The head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, Sergei Dankvert, urged not to talk about the distribution of products prohibited in Russia to poor children. “No one in the West distributes prohibited products to the poor, no one is engaged in reusing these products today. All our measures are aimed at preventing the access of such products to the market. So that businesses understand that economically they are suffering serious damage.

The working group of the Central Electoral Commission considered Parnas's complaint about the refusal to register for elections in Novosibirsk and refused to change the decision of the regional election commission. According to Roman Rubanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the CEC said that the opposition had submitted even more invalid signatures than the Novosibirsk election commission had found. Rubanov said that the FSB rejected the signatures .

The Leicestershire Police conducted an experiment in which, in response to reports of a burglary attempt, forensics were sent only to even-numbered houses. Only a police officer was sent to the houses on the odd side of the streets, and no one tried to find any traces of the burglars - for example, fingerprints. The experiment was decided to be carried out after studying the statistics. 1172 burglary attempts were analyzed.

The deputy chairman of the Russian Senate’s international relations committee, Andrei Klimov, is calling for the establishment of an international tribunal on the Vietnam War.

The Central Bank of Russia has revoked the license of two pension funds "Savings" and "Savings Fund Sunny Beach", which were part of the group of banker Anatoly Motylev. Earlier, the Central Bank banned the work of five more of its NPFs. Thus, all Motylev funds lost their licenses. According to the calculations of the Vedomosti newspaper, by July 2015, 46-47 billion rubles were stored in Anatoly Motylev's seven pension funds.

Photo: Stock Connection / Rex / Vida Press Someone in The Guardian finally got everything. In the signature to an unremarkable picture of the cake, he left a long angry letter on how difficult it is in the modern world to find a normal photograph of the culinary product: “Do you know how much time I sat in photo archives, trying to find an image of a regular cake? Dohren! Thousands of pictures and not on any one can be mistaken for a normal cake.

Roskomnadzor entered the entire board "Girls" on the Russian imageboard " Dvach " into the register of banned sites. When asked by site administrator Nariman Namazov why the department decided to block the entire board, and not a separate thread, Roskomnadzor said that the entire board was devoted to child porn, although in reality this was not the case. The address https://2ch.hk/g/ was included in the register on 30 July.

Screen capture: Channel 12 / YouTube A television station in Omsk aired a five-minute silent news segment earlier this week, with nothing but a quiet newsroom and an empty anchor’s chair. The unusual broadcast was Channel 12 ’s effort to draw attention to the region’s problem with missing persons. According to local investigators, 529 people have disappeared in the area since the beginning of the year.

The abbot of the monastery was accused of violating Celibath and assigning millions of dollars: nyt Photo: Imaginechina / Corbis / Vida Press The Chinese media published documents of an anonymous informant about the duplication of the head of the Shaolin monastery Shi Yunsin.

One of the heads of the OSCE monitoring mission in Donbass, Paul Picard , said that during the year observers noticed 21 cars with the inscription “cargo 200” on the Russian-Ukrainian border. Cars crossed the border through the checkpoints "Gukovo" and "Donetsk". According to Picard, the movement of cars was recorded from both sides of the border.

Scenes from Day 1 of Russia's new campaign to destroy sanctioned Western food imports Photo: Belgorod Region FSVPS press-service Today, August 6, marks the first day Russia is implementing Vladimir Putin's executive order to destroy sanctioned food products confiscated at the border. Not wasting any time getting started, Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (FSVPS) is already on the job.

What is known about the fight against sanctions products Over the past couple of weeks, almost everything that is possible has been told about the fight against sanctions food on the Russian border over the past couple of weeks. The process of destruction of products was overgrown with myths: pork was allegedly burned in mobile furnaces in which cremation was carried out before; Destroyed food could be fed the poor and hungry; Only in Russia can such an abuse of food.

Shot: Alexey Simakin / YouTube Tyler Crompton from Alabama attached a video camera to his cat and forced her to chase a laser pointer. The operator cat honestly took off, and we can see it. Tyler Crompton Trip The GoPro Cat Now you can turn off the Internet - he has completed his main task.

As crushed nine tons of cheese in the Belgorod region. Photo gallery Photo: press service of the Rosselkhoznadzor Office in the Belgorod Region In Russia, on August 6, a decree of President Vladimir Putin on the destruction of sanctions products on the border entered into force. The Rosselkhoznadzor immediately began its performance. “This is not a simultaneous campaign, this is a serious job,” Aleksey Alekseenko, assistant to the head of the department, said in a commentary on the RSN.

What you need to know about the opening of a new Suez channel Photo: Amr ABDALLAH DALSH / Reuters / Scanpix On August 6, a new Suez Canal opened in Egypt - a short path between the Mediterranean and Red Seas. The construction lasted only a year, during this time Egypt was able to significantly expand the old channel: the bandwidth will now reach 97 vessels per day, and the waiting in line for the passage will be limited to three hours against 10-12 hours now.