Senate and Congress approved sanctions against Russia, but US President Donald Trump has not yet been signed. Photo in the announcement: Evgenia Novozhenina / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta

The US diplomatic mission in Russia will be cut by 755 people in response to new US sanctions. President Vladimir Putin stated this in an interview with Vladimir Solovyov at the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. In total, 455 US diplomatic staff will remain in Russia. Thus, the number of American personnel will be equal to the number of Russian diplomats working in the United States, Vesti reports.

Putin announced a sharp reduction in US diplomatic mission in Russia Mikhail Postuev / TASS / Vida Press US Embassy in Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin in the evening of July 30 announced that the number of employees of the American diplomatic mission in Russia will be reduced by 755 people as a response to toughening anti -Russian sanctions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a package of amendments to legislation that prohibit the use of funds to bypass blocking. This is stated on the official Internet portal of legal information. The package of amendments was adopted by the State Duma on July 21, and on July 25 received the approval of the Federation Council. According to the amendments, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will have the authority to find services that help to gain access to sites blocked in Russia.

As a result of a fire in pre-trial detention center number 1 in Vladivostok, four people died, RIA Novosti reports, citing a source in the rescue service. The fire started on the first floor of a five-story building. Firefighters, who arrived on call, found the bodies of four dead on one of the upper floors while extinguishing. There is no information about the identity of the dead and whether they were detainees or employees of the pre-trial detention center.

The Irish version of The Sunday Times has removed a column by journalist Kevin Myers on the salaries of BBC hosts, which appeared in the newspaper on July 30. The column, titled "Sorry Women - Equal Income Must Be Earned," stated that the two highest-paid female presenters at the BBC were Jewish. “Jews are not particularly known for their intent to sell their talent at the lowest price,” Myers wrote in it.

The Iranian Ministry of Information and Mass Communications has announced that the country's popular instant messenger Telegram has moved part of its servers to Iranian territory. The ministry said in a statement that this was done as a result of a meeting between the country's authorities and Telegram managers. Telegram creator Pavel Durov told The Associated Press that nothing like this has ever happened and that his company has never hosted a server in Iran.

In Syria, Khaled Khatib, a journalist who collaborated with the Arabic edition of the Russian RT channel, died as a result of shelling. The correspondent came under fire near the city of Sokhna in the east of Homs province. He covered the operation of the Syrian troops. The RT website claims that Islamic State militants were involved in the shelling. RIA Novosti claims that the operator who worked with the journalist was also wounded.

An EasyJet passenger was slapped in the face by a Nice airport employee while he was queuing to board. The passenger was holding his 9-month-old baby in his arms. For what reasons there was a fight, it is not specified. The moment of impact was filmed on a mobile phone camera by one of the passengers of this flight. She tweeted that the attacker was an EasyJet employee, but the airline denied this information. An EasyJet flight was en route from Nice to London and was delayed by 13 hours.

Experts argue whether the debunking of the Stalinist myth occurred in Russia G. Petrusov / Slava Katamidze Collection / Getty Images On July 30, 1937, a secret order of the NKVD was published at number 00447. The order created with the personal participation of Joseph Stalin, according to which 390 thousand people were executed and 380 thousand were sent to the Gulag, became the largest act to destroy people in the Soviet Union.

In Istanbul on Saturday, July 29, a rally was held in defense of women's rights, Reuters reports. The event was attended by several hundred people, including representatives of the LGBT community. The main slogan of the action was the phrase "Don't tell me how to dress." It is connected with the fact that Turkish women often face reproaches from the conservative-minded part of society in connection with clothes that seem too revealing to them.

Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta in St. Petersburg on July 30, a naval parade was held in honor of the Navy Day. The parade was taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin, about 50 ships and submarines, as well as about 40 units of aircraft, participated in it.

McDonald's sent Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland a canister of Szechuan teriyaki sauce, which has been out of production since 1998. Sauce has been joked about many times in Rick and Morty, and is an important part of the plot of the series: it is Szechuan sauce that Rick calls the purpose of his travels in space. The package from McDonald's is packaged in a container labeled "Measurement C-1998-M". The letter Roiland found in the package reads: "Justin. We finally made it.

Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu decided not to fly in transit through Moscow after Romania banned the plane with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin from entering its airspace. Rogozin himself told TASS about this. He did not specify why Meleshkanu made such a decision, and when exactly the flight took place. Teodor Meleshkanu was on a visit to Kazakhstan on July 27 and 28.

What is a large terror? What were repressions for? Stalin personally gave orders for executions? Kirill Chaplinsky / TASS Memorial complex "Copper" in the Tver region 30 июля 1937 года был подписан секретный приказ НКВД № 00447.