A mother in Novokuznetsk could be headed to prison because of an unorthodox attempt to find her daughter a new husband. According to local investigators, the woman spent two years posing as her daughter on social media, chatting with different men and posting many revealing and even nude photos of her daughter. The 57-year-old mother reportedly strongly dislikes her daughter's current husband, and hoped to lure a man to replace him as her son-in-law.

Artists from the Sever-7 group covered the genitals of a copy of the statue of David installed in St. Petersburg with a cap. A plastic copy of the sculpture is located at the Lutheran Church of St. Anna on Kirochnaya Street. The cap was attached to it with paper tape. Earlier, a Petersburger Inna Lvovna complained about the sculpture - she demanded to cover David's nakedness. “How could you put this peasant without trousers in the center of St. Petersburg, near the school and the church?

The Russian weightlifting team in full force was suspended from participation in the 2016 Olympic Games. This decision was made by the International Weightlifting Federation. The reason for the suspension of athletes was the use of doping. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on July 18 presented a report that refers to the systematic use of prohibited drugs in Russian sports. In addition, sports officials were convicted of involvement in the concealment of positive doping tests.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) suspected Apple of involvement in price collusion in the retail market in Russia. FAS deputy head Andrey Tsarikovskiy said that Apple could have played a "coordinating role" in setting prices for the sixth-generation iPhone in Russian stores. “The case is at the stage of excitation. We are already very close,” said the deputy head of the FAS. “Wherever you go if you want to buy an iPhone, the prices are the same everywhere.

Mail.ru Group Vice President Yuri Gursky was fired because of his work on a third-party project - the Prisma application, Vedomosti writes, citing a source in the company. According to Dmitry Sergeev, vice president of Mail.ru Group, Gursky was fired due to a conflict of interest. Gursky himself claims that he did not see the papers on dismissal and, in general, he himself was going to leave the company for a month.

Several employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation have resigned in connection with the case of patronage of the criminal authority Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy). This was reported by the Interfax news agency, citing an unnamed source. Among the dismissed are a number of heads of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Central Administrative District of Moscow.

In Turkey, purges continue after the failed coup: after the army and educational institutions, the authorities took up the media. In total, more than a hundred publications were closed, dozens of journalists were arrested, including those who were not involved in politics. Turkish journalist Mahir Zeynalov, who lives outside the country, tweeted photos of the arrests of some of them.

Journalists of the New Kaliningrad publication discovered the acting governor of the Kaliningrad region Evgeny Zinichev in TASS archival photographs, in which participants in the working trips of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin were removed. Photo: Vladimir Smirnov / TASS TRAIDENT of Vladimir Putin to Ivanovo. Far right - FSO employee Evgeny Zinichev. November 2010 Zinichev is located next to Putin in the pictures from Yaroslavl (2006) and Ivanovo (2010).

The Russian consumer rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, which previously fervently defended foreign-currency mortgage holders, has now changed its position and has decided that such loan contracts are contrary to the country’s civil code and Consumers’ Rights laws, meaning that those people who are having difficulty making payments in light of a significantly weakened ruble no longer have the watchdog’s support.

In Philadelphia, on July 28, the Congress of the US Democratic Party ended, during which Hillary Clinton was approved as a presidential candidate. After her speech, balloons rained down from the ceiling of the conference room. Hillary Clinton's family and associates of the candidate could not contain their delight. G4ViralVideosBill Clinton Plays With Balloons at the DNC The whole room was filled with balloons. They aroused particular joy in former US President Bill Clinton.

Earlier this week, a woman in Novosibirsk tried to hide from bailiffs come to collect on unpaid debts by burying herself under a pile of linoleum tiles and putting a bucket over her head. According to the news website Ngs.ru , the woman owes 50,000 rubles ($750) in unpaid utilities bills. When bailiffs first came to her home, she lied about her identity and refused to open the door to her apartment.

Reaganism, single America, the fight against Trump. And Clinton speech (as briefly as possible) Photo: Carlos Barria / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On July 28, the Congress of the US Democratic Party ended in Philadelphia, at which Hillary Clinton was officially nominated by presidential candidate. The congress, like the entire pre -election race, will definitely go down in the history of the United States - so far none of the largest parties have put forward a woman to the president.

In the village of Taman in the Kuban, a state of emergency was introduced due to a lack of drinking water. The press service of the Yugvodokanal company reported that frequent interruptions in water supply began "due to the increased influx of tourists at the height of the summer holiday season." Water consumption in the village has almost doubled compared to the spring period. Yugvodokanal complained that numerous semi-legal hotels and catering establishments consume water in the coastal zone.

The Federal Customs Service (FTS) denied reports of new searches in the department. The press service of the FCS said that the department is working as usual. New searches at the Federal Customs Service were reported by Novaya Gazeta, citing unnamed sources. She also disseminated information about the resignation of three heads of the department. The newspaper did not name them. Information about the dismissal of employees of the FCS has not officially commented.

Yesterday, Vladimir Putin appointed Evgeny Zinichev to serve as the new acting governor to the Russian exclave Kaliningrad. Zinichev previously worked in the Federal Protective Service and personally guarded Vladimir Putin on official trips as far back as 2006. According to Zinichev's official biography, he served in “various positions in state security agencies” from 1987 until 2015, when he took command of the Federal Security Service bureau in Kaliningrad.