The head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, who is under arrest on charges of abuse of office , has declared a hunger strike. As explained by the Public Monitoring Commission, the politician is thus protesting against his non-admission to the elections for the post of head of the district for a new term and against the non-admission of a lawyer to see him. Previously, Shestun repeatedly stated that he would go on a hunger strike in a pretrial detention center on July 30.

The Guardians of the Galaxy cast has written an open letter in support of director James Gunn, who was fired over offensive tweets he made several years ago. In the statement, the actors note that they are “shocked” by the director’s dismissal and hope to work with him again in the future. The letter was signed by Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Michael Rooker, Vin Diesel and the director's brother Sean Gunn.

Russian climbers got into trouble on the approach to the top of Latk-I-a height of 7145 meters-in Pakistan. Sergei Glazunov broke and died, and his partner Alexander Gukov without gas for the burner and without food remained at an altitude of 6100 meters. He had no chance of going down on his own, the rescuers have reached him only a week later. A year ago, the Gukov expedition failed on the same route. Update . On the morning of July 31, it became known that Alexander Gukov was saved .

The Ministry of Transport came up with a draft amendment to the rules of air transportation. Among the things to be weighed, the Ministry of Transport proposed to exclude handbags, backpacks, briefcases, bouquets of flowers, crutches and canes, as well as goods purchased in duty-free shops. Now these things are included in a special list of items allowed for transportation in addition to five kilograms of hand luggage.

The French Parliament has finally approved a bill banning the use of mobile phones and other means of communication in primary and secondary schools. An exception can be made if the use of smartphones is necessary for “educational purposes” (what is meant by this, each school will decide for itself). In addition, children with disabilities will be able to continue using gadgets. The ban on mobile phones will apply to both students and teachers.

Mediazona publisher Pyotr Verzilov was detained as he was leaving a special detention facility, where he had finished serving his sentence for participating in the “ Policeman Enters the Game ” protest. According to Verzilov, three other participants in the action — Veronika Nikulshina, Olga Pakhtusova, and Olga Kuracheva — were also detained upon leaving another detention center. Pakhtusova wrote that she was being detained under the article on violating the rules for holding public events.

The Macedonian parliament has set a referendum on renaming the country to North Macedonia for September 30. 68 out of 120 MPs voted in favor. In the referendum, citizens will be asked to answer the question: “Do you approve of joining the EU and NATO by accepting the agreement between the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Greece?” NATO has formally invited Macedonia to begin accession talks as soon as the country is renamed.

In September 2017, 26-year-old Texan David Casares moved from Austin to Silicon Valley, dreaming of starting his own startup. Casares graduated from college and got a job at General Motors, where he went from quality control specialist to web developer in three years. He set aside an amount equal to several of his salaries for the move.

Gudkov — to Navalny. I have been trying to unite the opposition since 2005 and have always helped you. My office was effectively a branch of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. When you could have supported me, you either kept silent or simply interfered. You sought to disrupt the creation of a democratic coalition and did not help in the State Duma elections in 2016. Now you are fighting the Party of Change .

Michael Reynolds / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Trump talked to the publisher of The New York Times and was satisfied On the afternoon of July 29, the US President published a tweet , about a “beautiful and very interesting meeting” with the publisher of The New York Times Arthur Okss Sulzberger Jr. The meeting took place on July 20 - on the initiative of the White House.

July 30. Urbanistic hell, criminal case for the resurrection of John Snow, quest on Stephen King News Germany gave Russia businessman Andrei Kovalchuk (this is, according to investigators, he organized the supply of cocaine from the embassy in Argentina). The State Duma decided to find out how social networks are controlled abroad - to learn from experience (preparing for the worst). The Russian army recreated the military-political department (it is strange that only now).

The Ministry of Emergency Situations has completed inspections of crowded places that began after a fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo. In total, from March 28 to July 25, about 90,000 objects were checked, where more than 280,000 violations of fire safety requirements were revealed, the press service of the department said.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How to give money to friends. And at the same time do not quarrel with them! Medusa publisher Ilya Krasilchik and deputy chief editor Alexander Polivanov discuss how to give money to friendship (not to be confused with the release of who is better to borrow money!). - From what amount the debt begins - can you just treat a friend with dinner, for example?

The UK Supreme Court has allowed patients in a persistent vegetative state to be disconnected from life support without a court order, ruling that this does not contravene the European Convention on Human Rights. Now, to stop life support for such patients, an agreement between the patient’s relatives and doctors is sufficient – ​​previously, this was sufficient to stop active treatment, but not to completely disconnect from life support systems.

Criminal cases opened against two Barnaul residents because of memes (and based on statements from the same students) A resident of Barnaul is being tried for funny pictures about religion and black people. She saved them on VKontakte in 2015 “Hello everyone, my name is Masha, I’m 23 years old, and I’m an extremist,” wrote Barnaul resident Maria Motuznaya in a tweet on July 23, 2018.