The All-Russian festival dedicated to the 87th birthday of the actor, director and writer Vasily Shukshin, opens on Tuesday, July 19, in the Altai Territory. The Shukshin Days will take five days in seven settlements - cities of Barnaul, Biysk, Belokurikha, Novoaltaysk, as well as the villages of a quick source, a field -breeder and in the homeland of Shukshin in the village of Rustoki.

In Yerevan, a restless atmosphere continues around the building of the local police station captured by the armed group. On Tuesday evening, shots were heard on the territory of the building. Later, the invaders announced to their supporters that it was they who took warning shots so that the police did not take any actions against the people who gathered nearby, the Interfax agency reports.

"A little more than a month ago, the Oleg Deripaska group closed the deal from the purchase from Inter RAO 40.3% of Irkutskenergo shares, one of the most effective electricity manufacturers in Siberia, for 70 billion rubles," a politician in a live magazine recalls. “Well, it would seem, closed and closed, a deal and a deal. What is the catch? The catch is that these 40% of Irkutskenergo belonged directly to the state.

The Islamic State ( Daish ) group forbidden in the Russian Federation announced a refugee from Afghanistan, who attacked the passengers with a trip to Germany, Reuters with reference to the terrorist agency Amen, who had been attacked by AMAQ. Before that, he found terrorist symbolism. As Reuters reports, the IG flag was found in the room where he lived.

Türkiye sent an official request to the United States about the extradition of the preacher living in Pennsylvania and writer Fethullah Gulen, who is considered the main suspect in the preparation of the failed coup, confirmed on Tuesday, July 19, Turkish Prime Minister Binaly Yyldyrym. According to Anadolu agency, Yyldyrym criticized the United States for a request to provide evidence of the preacher's involvement in the coup, necessary for extradition.

During the Eastern Economic Forum ( VEF ), which will be held in early September in Vladivostok, in several municipalities of Primorye, all types of hunting will ban, reports PrimaMedia . “I am deciding to prohibit the holding of all types of hunting on the territory of the Artyomovsky city district, Nadezhdinsky and Skotov municipal districts in the period from September 1 to 5, 2016,” the agency quotes the resolution of the register of the region Vladimir Miklushevsky.

The museum of the famous Soviet and Russian composer Michael Tariverdiev is going to create in his apartment in Moscow. Currently, this issue is being discussed in the Ministry of Culture, the general director of the All -Russian Museum Association of Musical Culture named after M.I. Glinka Mikhail Bryzgalov.

Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church said on Tuesday at a press conference in Moscow that recently the number of baptisms in Orthodoxy in Russia has increased. “The number of baptisms has increased,” the interfax -religion portal, the words of the deputy chairman of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, quoted.

The Astana Department will provide financial assistance to the families of police officers who died the day before when attacking a terrorist on the city of Alma-Ata. The leadership of the department will transfer its one-day earnings to the expense of relatives of the dead law enforcement officers, the Inform.kz website, citing the press service of the capital's DVD.

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation announced that she approved the indictment in the criminal case against the former head of the development company Mirax Group Sergey Polonsky and two more defendants in this case and sent him to the Presnensky district court of Moscow for consideration on the merits. Polonsky is charged with Part 4 of Art.

The Turkish authorities took custody of two pilots who shot down the Russian Su-24 Russian bomber on the border with Syria in November 2015. They are accused of participating in an attempt by a coup . This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a senior source of Bloomberg, as well as the Kommersant newspaper with reference to AFP. The names of the detainees and other details are not given.

Near St. Petersburg near the copper lake in the mud stuck armored vehicles. Eyewitnesses reported that the VKontakte social networks that occurred in the Group of DTP and PE St. Petersburg , asking for help. Judging by the discussion, tanks capable of pulling out heavy equipment are placed by every third resident of the Vsevolzhsky district of the Leningrad region, but most of them have transport at a hundred, without insurance or in non -working state. “Help. Maybe someone has a second tank.

The Dagestan prosecutor’s office canceled the previously made decision on the initiation of a criminal case against the son of the mayor of Makhachkala Badrudin Musaev, who was accused of inflicting bodily harm to police officers during the incident on the night of May 31 in the center of the capital of the republic. About this "Interfax" on Tuesday was reported by a source in law enforcement agencies of the region.

The EU Commissioner for Digital Economics and Society Gunter Ettinger said that the European Union would not provide Turkey with a visa -free regime this year after a failed military coup in this country, Reuters reports. According to Ettinger, Turkish President Recep Erdogan must fulfill the conditions set by the European Union. In particular, the country should establish the rule of law. “We are not observing this at the moment,” the politician said.

In Taiwan, as a result of a car accident on Tuesday, July 19, 26 people were killed, including 24 tourists from mainland China. The accident occurred on the highway near the Tauan International Airport. The bus at high speed rammed a road fence and caught fire, reports South China Morning Post . Firefighters who arrived at the scene of the accident for half an hour extinguished the flame. All victims died on the spot. The bodies of 26 people, including three children, were found on the bus.