In St. Petersburg, candidates from opposition parties and movements are being denied registration for municipal elections due to the loss of dozens of documents. As Fontanka reported, “hundreds of candidates” are being removed from the elections. Oppositionists are not allowed to participate in the elections due to the lack of such documents as income declarations, certificates of no criminal record, and party registration data.

The Moscow football club "Locomotive" beat the St. Petersburg "Zenith" with a score of 3:2 in the match for the Russian Super Cup. The meeting was held in Moscow at the VTB Arena stadium. The match was broadcast by Channel One. The scoring in the match in the 6th minute of the meeting was opened by Lokomotiv striker Fedor Smolov. Zenit striker Serdar Azmun equalized at the end of the first half, and at the beginning of the second he scored a brace.

The Telegram messenger has added animated stickers to the new version of the application, according to the company's blog. Telegram representatives emphasized that animated stickers weigh 20-30 kilobytes, which is six times less than photos. The message notes that animated sticker sets can be created by users themselves. are now available Several standard sets of animated stickers .

Al Drago / CNP / AdMedia / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta Donald Trump celebrated the United States Independence Day on July 4 in Washington Unusual for the country of the military parade and a solemn performance at the very place where the main fighter for the rights of African American Martin Luther King made a speech "I have a dream." Before the celebration of Trump, they accused of “authoritarian stylistics” and imitation of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong -un - now they laugh at Twitter.

A gas explosion occurred at a shopping mall in Plantation, Florida, NBC News reports. Due to the explosion, the roof of the shopping center collapsed, and cars parked in the parking lot were also damaged, specifies . CBS4 Miami 21-22 people were injured, two were seriously injured, the city police said.

Kazakh police detained about 100 people in Almaty and the same number in Nur-Sultan, where unsanctioned protests took place, according to local publication HOLA News. The detainees were taken away in dozens of paddy wagons, reports vlast.kz. Radio Azattyk (Radio Liberty) reports that 70 and 40 people were detained in Almaty and Shymkent , respectively, and dozens more in Nur-Sultan. One of the detainees in Almaty, the publication noted, shouted “Shal, ket!” (“Old man, go away!”).

A court in Ingushetia has taken into custody a 35-year-old woman suspected of beating a seven-year-old girl for two months, Interfax reports, citing the regional department of the Investigative Committee. On July 4, a seven-year-old girl was hospitalized with numerous bruises and injuries to a hospital in Nazran, where she underwent surgery. Then the victim was sent for treatment to Moscow. Doctors discovered that the girl had old rib fractures and a spinal injury.

Russian Transport Minister Yevgeny Dietrich said he expects a “drastic improvement and stabilization” in the situation with baggage claim at Sheremetyevo Airport until August 15. “We expect a local improvement in the situation by the end of July,” the minister said after a meeting at the airport. By July 10, according to him, the management of Sheremetyevo will present a plan of measures to stabilize the situation.

Former artistic director of the Yaroslavl Volkov Drama Theater Yevgeny Marchelli will stage Alexander Ostrovsky's play Jokers at the Satyricon Theater. As reported in the Satyricon, 25 theater artists will be involved in the production. The main role will be played by Konstantin Raikin. Ostrovsky wrote the play Jokers in 1864.

In the Krasnodar Territory on July 5, in the Black Sea, at a distance of 100 meters from the coast, the Atoll pleasure catamaran capsized, which killed two women, the reports Investigative Committee . It happened in the village of Dzhubga near Tuapse. ashore Most of the people were brought by rescuers, and a few more people were picked up by passing ships. died A resident of Mordovia born in 1977 and a resident of Belgorod born in 1985 .

Bellingcat Major General GRU Denis Sergeyev, the alleged participant in the poisoning of the Skripals , in 2016-2018 at least five times went to Switzerland, where he participated in various operations. This is stated in the investigation of Bellingcat, The Insider and the Swiss publication. The authors of the investigation found that in September-October 2017, Sergeyev, judging by the billing of his phone, went to Lausanne several times.

A senior military announced at the funeral of submariners who died in the Barents Sea that the sailors prevented the disaster, the “open media” from the mourning ceremony reported. “At the cost of their life, they saved the lives of their comrades, saved the ship, did not allow the catastrophes of a planetary scale,” said the military whose name is not given. What exactly the sailors did, the military did not say. “Open Media” note that the funeral in St. Petersburg took place closed.

Human Rights Center "Memorial" Pavel Zabotin (1888–1933) On July 5, the Supreme Court ordered the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to introduce actor Georgy Shahet with the materials of the criminal case of his grandfather, Pavel Fyotin - in 1933 he was shot by the decision of the Troika . Shaht has achieved access to his case since 2016, and since 2018 it requires the rehabilitation of his ancestor.

Moscow police detained Valentina Luzanova on Bolotnaya Square, who was holding a solo picket in support of the Khachaturyan sisters , OVD-Info reports.

Petr Kovalev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta in St. Petersburg at the Serafimovsky cemetery said goodbye to 14 submariners who died on July 1 in a fire on a deep-sea apparatus in the Barents Sea. They were buried next to the memorial in memory of the deceased crew of the Kursk submarine.