Authorities have "strong reasons" to believe that the massive forest fires near Athens were the result of arson, Defense Minister Nikos Toskas said. According to the minister, experts came to this conclusion based on the analysis of satellite images. Fires in Greece began on July 23, immediately in two areas near Athens. Their victims were 83 people, more than 180 were injured.

Members of the July 1 Club, which includes academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences who disagree with the reform of the Academy of Sciences, opposed the government's proposed expansion of the powers of Rosobrnadzor. Their letter ended up at the disposal of the Meduza editors.

Armenia's Special Investigation Service charged former President Robert Kocharyan with overthrowing the constitutional order in 2008. Kocharyan himself expressed confidence that the accusations made are "a vendetta and political persecution." “Former President Robert Kocharyan is accused of overthrowing the constitutional order in the country after the 2008 presidential election with a group of people.

The Telegram messenger introduced the Passport service, which allows you to store documents and personal data of users and carry out authorization in services that require personal identification for actions. The user will be able to upload documents with personal information to the cloud once, and then they will be transferred to third-party services if necessary - thus, the user does not have to enter his personal data every time.

Mixed martial artist Conor McGregor has made a plea deal with investigators in the case of the attack on the bus of Russian fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov. As part of the deal, McGregor was cleared of criminal charges of threatening, assault causing injury and disorderly conduct. He faced up to seven years in prison. McGregor, in turn, was obliged to pay compensation for the damage caused, perform five days of community service, and also take anger management courses.

The court left in the pre-trial detention center 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova, accused of the case of "new greatness." We wrote down how it was Denis Styazhkin Anna Pavlikova in the Moscow City Court (according to the video from the pre -trial detention center), July 26, 2018 On July 26, the Moscow City Court left the 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova under arrest until August 13.

July 26. USA - against Russian Crimea, Poklonskaya - against United Russia What happened (new) The United States adopted a declaration of non -recognition of Crimea by Russian (this is expected). Sergei Zheleznyak resigned from a leading post in United Russia (this is unexpected). The court refused to release from the pre-trial detention center an 18-year-old defendant in the case of “new greatness” (this is sad).

The acting chief editor of Forbes magazine was replaced by Andrey Zolotov, who previously headed ForbesLife. Ekaterina Eremenko, editor-in-chief of Forbes, wrote about this on her Facebook. Nikolai Mazurin, who was the acting editor-in-chief of the publication, will return to the position of chief editor - he held it until June 2018. In the meantime, the journal's employees have been disabled from editing articles on the publication's website.

In the fall of 2014, Russia adopted the "law named after the Vedomosti newspaper and Forbes magazine": according to it, foreigners have the right to own no more than 20% of the media's shares. The German group "Axel Springer" was forced to sell the magazine to businessman Alexander Fedotov ( it is possible that the loan for the purchase was provided by structures close to Igor Sechin).

Sergei Mokhnatkin, who is serving time for attacking police officers, is being tortured in the colony and has been on a hunger strike for 12 days. Tatyana Pashkevich, a friend of the prisoner, reported this on Facebook. She refers to the lawyer and public defender Andrei Krekov, who met with Mokhnatkin in the colony. Mokhnatkin is in the Arkhangelsk colony No. 21. He was transferred to strict conditions of detention, and then placed in a cell-type room.

Chiabella James / Paramount Pictures “The mission is not fulfilled: the consequences” is a rare example of old -fashioned cinema, which managed to adapt to the present. The film critic Yegor Moskvitin, who visited the premiere of the picture in Paris, tells how that Cruz managed to remove the competitive blockbuster - and what is its main advantage. Not one of the parts of the franchise “Mission Impossible” felt so confident on the eve of the release.

The Polish athlete Andrzej Bargel for the first time in the world went skiing from the top of K2 - the second largest mountain in the world (8611 m). Bargel managed to do this on the second attempt. In 2017, the descent with K2, also known as Chogori, was prevented by weather conditions. The descent from K2 Bargel devoted to the centenary of the independence of Poland. Subscribe to our YouTube

The Investigative Committee refused the Communist Party deputy Valery Rashkin to initiate criminal proceedings on the death of Russian emperors Ivan VI, Peter III and Paul I and Tsar Fyodor II Godunov. The reason for the refusal was the lack of grounds. Rashkin filed an application back in May 2018. In response to TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, Rashkin confirmed that this was trolling. “Let them deal with real crimes, not excavations.

The Moscow City Court refused to change the measure of restraint for 18-year-old defendant in the “ New Greatness ” case, Anna Pavlikova, from detention to house arrest, a Meduza correspondent reports from the courtroom. Following the hearing where Pavlikova's complaint was considered, the court only reduced the initial term of arrest from four to three months. It now expires on August 13.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has named Maria Butina a political prisoner, accused of illegally lobbying Russia's interests in the United States. "Her arrest is solely due to the motives of American domestic and foreign policy," said deputy ministry spokesman Artem Kozhin. In connection with the arrest of Butina, the Russian Foreign Ministry protested to the US State Department.