The Russian NGO Committee Against Torture has announced its plans to close. Igor Kalyapin, the head of the organization, has said the decision to shut down came after the organization was included in Russia’s “foreign agents” registry. According to Kalyapin, the NGO’s employees refuse to continue working under the new circumstances.

There will be almost no video monitoring of elections on the next election day in Russia, which is scheduled for September 13, 2014. The Central Election Commission of Russia has reported that the vast majority of regional and municipal authorities have not allocated any funding for video recording equipment. Live video monitoring had been used during Russian elections previously to ensure that polling stations follow protocol.

Screenshot: Stuffin.space The student of the University of Tehas at Austin James Iodder created the Stuff in Space website, which displays the position of all satellites (blue points), missile buildings (red) and cosmic garbage (gray) rotating around the Earth. By choosing a specific satellite, you can see detailed information about it - including the whereabouts at a given time.

Actor Harry Shearer, who voices several characters on The Simpsons, has decided to return to the series. He wrote about this on his Twitter. According to Entertainment Weekly, Shearer was given the same deal as the other actors, with a salary of approximately $300,000 per episode. I said it at the beginning, but in the end it definitely became the truth: thanks to the fans for their support. Without her, I would not have returned. Reality Wives Gerry Shearer speaks in the voices of Mr.

Photo: Royalsaskmuseum / Twitter Employees of the Royal Museum of Saskachevan (the city of Redina, Canada) discovered a plush bear in the men's toilet, which was left by one of the visitors. To help Mishka find the owner, the museum arranged for him a photo shoot with exhibits. “You didn't lose a plush bear? He is here, and it seems to us that he wants to go home. Megamunk is too scary.

Yandex bought two Tesla electric cars, which will serve Yandex.Taxi service customers. The company did not tell how much the purchase of Tesla S and Tesla S Performance, which are not officially sold in Russia, cost. On the Tesla website, these cars cost 75 and 105 thousand dollars, respectively.

The Dorogomilovsky court of Moscow, where the case of the train crash in the subway is being considered, refused to interrogate the driver with the help of a hypnotist. The prosecution was also against this procedure, while one of the victims supported the idea of ​​lawyer Sergei Knyazkin. The machinist Sergey Osipov is a witness in the case. He was already interrogated during the preliminary investigation. Osipov declared that he did not remember anything.

Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling the massacre of Muslims in Srebrenica a genocide. The resolution was proposed to be adopted by the United Kingdom, it was supported by nine other countries. Four countries on the UN Security Council, including China, abstained from the vote.

Photo: Neoneo185 / Reddit The DPRK State Channel showed the plot about the problems of the United States. It said that while the homeless are forced to live in boxes, American billionaires buy collars for 15 thousand dollars to their dogs, set them in dog hotels and even arrange expensive parties for the birthdays of their pets. To demonstrate deep inequality in the United States, the programs of the program showed photos of dogs, including those sitting at the table.

Is the court rightly planting the Polukhin family? Two points of view Photo: Andrey Arkhipov / RIA Voronezh On July 7, the Voronezh court issued a decision on a high -profile case of food poppy. Members of the Polukhin family who own a restaurant, where they sold buns with poppy seeds, received more than eight years of imprisonment for drug trafficking. "Medusa" studied the resonant sentence and represents two versions of events.

A strong fire on the territory of the former ZIL plant in Moscow has been extinguished. The Moscow department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia reported that no one was injured as a result of the fire. Rescuers continue to dismantle the rubble. The cause of the fire has not yet been established. NewInTown Moscow ZIL fire July 8, 2015 Three helicopters were involved in extinguishing, more than 30 fire brigades were involved.

On a single voting day on September 13, almost no CCTV cameras will be installed at polling stations in the regions. The Central Election Commission told RBC that the regional and local authorities did not allocate money for equipment. The cameras will only be installed at some polling stations in two of the 21 regions where gubernatorial elections will be held. In the Leningrad region, they found money for video monitoring equipment for 300 out of 956 polling stations.

What and why is happening with the Chinese stock market: The Economist Photo: AFP / Scanpix In China, there was a sharp collapse of the stock market. The country's authorities decided to intervene in the situation: they banned transactions in which the investor earns on a fall in shares (“short sales”), limited the trade in a number of securities, canceled the entering the market of new players.

Ukrainian PrivatBank filed a lawsuit to protect investments lost due to the annexation of Crimea to Russia. The bank's spokesman, Oleg Serga, told RBC that the trial would take place in The Hague. He did not name the amount of the claim. The Court will conduct proceedings in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Daniil Turovsky tells the story of a Russian who became hostage to the Syrian Islamists Photo: shahbapress.com For almost two years in the Syrian captivity, the Russian traveler Konstantin Zhuravlev is located. In 2013, he was taken hostage by the opposition Islamist group "Lebani At-Tauhid".