant and RBC , which contacted the airport. The tornado hit the Begishevo passenger airfield at around 15:00 and knocked over four Diamond-42 training aircraft belonging to the St. Petersburg University of Civil Aviation.

Turkish lawmakers have approved a stray dog ​​law aimed at getting them off the streets that animal rights activists fear could lead to the mass killing of animals and their being sent to overcrowded shelters, the Associated Press reports . The law allows the killing of sick and aggressive dogs. The rest are planned to be caught, placed in shelters and rehomed.

A chicken-and-egg argument ends in a stabbing and murder. A man in Indonesia stabbed his friend more than 10 times over a debate over an age-old philosophical question, The Straits Times reported , citing Indonesian police. The murder took place on July 24, but it was only revealed a few days later. Residents of a village on the island of Sulawesi started an argument about what came first, the egg or the chicken.

The Hungarian authorities have expanded the list of countries whose citizens can obtain a Hungarian residence permit in a simplified manner. As reported by RND, since July 9, the so-called "national card" program includes Russians, Belarusians, as well as citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Northern Macedonia and Montenegro. Until now, the program only applied to holders of Ukrainian and Serbian passports.

Russian human rights activists disagreed about the reasons for the simultaneous disappearance of several well-known political prisoners from their colonies, including Ilya Yashin , Sasha Skochilenko , Oleg Orlov , Liliya Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeeva, Kevin Lik and Daniil Krinari. The two most popular versions of what is happening are: one is that the political prisoners are being prepared for a large-scale exchange that is to take place between Moscow and Washington.

A gay Russian official told Kholod about his work amid growing homophobia in the country. According to him, he has recently often faced internal conflict due to serving a state that declares LGBT people extremists, raids gay clubs, and imprisons people for public displays of same-sex love. "I generally consider myself a statist. Previously, I was calm about what was happening in the country, although I saw the growing fuck-up.