The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov. He is suspected of participating in the activities of the Army of the People's Will, which is recognized as extremist in Russia. The head of the organization, Yuri Mukhin, a publicist and former editor-in-chief of the Duel newspaper, is also involved in the case. He was detained in Simferopol and transferred to Moscow. The third suspect, Mukhin’s associate Valery Parfenov, was also taken into custody.

Russia exercised its right of veto when voting on a draft resolution on the establishment of an international tribunal to investigate the causes of the Boeing crash in Donbass. Angola, Venezuela and China abstained from voting. 11 of the 15 member countries of the UN Security Council voted for the adoption of a resolution on the tribunal for the "Boeing" (engl.lang.).

The editor -in -chief of the magazine "Science in Focus" Yegor Bykovsky reflected on how Kolobok’s body could be arranged. Bykovsky and colleagues proposed two models of a fairy -tale hero who left his grandfather and grandmother. The main problem that the models solve is to explain how the bun is moving and at the same time speaks. In the first model, it is assumed that inside the hero is a hollow space, in the center of which a heavy object is suspended (it hangs on muscle screeds).

The Novosibirsk regional Investigative Committee has launched a fraud case against Russia’s Democratic Coalition, a group of opposition politicians aiming to run in the upcoming Novosibirsk elections. The inspection was triggered by accusations from a campaigner tasked with collecting signatures in support of the coalition, who says the group did not pay him for his services, in accordance with his contract.

Interview with Leonid Volkov - chief of staff of the Democratic Coalition in Novosibirsk Photo: Cyril Kuhamar / Kommersant Democratic opposition plans to take part in the regional elections in the fall of 2015 every day seems to be less and less real. On July 29, the Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region began checking the "Democratic Coalition" on suspicion of fraud.

Publicist Yuri Mukhin was detained in Crimea. According to the publication Forum.msk, for which Mukhin regularly wrote, he was accused of creating an extremist community and decided to be transferred to Moscow. According to the site, Mukhin was detained in Simferopol, where he came to visit relatives. Meanwhile, there is nothing even the slightest bit funny or even curious about this sudden arrest.

How one human rights group became the country's most harassed organization Photo: Alexandra Krasnova / TASS / Scanpix The independent elections-monitoring organization Golos is on the brink of closure. The organization has been branded a “foreign agent,” and NGOs placed on this list are banned from monitoring elections. In order to shake the label, Golos has had to restructure several times and surrender all of its foreign funding.

Andrey Pivovarov, head of the headquarters of the Democratic Coalition in Kostroma, was arrested for two months. Pivovarov was detained on July 28 in one of the offices of the police department. Police officer Aleksey Nikonorov was detained along with him.

The owner of Rossiyskiy Kredit, Anatoly Motylev, has disappeared, RBC reports. The banker has not been seen since the licenses of his banks were revoked on July 24. According to one of the sources of the publication, Motylev probably left Russia.

Law enforcement agencies of Ukraine accused seven citizens of the Russian Federation "of committing a crime against Ukrainian citizen Nadezhda Savchenko." This was announced by Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Stolyarchuk, without naming the suspects. “First of all, these are the employees of the investigative unit of the ICR, who illegally, in our opinion (and there is evidence for this), detained and held her in custody.

The President of the Russian Federation signed a decree on the destruction of sanctioned products imported into Russia. The destruction of products whose import into the Russian Federation is prohibited due to sanctions will begin on August 6, 2015, according to a decree published on the website of the President of the Russian Federation. The decree does not cover goods imported by individuals for personal use, as well as products intended for transportation to third countries.

The Russian newspaper Kommersant has acquired and published the text (in Russian and English) of a UN Security Council draft resolution on establishing a criminal tribunal to determine responsibility for the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The Security Council is expected to discuss the resolution at 3 p.m., New York time, later today, on July 29.

Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in the suburbs of Rome has temporarily stopped sending flights due to a fire. This was announced by the airline Alitalia, based at the airport named after Leonardo da Vinci. The fire, the cause of which has not yet been reported, began in a forested area near the airport runway around 13:00 local time. Representatives of the airport administration said that the fire also affected the schedule of arrivals of aircraft (English).

The organizing committee for The Man Booker Prize has unveiled the long list of nominees for the 2015 award. The list includes 13 works by authors from the UK, USA, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Nigeria and Jamaica. Among the contenders for the award is the Irish author Anne Enright, who received the Booker in 2007 for her novel The Gathering.

Supermodel Cindy Crawford is working on an NBC series about 1980s modeling. This project is Crawford's debut as a television producer. While the series is tentatively called "Icon". The series will also be produced by Anne Heche, James Tupper and Robin Bissell, who notably executive produced The Hunger Games 2. The series will focus on the wars in the modeling business, namely the confrontation between two modeling agencies - Ford Modeling Agency and Elite Model Management.