One of the largest banks in Germany, Deutsche Bank, admitted that it could lose control of its assets in Russia. This is stated in the interim report of the bank ( .pdf ). Deutsche Bank has its own technology resources in Russia, which are involved in the development of a number of bank applications.

The administration of US President Joe Biden has offered Russia to exchange Russian Viktor Bout for Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, CNN reports, citing sources. About Booth, Greiner and Whelan Viktor Bout, 55, is a Russian businessman who was sentenced in the United States in 2012 to 25 years in prison on charges of illegally supplying arms. Booth denies his guilt. 31-year-old Brittney Griner is one of the best modern basketball players who has played in the US and Russia.

A Russian soldier was killed by friendly fire. Pro-Kremlin media covered up his identity and blamed Ukrainian forces for his death. Verstka In the early days of the February invasion, pro-Kremlin Russian news outlets shared a story about a Russian soldier who had sacrificed himself to save a young woman in Kharkiv. The woman, the reports alleged, took cover along with her mother and the “unknown soldier” after being fired upon by Ukrainian troops.

Here's what the BBC Russian Service found out about it In June 2022, the Russian Ministry of Justice sent a letter with a list of complaints and violations to the Russian office of the Jewish Agency for Israel , which assists with repatriation to Israel, the BBC Russian Service reports , citing sources.

U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson sentenced two former Minneapolis police officers , Tou Thao and Alexander Kieng , at a hearing in St. Paul, Minnesota, on charges related to the killing of African-American George Floyd in May 2020, Reuters reports. Thao, 36, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, and Kieng, 28, was sentenced to three years, Minnesota Attorney General Andrew Luger said.

An administrative case has been opened against Roman Dobrokhotov , the founder and editor-in-chief of The Insider , for “discrediting” the Russian army, TASS reports. The Cheryomushkinsky Court of Moscow registered the case on July 25. The journalist is charged under Part 1 of Article 20.3.3. The maximum fine for citizens under it is 50 thousand rubles, for officials - 500 thousand rubles. TASS does not specify what exactly was the reason for initiating the case.

But the cause and circumstances of death are still unknown Mark Brake / EPA / Scanpix / Leta a coffin with the exhumed remains of a “person from Somerton”. Adelaide, May 19, 2021 Scientists from Australia and the USA said that they managed to establish the identity of a man whose body was found in 1948 on the beach of Somerton, a suburbs of Adelaide.

37-year-old captain-lieutenant Valery Krivorog died on the cruiser Moskva, which sank in the Black Sea in April, the Agency reports, citing three unnamed sources. The father of the missing is Rear Admiral Oleg Krivorog, commander of the 30th division of surface ships of the Black Sea Fleet, which included the cruiser Moskva. According to the interlocutors of the Agency, after the ship sank, Valery Krivorog is considered missing.

The concert-presentation of the new album of the singer Dora (real name - Daria Shikhanova), which was supposed to take place on July 27 at the Flacon design factory in Moscow, has been postponed indefinitely. On Wednesday, a few hours before the concert, online platforms suddenly stopped selling tickets for the event. After that, the singer wrote in her Instagram stories that her performance was being postponed for reasons beyond her and the organizers' control.

The Mytishchi city court sentenced two associates of nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich, nicknamed Tesak, who were accused of killing two people in 2007 on the basis of ethnic hatred. As TASS reports, the court sentenced Maxim Aristarkhov to 16 years in prison, and Sergei Marshakov to 17 years; they will serve their sentence in a maximum security colony. They were found guilty of the murder of two men in April 2007 in the Losiny Ostrov park near Korolev in the Moscow region.

Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Igor Kolomoisky when he was the head of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Dnepropetrovsk, May 24, 2014 Last week, the Verkhovna Rada deputy Sergei Vlasenko published a scan of the alleged decree of Vladimir Zelensky on the deprivation of citizenship of a number of persons. The sensation was the presence in this list of the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky.

In the new installment of the Grand Theft Auto series, one of the two main characters will be a woman of Latin descent. This is stated in a Bloomberg publication about Rockstar Games, the studio that is releasing the game. For this article, Bloomberg spoke with more than 20 people who work at the company or have recently left it. According to sources, the female character of GTA 6 was created under the influence of the story about bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

US President Joe Biden received two negative tests for COVID-19 on the evening of July 26 and on the morning of July 27, Reuters reports, citing his attending physician, Kevin O'Connor. On July 21, the White House announced that Biden had been diagnosed with covid, but the president was experiencing only mild symptoms of the disease and immediately began taking medication. After new tests, the American president will no longer comply with strict isolation measures.

Former Moscow lawmaker Yulia Galyamina on what it will take to build a democratic Russia Denis Kaminev As the war in Ukraine has raged on, the Russian authorities haven’t let up on their quest to stamp out what’s left of the country’s domestic opposition.

The child received severe damage to the brain due to strangulation-perhaps as a result of a challenge Hollie Dance / Swns / Scanpix / Leta In the UK, on ​​July 25, the court allowed to disconnect from the apparatus of the life support of 12-year-old Archie Battersby, who since the beginning of April has been in the hospital unconscious with severe damage to the brain. Archie was found at home on April 7 with a loop on the neck.