The US has imposed sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Maduro proved himself a dictator by arranging elections for a constituent assembly. Sanctions include all Maduro assets that may be under US jurisdiction. Americans are prohibited from doing business with the Venezuelan president. According to Reuters , the United States may subsequently impose sanctions against the oil sector of the Venezuelan economy.

US President Donald Trump has decided to fire White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, who served just 10 days, according to a statement on the Trump administration's website. According to The New York Times, his dismissal was demanded by the new chief of staff, John Kelly. The administration said in a statement that Scaramucci himself decided to step down to allow Kelly to recruit the team himself.

Hackers hacked into HBO and stole the script for the fourth episode of the seventh season of Game of Thrones, which has not yet aired. It is reported by Entertainment Weekly. In addition to the script, several episodes of "Football Players" and "Room 104" were stolen from the TV channel. Officially, the TV channel acknowledged only the fact of the attack. What exactly was stolen by the hackers, HBO did not specify.

The organization of bikers "Night Wolves" for the first time since 2012 was left without a grant for holding New Year trees. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the decision of the coordinating committee for the distribution of presidential grants for non-profit organizations. Officially, the results of the competition have not yet been announced. "Night Wolves" asked for 9.5 million rubles for Christmas trees .

Alice Vox's clip "Baby", in which she urged schoolchildren not to go to rallies, disappeared from her YouTube channel. This was noticed in social networks , and then - the publication "Varlamov.ru" . Why the clip was removed is unknown. All other videos in the Vox channel are in place. Copies of "Baby" remained with other users. Stepan Gnko Alice Vox Kid The singer or her representatives did not make any comments on this matter.

Alexander Grigoryan heads the Makhachkala “Anji” since the end of the last season, but even before joining the Premier League club, he managed to earn a reputation as a coach who says what he thinks. The interview of Grigoryan regularly diverges into quotes and cause criticism of colleagues and sports journalists. For example, after a recent defeat from Lokomotiv, he called one of his players a coward, and then refused to apologize to him .

The Netherlands police detained a gang of robbers who stole iPhones for half a million euros (more than 35 million rubles). All five detainees turned out to be Romanians from 33 to 43 years old, reports Associated Press . According to police, robbers used a specially equipped minibus. On it, they approached a truck with iPhones that rushed along the night road, after which one man climbed over the hood of a minibus, jumped onto the truck and penetrated inside.

Maria Olson, a spokeswoman for the US Embassy in Russia, said the reduction in staff could lead to "a decrease in the efficiency of consular activity." At the same time, according to her, "it is too early to even try to speculate about how this will affect the work of the consular service." Consular activities include, among other things, the issuance of visas.

On July 27, three police officers in Voronezh approached two Chechen women with a child and asked to see their documents. Only one of the officers was in uniform, and the other two were in plainclothes. One of the women, an adolescent girl, refused to show her papers, telling police that she was simply out for a walk with a three-month-old baby, not breaking any laws. The officers then demanded that she accompany them to the police station.

Mikhail Metzel / TASS Andrei Malakhov is one of the main leading Channel One. It has been working on the TV channel for about 25 years. His first stories-then for the 1st channel Ostankino-he began to do in the early 1990s. In 2001, he became the leading talk show “Big Washing”, which was later replaced by “five evenings”. In 2005, he began to conduct a talk show “Let them talk”-one of the most rated television shows on Russian television.

Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Everything is bad in Venezuela. Its economy is called the worst in the world , inflation is calculated in thousands of percent. For several years, residents of the country have been managing to do without basic necessities - there are no medicines in pharmacies, in stores - toilet paper. For several months, the Venezuelae has been protesting against the leadership of the country.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has blocked two laws previously approved by the country's parliament in the course of judicial reform. The bills will be returned to the Sejm for reconsideration, the Office of the Polish President said in a tweet. Duda vetoed two of the three laws: the immediate dissolution of the Supreme Court and the empowerment of the Sejm to appoint judges of the National Judicial Council.

The main thing is about Anthony Scaramucci - the former opponent of Trump, who became his faithful friend Joshua Roberts / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta At the end of July, Donald Trump lost two administration employees: press secretary Sean Spicer and the head of the White House apparatus Rains Pribus retired.

The former senator from the Belgorod region, Sergei Popelnyukhov, was returned to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center after being mistakenly sent to a colony in Orel. This was told by his lawyer Vladimir Averin. Popelnyukhov was taken away from Lefortovo at the end of June, although his sentence has not yet entered into force, as the defense filed a complaint with the Moscow City Court.

Representatives of the "Putin Detachments" movement boarded up the entrance to the campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Krasnodar. “We could unscrew the boards right now, but we decided to leave everything as it is: we have already called the police, let them decide what to do with it,” the message posted on the Krasnodar headquarters page on the VKontakte social network says.