The police detained the leaders and lawyers of the Democratic Coalition after a meeting of the Novosibirsk Region Electoral Committee, at which the candidates from the coalition were not allowed to participate in the elections. Among the detainees was the head of the coalition headquarters, Leonid Volkov, as well as two members of the "troika" of the electoral list, Yegor Savin and Sergei Boyko. Together with them, some journalists who were in the election commission were detained.

The police took the leaders and lawyers of the "Democratic Coalition" out of the building of the election committee of the Novosibirsk region. They tried to stay in the building after the meeting, in which the coalition was not allowed to participate in the elections. The electoral committee included, in particular, the head of the coalition headquarters, Leonid Volkov, and two members of the "troika" of the electoral list, Yegor Savin and Sergei Boyko.

Russian citizens Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeny Erofeev, who were detained in the combat zone in eastern Ukraine in May, were exchanged for Ukrainian security forces. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to a source in Russian law enforcement agencies and Alexandrov’s Ukrainian lawyer, Konstantin Kravchuk. According to the publication, the military was exchanged for several people (both Ukrainians and citizens of other countries) held captive by the LPR and DPR.

The Electoral Commission of the Novosibirsk Region refused to register the "Democratic Coalition", created by the Progress Party of Alexei Navalny and the Parnassus Party, for the elections. The Electoral Committee considered that the proportion of invalid signatures in support of the electoral list exceeded the limit established by law. Representatives of the Democratic Coalition have previously claimed that all their signatures are clean.

According to the website of the Krasnodar district attorney’s office, a pensioner in the city of Krymsk spent the last seven years trying to get the government to annul her own death certificate. The 63-year-old woman, whose name is not being reported, recently appealed to prosecutors asking them to nullify a death certificate issued about her on September 26, 2007. Apparently police misidentified the body of a woman discovered in the area at that time.

Shot: ZT Research / YouTube Tom Warner from the USA is actively hunting for lightning, shooting them on high -speed cameras. Thanks to Warner and his daughter (she shot the first video below), you can see how the charge in the atmosphere spreads.

The Tagansky Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the president of NPO Kosmos (the largest transport builder in Moscow) Andrei Chernyakov. A businessman accused of stealing part of a Bank of Moscow loan is abroad. At the meeting, the entrepreneur’s representative insisted that his client had traveled abroad without knowing about the criminal case.

YouTube has blocked the account of Chechen state television channel Grozny from uploading new content because of alleged violations of the site’s terms of service. According to the TV station, YouTube is acting for political reasons. “Given that [YouTube] is a subsidiary of the American company Google, it’s anyone’s guess how the ideology of the content on Chechen state television could be a problem for Western countries,” Grozny has said of the incident.

Rosselkhoznadzor spokesman Alexei Alekseenko said that the agency has not yet imposed a ban on the supply of flowers from the Netherlands. “We offered our European colleagues to negotiate in order to create a control system that would guarantee that contaminated products do not enter the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Screengrab: YouTube Moscow witnessed a spectacular and terrifying car chase last week, when men tried to rob a businessman of 1.5 million rubles ($25,000). After an altercation on the road, two men confronted another man, argued for a little over a minute, broke one of the windows on his car, and made off with a handbag containing the large sum of money. The thieves didn’t get very far, however, before the businessman was on their tail.

The largest porn sites in the world of Pornhub and Redtube conducted a study on what porn women are looking for and watch. The data show that among the women's audience the sections "Lesbians", "Gay" and "Big Penis" are most popular. Infographics: Pornhub Insights Pornhub conducted a similar study in September 2014. Over the past ten months, the interest of women in the category of "teenagers" has decreased (it left the third line of the top to the fourth), and grew to the "large penis".

Continued: The representative of the Rosselkhoznadzor denied the ban on flowers from the Netherlands Russia has banned the import of flowers from the Netherlands, TASS reports . All European phytosanitary control centers are recommended not to issue certificates to Dutch flowers going to Russia. As stated in the message of the department, this measure is needed in order not to prohibit the import of flowers from the entire European Union.

Five-pointed stars were removed from the new uniform of the Ukrainian military. They were replaced by the quadrangular insignia used in the Ukrainian Galician Army, the press service of the President of Ukraine reported. On July 27, the Ministry of Defense demonstrated samples of the new uniform to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and other members of the country's leadership.

Photo: Alexanda Hulme / Flickr The doubles of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, working on Red Square, reconciled after a quarrel, which occurred on June 21 in the Moscow metro. Then the actor Latif Valiev (Stalin) hit a colleague of Igor Gorbunov (Lenin) three times on his back, suspecting that he was working with another Stalin. After the incident, Gorbunov wrote a statement to the police.

Continuation: On July 28, the account was unblocked . YouTube blocked the account of the Grozny TV channel for violating the rules for using the service. As stated in the story dedicated to this story, "there is a political background in this situation." “Given that the hosting is a subsidiary of the American company Google, it remains to be seen what the ideology of the content of the state channel of Chechnya is preventing Western countries,” the authors of the story said.