The radiation background in the Russian Federation does not exceed the norms due to a fire near Chernobyl, Rospotrebnadzor said, having measureds in connection with reports of fire in the alienation zone around the Ukrainian nuclear power plant.

Scotland is going to prohibit the cultivation of genetically modified agricultural products on its territory, reports Reuters . The new rules of the European Union and the autonomy regime, thanks to which Scotland has an independent from the British government, allow you to introduce such a restriction. The country was the first in the EU announced the intention to take advantage of this in order to maintain the image of "clean".

In Donetsk, on Sunday night, several vehicles of the OSCE observers burned out, the organization reported on Twitter . The DPR separatists controlling Donetsk explained the arson of sabotage. The cars were armored, OSCE observers are sure that it was arson. According to them, four cars were destroyed. The OSCE added that the incident occurred next to the place of residence of employees of the mission.

The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) lifted the ban from the Russian national teams to participate in competitions under its auspices, but upheld the sanctions against officials of the Russian Federation of basketball (RFB), Pavel Kolobkov, Deputy Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation, told R-Sport . On July 29, the Fiba Executive Committee decided to disqualify the RFB , removing the national teams of Russia from participating in tournaments under its auspices.

In St. Petersburg, the day before, a series of single pickets was held against the destruction of sanctions food. One of the activists had a conflict with an activist of the GCD, who tried to hit his head and damaged his nose, saying that there were "to burn themselves, " Fontanka reports. There were many elderly people among the picketers in the city who survived the blockade, the photo gallery published by Radio Liberty testifies.

One of the main presidential candidates from the Republican Party of the United States, billionaire Donald Trump, refused to apologize for the sexist joke about the menstruation of the leading television battles . As AFP reports, he insists that he was incorrectly understood, and he "lovely loves women." He made a resonant comment in an interview with CNN, commenting on harsh questions the host of the republican television studies Megin Kelly.

On Saturday, August 8, at the Mukhatgverdsk cemetery in the Tbilisi, the president and Prime Minister of Georgia George Margvelashvili and Irakli Garibashvili honored the memory of those who died in the August 2008 conflict. According to the Prime Minister, Tbilisi hopes to resume a direct dialogue with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The new US sanctions in relation to Russian companies are aimed at eliminating the possibility of maintaining unspoken control of billionaires who have those who have fallen under the sanctions from the Russian Federation for their companies, says Financial Times , describing what is happening as a game of cat mouse. According to FT, we must not talk about the expansion of sanctions, but about the US attempts to make Russian oligarchs really, and not formally inferior to control over companies.

In Uzbekistan, during a concert, a bridge with a crowd of spectators collapsed in one of the entertainment parks: 15 people died, the Uzbek edition of Radio Liberty reports. The emergency occurred the night before, on Sunday, the country's Ministry of Emergencies confirmed the fact of the incident without specifying the number of dead. The tragedy occurred in the Khorezm region in the north of Uzbekistan in the city of Ugrench.

In the United States, in one of the houses in Houston (Texas), eight bodies were found - five children and three adults. The person who supposedly arranged a massacre surrendered to the police, the local television company KHOU reports. Officially, the causes of deaths are not called before the conclusion of forensic experts, but the police arrived on call in connection with the shooting.

The journalist of the British newspaper Guardian, Luke Harding, disowned the books published in Russia “Nobody except Putin”, on the cover of which is indicated as the author. A series about the president is printed by the Algorithm Publishing House, and it has already two dozen books of allegedly eminent authors. Previously, the Algorithm tried to publish the novels of Goebbels and Mussolini. The court recognized them with extremist and forbade them.

In the fourth round of the Russian football championship, the metropolitan Dynamo with a score of 3: 2 won a strong -willed guest victory over the Makhachkala Anji. Muscovites were scored by Alexei Kozlov (19 '), Tomash Gubochan (45') and Mathieu Valbuan (79 ', from a penalty), the hosts distinguished themselves in the 5th minute and the pain of pain (35'). “The match turned out to be very interesting, tense,” Dynamo head coach quoted the official website of the metropolitan club.

The teams of self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics held the first match in their history. The meeting, held at the Metallurg stadium in Donetsk, ended with a score of 4: 1 in favor of the DPR. The text broadcast of the match led the Donetsk News Agency ( Dan ). Viktor Stanenko, Sergey Nechepurenko, Perez Agonga and Alexander Komin scored from the owners. When the score was 4: 0, the LPR players managed to score a goal of prestige - Evgeny Naumov distinguished himself.

The People’s Bank of China officially allowed the ruble to use the ruble along with Yuan in the North-East Chinese city of Suifynhe, located on the border with Russia, Xinhua reports. The ruble and Yuan, as local authorities hope, will replace the universal dollar in the city through which 80% of the trade turnover of the Heilongjiang province with Russia.

In Nagasaki they paid tribute to the dead 70 years ago as a result of the nuclear bombardment of the United States. The mayor of Nagasaki Tomihis Taue called on US President Barack Obama and the leaders of other nuclear powers to visit the places of atomic bombing in Japan. And Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised that Japan would present a project to the UN on the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.