“On August 5, 1937, what historians later began to call the “Great Terror” began. In the mass consciousness of Russians, the Stalin period looks either as a series of victories, or as a continuous stream of repressions. The first is a lie, the second is a delusion. In 1937, the number of executions increased compared to 1936 by 315 (!) times.

The rise in price of drugs is not from the list of vital and most important drugs (ZhNVLP) this year more than three times higher than inflation, the Izvestia newspaper writes. According to Roszdravnadzor, drugs worth up to 50 rubles went up by 1.8%, 7.9%increased in price medicines worth 50 to 500 rubles, and drugs more expensive than 500 rubles went up by 7.9%.

A family from Yekaterinburg sued a local developer for more than half a million rubles for an apartment that was not delivered on time, according to the website of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court. According to the case materials, in March 2015, the husband and wife entered into an agreement for participation in shared construction with Brusnika. Yekaterinburg LLC, paying 4.8 million rubles for a 3-room apartment in a house under construction.

Mikhail Pozharsky “At the end of May, a referendum in Switzerland adopted an energy program until 2050, implying the abandonment of nuclear energy and a gradual transition to renewable energy sources. There is no better illustration of the harm of direct democracy than the bad habit of holding referendums on every issue. One can imagine what results can be obtained if a referendum is held on banning GMOs,” the publicist writes on Facebook .

On August 6, there are three years with Russia's introduction of a grocery embargo in relation to the EU, USA, Canada, Australia, Norway and others. The war with Parmesan and Hamon is not over yet, but you can already summarize some intermediate results. What turned out to be introduced restrictions on the country - in the review of Newsru.com. One of the main goals of counter -sanctions was the protection of the market. This was said by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Sberbank has begun open testing of its own virtual telecom operator “Let's Talk” on the technical base of Tele2, writes TJ with reference to representatives of the bank. It is reported that for now it is possible to become the owner of a SIM card from the new operator only in three branches of Sberbank in St. Petersburg. To obtain it, you will need to provide a passport and write an application. Connection is free and available not only to bank clients.

The judge of the Simonovsky Court of Moscow Svetlana Tumanin extended for one year - until December 30, 2020 - a trial period in the Yves Rocher case to the opposition Alexei Navalny, his spokesman Kira Yarmysh said . The Federal Service for execution of sentences asked to extend the deadline, explaining the application that Navalny was brought to administrative responsibility for violations on mass shares. If Navalny commits an offense within a trial period, they can be sent to the colony.

In Switzerland in the mountains, the Russian extremal Alexei Shirokhukhov crashed, who became known after he went through the person involved in the case of painting a star on a spire of a high -altitude on the Kotelnikiye embankment in Moscow. In December 2015, the young man, along with three other paratroopers, was justified .

In Dagestan, the alleged organizer of the abduction of the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the Republic of Ibrahim Kazibekov was charged. According to investigators, the kidnappers acted under the leadership of the police colonel, the former head of the security center of the senior official Magomed Omarov. The guard of order Magomed Omarov is charged with Art. 126 ("The abduction of a person with an organized group") and Art.

The Court of Appeal has seized land plots in Kyiv with an area of ​​more than 2 hectares and the real estate located on them, which belong to Amadeus Co LLC, reported Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko.

The court of the Kemerovo region sentenced the 27-year-old resident of the Kirovsky district of Kemerovo, found guilty of the brutal murder of a relative. The motive for the reprisal was the resentment that the victim fell asleep with an unlucky cigarette and almost arranged a fire. By decision of the Russian Themis, the killer will not even go to the colony. The man was sentenced to two years in prison, reports the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation.

On Thursday, the Fort Lleoddale court in Florida in the United States sentenced the 25-year-old native of Havana Fidel Lopez, who was found guilty of the brutal murder of his sexual partner. The motive for reprisals was jealousy. Lopez was furious when, during passionate sexual intercourse, the woman mistakenly uttered the name of the ex -husband. Fidel Lopeza was threatened with the death penalty, reports Palm Beach Post . However, he made a deal with the investigation and pleaded guilty.

The New York police in the United States arrested the 57-year-old musician Kidd Creole (real name Nathaniel Glover), suspected of killing a homeless man. According to the preliminary version, a former participant in the legendary hip-hop band Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five caused fatal injuries to the 55-year-old tramp when he called him homosexual, TMZ reports. The instrument of reprisals was a small knife. The victim received two injuries in the chest and one - in the head.

The National Broadcasting Commission (NCTR) of Thailand issued an ultimatum to local Internet providers, threatening to deprive them of their licenses if the operators do not block access to Internet pages banned by the court by August 7, the Bangkok Post newspaper writes. The publication calls the regulator's requirements for operators veiled pressure on Facebook and YouTube. Thai authorities have previously failed to directly influence these services and are now using providers to do so.

Last September, the world's largest radio telescope with a solid mirror, FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope), was launched in the Chinese province of Guizhou, and in March of this year it was opened to tourists, but now the Chinese Academy of Sciences is faced with an unexpected problem - there is no one to manage the telescope .