Maria Butina’s Facebook page Maria Butina in 2013 On July 16, the U.S. Justice Department announced the arrest of a 29-year-old Russian woman named Maria Butina. She is accused of conspiracy against the United States and promoting Russian state interests as an unregistered “foreign agent.” The founder of the social organization “Right to Bear Arms,” Butina is considered closed to Alexander Torshin, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Central Bank and a former senator in Russia’s Federation Council.

The Accounts Chamber got acquainted with the draft law on raising the retirement age and pointed out its shortcomings. The BBC Russian Service got acquainted with the review, signed by the head of the department Alexei Kudrin. As stated in the review, the document does not contain calculations that determine the relationship between raising the retirement age and annual indexation of pensions above the inflation rate.

US President Donald Trump said he accepts the conclusions of US intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. At the same time, Trump stressed that this intervention did not affect the election result. I said "would" instead of "wouldn't". The sentence was supposed to be: "I see no reason why Russia would not [intervene in the elections]" (English).

Update : According to the Kam 24 news agency, the legislative assembly of the Kamchatka Territory sent a positive review of the pension reform project to the State Duma. Representatives of the executive and legislative authorities of 12 regions - Dagestan, Chechnya, Yakutia, Kamchatka Territory, Vladimir, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Omsk, Oryol, Yaroslavl regions, the Jewish Autonomous Region, as well as Moscow - refrained from publicly supporting the increase in the retirement age.

What the leading American television shows carried out of the summit in Helsinki Vladimir Putin met on July 16 with American President Donald Trump in Helsinki. Western journalists and politicians are sure that Trump failed negotiations, and they are not alone: ​​the leading American humorous television shows suited over Trump (probably they would have done this, even if the summit was more successful).

Moscow's Basmanny Court has ordered the defense of director Kirill Serebrennikov to complete familiarization with the materials of the criminal case by September 1. Earlier, the Basmanny Court demanded that the director's defense complete familiarization with the case on July 19. This decision was overturned by the Moscow City Court.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow arrested the former head of the Moscow Department of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Drymanov, who is suspected of taking a bribe. “The court ruled: to satisfy the investigator’s petition, to choose a measure of restraint in respect of Drymanov in the form of detention until September 12,” judge Elena Kaneva announced. Interfax

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the abolition of the closed administrative-territorial entity in the city of Shikhany, Saratov Region. In the ZATO in Shikhany, according to The Times, Novichok was produced, with which Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned. Mikhail Babich, the former head of the State Commission for Chemical Disarmament, Presidential Envoy to the Volga Federal District, said that chemical weapons had never been stored in Shikhany.

July 17th. Trump lost, but did Putin win? News (Today is World Emoji Day!) The former head of the Moscow IC was accused of corruption (😮). The profile committee of the Duma approved the draft pension reform (😐). in the Sea of ​​Japan A cruiser sunk after the Battle of Tsushima was found , where there may be gold (🤩). Sberbank and VTB stated that there was no leakage of customer personal data into Yandex search (🤥). in 2018 “Russian Booker” will not be awarded (😞).

The first series of the show "Who is America?" What is this show? "Who is America?" - The pseudo -domestic political television series Sasha Baron Cohen, an actor known for the films Borat and Dictator. He plays all the main roles: Cohen alternately transforms into one of the four fictional characters so that the heroes of the interview do not recognize him. The first such character, Billy Wayne Raddick, is a “civilian journalist”, who believes in ultra -right conspiracy theories.

How supporters of the US president defend him after meeting with Putin Democrats and those Republicans who are always anti-Trump are “completely crazy . ” Did they want the president to arrest Putin, hit him, yell at him? Kim Jong-un has countless nuclear missiles, Putin has thousands of them. Because Trump put pressure on Kim, he was accused of starting a nuclear war. For putting up with Putin, he is accused of pandering to the aggressor.

The Office for Communications and Mass Communications of the Pskov Region sent a letter to all district newspapers with a request to publish the materials of the federal media, which justify the increase in the retirement age . The letter, the copy of which was received by Kommersant, was signed by the head of the media planning department of the Communications Office Olga Pole. Newspaper editors were asked to publish two TASS material and one - Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. What is true? And the post -truth? Katya Krongauz and Andrei Babitsky talk about what the post -truth is, starting from the classic thriller “Gaslight”, from which the term “Gazlaling” arose. And then they discuss several more films and series, where the truth does not equal the truth, because each hero has its own. Can you always believe the testimony of the child? What about the victims of aggression, the perception of which is distorted?

The Russian Attorney General’s Office has named several American state officials and intelligence officers wanted for questioning in the criminal case against Hermitage Capital founder Bill Browder. The list of names includes former U.S.

Patrick Fallon / Zuma Press / Splash News / Vida Press The state of the main owner of Amazon Jeff Bezos exceeded $ 150 billion. This is not just a lot , it is more than anyone in history. At least in modern history - that is, since then when they began to carry out accurate measurements. Previously, Bill Gates was the richest person in history. The peak reached its condition in 1999, when the Boom of Dotcomes made the most expensive company in the world from Microsoft.