Maksim Krivosh, who seized a bus with hostages in Lutsk on July 21, had accomplices in other cities, Novoye Vremya reports, citing Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. “The accomplices were detained, one of them is in Kharkiv, cartridges and explosives were found there,” Avakov said.

On July 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the Khabarovsk Territory’s governor Sergey Furgal due to “loss of confidence.” Furgal’s dismissal came after his arrest on suspicion of organizing several contract killings at the start of the 2000s. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), Furgal became the head of the region following the national elections : on September 23, 2018, almost 70 percent of voters supported him in the second round of voting.

Mikhail Degtyarev’s first press briefing as the Khabarovsk Territory’s acting governor, in brief I just arrived and I already heard how people shouted at me from their windows: “Degtyarev, leave!” I will gladly go, but now is not the time — because there are priority tasks. Why I was the chosen candidate is a question for the president. But the fact that I am from the LDPR [Liberal Democratic Party] is out of the federal center’s respect for the voters.

13 hostages were released from a bus seized in Lutsk, Interfax reports. Maxim Krivosh, who held them for 12 hours, surrendered and was detained. “During the operation to free the hostages, an armored personnel carrier drove up to the bus, and numerous shots were heard,” the agency writes. There were no wounded, according to Interfax. Krivosh released the first three hostages after a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Sberbank closed a deal with Yandex to buy out its share in the Yandex.Money service, according to SPARK data. The 25% of the service that belonged to Yandex was transferred to the structure of Sberbank - Digital Assets LLC. The state bank itself directly owns 75% of Yandex.Money. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed; Yandex previously estimated it at 2.4 billion rubles.

Khabarovsk’s new acting governor is known for weird ideas, but the man’s a pragmatist Sergey Savostyanov / TASS / Scanpix / LETA It took a week and a half for the Kremlin to select a new acting head for the Far Eastern Khabarovsk Territory, where the population has been protesting the arrest of their elected governor, Sergey Furgal .

Maxim Krivosh, who took hostages in Ukrainian Lutsk, released three of them, UNIAN reports. According to the agency, they are a child, a pregnant woman and an elderly woman. According to Novoye Vremya, Krivosh released the people after a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He recorded a video message, thus fulfilling one of the requirements of Krivosh, the publication adds. Updated.

Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant Testing on Koronavirus in the Moscow clinic No. 68. July 20, 2020 Vladimir Putin on July 20 stated that neither a vote on amendments to the Constitution on July 1, nor the Victory Parade on June 24 led to the outbursts of coronavirus. The official data of Rospotrebnadzor really show that the epidemic in Russia continues to be faded.

The main rival Lukashenko in the election Svetlana Tikhanovskaya first performed on state TV My husband is in a pre -trial detention center because he wanted a better life for Belarus. The authorities acted as familiar methods and thought that this would end there - but they did not understand that everything was just beginning.

The Ministry of Economic Development submitted to the government the concept of regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics (RT) technologies. This was reported on the website of the ministry. The concept “defines the main approaches to transforming the regulatory system” so that AI and RT develop in medicine, industry, transport, and space activities.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. For many years, the LDPR was the ally of the Kremlin. How did the Khabarovsk crisis hit the party of Zhirinovsky? In Khabarovsk, rallies continue for eleven days in a row in support of the former governor of the region Sergey Furgal. On July 9, he was arrested on suspicion of organizing murders and attempts on businessmen. On July 20, President Vladimir Putin sent Furgal to resign “due to the loss of trust” .

The Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Health argued about the readiness of the vaccine. How doctors who tell the truth about the scale of the epidemic are fired. The European Union will spend 750 billion euros on the restoration of the economy Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic.

The host Alexander Belyaev died. He fought with cancer for many years - but continued to turn the weather forecast into fascinating stories Alexander Stepanov / Photoxpress In Moscow on July 20, the leading weather forecast for NTV Alexander Belyaev died. He was 71 years old. For a long time he had an oncological disease - but despite this, he continued to work until 2018.

A court in Greece has sentenced two sailors from Russia to 253 years in prison each for transporting illegal migrants. The Russians were found guilty of organizing illegal migration, human trafficking and illegal crossing of the Greek border. According to the prosecution, they tried to smuggle more than 20 migrants into the country - for each of them, the Russians received from 7 to 12 years in prison. The sailors pleaded not guilty.

About the fact that there are no obstacles for true love, hundreds of books and songs have been written in all languages ​​of the world. A couple from Scandinavia proved that this happens in real life. Alexander Clern and Camille Eyrud decided to get married, set a date and began to prepare for the celebration. But then the coronavirus pandemic intervened. What if the groom is from Sweden, the bride is from Norway, and the borders between countries are closed? Postpone the wedding?