Photo: Zurab Javahadze / TASS / Scanpix American journalist Michael Ways published on Twitter a screenshot of correspondence with the producer of the RT channel Anastasia Skoblina, who called him for an interview. Skoblina offered a journalist and his colleague James Miller to speak in a program dedicated to the Boeing shot down over Ukraine.

Vasily Utkin, editor-in-chief of NTV-Plus sports channels, demanded an apology from Tina Kandelaki for her words that she would “build from scratch a sports editorial office” of the new Match TV channel, which is being created on the basis of NTV-Plus. Utkin called Kandelaki's comment humiliating for himself and his team. “Twenty years of life wasted. I'll probably go then," he tweeted.

The head of Russian Technologies, Sergei Chemezov, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to make his state corporation the sole supplier of drugs for the treatment of tuberculosis, HIV and viral hepatitis. RBC writes about this, which has a copy of the official's letter. In addition, Chemezov asked for a monopoly on the supply of blood products.

Rosnano board member Yakov Urinson and former first deputy chairman of the state corporation Andrey Rappoport denied reports that they left Russia for fear of criminal prosecution. Urinson said in a commentary to the Ekho Moskvy radio station that he was on vacation and was going to return to Moscow in early August. Rappoport told the Interfax news agency that he also went on vacation, but plans to return to Moscow in time for the start of the business season.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation returned to the association of observers Golos the fines that the organization had paid for refusing to register as a "foreign agent". According to the head of the association, Grigory Melkonyants, the money was returned in connection with the execution of the decision of the Moscow City Court of September 2014. Then the court recognized that Golos was declared a "foreign agent" illegally.

Shot: Bird in Flight Magazine / YouTube In mid -July, two young people walked around Moscow, holding hands - they checked how Muscovites react to a pair of open gays. The publication Bird in Flight decided to repeat the experiment in Kyiv, hovering a reaction of passers -by to homosexuals on a hidden camera. In general, the Kiev video demonstrates less a negative reaction of passers -by than Moscow.

Employees of the University of Birmingham discovered one of the oldest copies of the Qur'an in the library-a fragment of the text, namely 18-20 sura, written on two sheets of parchment, possibly during the life of the Prophet Muhammad. The radiocarbon analysis showed that the text could be written between 568 and 645 years. For almost a century, these sheets remained unnoticed, as they were attached to another manuscript.

Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alfred Koch has denied accusations of smuggling the painting, which was seized from him during an attempt to take it abroad in 2014. Koch commented on the publication in the Kommersant newspaper, which reported that an examination confirmed the authenticity of the painting - it was allegedly painted by the Soviet artist and graphic artist Isaac Brodsky.

Why Russia's federal cops refuse to declassify documents from 80 years ago Photo: Dmitri Korotaev / PhotoXPress Sergei Prudovsky has once again launched a court appeal in Moscow. Previously, the court ruled to extend the official secrecy of a state document concerning the repression of Prudovsky’s grandfather in Manchuria in the 1930s.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has promised to impose sanctions against French parliamentarians who are going to visit Crimea on July 23. First of all, they face a ban on entry to Ukraine.

At the meeting on July 22, the shareholders of Ukrnafta elected a new head of the company. They became a British citizen Mark Rollins. He will take up his duties not earlier than September , since he is still working in the Kazakhstani branch of the British oil company BG Group. Rollins' appointment received 99.97 percent of the quorum. As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the shareholders of Ukrnafta started the meeting.

"Crimean": how you do not need to make festivals Photo: Dima Sheblakin / Group "Crimea Fest" / VKontakte Under Sevastopol on July 21, with great difficulty, the Krymfest festival began - an event with an impressive list of artists, which can be compared with the Kubana, who moved to Riga, if you only look at the poster.

The government of the Russian Federation has developed a draft law that allows foreign companies to be held administratively liable under the article on bribery, even if the offense was committed outside of Russia. We are talking about Article 19.28 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (illegal remuneration on behalf of a legal entity). Companies are offered to fine if the offense is directed against the interests of Russia.

Photo: Mjpukkula / Twitter 19-year-old Maggie Pukkul posted on Twitter photos from the first concert of the Nirvana group, which later became the main granzh-college. She knew that her father Tony played with Kurt Cobain while studying in high school, but did not suspect that these photos were so rare and valuable. The concert, which is captured in old photographs, took place in March 1987 at home by Tony Pukkuly in Raymond (Washington).

A criminal case has been opened against Russian businessman German Sterligov, who moved to Nagorno-Karabakh, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a joint statement. He is charged with articles 281.2 (open appeals directed against the state) and 318.2 (illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of Azerbaijan) of the Criminal Code.