The father of the former NSA employee and the CIA Edward Snowen - Lon Snowden - received a Russian visa. In an interview with ABCnews , he did not specify when he intends to enter Russia. He said that he would like his son to return to the United States, but Edward could not hope for a fair trial. Snowden Sr. also said that he did not communicate with Edward Snowden directly from the moment he left the United States, Interfax reports.

The Russian team in beach football in the most severe struggle won the Spanish team with a score of 4: 2 (3: 1, 0: 0, 1: 1) in the final match of the group stage of the Euroleague Superfinal. Our team took first place in its quartet and will play in a decisive match with the Portuguese.

At least four militants were destroyed, seven were injured in the province of North Sinai as a result of a series of airstrikes that the Egyptian army inflicted. Earlier, drones from Israel were suspected of these strikes, but the leadership of the “DSAL” said that “they respect the sovereignty of Egypt.

Moscow police officers check information about the fight that occurred last night on Novyasenevsky Prospekt at the Prince Plaza shopping center, Interfax told the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On June 30, the protection of the local chip has already been involved in a similar fight , that incident was shot in the video. The current attack occurred at night.

Explosions of cars in several areas of Baghdad during the celebration of the end of the Holy month of Ramadan took the lives of 60 people. In seven areas of the capital of Iraq , more than a dozen explosions occurred . The United States has assigned responsibility for what happened to Al-Qaeda and promised a reward of $ 10 million for the capture of the organizers.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed a decision to rename the railway station located in the Pushkin district of St. Petersburg: "Children's Selo" will now be called "Tsarskoye Selo". This historical name was previously called the city of Pushkin. The corresponding document is published on the official website of the Government of the Russian Federation, on the portal of legal information .

The White House was forced to explain about the words of Barack Obama, who compared Vladimir Putin with a “tired schoolboy”, speaking of a discord in Russian-American relations and why he canceled a bilateral meeting in Moscow. The official representative of the White House Jay Carney explained that the expression refers to photographs, and not to the essence of the discussions of the presidents.

The head of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church and Society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, does not agree with those who consider the Orthodox countries the most depressed in the economic sense. The future, according to him, is in the transition from the growth economy to the sufficiency economy, Interfax reports. "Many today with contempt and neglect speak of the Orthodox peoples as economically unsuccessful.

Two people were killed and more than 30 were injured as a result of a bus car in the south of France. Among the passengers of the bus that turned on on the motorway, there are citizens of Russia and Ukraine, ITAR-TASS reports. The accident occurred last night near the city of Fito (Department of OD), on the A9 motorway connecting the city of Marseille and the northeast of Spain.

In the south of France, where a bus with four dozen passengers moved in a car accident in the south of France , three Russian citizens were injured. According to ITAR-TASS on duty of the Russian consulate in Marseille, a married couple with bruises was placed in the hospital of the South French city of Perpinyan. Another Russian with a spinal injury was transported from the place of a car accident to the hospital of the city of Narbon, a Russian diplomat from the consulate in Marseille left him.

On Sunday, the Israeli government announced the resumption of construction on the west coast of Jordan. Palestinians opposed this, however, according to Newsru Israel , the Israelis in negotiations with the United States actually "exchanged" this right to freedom of Palestinian prisoners. They are produced in connection with the beginning of the negotiation process.

In the CEC of the Russian Federation, it is not against making new electoral urns - transparent. The initiative was proposed by the United Russia party. From an expert point of view, this is useful for voting in elections at various levels, the election commission said.

The FBI agents tracked down and shot a man who was suspected of killing his old friend and her son in California, as well as in abduction of a 16-year-old girl, reports Reuters. The stolen girl was not injured. Agents overtook 40-year-old James Lee Dimagio in deserted areas in Aidaho in the area of ​​Lake Morhead, noticing a camping from air. The girl was delivered by helicopter to the Aidaho hospital, where she will reunite with her father today.

In Moscow, at the Luzhniki stadium, the opening ceremony of the World Athletics Championship took place. After a colorful show, Russian President Vladimir Putin and IAAF head Lamin Diak announced the main athletics competition of the world open. Recall that Russia accepts world championship for the first time.

The inspection did not find violations of human rights in the camp for illegal immigrants to Golyanovo, said the candidate for mayor of Moscow from the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, who was visited by the camp with inspectors on Sunday. And he added from himself: the majority of those in the camp before getting into it lived in the worst conditions. “Both the washing item works normally, and the toilets are clean. Perhaps the power is not the best, albeit hearty.