The Patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church sold 60 acres of land in the Israeli city of Jaffa near the famous clock tower in the “Clock Complex” for almost $1.5 million. The new owner of the property was Bona Trading, a company registered on the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. The deal was signed back in 2013, but its execution was delayed due to litigation.

The Veon holding (formerly Vimpelcom), which owns the Russian telecom operator Beeline, announced the launch of the messenger of the same name in Russia, Georgia, Pakistan, Ukraine, as well as in Italy, where it should be operational by the end of the week. The message about the launch of the messenger was published on the project website . Judging by the description, Veon is generally similar to many existing instant messengers.

Andrey Piontkovsky “The amusing “presidential elections” on March 18, 2018 will not decide the issue of power in Russia. Because this issue is being decided today. And not by one hundred million voters, but by about one hundred members of the expanded Politburo of the Russian kleptocracy. The surname “Putin” is certainly included on the short list of reputable business officials.

At a meeting of the National Security Council of Turkey on the anniversary of the attempt to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the results of actions directed against the associates of the leader of the Hizmet movement Fethullah Gülen, accused in his homeland of an attempted military coup, were presented.

The Emirate Dubai court in the UAE is considering the case in which the Russian businessman was charged with the preparation of a custom -made murder. The opponent of the Russian also claims that he threatened him on behalf of the environment of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. The lawsuit was initiated by a 41-year-old citizen of Canada. He asks to recover 11.9 million dirhams (3.24 million dollars) from the Russian investor.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, as part of a visit to Georgia, visited the village of Osisi, located on the border with South Ossetia, and compared the situation in the republic with Donbass, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the President of Georgia Georgy Margvelashvili.

Igor Yakovenko “Kremlin appointees quite often make statements of varying degrees of idiocy. Suffice it to recall the speeches of Kadyrov or the Oryol governor Potomsky. But what Zakharchenko learned is idiocy of a slightly different scale and consequences,” writes a columnist for the Daily Journal , commenting on the words of the head of the DPR about the creation Little Russia.

In May 2017, Russia increased investments in the US Treasuries treasury obligations, Interfax reports. In May, the Russian Ministry of Finance increased investments in the US public debt to a maximum from October 2014 - up to $ 108.7 billion. True, the fall of 2014 was a period of active reduction of investments against the backdrop of deterioration of relations with Western states due to Ukrainian conflict.

In the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, an investigation continues on the fact of the murder of Muscovite Andrei Kabanov, who came to rest with the whole family to the Black Sea resort. This crime caused an international scandal and a wide public outcry.

The launches of the Automatic Interplanetary Stations "Luna-resource OA" and "Luna-resource Pa", planned in 2020 and 2021, will be carried out in 2021 and 2022, the general director of the manufacturer of the NGOs named after Lavochkina Sergey Lemeshevsky. “Further lunar steps, as planned, is the“ Luna-resource ”orbital and“ Luna-resource ”landing. Here, indeed, we can say that the deadlines moved to 2021 and 2022,” he said at the Max-2017 air-space salon (a quote from RIA Novosti ).

On July 18, Chinese authorities partially blocked the WhatsApp messenger, the last service owned by the social network Facebook that has not yet been banned in the country. The New York Times writes about this. WhatsApp users are reportedly unable to send photos and videos, and the blocking has prevented some from sending text messages. Experts also confirmed information about the blocking of the messenger in China.

The police of the Western Administrative District of Moscow detained two tramps of Georgian origin, who are suspected of robberies. According to preliminary data, several years ago, homeless people took more than ten million rubles from the Kommersant. Criminals were able to squeeze these funds only in four years. Criminal punishment threatens the capital's homeless people who are called GIA and Shota, Mash reports on his channel on the VKontakte social network.

In Uruguay on Wednesday, July 19, legal sales of marijuana in 16 pharmacies started, AP reports. This South American country became the first in the world to fully legalized marijuana, namely, it allowed its cultivation and sale under state control to registered customers. According to BBC , customers will be able to choose from two varieties of marijuana who have received the names of Alpha 1 and Beta 1. Both contain 2% tetrahydrocannabinol - a psychoactive component of marijuana.

The Russian government refused to support a bill to delay the entry into force of the so-called “Yarovaya law” for five years. This was reported by Meduza with reference to the official review of the bill at the publication’s disposal.

During the metropolitan derby at the match of the first round of the Premier League between the Moscow Dynamo and Spartak (2: 2), a fight with the participation of team fans occurred at the central sector of the Arena Khimki stadium. In the most expensive, central places of the stadium in Khimki, a red-white scarf was pulled out at the Spartak fans and threw them on the field, and its owners were beaten with their feet. Law enforcement officers stopped brawl.