Russian politician Maria Gaidar, who became the vice-governor of the Odessa region of Ukraine in the team of ex-president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, called the “tragic moment” the possible deprivation of its Russian citizenship. "If I am deprived of Russian citizenship, then this will be a tragic moment for me. But what can I do with this?

Zenit striker Alexander Kerzhakov, who is the best scorer in the history of Russian football and the best sniper of the national team , in a conversation with the R-Sport agency, did not rule out the option in which in 2015 he would decide on the completion of the football player’s career. The head coach of Zenit Andre Villash-Boash at the end of June said that he was not counting on the best scorer in the history of the club, 32-year-old Kerzhakov.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov talked on the phone with Secretary of State John Kerry, as well as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany and Ukraine, Francom-Walter Steinmeier and Pavel Klimkin. The parties discussed, in particular, the situation in Syria and the course of the implementation of the Minsk agreements on a peaceful settlement in the east of Ukraine.

Actor Igor Artashonov, known to the audience from the series "Youth", "Liquidation" and many others, died today at the 52nd year of life, TASS reports with reference to the actor’s agent Natalia Alger. “It really happened, a blood clot,” Algereva said, explaining that he could not report the details, since he is currently abroad. Igor Artashonov was born on March 17, 1964. He graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School (Workshop of V. Markov) and the British-American Academy of Arts in Oxford.

The American National Aeronading and Space Studies (NASA) on its website published a video of the flight of the New Horizons automatic interplanetary station above the surface of Pluto. The animation is mounted from a series of photographs taken on July 14, 2015 by Lorri (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) at a distance of 77 thousand kilometers from Pluto, the message said.

In two districts of the Khabarovsk Territory, 12 settlements were flooded with a flood. He was caused by an increase in the water level in the rivers after the Typhoon “Chanh-Ham” , which was falling into the Primorsky Territory. “The flood continues to influence life in three areas of the Khabarovsk Territory. This is Bikinsky, the name of the Lazo and the Nanai areas,” TASS said to the State Emergencies Ministry in the Khabarovsk Territory.

The assistant to the head of the US State Department Victoria Nuland said that the United States will increase pressure on Russia and separatists in the event of a conflict escalation in the Donbass. She made such a statement after President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko spoke about the "concentration of Russian forces" on the border. "We made it clear that the sanctions will remain in force until the Minsk agreements are fully implemented.

In Athens, against the backdrop of the economic crisis , new ministers of the Greek government, appointed on July 17, Prime Minister Alexis Tsiprase, are sworn. The new members of the Cabinet of Ministers have changed ministers who disagree to accept the terms of international creditors. According to News 247 , the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy, instead of Panayotis Lafazanis, occupied Panos Skurletis, who previously headed the Ministry of Labor of Greece.

Former Vice President of FIFA Jeffrey WEBB, detained at the end of May in Switzerland in the organization of corruption in the organization and extradited in the United States, was released on bail of $ 10 million, Fox News reports. On Saturday, Webb, who arrived in New York the day before, appeared before the court, where he was charged. The official did not admit his guilt and, by court order, was released on bail of $ 10 million.

In Moscow, on Chistoprudny Boulevard near the Embassy of Kazakhstan, an accident occurred with the participation of a drunken driver. The man who was driving the Skoda car lost control, collided with BMW and crashed into three cars with diplomatic numbers, Lifenews reports. As a result of the accident, three foreign cars of the Embassy of Kazakhstan received the damage - two Toyota and Honda cars.

A fight took place in the center of Moscow, in which several people took part. As a result, one of the participants in the brawl died. The police made the detention after receiving information about the fight. “About six in the morning on Saturday on Myasnitskaya Street near house 24 there was a fight between several citizens. The police officers who arrived on call detained several people,” an employee of the press service told Interfax .

Representatives of the Investigative Committee of Armenia received materials in the criminal case on the murder of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, the investigation of which was under the jurisdiction of the RF IC, the press service of the department reports on Saturday. Prior to the transfer of the materials of the Armenian case, the discussion of such an opportunity was conducted in Yerevan and Gyumri, RIA Novosti reports.

As a result of the explosion in the market in the city of Bani-Saad of the province of Diala in the east of Iraq, 115 people were killed and another 170 people were injured in varying severity, the Al Jazeera TV channel reports. The explosion crashed next to the city market during the celebration of the Muslim holiday Uraza-Bayram. The attack was committed by a suicide bomber, blowing a car filled with three tons of explosives.

The number of those who died during the shooting , which was opened on Thursday at the American military base in the city of Chattanuga (Tennessee), 24-year-old Muhammad Jozef Abdul-Aziz, increased to five. According to the agency AR , a sailor who was injured as a result of the incident died. The name of the deceased is not officially called. However, according to the press, we are talking about Randal Smith.

Five citizens of the Czech Republic and their Lebanese driver disappeared in Livan in the area of ​​the Kefrai resort town in the western part of the Bekaa Valley, not far from the border with Syria, Reuters reported with reference to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. The El Wataniya news agency previously reported that five Czech tourists disappeared in Lebanon and, possibly, were taken hostage by an unknown criminal group.