Ruslan Miniakhmetov, a senior investigator for especially important cases, resigned from the Investigative Committee after the department opened a bribery case against him, and the prosecutor's office stopped this case. The lawyer Konstantin Trapaidze told Interfax about the dismissal of Miniakhmetov. According to him, the investigator left of his own free will.

Anton Vaganov / Reuters /Scanpix / LETA On July 22, a court in Petrozavodsk sentenced historian Yuri Dmitriev to three and a half years in prison on charges of sexually assaulting his underage foster daughter. The court acquitted him of felony charges for allegedly creating child pronography and illegally owning a firearm. Given the time Dmitriev has already served in pretrial detention, he should go free in November of this year. Dmitriev did not plead guilty to any of the charges.

Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant Testing for the coronavirus at Moscow’s Polyclinic Number 68. June 20, 2020. On July 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that neither voting in the nationwide constitutional plebiscite on July 1, nor the Victory Day parade on June 24, led to any coronavirus outbreaks. Official data from Russia’s public health authority, Rospotrebnadzor, shows that the country’s COVID-19 epidemic is winding down.

In the second quarter of 2020, Tesla earned $104 million in profit under national accounting standards (GAAP), according to the automaker's quarterly report. According to The Verge, the company thus turned out to be profitable for four consecutive quarters for the first time in its history. CNBC explains that Tesla can now count on inclusion in the S&P 500 index. Tesla shares rose 6% after the close of trading on the Nasdaq exchange on better-than-expected results.

Nikolai Martynyuk / EPA / Scanpix / Leta President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on July 21 entered into negotiations with a terrorist - Maxim Krivosh, who captured a bus with passengers in Lutsk. The head of state fulfilled his demand - he recorded a short video calling for the film "Earthlings" . After that, the hostages were released.

In Moscow, a woman born in 1951 was detained, suspected of killing 90-year-old VGIK teacher Ida Shur. SC reports. The department did not provide details about the detainee. According to a TASS source, this is a former social worker who worked for Shur in 2016. “Then they continued to communicate periodically,” the source said. The Investigative Committee reported the murder of Ida Shur on 20 July. Her body was found in an apartment building on Kutuzovsky Prospekt.

The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation removed a poll on voting in the elections from Twitter within a few days - after the majority of its participants called the procedure inconvenient. TJournal writes about it. the same poll The CEC published on VKontakte. At the time of publication of the news, the post was available. On July 21, the State Duma adopted a law that allows voting in elections at various levels for several, but not more than three, days.

This is the last significant exclusive PS4 The American studio Sucker Punch has launched a samurai militant Ghost of Tsushima on PS4, aka Tsushima Ghost in Russian translation. This is the last significant exclusive for the Sony console - in the future, the company will concentrate efforts at the PS5 games, which should go on sale until the end of 2020. Medusa journalist Maxim Ivanov tells how good Ghost of Tsushima is and whom she can disappoint.

The number of cases of coronavirus infection in the world has exceeded 15 million. This is evidenced by data from Johns Hopkins University, which conducts calculations in real time. More than 617 thousand people died from the disease. In recent weeks, the number of detected cases has been increasing. Every day, 230-240 thousand cases of the disease are recorded in the world. For comparison, in early July, 180-190 thousand people fell ill every day.

The State Duma in the third reading adopted a law equating electronic cigarettes, hookahs, vapes and tobacco heating systems with tobacco products. They were united under the concept of "nicotine-containing products", to which the law extends the same restrictions and prohibitions as smoking, selling and advertising cigarettes. In particular, recalls Interfax, we are talking about a ban on smoking, including at train stations and airports, shopping centers, offices, cafes and restaurants.

The pursuit of the historian Yuri Dmitriev finally ended - a relatively soft sentence. Report "Medusa" from Petrozavodsk Olga Maltseva / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Yuri Dmitriev near the Petrozavodsky City Court, 22 July, 2020 On July 22, the Petrozavodsk City Court sentenced the historian Yuri Dmitriev to 3.5 years in a maximum security colony - the prosecutor's office asked him to appoint 15 years in prison.

Mark Stone / University of Washington researchers from the University of Washington developed a wireless camera that can be attached to the beetle. The camera weighs about 250 milligrams and can shoot from 1 to 5 frames per second; It can also turn 60 degrees. This is the first successful development of this kind-previously autonomous devices could not be attached to beetles due to the relatively large weight of the batteries.

Former Moscow police officer Igor Lyakhovets, who investigators suspect organized the false arrest of Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov last summer, is asking prosecutors to reopen the drug dealing case against him. The Golunov case Moscow police officers arrested Ivan Golunov on June 6, 2019, on suspicion of drug dealing. He maintained his innocence and said the drugs were planted on him.

The judge recently started a case where Jeffrey Epstein appears Mark Lennihan / AP / Sacanpix / Leta Journalists in front of Judge Esther Salas, July 20, 2020 On July 19, in the city of North Brahstraik (New Jersey), a fedex-form man shot 20-year-old Daniel Enderla and wounded his father, 63-year-old lawyer Mark Enderla. Daniel’s mother and wife Mark, federal judge Esther Salas at this time was in the basement of the house, she was not injured.

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