The International Rowing Sports Federation (FISA) allowed only six Russian athletes out of 28 to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the FISA press service reports. These included Alexander Chaukin, Georgy Efremenko, Artem Kosov, Nikita Morgachev, Vladislav Ryabtsev and Anton Zarutsky. "The rest of the athletes, despite the lack of evidence of taking prohibited drugs by them, do not meet the criteria declared according to the results of the IOC summit on July 24," the report said.

“The Putin regime is the“ advanced detachment ”of the right -conservative turn that is now in world politics. The Russian president is the first among equal in a series of new right -wing leaders as Trump, Marie Le Pen, Frauke Petri, Orban, Yaroslav Kachinsky, Hofer, Fordein, etc.,” says sociologist Igor Aidman in publication on the Kasparov.ru website.

The prosecutor’s office and the Ukrainian Security Service conducted searches in the premises of the Kyiv airport Borispol as part of the investigation of the criminal case on the embezzlement of budget funds during public procurement. A private company was accused of relations with Russia and the sale of explosives detectors to the airport at an overpriced price.

The clergy and parishioners of the temple in the French Ruan with the warmest feelings recall their priest Jacques Amel, brutally killed by the Islamists in the attack on the church. The people who know him say that Father Jacques was a very kind person who reliably helped other people who possessed great charisma. He was the second priest in his temple.

The Tula Regional Court recognized the activities of the religious group "In honor of the icon of the Mother of God" the Sovereign "extremist and banned its activities, according to the website of the regional prosecutor's office. It is clarified that the organization has not been registered, but has existed in the territory of the Novomoskovsky district of the region since 2008.

The police of Dagestan began to distribute warnings to residents with a demand to notify law enforcement officers of their movements in the republic and planned trips beyond its limits. This was written by the newspaper "Kommersant" with reference to the messages of the residents themselves who received such documents. According to the publication, warnings are awarded mainly to persons included in the lists of preventive accounting for unreliable citizens.

In the first half of 2016, the weighted average price of a new passenger car in Russia amounted to 1.36 million rubles, which is 17% more than for the same period of last year, the Avtostat agency, which analyzed the dynamics of prices 35 stamps sold in the Russian Federation. The Land Rover cars have risen in price for the indicated period, the weighted average price of which increased by 38%.

In Poland, XXIX World days of Catholic youth (VDM) open on Wednesday. They will take place under the sign of the year of mercy, declared by the Vatican and memories of the first pope of Polish descent John Paul II (1920-2005).

The opposition Islamic preacher, Fethullah Gulen, who is living in the United States, whom Turkey considers the organizer of the coup d'etat , accused of the country's president of Tayyip Erdogan of authoritarianism. Gulen wrote about this in the column of the American newspaper The New York Times .

Two Turkish generals were detained in the United Arab Emirates and issued by Turkey, according to the Turkish television channel CNN Turk with reference to diplomatic sources. According to them, the detainees are Major General Dzhahit Bakyr, commander of the Turkish troops as part of the NATO contingent in Afghanistan, and the brigade General Shener Topuch, who was responsible for military training and medical care as part of the Turkish contingent in this country.

Scientists from the Federal Polytechnic School in Lausanne and the Swiss Higher Technical School Zurich have developed a method that allows you to create soft microbots with programmable mobility and form, borrowing the design of mobile living cells that can change the morphology and type of movement depending on the conditions of the environment. An article on development was published in the journal Nature Communications .

The economic crisis in Russia accelerates the outflow of the population from urban high -rise buildings to rural houses, where downshifters and pensioners move. An independent newspaper tells about this trend with reference to the data of sociologists and market experts.

After about a month and a half, Apple should present updated versions of the iPhone smartphones. Over the past few months, various sources have published numerous rumors about them, agreeing that the new Apple devices will receive the names of the iPhone 7, 7 Plus and, possibly, 7 Pro, although the probability of the appearance of the latter is periodically questioned. However, it is possible that the new Apple smartphones will receive a different designation.

The head of the Federal Customs Service (FCS) Andrei Bellyaninov , in whose house and office searches were held, filed on a resignation six months ago, reports the Rain television channel with reference to a source in the FCS. At the same time, they officially did not hear about this either in the service itself or in the Kremlin. A senior source of Rain in the government confirmed this information, adding that the application has long been submitted to the president.

The International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) did not allow Russian Alexander Markin to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, since earlier the athlete was temporarily suspended from the competition on suspicion of the forbidden drug Meldonia. Markin is excluded from the Russian national team for upcoming games and will not be replaced by another controversy. “I’m already at home. In the morning, the coach said that Fivb did not allow me to participate in the Olympic Games.