In New York, a court sentenced Alexander Fishenko, a citizen of the United States and the Russian Federation, to 10 years in prison, who had previously pleaded guilty to illegally exporting technology to Russia, money laundering and other crimes. According to Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, Fishenko organized the illegal supply of American high-tech equipment to Russian companies, including those associated with the Russian Ministry of Defense and the FSB.

The governor of the Oryol region, Vadim Potomsky, said that his words about Ivan the Terrible's trip to St. Petersburg were a reservation. According to him, shortly before that, he spoke about the location of monuments in this city. “It was said about St. Petersburg, and therefore it all happened, as it were, on the machine,” Potomsky is quoted by TASS.

Acting Minister of Industry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Alexei Granovsky said that the Donetsk Electrometallurgical Plant (DEMP) will be returned to Mechel if the enterprise resumes work. “If the owner resumes the activities of DEMZ in the territory of the republic and provides 700 people with work, I think the Council of Ministers will make a positive decision to return the enterprise to the owner,” he said.

High-ranking officials of the Investigative Committee, who were arrested on July 19 in a bribery case, “influenced” the head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Alexander Drymanov, to help Andrei Kochuykov, an associate of thief in law Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy). This was reported to RIA Novosti by a source in law enforcement agencies.

Surveillance cameras filmed the moment when a bomb was planted under a car in which journalist Pavel Sheremet, who died on July 20 as a result of an explosion, was traveling. This is reported by the newspaper "Zerkalo Nedeli" with reference to a source in the police. According to the interlocutor of the publication, the recording was made on the night of July 20. There is no official confirmation of this information.

The largest Russian media holdings are discussing the creation of a unified online service for viewing the most popular programs on the Internet. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the managers involved in the work on the project. The project involves the holdings of Gazprom Media (NTV, TNT, TV-3, Pyatnitsa, Match-TV), National Media Group (Channel Five, REN), STS Media (STS, Domashny) , “Che”), as well as Channel One and VGTRK.

Attention: it is very likely that the video below is a staging. But the situation is too beautiful not to tell about it. The hero of the video is a cyclist who ended up on the median strip of Lipetskaya Street in Moscow. A black SUV pulls up beside him. Three heated men jump out of it: two attack the cyclist, and the third goes to “deal” with a white SUV that has stopped behind and honks. Behind the two cars also gets a dark minibus. And then the "mask show" begins.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molin said that Mohammed Boulel, who crushed 84 people to death in Nice, began preparing for the crime in 2015. This was shown by the analysis of information from the terrorist's smartphone, including search queries and photographs. In particular, investigators found photographs of mass events on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, taken in the summer of 2015, and photographs of newspaper headlines about incidents in France.

We don’t know how this happened, but Minnesota United goalkeeper Sammy Njok scored the most ridiculous own goal during a friendly match with English Bournemouth. Njok, trying to make a pass to teammates, sent the ball into his own net. The match ended 4-0 in favor of Bournemouth.

The Japanese company Funai Electric will stop producing VCRs in August. According to The New York Times, this is the last known manufacturer of such equipment. The reason for the cessation of production was a drop in sales. Last year, Funai Electric was only able to sell 750,000 VCRs worldwide, with a peak annual sales of 15 million. Funai Electric VCRs are made in China and sold under various brands, including Sanyo. The Verge reports that the company has been making VCRs since 1983.

Mechel has received an order to introduce temporary administration at one of its enterprises, the Donetsk Electrometallurgical Plant (DEMP). Under the order is the signature of the head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko. According to his decision, a new enterprise should be created on the basis of the plant, to which the property of DEMZ will be transferred.

Krasnodar football player Pavel Mamaev apologized to the fans for his behavior after the departure of the Russian national team from Euro 2016. His letter was published on the Championship.com website. “Offending, ignoring the fans was by no means my intention. I apologize to the fans who are worried about the national team, the fans of the Krasnodar football club, all the football workers who help the players, for the fact that I could hurt their feelings, ”Mamaev wrote.

The American satellite DSCOVR, launched in February 2015, takes pictures of the land every two hours from a distance of one and a half million kilometers. And thanks to his pictures, we can see how our planet looked for the last year. The scientist NASA Jay German and his team gathered a timelapse of three thousand photographs of the Earth, covering the period from August 2015 to July 2016. Open the video to the full screen and enjoy.

In Poland, the owner of the world's largest torrent tracker was detained. Short In Poland, the owner of the world's largest torrent tracker Kickasstorrents (KAT) was detained. It turned out to be a 30-year-old citizen of Ukraine Artem Vaulin. The operation was carried out at the request of the US authorities. In America, Vaulin is suspected of violation of copyright and money laundering - the damage from his activities amounted to more than a billion dollars.

Photo in the announcement: Mikhail Poyuev / TASS Guberantor of the Oryol Region Vadim Potsky on July 13 stated that a monument to Ivan the Terrible will be erected in Orel. A picket was held in the city against the installation of the monument. On July 21, Pisassky gave a press conference at which he stated that in Russian history there are three “sunk” great people: Ivan the Terrible, Peter I and Stalin.