12 GRU employees were accused of interfering with the American elections. Who are they and what they did (according to the US) Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / Sipa USA / Scanpix / Leta Deputy Prosecutor General of the USA Rod Rosenstein at a press conference, July 13, 2018 On July 13, Deputy Prosecutor General of the United States Rod Rosenstein announced that 12 GRU employees were charged with interference with the US presidential election.

A team of satirists embraces ‘fake news,’ taking far too many journalists along for the ride In late June and early July, the Russian media started buzzing with an unusual number of especially bizarre stories. One day, foreigners were being lured into a fake Lenin mausoleum. Another day, a pharmacist was caught poking holes in the condoms sold to tourists. The source of these wild tales turned out to be a fake news website that calls itself the Panorama news agency.

Three days before Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are set to meet in Helsinki, the U.S. Justice Department announced indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election against 12 Russian nationals, accusing them of orchestrating a campaign to “hack” emails and computer networks belonging to the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party in the last U.S. presidential election.

In St. Petersburg on July 13, several people tried to kidnap 20-year-old native of Chechnya Zelimkhan Akhmadov, who left the republic due to persecution related to suspicions of homosexuality. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta. According to the publication, among the abductors was the father of the young man, businessman Eli Akhmadov, and also, presumably, police officers (the driver of the car where Akhmadov was put showed the guards a police officer's certificate).

Steve Parsons / Pa Wire / Scanpix / Leta US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, on a visit to the UK, on ​​July 13, was accepted by Queen Elizabeth II at the Vindzor castle. During the visit, Trump also met with British Prime Minister Teresa May.

In the house of the British Charles Rowley, who was poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent, they found a small bottle in which the poison was stored. This was reported by the anti-terrorism department of the British police. Rowley lives in the city of Amesbury, which is located near Salisbury, where former GRU colonel, British spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned. According to Scotland Yard, experts from the Porton Down laboratory confirmed that Novichok was in the bottle.

Two towers of the 17th Starting Complex 17, built in 1956, were blown up at the Cosmodrome at Cape Kanveral. For more than 60 years, 325 missiles have been launched from this site. In its place, a new test complex of the private company Moon Express, which is preparing a mission for the moon, will be equipped.

In the United States, a Grand Jury decided to indict 12 GRU officers in a case of interference in the US presidential election. This was announced by US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. According to Rosenstein, they are accused of organizing cyberattacks to steal documents, as well as their subsequent publication.

How the UK meets the US president On July 12, US President Donald Trump flew to London. With his visit, he very angry the British. Matt Dunham / AP / Scanpix / Leta The song "American Idiot" was returned to British music charts after a protest Internet campaign. So her organizers want to annoy Trump “Friends of the British ... Do you want to annoy Donald Trump and [the former leader of an independent party] Nigel Faraja this week? It's simple.

In Kenya, eight black rhinos have died after being transported to East Tsavo National Park. A total of 14 animals were transported. They previously lived in Nairobi National Park and Lake Nakuru National Park. They were going to create safer and more comfortable living conditions. A preliminary investigation showed that the rhinos died from salt poisoning in their drinking water. The water in East Tsavo Park turned out to be saltier than in the previous habitats of animals.

The Law "Day in a pre -trial detention center for one and a half in the colony" is good or bad? Human rights activists, lawyers and former prisoners are responsible Vitaly Nevar / TASS / Vida Press in pre -trial detention center No.

Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP / Scanpix / Leta US President Donald Trump first arrived in the UK on an official visit. On July 13, Trump and British Prime Minister Teresa May answered questions from journalists in the residence of the head of government in the Checkers.

Everett Collection / Vida Press Emmett Till with his mother in the early 1950s The US Department of Justice resumes the investigation of the murder of a black teenager Emmett Till, committed in 1955 . As officials stated, new circumstances appeared in the case - which ones have not yet been reported. Perhaps this is the recognition of a woman whose words became the reason for reprisal against Till.

July 13. Sentsov has been on a hunger strike for two full months. Today is his birthday Oleg Sentsov is 42 years old July 13 is the birthday of Oleg Sentsov: he turns 42 years old. For 61 days now, Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years on terrorism charges, has been on hunger strike in the Polar Bear colony, demanding the release of Ukrainian political prisoners from prisons.

The Kuibyshev court of St. Petersburg found pediatrician Irina Strashinskaya guilty of the death of her child, whom she tried to cure of diabetes with the help of alternative medicine. The court appointed her ten months of corrective labor. The verdict was passed under the article “causing death by negligence” (109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the press service of the St.