Sergey Karpukhin / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Arkady Rotenberg Russian billionaires Arkady and Boris Rotenbergs, who have been under US sanctions since March 2014, were able to bypass the restrictions introduced and made millions of dollars on the art market. This, according to The Wall Street Journal, said in the investigation conducted by American senators Rob Portman and Tom Carper.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow found the former head of the Russian Authors' Society ( RAO ) Sergei Fedotov guilty of large-scale fraud and sentenced him to five years' imprisonment. Four other defendants in the case, including the mother of the former head of RAO Vera Fedotova, received suspended sentences of three to four years.

Mikhail Degtyarev gave an interview to Sergey Shnurov. About the events in Khabarovsk, where protests have been going on for two weeks I communicate with people a lot now. "I go out and walk with pleasure." I treat the situation I found myself in with humor. " Pigeons - wow! That's what they are here." People send me to outer space , remember the bathhouse . "Well, what, we don't steam in the bathhouse, or what? We do... I will go to the bathhouse in Khabarovsk.

Investigative journalists at ‘Proekt’ calculate who won big and came up short in Russia’s coronavirus government contracts Donat Sorokin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA A mobile hospital for COVID-19 patients established at the “Yekaterinburg-Ekspo” exhibition center, May 22, 2020 The Russian state spent 210 billion rubles ($2.9 billion) to procure the goods and services needed to contain the spread of coronavirus , estimates the investigative news website Proekt .

Political strategist Vitaly Shklyarov was detained in Minsk, the Dozhd TV channel reported, citing the press service of the headquarters of the former presidential candidate of Belarus Valery Tsepkalo. A message about the detention of the political strategist also appeared on the Shklyarov telegram channel. Shklyarov was detained because of his work for blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky, husband of Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

The Central Election Commission of Belarus summoned all registered presidential candidates to an urgent meeting with the head of the commission, Lydia Ermoshina. The meeting is scheduled for 8:55 a.m. on July 30, Tut.by reports, citing two candidates and a CEC representative. Candidate Sergei Cherechen said that the Central Election Commission did not explain what the meeting would be devoted to.

“Belarus 1” In Belarus, law enforcement officers arrested 33 mercenaries from the Russian private military company (PMC) “Wagner,” the state-owned Belarusian news agency BelTA reported . The “Wagner” PMC The Wagner group is a private military company (PMC) linked to billionaire Russian businessman Evgeny Prigozhin , who is known for his ties to the Kremlin .

In the Antimonopoly Sub -Committee of the Law Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, hearings with the participation of Mark Zuckerberg, Tima Cook (Apple), Sundara Pichai and Jeff Bezos (Amazon) began. They will perform as part of an investigation to use non -competitive practices. The largest IT companies in the world are suspected of abuse of the market position. Tsuckerberg, Cock, Pichai and Bezos have never previously testified before the congressmen together.

Dmitry Romanov, the son of Olga Romanova, the head of the “Rus Sitting” fund for helping prisoners, accused her of selling his apartment in Moscow without his knowledge. Romanov filed a lawsuit against his mother, as well as against his sister Anna Ivanova, who eventually got the apartment. Applications were filed under articles on real estate fraud and theft of property.

Press Service of the State Duma of the Russian Federation / TASS / Scanpix / Leta State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin instructed to check if individual deputies have foreign citizenship or residence permit in another country. Volodin ordered that the Committee on Security and Combating Corruption, as well as the Commission on Deputy Ethics, requested such information from the Central Election Commission, according to the parliament website.

Archive of Anna Verchenko In the village near Moscow, Long Ledovo (Shchelkovo district) at the Kandaologist and retired police, Anna Verchenko, with a difference of six months, poisoned two dogs. Both died almost immediately. On the fact of the murder, a criminal case was brought up under the 245th article of the Criminal Code (“Cruelment of animals”), the charges were brought to a man from the neighboring site. In Russia, this is very rare.

Who in Russia earned the most in the fight against pandemia. Masichnaya regime violators in the Moscow metro began to be fined. Hajj in Mecca performed thousands of Muslims - instead of millions Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here .

The whole Vancouver was looking for him - even Ryan Reynolds participated. And finally found. Hooray! A teddy bear with glasses was stolen from Vancouver resident Mara Soriano. A special voice module was sewn inside the toy - with its help, the girl could at any time listen to the voice of her dead mother, whom she missed so much. The bear cub was literally searched for by the whole of Vancouver. And luckily we found it! The bear came to Soriano in 2019, after her mother died of cancer.

Investors interested in buying TikTok from Chinese ByteDance have valued the service at $50 billion, Reuters reported, citing a source familiar with the situation. At the same time, the revenue of the service at the end of 2020 is projected at the level of one billion dollars. ByteDance is considering several proposals to relinquish control of TikTok amid pressure from US regulators.

On July 29, police arrested Murtazili Medzhidov — the son of former Dagestani Prime Minister Mukhtar Medzhidov — on suspicion of murdering a 21-year-old student at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in April 2018. The alleged victim, a woman from Kazakhstan named Tomiris Baisafa, fell from a fourth-story window on the university’s campus and later died in the hospital.