Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer with the Anti-Corruption Foundation, went on a hunger strike after verifying signatures for her nomination to the Moscow City Duma. According to Sobol, the election commission invalidated almost 15% of the signatures in her support, with an acceptable marriage of 10%. “This means removing me from the elections to the Moscow City Duma,” Sobol wrote on Twitter. Sobol is nominated for elections to the Moscow City Duma in the 43rd district.

Updated . Fortanga reported that its website was blocked by Roskomnadzor. This happened because of a user's comment on an article about the 75th anniversary of the deportation of the Ingush people. In Ingushetia, former journalist of the Fortanga publication Rashid Maisigov was detained in a drug case. This was reported on the Fortanga Telegram channel. The journalist was detained on July 12. His mother, Ferdovs Maisigova, said that masked men came to search their home.

In Degtyarsk (Sverdlovsk region), police detained 75-year-old Petr Kikilyk, who organized the installation of a plaque in memory of US President Richard Nixon's visit to the city in 1959. Human rights activist Sergei Zykov reported this to OVD-Info. According to human rights activist Anatoly Svechnikov, a report was drawn up against Kikilyk for organizing an uncoordinated event . The pensioner's court hearing will take place on July 14; he was left in police custody overnight.

The Moutish designer from Germany, Alexander Kurt, united Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump with the help of neural networks. Kurt emphasizes that he made a video as an experiment, not a political statement. Attention to the video was drawn by TJournal. VFX News To create a video, the designer used the DeepFaclavab program that allows you to replace your faces in the video.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded that the acting head of the State Fiscal Service ( SFS ) of Ukraine, Oleksandr Vlasov, resign. This was reported on the website of the President of Ukraine. The reason for Zelensky's displeasure was that Vlasov promised to fire the heads of customs in four regions of Ukraine - and announced their departure on Facebook. However, according to the documents, the customs officers were sent on vacation, Zelensky said.

X51 / Wikimedia Commons (CC by-SA 3.0) At the end of June, the event “Sturm“ Zone 51 ” appeared on Facebook. They will not be able to stop all of us. " It was created by the administrators of the SHITPOSTING CUZ IM in Shambles meme. At the time of the publication of Medusa, more than 650 thousand users noted that they are going to participate in the assault; More than 600 thousand indicated that they were interested in this event.

The US and UK intelligence services are preparing disinformation about the entourage of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leadership of the Russian Defense Ministry to justify new anti-Russian sanctions, RIA Novosti reports, citing a military-diplomatic source.

The election commission does not accept and “lose” signatures in their support Kristina Kormilitsyna / Kommersant single pickets in support of registering independent candidates in the elections to the Moscow City Duma On July 14, independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma will hold a meeting with voters in the center of Moscow in order to "defend their right to competitive elections." Oppositionists complain that election commissions are doing everything so as not to let them into the

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep became the winner of the Wimbledon tournament. In the final of the competition, she beat the American Serena Williams with a score of 6:2, 6:2. For Halep, this is the first victory at Wimbledon. Williams has won the tournament seven times.

The Russian government approved a decision on the postponement of weekends and holidays in 2020. The weekend on January 4 and 5, coinciding with non -working holidays, was moved to May 4 and 5. Thus, in the New Year there will be eight weekends, and in the spring it will be the weekend on May 1 - 5 and 9 on May 11.

Russians spend almost 40% of their income on food, RBC reports, citing a Sberbank survey, “Ivanov’s Consumer Index.” In the second quarter of 2019, survey participants spent 38.9% of their income on food; a year earlier, this figure was 38.2%. The share of spending on food is growing because food inflation is outpacing the growth of real incomes of the population, Sberbank analysts note.

Astrophysicist Sergey Popov-the importance of launching the spectrum-RG telescope for Russia and world science City News Agency "Moscow" X-ray telescope, part of the observatory "Spectrum-RG" On July 13, the Baikonur cosmodrome launched the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Spectr-RG space observatory. This mission has been prepared since the late 1980s-scientists hope that the device will help to better understand the laws of the universe.

KC "South" / Tsanki / "Roscosmos" From the Baikonur cosmodrome, the Proton-M missile started, which will bring the spectrum-RG observatory into space, Roscosmos reports . The rocket was launched at 15:31 Moscow time. During the first nine minutes after the start, the three steps of Proton-M separated from the DM-03 acceleration unit with the Spectr-RG observatory. The spectra-RG department from the acceleration unit in the target orbit occurred about two hours later.

In 2014, the former owner of Mezhprombank, Sergei Pugachev, wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin in which he accused the deputy head of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), Valery Miroshnikov, of threats and extortion. This was reported by The Bell and Forbes , citing Pugachev's letter (the banker confirmed its authenticity).

The Moscow City Court canceled the fines that the Center for Traffic Organization (TSODD) of the Moscow government received for installing reduced road signs. It is reported by "Kommersant" with reference to the court decision. Two rulings on fines totaling 500 thousand rubles were issued by the traffic police. The reason was the installation of several reduced road signs in the north-east of Moscow.