In Surgut, an unknown criminal attacked two police officers with a knife, TASS reports with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. One of the policemen was killed and another was wounded. The attacker was killed. The report says that the police arrived on a call about a “suspicious citizen” at the entrance of a residential building. Seeing an unknown person in the courtyard of the house, they tried to detain him, but he resisted. Updated .

Moscow City Hall representatives told the state-owned wire service Interfax that they have granted a permit for up to 100,000 people to protest on Moscow’s Sakharov Prospect on August 10.

Banned artists and Chechnya's fight against ‘uncultured’ music Elena Afonina / TASS / Scanpix / LETA A rehearsal of the “Zamankho” Chechen Song and Dance Ensemble in Grozny. February 11, 2019. One does not simply “musician” in Chechnya. This article looks at the “expert council” tasked with filtering the local music scene. These gatekeepers have the authority to crush local singers' careers, whenever they feel their lyrics or melodies are insufficiently “cultured” or excessively foreign.

The Moscow Mayor's Office announced the approval of a 100,000-strong rally for the admission of independent candidates to the elections to the Moscow City Duma on Academician Sakharov Avenue on August 10 at two o'clock in the afternoon. Vasily Oleinik, deputy head of the regional security department, said the agreement had been reached “with a group of citizens and organizer Elena Rusakova,” a municipal deputy and an unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma.

The text of the decision to initiate the case of riots in Moscow Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta The head of the Agora international human rights group Pavel Chikov published a copy of the decision on the initiation of a criminal case on the riots in Moscow, which was charged to four people.

In the city of Bad Schönborn in southwestern Germany, 109 students and school staff became infected with tuberculosis pathogens. This became known as a result of an inspection carried out after the discovery of an active form of tuberculosis in two children from different schools. In total, the active form of the disease was found in four people. The rest have a latent form of tuberculosis, in which the person himself is not sick and cannot infect others.

The Investigative Committee filed charges against the fourth person involved in the case of mass riots, initiated after the rally on July 27. This is 21-year-old Samariddin Radjabov, Mediazona reports. Radjabov was detained at the action and is under administrative arrest. According to the coordinator of OVD-Info, Alla Frolova, his interests are represented by a lawyer by appointment. Earlier charges were brought against Kirill Zhukov, Aleksey Minyailo and Ivan Podkopaev.

The Baza publication published a video showing the moment of the attack by the National Guard on Spartak fans at the stadium in Rostov-on-Don on July 20. The video shows how a detachment of riot police breaks into a crowd of fans who are standing with their backs to them and pushes them away, striking with batons.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree obliging air ticket booking systems to store servers with personal data of Russians on the territory of the Russian Federation. RBC writes about it. The decree is about the systems used to book tickets for domestic flights, the newspaper notes. The innovation will also affect travel agencies with air ticket aggregators that also use these systems, writes RBC.

S7 Airlines, the largest private airline in Russia, decided to temporarily return her historical name “Siberia” for the initiative to replenish the forests that burned out in Siberia. This is stated in a statement by the airline received by the Medusa editorial office.

Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has submitted a request to the country’s Investigative Committee saying that he was poisoned while serving a 30-day jail sentence for administrative violations.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on negligence in connection with forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Politician Alexei Navalny filed a complaint with the UK that he was poisoned in a special detention center, where he is serving 30 days of administrative arrest. This was announced by lawyer Vadim Kobzev. Alexei Navalny felt unwell on July 27. According to him , the skin on his face, neck and ears began to “burn and prickle”. On July 28, he was hospitalized and diagnosed with contact dermatitis. The next day they were sent back to custody.

The Investigative Committee charged Lyubov Sobol's headquarters volunteer Aleksey Minyailo with participating in mass riots in connection with a rally on July 27 in Moscow. According to the lawyer, Aleksey Minyaylo pleads not guilty. “[He] insists that he did not take part in the action, since at that moment he was in the Khamovniki Court of Moscow, where he supported Lyubov Sobol,” lawyer Alan Gamazov was quoted by TASS as saying.

Netflix has released the trailer for the third season of 13 Reasons Why. This is a teen drama, the first season of which was based on the book of the same name by Jay Asher. The main characters first figured out who was more to blame for the suicide of their classmate, and then sued each other. The scripts for the second and third seasons are already independent works written by the show's writers.