Long-time Soviet interpreter Pavel Palazhchenko puts the Trump-Putin meeting in historical context Ivan Kleimenov for Meduza Pavel Palazhchenko On July 16, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held bilateral talks in Helsinki. The leaders of the United States and Russia haven’t met quite like this, at a formal summit in a third country, for almost 15 years.

Moscow's Khamovnichesky Court sentenced all four Pussy Riot members - Veronika Nikulshina, Olga Kuracheva, Olga Pakhtusova and Pyotr Verzilov - to 15 days of arrest and a three-year ban on attending sporting events for the " Policeman Enters the Game " action. They were found guilty under the article on gross violation of the rules of conduct for spectators during official sports competitions. The punishment imposed by the court is the maximum under this article.

Russian citizen Maria Butina has been detained in Washington. She is accused of conspiring to work as an agent of a foreign state without notifying the US authorities. The maximum penalty for this charge is five years in prison. The US Department of Justice reported that the detention took place on July 15.

Pussy Riot member Olga Kuracheva received 15 days of administrative arrest for running onto the field during the final match of the World Cup. Kuracheva was found guilty of violating the rules of conduct at a sporting event. She was also banned from attending competitions as a spectator for three years. Earlier, another activist of the group, Veronika Nikulshina, received the same punishment.

How the meeting of Putin and Trump in Helsinki took place Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on July 16 held negotiations in Helsinki. According to the results of the meeting, the President of Russia and the US President gave a press conference. “Our relationship was in terrible condition, but four hours ago it changed,” Trump said. Subscribe to our YouTube

The community of people living with HIV prepared a report for the 64th session of the UN Committee against Torture. It reports on denials to HIV patients in Russia of access to antiretroviral therapy and testing for immune status and viral load. As the report highlights, the most frequently denied applications are people in detention, as well as those who do not have permanent registration in the city where they live.

The journalists of the publication "7 × 7" counted Before the start of the World Cup, it became known that the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs forbade publishing “negative” news (primarily about committed crimes) on the sites of regional departments of the ministry. Journalists of the 7 × 7 publication checked what the Ministry of Internal Affairs’s sites in 19 regions wrote about. In many cases, during the World Cup, not a single “negative” news was released there.

In February 2018, the Moscow branch of the Central Cossack Army received a grant of 32.6 million rubles from the Moscow mayor's office "to conduct preventive measures in Moscow among individuals engaged in vagrancy and begging, and to provide homeless citizens with social support and social assistance." This is stated in the response of the Moscow prosecutor's office to the request of the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin, who asked to check the

A strike by FIAT workers at a factory in the municipality of Melfi in Italy, announced due to the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus, ended in a "complete failure", a spokesman for the car company said. According to him, only five out of 1,700 people working at the enterprise did not come to work. Juventus and FIAT have common owners - the Agnelli family.

Press conference between Trump and Putin - as short as possible Vladimir Putin. Nobody can be trusted. I protect the interests of Russia, President Trump - the interests of the United States. Trump once again raised the topic of interference in the American elections, I had to repeat once again that we are not interfering anywhere. I myself served in intelligence - I know how all these intelligence reports are written, which say that we interfered.

July 16. Putin was late to Trump. Trump was even more late Putin and Trump (well, finally!) What happened. Trump flew in yesterday, and Putin - only today . Putin was late for 40 minutes, but Trump was oriented and arrived later. And then they still met . Hands shook. They took a picture . We talked one on one. We talked in delegations. Dali a joint press conference. Disractible. Kevin Lamarque / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta What Putin said: we don’t intervene in the elections. Crimea is ours.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow sentenced Andrei Popov, who calls himself "God Kuzey", to five years in prison. Popov was found guilty of creating a religious organization whose activities are fraught with violence, and of fraud as part of an organized group on an especially large scale. From the persons involved in the organization, for the satisfaction of their own needs, "god Kuzya" collected contributions - from 100 to 500 rubles, follows from the verdict.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's fortune has reached $150 billion, making him the richest person in modern history, according to Bloomberg. Since the beginning of 2018, Bezos has become one and a half times richer, thanks to a sharp rise in Amazon shares, which have risen in price by 56%. In 1999, before the dot-com crash , Bill Gates' net worth was estimated at $100 billion—that's roughly $149 billion in 2018 dollars.

Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Scanpix / Leta US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin before a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, July 16, 2018 On July 16, a bilateral meeting of the leaders of Russia and the USA - Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump was held in Helsinki. The presidents talked for more than two hours, and then answered the questions of journalists. Despite the optimistic tone of both politicians, any specific results of the meeting are still unknown.

Netflix posted the teaser of the third season of the fantastic series “Very Strange Things”. The video looks like The StarCourt shopping center stylized under the 1980s-Steve Harrington, the character played by actor Joe Kiri, is now working there. Together with him, the heroine of actress Maya Hawk appears in the video (she did not star in the previous two seasons). The third season of “Very strange things” does not yet have an official release date.