Roman Badanin, the former chief editor of the independent television station Dozhd , is launching his own media outlet , and calling it Proekt (“Project”). The new outlet will have its own website, release podcasts, and publish content on YouTube. Badanin told the newspaper Vedomosti that the newsroom will comprise a staff of 10 people, starting with a budget of $500,000. “I’ve got one goal, simple and clear: to become the main investigative media [outlet] in Russia,” he explained.

The former editor-in-chief of Dozhd, Roman Badanin, will launch his own media. It will be called "Project". As Badanin himself told Vedomosti, the Project will employ about 10 people, and its budget will be up to half a million dollars. “I have a simple and clear goal - to become the main investigative media in Russia,” the journalist said. Materials are planned to be published on the publication's website, a YouTube channel, videos and podcasts will also be launched.

The President's daughter Ivanka Trump has announced that she is closing the fashion brand Ivanka Trump. According to Trump herself, she intends to focus on work in the White House, where she holds the position of adviser. “After 17 months in Washington, I don't know if I'll ever be back in business, but I do know that in the near future I'll be focusing on the work I'm doing here in the White House, so this decision is the only one that's fair to my team.

On July 24, 2018, Roskomnadzor added the VPN service HideMy.name (formerly Hideme.ru) to the register of banned sites. The reason for entering into the register on the website of the department is the decision of the Medvedev District Court of Yoshkar-Ola dated July 4, 2017. Now the service continues to work at a new address.

Choose from Mobil 1 ™ Daniil Silantev / Unsplash You can go on vacation in different ways: someone is flying by plane to the hotel where everything is turned on, and someone prefers a car trip on natural beauties. Such leisure allows you to reboot, inspire and take a break from the routine at work and a sofa with the series and social networks of the house. Moreover, Russia is so large - and secluded corners, where you can stay with nature alone, is enough here.

groups The Vulgar Molly , Elysium , Pornofilmy and Yorsh refused to participate in the Invasion festival. All four groups explain their decision by the fact that the organizers of the festival decided to continue cooperation with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, although several months ago they promised not to do this. The messages of the musicians emphasize that rock music is incompatible with militarism.

Dozens of popular communities on the VKontakte social network have posted a video, the characters of which are calling for the election of the mayor of Moscow. They do it in a strange way, saying that they "don't give a fuck" about "fresh food" and that "you don't have to stand with outstretched hand" and that "the sidewalks are getting wider." The video ends with the call of the main characters “not to put them to the polls”.

Events Disney fired the director of the Guardians of the Galaxy 3 James Gann for old tweets with rude jokes. At the same time, Marvel colleagues, other actors and spectators publicly supported him. The Sony Pictures panel, on which Gann was supposed to speak, passed without it. The dark -skinned woman will become the main heroine of the Romee "Buffy, vampire fighters." The name of the actress has not yet been named.

July 24. State Duma - Raises VAT, Ministry of Defense - selects cars News (with long comments) The State Duma adopted a law on an increase in VAT to 20% (the main thing - remember that Putin had nothing to do with it, he did not participate in the development of the bill and the document will be reluctantly signed, with a sad person).

Hypersonic weapons, tortured in prison, and fed up with London Tuesday, July 24, 2018 This day in history. On July 24, 1990, the USSR lifted all restrictions on the sale of alcohol imposed five years earlier, effectively abandoning Mikhail Gorbachev's battle with suds and spirits.

State Duma deputies have adopted the third and final reading of legislation that will raise Russia’s Value Added Tax (VAT) from 18 to 20 percent. The only party to support the initiative was United Russia, whose members recently forced through the first reading of controversial legislation to raise Russia’s retirement age. Once the Federation Council and President Putin approve the legislation, Russia’s VAT will jump two percent, effective on January 1, 2019.

In the upper house of the Russian parliament, a bill has been drafted that prohibits placing defendants in enclosing structures - cages or transparent boxes (“aquariums”) - in courtrooms. The document was developed by the Committee on Constitutional Legislation, its head Andrei Klishas told RIA Novosti. The bill is being negotiated, he added. The document has not yet been published in the Parliament's database.

Four Russian businessmen who fled to London because of criminal prosecution at home will reportedly return to Moscow within the next few days , according to Russian Entrepreneurs' Rights Commissioner Boris Titov. In February, Titov published a list of more than two dozen names of businessmen who left Russia because of criminal cases against them.

Google transferred all his employees to hardware tokens. For a year, none of them stole an account "Jellyfish" At the beginning of 2017, the Google Corporation transferred all its employees (and more than 85 thousand people) to hardware tokens - small devices that allow additionally protect the user account from attackers. Since then, representatives of the company were told by American journalist Brian Krebs, not a single successful theft of employees' accounts was recorded.

Russian prison officials are scrambling to respond to a scandal in Yaroslavl, where recently leaked video footage shows more than a dozen guards torturing an inmate last summer. The Federal Penitentiary Service announced on Tuesday that commissions will be created at prisons nationwide to review mistreatment allegations from prisoners. The commissions will also review complaints filed in the past year from prisoners who say they were targeted with violence.