The Antipinsky oil refinery, 20 percent owned by a fellow student of President Vladimir Putin, lawyer Nikolai Yegorov, has applied to participate in the privatization of Bashneft. It is reported by RBC with reference to a representative of the company. As the newspaper writes, the Antipinsky Oil Refinery was on the list of companies to which VTB Capital sent invitations to participate in privatization in mid-July, but then the company refused to confirm that they were interested in the asset.

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko said that several employees of the Security Service of Ukraine involved in torturing people will be arrested in the near future. This was reported by the TV channel "112 Ukraine". “Officers with serious stars on shoulder straps shot at people in the course of extortion, in the legs, in the hands, and broke their skulls,” the prosecutor general said.

Former Yukos shareholders have withdrawn their demand to seize a piece of land in Paris where Russia is building an Orthodox center. This information was confirmed to RBC by Group Menatep Limited (GML), which represents the shareholders. GML said the decision was made due to "changed circumstances". Earlier, the court refused to stop the construction of the center on the claim of Yukos shareholders.

Dave Hemingway won at the competition of doubles Hemingway. This is the first case for 36 years of the competition, when the writer’s namesake wins it. As Dave Hemingway admitted, he is in no way connected with Ernest Hemingway. Photo: ROB ONAL / Florida Keys News Bureau / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Charlie Boyce (left) and Welly Collins (right) congratulate Dave Hemingway on the victory This year, 140 people fought for the victory at the competition.

Oppositionist Ildar Dadin, who is serving a prison sentence for multiple detentions at rallies, became a defendant in an extremism case initiated because of Facebook posts. As his lawyer Aleksey Liptser told Open Russia, the case was opened under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity”) and is associated with an account that was maintained under the name of Ildar Dadin.

Prisoners who organized a riot in a correctional colony in Khakassia on July 24 may have planned riots in other correctional institutions, the investigation department of the RF Investigative Committee for Khakassia said. “They demanded that the administration provide them with a mobile phone, presumably in order to contact other colonies of Siberia and riot. At present, everything is being clarified, ”RIA Novosti quotes a representative of the department.

Photo: Vesti.ru / YouTube As the Democratic National Convention kicks off in the United States, the focus of the American media is shifting suddenly to Russia, where two of the Kremlin's intelligence agencies have allegedly orchestrated a bold cyberattack against the Democratic Party.

As the price of the arena over 10 years increased from 7 to 37 billion Photo in the announcement: Vladimir Astapkovich / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta

Petersburger Sergei Suzko was detained for filming the policemen buying Shawrema in a cafe. Suzko told Tjournal about the story that occurred on the evening of July 23. Suzko was broadcasting in Periscope next to the institution specializing in the Shaverm, and played in Pokemon Go at the same time (we note that at the same time it is impossible to engage in these two actions - the broadcast would be interrupted during the game).

Saki, a cub of a bisexual sloth, living in the EXITIC Animal Experience nursery in Orlando, first met a kangaroo named Bug. Saki obviously wanted to talk with a new acquaintance, but the bug was a little colder: he sniffed at the sloth, and then rose about his business. Exotic Animal Experience Baby Sloth Meeets His Big Brother Kangaroo

The head of the Yandex.News service, Tatyana Isaeva, will leave Yandex. She announced this on her Facebook. The press service of Meduza confirmed this information. Isaeva will stop working for the Russian search engine from August 1. In her post, Tatyana Isaeva pointed out that due to the “endless links in the chain” (closing and changing editorial offices in the media) and the new law on news aggregators, work ceases to be interesting.

The Russian government will allocate more than 100 billion rubles for the construction of the Tavrida highway, which should connect Kerch and Sevastopol. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “Last week, we were not without problems and after some discussions at the meeting, we found the necessary funding for the construction of the road in full,” he said at a meeting in Crimea. According to Medvedev, the final cost of the route is 139 billion rubles.

The Swiss authorities have frozen the assets of Russian banker Sergei Pugachev. The Geneva prosecutor's office said that this was done at the request sent by the Russian authorities in 2013, reports Associated Press. What assets were frozen is not specified. Earlier, the Swiss media reported on the freezing of about 700 million euros in Pugachev's account at Societe Generale, writes .

Khachatur Pombukhchan, chief financial officer of retailer Magnit, said that "slight turbulence with shelf prices" is expected in early 2017 due to new amendments to the trade law. According to him, price changes are possible due to the fact that "retailers will switch to the requirements of the law at different speeds." “I can't tell you right now how much our purchase prices will change due to the trade law. We hope that they will not change,” Pombukhchan said.

Photo: Kristoffer TripPlaar / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta The American Verizon Communications has announced the purchase of the main business Yahoo! For 4.8 billion dollars. Thus ended the independent story of one of the most interesting Internet companies in the world: Yahoo! She stood at the source of the Internet and could become something like Facebook or Google, but ceased to develop due to management mistakes. "Medusa" recalls the story of Yahoo! On gifs with elephants. Yahoo!