As part of the XVII International Bike Show, organized by the Russian motorcycle club "Night Wolves" and its leader Alexander "Surgeon", bikers rode through the streets of Sevastopol. The grand march of motorcyclists who came from Russia, Ukraine and other countries ended with a rally on Nakhimov Square, in which the mayor of the city, Vladimir Yatsuba, took part. At the rally they announced the opening of the “Biker Museum” in Sevastopol.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning alcohol advertising on the Internet and print media, the Kremlin website reported on July 21. The ban on advertising of alcohol in print will come into force on January 1, 2013, the ban on such advertising on the Internet - on the day of the official publication of the law. The law amending the Law “On Advertising” was adopted by the State Duma on July 6 and approved by the Federation Council on July 18.

21.07.2012, 20:29:35 version Print | PDA/PDA Evgeny Nikitin in "The Flying Dutchman". Photo from the site mariinsky.ru Russian opera singer lost his leading role because of a swastika tattoo Russian opera singer Yevgeny Nikitin refused the main role in Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman" staged by Jean Philippe Gloger, the premiere was supposed to take place on July 25 as part of the festival in Bayreuth, Germany, reports Agence France-Presse .

On July 21 , Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law ratifying the protocol on Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the reports Kremlin press service . The law on ratification of the protocol was adopted by the State Duma on July 10 and approved by the Federation Council on July 18.

In the largest city of Ingushetia, Nazran, a group of attackers fired at the building of the railway station, Interfax reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. The fire came from automatic weapons and a grenade launcher. The incident occurred on the night of Saturday, July 21, on Pobeda Street in Nazran. Two unidentified persons drove up to the station building in a Zhiguli car and began shooting at the station facade.

In Ingushetia, a group of armed men fired at a military convoy, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Ingush department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. As a result of the shelling, two servicemen were killed and three more were injured. Fire was opened on the convoy at about 12:00 on Saturday, July 21, on the road between the settlements of Dattykh and Galashki in the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chechen Republic, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, proposed changing the title of the ombudsman position to “commissioner,” Checheninfo reports. Nukhazhiev plans to address the Chechen parliament with a corresponding proposal so that the deputies take the initiative to change federal legislation.

Three Vietnamese army soldiers have been detained for abusing Pygathrix cinerea monkeys , BBC News reported Friday. The soldiers tortured and killed two rare animals, and then one of them posted photos of the abuse on his page on the social network Facebook. Judging by the photographs, before depriving the monkeys of their lives, they twisted their paws, strangled them with a rope, inserted a lit cigarette into their mouths and beat them.

The leader of the unregistered Other Russia party, Eduard Limonov , and the party's press secretary, Alexander Averin, were summoned for questioning in connection with the riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, Interfax reports, citing Averin. According to him, they received an official summons from the Investigative Committee of Russia with an invitation for questioning on July 24.

On July 21, the Kazan court decided to arrest four suspects in the attempt on the life of the Mufti of Tatarstan Ildus Fayzov, reports the department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICR) for the republic. All of them were arrested until September 20.

Novosibirsk resident Valentina Gerasimova, who attempted self-immolation at the local public reception of the United Russia party , died in hospital. The online publication Sib.fm reported this on Saturday evening. Galina Gavrilova, the eldest in the house and Gerasimova’s neighbor, told the publication about the death of the victim. “Valentina Stepanovna’s son, Alexey, came to me to pick up correspondence and said that today at 17:45 his mother passed away,” Gavrilova said by phone.

11 people injured in an attack on a movie theater in Colorado on the night of July 20 remain in critical condition, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing local police. According to Dan Oates, the police chief of the city of Aurora, where the massacre took place, according to the latest data, a total of 12 people were killed and 58 were injured. Of these, 30 victims are still in hospitals. It was previously reported that ten people died at the scene of the crime, and two more died in hospital.

The South Sudanese authorities have withdrawn from negotiations with Sudan due to the bombing, which injured two people, reports Agence France-Presse . “We cannot sit down at the negotiating table while they are bombing our territories,” said South Sudanese delegation spokesman Atif Kiir. According to South Sudan military spokesman Philip Ager, the Sudanese military dropped eight bombs on the town of Rubaker. “The last time they wanted to interrupt the negotiations, they also bombed...

The Belarusian KGB detained 16-year-old Ekaterina Skurat, who was the first to take photographs of the “plush landing” dropped on Belarus, writes Charter’97. Information about the detention of a girl, a resident of the village of Ivenets, Volozhin district, Minsk region, appeared on July 20 on social networks.

The sixth suspect in the assassination attempt on the Mufti of Tatarstan Ildus Fayzov has been detained, RIA Novosti reports . The detainee, 37-year-old native of Bashkiria Marat Kudakaev, was previously the head of the law enforcement department of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Tatarstan, but was fired two years ago.