Updated . Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Ukraine's readiness to swap Vyshinsky for Sentsov. “Sentsov is just an example. We are ready to exchange for Sentsov, but this is not a bargaining chip,” said . the Ukrainian president The administration of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky proposed to the Russian authorities to simultaneously release the head of RIA Novosti Ukraine, Kirill Vyshinsky, and Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov.

US President Donald Trump said a US warship shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz. It is reported by Bloomberg. The drone was less than a kilometer from the ship, Trump said. It threatened the safety of the ship and crew, so it was destroyed, reports CNN. "This is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against ships in international waters," Trump said. He called on other countries to condemn Iran's actions and protect their own ships. Updated .

The daughter of the first president of Uzbekistan, Gulnara Karimova, was taken by ambulance from the colony where she is serving her sentence. This was tweeted by Karimova's lawyer, Swiss lawyer Grégoire Mange. The lawyer said that he came to Uzbekistan to meet with a client, but he was not allowed to see her. Manzha waited near the colony for six hours, during which time two ambulances drove past him. The lawyer's informant told him that Karimova was in one of those cars.

Chechen woman who fled to Moscow women's shelter is now smiling for TV cameras in Grozny, accusing ‘feminists’ of malicious ‘recruitment’ Earlier this week, the television station Grozny aired a 27-minute segment about a Chechen woman named Zaira Sugaipova, whom human rights advocates say was brought to Chechnya against her will by her parents after fleeing to a crisis center to escape a forced marriage.

As the Russian penitentiary system considers its first major reforms in 20 years, human rights advocates don't like what they see Pyotr Kovalev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA On July 16, Russia’s Council on Human Rights reported that pretrial detention centers in Moscow, the Moscow suburbs, and St. Petersburg currently house twice the number of people they have the capacity to detain.

The Kirovsky District Court of Tomsk demanded that access to the test about corruption on the Snob website be limited. The publication itself reports this. The corresponding decision is posted on the court's website.

The police did not find grounds for initiating a criminal case against a resident of Moscow, Elena Bogolyubova, who was detained by customs officers while receiving a parcel with pills for her seriously ill son. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. The police decided to refuse to open a case after checking the materials received from the Federal Customs Service (FCS).

Actress Inna Churikova was injured during the performance and was taken to a Moscow hospital. Actor Alexander Mikhailov, who played in the play together with Churikova, reported this to TASS. The incident occurred during the production of “The Old Maid” at the Russian Song Theater. Churikova tripped on stage and fell, Mikhailov said.

Director Kevin Smith laid out on Utube the first trailer for his new comedy about Jay and the silent Bob. These are the characters of the fictional universe Smith and the heroes of almost all his films. Kevin Smith This time, Jay and the silent Bob will come to Hollywood again to stop the shooting of a superhero picture on comics about themselves.

In Kazakhstan, telecom operators have asked subscribers to install a special security certificate on all devices with Internet access, local publication Tengri News reports. Such messages were sent to subscribers by Tele2 and Beeline operators (Tele2 stated that only residents of Nur-Sultan received them). Kcell and Activ operators published a notice about the need to install a security certificate on their websites.

The family of the head of the Moscow City Economic Committee Valentin Gorbunov owns two apartments in Croatia, the Fund for the fight against corruption (FBK) of Alexei Navalny, with reference to the official extract for real estate. Navalny Live Croatian harbor The wife and son of Gorbunov own in Croatia the IKA Astra, which owns real estate for 330 thousand euros. These are two neighboring apartments in the house in the city of Ika.

On July 17, reports emerged that Russia’s Investigative Committee had opened a criminal negligence case against social workers employed by the Social Welfare Department of Moscow’s Maryino neighborhood. Investigators argued that the social workers had allowed two children to live with their same-sex adopted fathers to the detriment of the children’s well-being.

Maxim Kondratiev, the author of the telegram channel Avtozak Live, was detained on Red Square. He stood with a blank poster. Individual picketers on Red Square are regularly detained, after which they are usually fined by the courts. Judicial decisions consider Red Square as a place adjacent to the presidential residence: formally, single pickets are not prohibited there, but since they are “social and political” events, they need special permission from the Kremlin to hold them.

Warner Bros. Pictures released the final trailer for the continuation of “It” - a horror film shot from Stephen King’s novel. The second part will tell about the already matured heroes of the previous picture. The characters are returning to the hometown of Derry, where the ancient evil aroused again, embodied in the form of a terrible clown of Penniviz. Trailer in Russian Wbrussia Trailer in English Warner Bros.

In Moscow, on Trubnaya Square, another rally, the fifth in a row, was held in support of independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma. About a thousand people took part in it. Rallies demanding the admission of independent candidates to the elections to the city parliament have been held daily since July 14.