Update. Shortly after Sobol was taken out of the building of the Moscow City Electoral Committee, she was detained and taken to the Tverskoy police station. In the first hours after her arrest, a lawyer was not allowed to see her . She was released from the police department after two in the morning.

Moscow City Duma candidate Roman Yuneman said that people in civilian clothes came to the address where his mother-in-law now lives to "give something." According to his chief of staff, this is about the agenda. In a conversation with Meduza, Yuneman explained that the people who came to his relative's house did not introduce themselves. As follows from his words, he assumed that they were from the Investigative Committee. Amendments.

The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, announced the termination of all existing agreements with Israel. According to him, a commission will be formed in Palestine to terminate the implementation of the agreements. AFP writes that the governments of Israel and the Palestinian Authority are cooperating on a number of issues, from security to water supply. The agency notes that Abbas made similar threats before, but did not implement them.

Updated . The detainee wrote a confession. During interrogation, he stated that he committed the crime out of jealousy. In Ramenskoye, near Moscow, on the afternoon of July 25, a woman walking with a child was killed on a playground. According to the UK, the offender inflicted at least 20 stab wounds on the woman. Mash writes that 26-year-old Natalya Basova was killed. According to the publication, her “former partner” is suspected of murder.

Dmitry Gudkov page on Twitter Night Search by Dmitry Gudkov. July 24, 2019 On the evening of July 24 , searches were held with three unregistered candidates in the Moscow City Duma - Dmitry Gudkov, Ivan Zhdanov and Nikolai Balandin. Also, investigators came to the candidate Alexander Solovyov, but they did not find him at the place of registration.

Yakutia.info journalist Mikhail Romanov at a court meeting, July 25, 2019 In April 2019, the newspaper Yakutsk Evening published an article by Mikhail Romanov about the programmer of the North-Eastern Federal University, Libertarian Antone Ammosov. According to Ammosov, he was abducted and beaten by the FSB officers. The reason, as the publication of the OVD-Info wrote , was his comments on YKT.ru news website about Penza business and an explosion in the FSB Office building in Arkhangelsk.

The Austrian authorities have put on the international wanted list a 65-year-old Russian citizen, Igor Egorovich Zaitsev, who is suspected of working for the GRU and espionage. According to Austrian media, the Zaitsev case is linked to the case of a 70-year-old retired army colonel who was suspected of spying for Russia at the end of 2018. The colonel is said to have started working for Russian military intelligence in the 1990s and received €300,000 in rewards during that time.

On Thursday, July 25, Russia’s Attorney General’s Office announced that it has designated the Atlantic Council as an illegal “undesirable organization” in Russia. “It’s been established that the activities of this organization pose a threat to the fundamentals of the Russian Federation’s constitutional system and security,” the Russian agency said in a public statement, offering no details to explain why exactly the U.S.-based think tank has been banned.

Petr Kudryashov - chief designer of the project For several years, Russian cosmos enthusiasts are going to send an apparatus to the lunar orbit, which will be able to photograph and show evidence of previous lunar missions, including American Apollo and Soviet Moon and Luno Roads. Back in 2015, they managed to successfully conduct a small crowdfunding campaign, the funds from which were planned to be spent on the design of the probe.

The head of Russia's ‘Committee Against Torture’ explains the new evidence of summary executions in Chechnya Artem Geodakyan / TASS Igor Kalyapin, Committee Against Torture chairperson On July 23, the human rights groups “Memorial” and the “Committee Against Torture,” together with the newspaper Novaya Gazeta , held a press conference where they presented new evidence of torture, abductions, and summary executions in Chechnya in January 2017.

State Border Service of Ukraine The Russian tanker Nika Spirit following its seizure in Ukraine. July 25, 2019 Ukraine’s National Security Service (SBU) seized the Russian oil tanker *Nika Spirit *on July 25. The tanker had reportedly entered the Odessa region’s Izmail Port seeking repairs when it was stopped by Ukrainian officials.

The US Department of Justice announced the resumption of death penalty executions, which have not been carried out at the federal level since 2003. This was announced by Attorney General William Barr. Five inmates are scheduled to be executed in December and January at the Terre Haute Federal Penitentiary in Indiana. Pentobarbital will be used in the executions. The inmates are Daniel Lewis Lee, Lezmond Mitchell, Wesley Ira Purkey, Alfred Bourgeois and Dustin Lee Honken.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has published a trailer for a horror movie “Welcome to Zombieland 2”. Sony Pictures Entertainment Zombieland: Double Tap - Official Trailer (HD) This is the continuation of the movie “Welcome to Zombiland”, released in 2009. The director of the film was Ruben Fleisher (Venom), who shot the first part.

The Moscow City Electoral Commission rejected the appeals of five self-nominated candidates, whom the district electoral commissions refused to register as candidates for the Moscow City Duma. Registration was denied to former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov , director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Ivan Zhdanov, deputy of the Zyuzino municipality Konstantin Yankauskas, self-nominated Yulia Serebryanskaya and Konstantin Lisitsa.

Fashion house Sonia Rykiel will be liquidated immediately after the decision of the court in Paris, which rejected the latest application for the purchase of the company, according to The Business of Fashion. The court rejected the offer of the Lévy company, which planned to buy the fashion house. Several employees of Sonia Rykiel, who were in the courtroom, burst into tears, writes AFP. As part of the liquidation, ten Sonia Rykiel stores will be closed.