In St. Petersburg, police officers discovered a motorcycle stolen in Italy five years ago, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on July 28. “In the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg, traffic police officers stopped a motorcycle driven by a 32-year-old citizen working as a security guard at one of the enterprises,” the report says. During the check, it turned out that this motorcycle has been wanted by law enforcement agencies in Italy since 2012.

In the five years since the law on restricting access to sites with information prohibited in Russia came into force, Roskomnadzor has blocked about 275 thousand resources, TASS reports. As the department's press service reported, the largest number of resources (over 97 thousand) were entered into the register on the basis of court decisions declaring information prohibited. In second place (more than 70 thousand) were resources promoting the spread of drugs.

Igor Yakovenko “Vladimir Putin has succeeded in politics, including in party building abroad. He, apparently, for the first time in history managed to create a one-party system in the United States. On the night of July 28, 2017, the American Senate almost unanimously, with one vote against, voted in favor new sanctions. Let us recall that earlier congressmen demonstrated the same unanimity: 419 - “for”, 3 - “against,” writes a columnist for the Daily Journal .

Apple has removed the pages of the iPod nano and iPod shuffle players from its official website and announced the cessation of production of these devices, writes The Verge . "Today, we're simplifying the iPod line to two iPod touch models that now have twice the storage capacity and start at $199. We're also discontinuing iPod Shuffle and iPod nano," Apple said in a statement.

On Thursday, the Krasnodar garrison military court sentenced the 35-year-old FSB captain Alexei Ivanov, who was found guilty of receiving a multimillion-dollar bribe from the family of one of the representatives of the clan, which until recently was ruled by the "king of the Russian mafia" and the thief in the law of Grandfather Hassan. For fraud on an especially large scale, the counterintelligence Ivanov was sentenced to six years in prison with a fine of 800 thousand rubles.

Roskomnadzor will be able to initiate cases of administrative offenses in the field of security of personal data instead of law enforcement agencies, TASS reports. The department is given this right by the amendments to the Code of Administrative Violations relating to the processing of personal data that came into force on July 1. “Now Roskomnadzor has the authority to initiate a case of an administrative offense.

Due to the accident on Friday, July 28, the supply of electricity to the Crimea through the Energomost through the Kerch Strait was stopped, the Minister of Energy of the region Vadim Belik told reporters. There was no electricity within an hour. According to the Situations and Analytical Center of the Ministry of Energy, at 13:55 four 220 kV air lines were disconnected, providing power to the Crimean energy system.

More than 50 people died in Nigeria as a result of an attack by militants of the Radical Islamic Sect of Boko Haram into geologists who carried out oil exploration for the Nigerian National Oil Corporation (NNPC) and their protection. Such data are given by TASS with reference to AFP. Reuters regional authorities reported 30 victims of massacre. A camp of geologists near the city of Magumer was an attack in the northeast of Nigeria. DW reports that this happened on July 25.

The Dzerzhinsky court of St. Petersburg authorized the arrest of the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Maxim Reznik for 10 days and fined him by 11 thousand rubles for participating in an inconsistent rally against corruption on June 12 on the Marse Field and resistance to police officers, Fontanka reports.

Official Berlin criticized the actions of the upper house of the US Congress, which on the night of Friday almost unanimously approved the bill on new sanctions against Russia. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that the new American law is unacceptable, as it affects the interests of European enterprises.

In Chuvashia, at the bottom of the Volga, they found a car with the bodies of two lovers who were missing about 11 years ago, the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the republic reports. Cheboksetsarets, fond of underwater fishing, on July 25 near the beach opposite Afanasyev's street, discovered a car at the bottom of the Volga. Experts examined the registration sign and found out that this car disappeared 11 years ago.

The source of the American publication BuzzFeed in the FBI said that the former head of Gazprom-Media and ex-minister of the press of the Russian Federation Mikhail Lesin was killed . According to him, Lesin "was scored to death with a bat." In January 2016, a former FBI agent John Whiteside admitted the possibility that Lesin died a violent death. "Lesin was beaten to death. It seems that someone is trying to hide the facts of what happened for reasons that I can’t talk about.

The Ministry of Education of Chechnya ordered schools to purchase diaries with the emblem of the Akhmat football club, as the Terek team is now called, the Caucasian Knot reports with reference to the director of one of the Chechen schools, employees of educational institutions and parents of students.

In St. Petersburg, the unusual opening of the four main bridges across the Neva - Dvortsovoy, Blagoveshchensky, Liteiny and Troitsky - has created serious problems for motorists since the morning of July 28.

"About Trump, Putin and the adoption of new sanctions by Congress. In engineering there is such a term - “fool protection”. Any household appliances, software, etc. are equipped with protection from obviously inadequate, stupid actions of users. Fool protection is very necessary and in the political system,” writes the sociologist on Facebook . "Effective democracy is a system in which even an idiot in power does not pose a great threat to society.