Russia and France have reached an agreement to terminate the contract for the construction of Mistral-class helicopter carriers. This is stated in a message released by the press service of the presidential administration of France. The agreement reached provides that the French side will have the full right to dispose of the built Mistrals at its discretion. In turn, the Russian side will be "fully reimbursed for the costs under the contract," the Elysee Palace said in a statement.

CSKA Moscow made it to the Champions League playoff round by beating Sparta Prague 3-2 away. During the match of the third qualifying round, the Russian club lost 0:2, but managed to bounce back and take the lead. A double in the army team was made by Ahmed Musa, the winning goal was scored by Alan Dzagoev. The first match of the third qualifying round of the Champions League between CSKA and Sparta ended in a 2-2 draw.

Malaysian authorities have said that a fragment of the fuselage found on the coast of Reunion Island belongs to Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777, which went missing in March 2014. The belonging of the wreckage, said Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak in a special televised address, was confirmed by the examination. "International experts have conclusively determined that the fragment found in Reunion belongs to flight MH370," the prime minister said.

Photo: Letdown102 / Flickr (CC by-NC-ND 2.0) On the Estonian website of CV-Online vacancies there was an announcement about the search for a ship cat. The vacancies say that a candidate for this work must be able to swim, have good vision and hearing, and also be independent, decisive and energetic. The cat will go on the Katharina steamer, which rolled passengers in the Bay of Tallinn. The animal is promised for free accommodation, unlimited food and the opportunity to sleep when he wants.

Photo: Pavel Losevsky / Photobank Lori The Department of Social Service and Church Charity of the Tver and Kashinsky diocese will hold the charitable distribution of mayonnaise to large, low -income and needy families, according to the website of the Tver diocese. The action will be held on August 7 with the blessing of Metropolitan of Tver and Kashinsky Victor.

Video hosting YouTube announced the abandonment of the feature, due to which the counter of views of popular videos froze at 301+. As the company explains, the service deliberately froze the counter for several hours at this value until the views were checked (this is done to weed out cheating with the help of robots). Now the counter will immediately add those views that YouTube is sure are real, while suspicious ones will be checked by the system in parallel.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against five police officers from Nizhny Novgorod. They are suspected of negligence. As stated in the message of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the police did not respond to the messages of Oleg Belov's wife about beatings and death threats. As a result of their inaction, Belov killed his wife and six children.

Frame: Sharp (True Star), grossly from nowhere “extremely clear” / youtube The Village publication has inflicted songs of Russian rappers on the Moscow map, which mention various places of the capital. As can be seen on the map, most of all their work went through the center of Moscow (they were sang about it, Basta, Timati, Ptah and other performers) and the southeastern administrative district (“Keilnocoupler”, “Eldport”, “Yellow branch”).

Russian citizens Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Aleksandrov, who were detained during the battle in the Donbass, will be charged under the article on planning and unleashing an aggressive war. This was announced by the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios.

The court sentenced nationalist Dmitry Demushkin to 15 days of arrest for displaying Nazi symbols. This is the maximum penalty under this administrative article. According to Demushkin, the court found a swastika in a picture measuring 266 by 170 pixels. The image is a still from the movie " Dead Snow ", which is about German soldiers turned into zombies. It's impossible to see the swastika on the zombie's sleeve. Dmitry Demushkin's computer was confiscated.

Photo: kremlin.ru (cc by 4.0) The great -grandson of Nikita Khrushcheva Nina, who lives in the USA, wrote for QUARTZ a story about how she went to Red Square with Vladimir Putin insulting Vladimir Putin. The article is called “Here< What Happened When I Held Up a“ Putin is a dick “Sign in Red Square”, which can be translated as “This is what I was holding the Putin - ***“ on Red Square ”, but in reality everything was somewhat different.

The Bank of Russia submitted to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation materials on the activities of the leaders of the Russian Credit Bank, suspecting them of a criminal offense. The Central Bank said in a statement that Rossiyskiy Kredit provided false reporting, hiding the circumstances that would lead to the revocation of its license.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Lukashevich, who previously headed the press service of the Foreign Ministry, as the new representative of Russia to the OSCE. What position will receive the former representative of Russia, Andrei Kelin, is not officially reported. According to Kommersant, he will head the department of pan-European cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Russia is now destroying banned Western food products on sight Photo: Artem Zhitenev / RIA Novosti / Scanpix August 6 will mark the one-year anniversary of Moscow's food war with the West. That same day, new regulations requiring the complete destruction of banned Western food products will come into effect on Russian territory. Meduza explains what led the country to this conflict, and how it's affecting ordinary Russians.

The Russian Historical Society published a report by the USSR Embassy in Japan on the consequences of the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This document is kept in the Russian Foreign Policy Archive. The society's website claims that the report is being published for the first time. A group of Soviet embassy workers visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki about a month after the bombings. They arrived in Hiroshima on September 14, 1945.