More than 45 members of the local unit of the Islamic State (an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation), which claimed responsibility for the crash of the Russian A321 aircraft in October 2015, were killed in Sinai. This was stated by the representative of the Egyptian army, General Mohammed Samir.

Died actress Zinaida Sharko. This was announced by the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Drama Theater named after Tovstonogov, where she worked since 1956. She was 87 years old. Information about the civil memorial service will be published in the near future. Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater Zinaida Sharko was born in 1929 in Rostov-on-Don.

The head of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Alexander Zhukov, said that the commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed 271 Russian athletes to participate in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. “At this point, 271 athletes from Russia have been admitted to the Olympics,” R-Sport quotes Zhukov. According to Interfax , a decision has not yet been made on the participation in the Games of three members of the cycling team, one rower and one wrestler.

Situation: A flying saucer is driving down the street in Gorey, Ireland, followed by a police car with flashing lights. And all this happens very slowly. Oddly enough, the police managed to stop the UFO. The flying saucer was driven by local artist Ali Kemal Ali. Finding out that the vehicle is not dangerous, they let him go.

Moscow "Spartak" lost with a score of 0:1 to the Cypriot club "AEK Larnaca" in the match of the 3rd qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League and flew out of the tournament. In a parallel match, Krasnodar beat the Maltese Birkirkara with a score of 3:1 and advanced to the next round. Spartak conceded the only goal at the very end of the match - Ivan Trichkovsky scored in the 88th minute. The first game ended in a 1-1 draw.

The crew of the Pakistani Mi-17 helicopter, which made a hard landing in Afghanistan on August 4, was captured by members of the Taliban group (banned in Russia as a terrorist organization). There is a Russian citizen among the crew members, Reuters reports citing a spokesman for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry. Information about the detention of crew members by the Taliban was confirmed by the head of the Azra district in the Afghan province of Logar.

At a characteristically amusing press conference earlier today, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the long-time reigning political clown of the Russian parliament, declared that he might be an ancient relative of Donald Trump, the US presidential candidate whose campaign antics have earned him a reputation that some critics say resembles Zhirinovsky's.

A Wout Voronezh Extrem group pulled 31 hammocks between two trees at once - one above the other. To build such a design, it took 32 people, a kilometer of rope and 12 hours. Wout Team Hammock Camping. Gamak park. Record. Wout Team. Extremals were even introduced into a certain “Book of Records of Russia” for the largest number of hammocks suspended on two trees. But what kind of records are these and how reliable it is, we do not know.

Police detained a woman outside Moscow earlier today because she spent too long in a public restroom, according to the tabloid Life . According to reports, police officers intervened because they suspected that the woman, Alisa Kosheleva, might be concealing drugs. Kosheleva told reporters that she became ill while returning home on the train, so she exited at a station and found a paid toilet. She spent about a half hour in the bathroom, managing to phone her friend and arrange a ride home.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) handed over to the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) documents on the admission of Russian athletes to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which will begin on August 5. According to the head of the ROC Alexander Zhukov, about 270 athletes were included in the list. “Approximately as I said, 270. Everything that the federations gave, everyone approved. In almost all sports in full force, ”R-Sport quotes Zhukov.

State Duma deputy from United Russia Olga Batalina, who heads the committee on labor and social policy, turned to the head of the Russian Interior Ministry, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, with a request to check the legality of the detention of street musicians in Moscow. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of United Russia.

The Moscow City Court recognized as legal the decision of the Moscow government, according to which 107 shopping pavilions were included in the list of objects to be demolished. It is reported by RIA Novosti. “The court ruled to recognize the decision of the Moscow government as legal and justified, and to reject the claim,” the agency quotes the judge.

In St. Petersburg, after 40 years, the inscription of dissidents was reproduced Photo: Maria Elkina On August 3, the inscription “You crucify freedom, but the human soul does not know the shackles, appeared on the Pirogovskaya embankment of St. Petersburg.” Exactly forty years ago, the same inscription on the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress was made by artists Julius Rybakov and Oleg Volkov. And the slogan, written in 1976, and the current one lasted only a few hours.

For the first time, the Russian bank Alfa-Bank has addressed allegations that opposition activist and blogger Ruslan Leviev (real name: Ruslan Karpuk) was the subject of secret monitoring. On August 3, Leviev said he'd discovered that someone else's phone number had mysteriously been added to the contact information on his Alfa-Bank account.

The former head of Yukos' legal department, Dmitry Gololobov, told a US court that during the company's privatization in the 1990s, state-appointed members of its board of directors received illegal payments from Mikhail Khodorkovsky. RBC names these managers - Sergey Muravlenko, Yuri Golubev, Viktor Kazakov and Viktor Ivanenko.