The Ambassador of Switzerland to the Russian Federation Pierre Helg expressed gratitude for the participation of the Russian Orthodox Church in the liberation of the detainees in Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which is headed by the Swiss President.

The Bank of Russia plans to release a monetary bill dedicated to Crimea. About this, according to Interfax , said the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Georgy Luntovsky to journalists in St. Petersburg on Wednesday as part of the International Banking Congress.

The head of the press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) Vasily Anisimov said that believers in Ukraine are hoping for the arrival of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril on July 28 - to celebrate the memory of Prince Vladimir, the Baptist of Russia. "The day of the baptism of Rus' is an outstanding holiday.

Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin about the results of a sudden verification of the combat readiness of the Central Military District with the participation of more than 65 thousand military personnel and a large number of special equipment. This audit confirmed that the troops in such an amount are able to turn over 72 hours at a distance of more than three thousand kilometers, the head of the Ministry of Defense said.

In Berlin in the evening of July 2, a meeting of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia, Ukraine and France took place. Participants in negotiations agreed on the declaration of resolving the conflict in the southeast of Ukraine. In addition, the ministers agreed to send to Russian checkpoints on the border with Ukraine OSCE observers.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at the opening ceremony of the new building of the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin took part, criticized the West for the lack of "gratitude for the great victory." Instead, Western countries demonstrate "arrogant dictatorship and sanctions", the Belarusian leader complained.

In solving the problem of preserving the Shukhov tower on Shabolovka, it seems that the progress has finally have been outlined, the Archnadzor public movement reports , publishing the official response of the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation, from which it can be concluded that after the meeting in the Russian government, held in mid -June, the ideas of dismantling and transferring the tower to another place are no longer relevant.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow at the request of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in absentia arrested the Ukrainian billionaire, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region Igor Kolomoisky, whom the TFR previously put on the international wanted list with the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov as part of a criminal case instituted against them in the Russian Federation.

The Security Service of Ukraine announced the detention and sending to Kyiv the "people's mayor" of the city of Gorlovka, Donetsk region, Vladimir Kolosnyuk. He is accused of creating a terrorist operation. "Under the direct leadership of the terrorist Bezler (" Besa "), Kolosnyuk was responsible for the supply of weapons, organized and took part in armed attacks on the checkpoints of the ATO forces, the abduction and torture of people, " the news quotes the department.

Former Mall New World in the capital of Thailand is now a much more amazing sight than he was at the time of his work 20 years ago. Its zero floor is flooded with water today, and thousands of fish float there, passing between the broken railing of the old escalator.

The leadership of Sberbank promised a reward in the amount of 500 thousand rubles for information that will help to catch a robber who recently shot two collectors in Tomsk the other day. One of the victims died. “We are sure that the criminals will be found and punished. We can state that not a single crime against the bank and its customers remains unpunished,” Interfax quoted the press service of the manager of the Tomsk branch of the bank Mikhail Grebennikov.

US Secretary of State John Kerry assured the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko that Washington and his allies will continue to put pressure on Russia on the Ukrainian issue.

The Romanian press is worried that the country was surrounded by Putin's Friends. The authoritative Romanian publication Romania Libera has published an article that states that the recent events in Ukraine - the accession of Crimea to Russia and the support of Moscow of Ukrainian separatists - marked the "watershed" lines between European countries.

The Russian regions may soon encounter problems due to the arrival of suspicious "young people", the purpose of which may be to warm up protest moods. One of these "hot spots" can be the Kaliningrad region, according to the local governor Nikolai Tsukanov. According to him, "young people under 30 years old, pumped up, without relatives" arrive in the region with refugees from Ukraine .

The scandalously known Orthodox activist Dmitry Enteo (Tsorionov), who proposed canceling the Slayer metal group declared at the beginning of August in Moscow, touched fans of rock music on the VKontakte social network. And the imperfect service of polls of this social network helped him in this: as it turned out, after placing a survey in the account, his author is free to change the answer options that have already gained enough votes.