Maxim Shevchenko announced on Thursday that an independent group of Russian journalists will carry out their own investigation into the deaths of Orkhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguyev, and Kirill Radchenko, who were killed in the Central African Republic on July 30, while filming a documentary about Russian mercenaries in the area. Based on statements Shevchenko made to the radio station Ekho Moskvy , it’s not clear if the independent group already exists.

Journalist Maxim Shevchenko said that an independent group of Russian journalists would conduct their own investigation into the murder of Orkhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko in Central Africa. From the words of Shevchenko on the air of Ekho Moskvy, it is not completely clear whether there are already any agreements on the creation of this group.

Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / Sipa USA / Scanpix / Leta Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham, January 2017 A group of American senators introduced a bill on new sanctions against Russia, which is called the "Act on the Protection of American Security from the Kremlin aggression." One of the authors, the Republican Lindsay Graham, explained the initiative by the fact that "the current sanctions regime did not stop Russia from interference in the upcoming elections in 2018.

The Ostankino Court of Moscow placed under arrest until September 28 the sisters Maria, Angelina and Krestina Khachaturyan, accused of murdering their father. The hearings were held behind closed doors due to the presence in the case file of information that “humiliates the honor and dignity of the accused,” the court said. The Khachaturian sisters, aged 17, 18 and 19, were detained on July 27 after the murder of their father, 57-year-old Mikhail Khachaturian.

Mladen Antonov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The American intelligence services suspected an employee of the US Embassy in Moscow, who had access to closed information systems for more than ten years, in espionage in favor of Russia, writes the British newspaper The Guardian with reference to the source. According to the publication, we are talking about a civilian of the Russian Federation, which was hired by the US secret service.

The police of the UN mission in Central Africa cannot perform autopsies on the bodies of murdered Russian journalists due to the lack of necessary specialists. This is reported by Mediazona, citing a source familiar with the investigation. The publication does not specify whether this means that the autopsy will not be carried out on the territory of the Central African Republic.

August 2. Historical day (but only for exchange traders) The murder of journalists in the king The details of the attack on Orhan Jemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko became known. Their equipment was really stolen , and they really shot in the car - this is visible from the photograph of the car in which they moved. According to the source of RBC, one of the journalists (who exactly is incomprehensible) tried to resist.

Bax Lindhardt / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Minister of Justice of Turkey Abdulhamit Gul, against whom the United States imposed sanctions. Copenhagen, April 12, 2018 The United States on August 1 imposed sanctions against two ministers of the Turkish government. The head of the Ministry of Justice Abdulhamit Gul and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Suleiman Soil were on the list.

Apple's capitalization exceeded the trillion dollars. This has not yet succeeded in a single American company. Ten years ago, Apple shares cost about ten times less. Photo in the announcement of: Guillaume Payen / Sopa Images / Lightroket / Getty Images

More details about the Russian film crew killed in Africa, finally some good vibes about the West, and a daring embezzlement scheme Thursday, August 2, 2018 This day in history. On August 10, 1996, Russia executed Sergey Golovkin for the murder of 11 people in Moscow between 1986 and 1992. He was the last person put to death in Russia before the national moratorium established by Boris Yeltsin.

Anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny revealed on August 2 that the Russian government paid him and his brother “more than four million rubles” ($63,150) in July to compensate them for the “unjust verdicts” in the Yves Rocher case.

The European University at St. Petersburg has passed a state inspection, possibly paving the way to reclaiming its education license. Last year, Russia’s Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency (Rosobrnadzor) had the school’s license annulled, and city officials forced the university to vacate its building. Rebranded as a research institute, European University has tried repeatedly to reclaim its education license, most recently in July 2018.

Russia’s federal censor, Roskomnadzor, says it will review Burger King’s mobile app sometime next year, following complaints that the fast food company is “spying” on customers by recording the screens of their mobile devices through the Appsee analytics platform . In a statement published on August 2, Roskomnadzor explained that it lacks the resources to respond more quickly, but the agency says it has appealed to other law enforcement groups to investigate the matter sooner.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has dismissed a lawsuit by AlexAnn , one of Russia’s biggest manufacturers of homeopathic veterinary drugs. The company claimed that a February 2017 memorandum published by the Russian Academy of Sciences “ on the pseudo-scientificity of homeopathy ” has hurt its sales. AlexAnn demanded that the academy retract the memo and pay 30 million rubles ($474,000) in compensation for lost business.

A district court in Volgograd has become the first court in Russia to acquit a draftee charged with evading non-military service. Konstantin Titov was assigned to work at an assisted living community for the elderly and disabled, but the state failed to provide him with dormitory housing, as required by the law. Titov faced a fine of 80,000 rubles ($1,265) or half a year’s salary, 480 hours community service, or six months in jail. Local prosecutors say they will appeal the verdict.