The owner of the Zorb ball, in which a tourist crashed in Dombay in winter, received a suspended four-year prison sentence. reported this on Thursday, July 18 RIA Novosti . The owner of the attraction in court fully admitted his guilt in providing services hazardous to health. According to him, he does not intend to appeal the verdict. The convict has already been released from house arrest, under which he was placed during the investigation.

The Moscow authorities promised to stop the public gathering to discuss the verdict of Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov, which is planned to be held on Manezhnaya Square. “An unauthorized event is stopped in any case, the organizers are identified, and brought to justice,” told ITAR-TASS Alexey Mayorov, head of the Moscow regional security department, . He noted that the opposition did not submit a notification about the event.

The MICEX index fell by more than 20 points during the trading session on July 18 on the Moscow Exchange amid news of the verdict of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who received 5 years in prison. Within two minutes, the main exchange indicator dropped from 1438 to 1415 points, or one and a half percent. A little later, the index added about 4 points, but is still significantly lower than the morning values.

Alexei Navalny, sentenced to five years in prison in the Kirovles case, addressed his associates on Twitter after the verdict. The entry posted on Thursday, July 18 at 12:24 Moscow time says: “Okay. Don't be bored here without me. And most importantly, don’t be idle, the toad won’t throw itself off the oil pipe.” The broadcast from the courtroom showed Navalny writing something on his phone after the verdict was handed down and then giving it to his wife Yulia.

President of Russian Railways OJSC Vladimir Yakunin called the accusations of involvement in corruption schemes, which oppositionist Alexei Navalny published on his blog, unfounded, reports . the Prime agency According to Yakunin, these accusations are damaging to Russian Railways and could lead to legal action.

A 96-year-old American woman who owns a grocery store drove a thief out of her outlet, reports the Associated Press . The incident happened a few days ago in Marshfield, Wisconsin. According to Margaretta Wolf herself, when the attacker approached the counter and demanded to open the cash register, she simply refused to do so. The elderly woman stated that she was not going to give the man the money, but told him that he could take the treat from the shelves for himself and not pay for it.

The sci-fi series "Firefly" will become a game. As Polygon reports, representatives of the Fox television channel announced this at the KomiCon festival. The release of the project, which is called Firefly Online, is scheduled for the summer of 2014. The game will be released on smartphones and tablets based on iOS and Android. The developers have not yet explained how the project will be monetized, but there is a possibility that it will be shareware.

A representative of the prosecutor's office filed an appeal against the arrest of Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov in the courtroom, a Lenta.ru correspondent reports. The Prosecutor General's Office, as reported by RIA Novosti , confirmed that the prosecution is asking to change the preventive measure against Navalny and Ofitserov to a written undertaking not to leave.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un demanded one million dollars from foreign journalists for an interview dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, the Chosun Ilbo reports. According to the publication, the DPRK administration sent out invitations to foreign journalists to celebrate the anniversary of the end of the war, which will take place on July 27, 2013. The invitation was sent to many news services, including the Associated Press, BBC News and Kyodo.

A criminal case has been opened against the mayor of the city of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region, Yuri Lastochkin, for abuse of power causing damage in the amount of 116 million rubles. This was reported on July 18 on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. According to investigators, in 2009 Lastochkin, being the general director of OJSC NPO Saturn, sold a complex of water treatment facilities to Stroyengineering for 4.8 million rubles.

The police dispersed the activists near the State Duma, a Lenta.ru correspondent reports. According to him, police in helmets entered the crowd of protesters in support of Alexei Navalny, began to push back citizens and cut through the crowd. The police began to harshly detain the first activists they came across, including girls. Most of the crowd is scattered. Some people were pushed towards Pushkinskaya up Tverskaya Street, others towards Teatralnaya.

The US Air Force tested a new long-range anti-ship cruise missile, LRASM, in mid-June 2013, Defense Aerospace reports. The tests, considered successful, were carried out on board a B-1B Lancer bomber without directly releasing ammunition. The missile was tested by the 337th Flight Test Squadron of the US Air Force. Structurally, the new anti-ship missile is based on the JASSM long-range air-to-surface cruise missile. According to Capt.

The White House expressed deep concern and deep disappointment in connection with the court's decision in Kirov in the case of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was sentenced on July 18 to five years in prison. The press briefing was broadcast live on the official White House website. According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, the charges against Navalny are politically motivated, and there were procedural violations in the case.

Manezhnaya Square in Moscow has been closed to entry, . photographer Ilya Varlamov tweets This is confirmed by journalist Viktor Nekhezin. The Alexander Garden and Red Square are also closed to the public “for technical reasons.” As a Lenta.ru correspondent reports, up to two hundred people gathered in the area bounded by Manezhnaya Square, the Moscow Hotel and the Historical Museum. They don't chant slogans. Law enforcement officers gathered near the Iverskaya Gate of the Kremlin.

On July 18, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation commuted the sentence of retired GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, who had previously been sentenced to 13 years for attempting to organize an armed uprising. According to RIA Novosti , the highest court reduced the sentence to eight years. As Interfax clarifies , the court excluded the article on terrorism from Kvachkov’s case and left only the charges of preparing an armed rebellion, and therefore the sentence was reduced by five years.