Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) in Russia in July 2017 increased by 18.6% (to 129,685 units) compared to the same period last year. For seven months - in January-July - sales increased by 8.5% compared to the same period last year (to 848,214 cars). This was reported by the Association of European Businesses (AEB). As noted by the AEB, all ten top-selling models are locally assembled.

Kyiv protested against Poland’s intention to place images of Polish burials in Lviv in new passports. The Ukrainian side considered this an unfriendly step and an attempt to politicize individual historical facts. Previously, Lithuania made a similar position. On the eve of August 7, the ambassador of Poland in Ukraine, Yana Peklo was called to the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine and handed him a note, the official website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reports.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow began a hearing in the case of the former Minister of Economic Development of Russia Alexei Ulyukaev, who is accused of receiving a bribe of two million dollars, RIA Novosti reports. According to the agency, Ulyukaev was taken to the court by car of the FSIN. On August 8, preliminary hearings are held, the case is conducted by Judge Larisa Semenova. The meeting is held closed without a press. The ex-head of the mayor threatens up to 15 years in the colony.

The Russian athlete Sergey Shubenkov, speaking under a neutral flag, won a silver medal in 110 meters running with barriers at the World Cup, which takes place in the capital of Great Britain. Shubenkov on Monday evening showed a result of 13.14 seconds. Gold at Omar McLeod (Jamaica), who ran a distance in 13.04 seconds. Bronze at the Balage of Baya (Hungary), which showed the time 13.28 seconds.

Residents of San Francisco's Presidio Terrace, a private luxury street lined with million-dollar homes, suddenly learned that it had been sold for $90,000 to investor husband-wife team Tina Lam and Michael Cheng. According to the BBC , the city authorities decided to sell the street due to unpaid taxes by its residents, accumulated over almost seven decades, and the total amount of debt was only $944 ($14 a year - this is how much each of the 181 private streets in San Francisco must pay) .

Apple continued to expand its presence on popular social networks and opened an official account on Instagram . As TJ writes, unlike the company’s VKontakte , Facebook and Twitter pages, which do not have a single publication, on Instagram the company has already posted 9 galleries with photographs and videos taken by professional photographers on the iPhone.

Investigators of the Nizhny Novgorod region opened a criminal case in connection with the murder of a 30-year-old man. According to preliminary data, he was scored by the drink to death. The men drank from one dish, after which one of them remembered the rules of hygiene and was frightened of the negative consequences. The alleged killer was detained. The 27-year-old man has already given a confession, the official website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Abkhazia on the day of the ninth anniversary of the beginning of the Russian-Georgian conflict in August 2008. In Pitsunda, the head of state held negotiations with his Abkhaz colleague Raul Hadjimbo. Meanwhile, Georgia, which does not recognize the independence of Abkhazia and considers it part of its territory, has already protested in connection with Putin's arrival in the republic.

On August 8, the VKontakte social network allowed the promotion of exchanges not banned in Russia, blockchain services, training sites and media dedicated to bitcoins and mining. The corresponding changes are made to the "Rules for the Placement of Advertising Advertisements" of the social network. "Our team believes in the principles of maximum openness and security on which the blockchain technology is built.

The visit of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin "to the Georgian region, Abkhazia, on the ninth anniversary of the armed conflict harms international efforts to search for a peaceful solution by negotiations," said the acting official representative of NATO Dylan White. According to him, the North Atlantic Alliance "regrets" that Putin came to Abkhazia, not agreeing his visit with Tbilisi, RIA Novosti reports.

In Japan, at the age of 88, actor Haruo Nakadzima died, gaining worldwide fame thanks to the role of Godzilla, Kyodo reports. The cause of death of the artist was pneumonia. Haruo Nakadzima was born in 1929 in the Prefecture of Yamagata. From the mid-50s of the last century to 1972, he, as part of a contract with the Japanese studio TOHO, starred in 12 paintings about a giant lizard.

The Minister of Justice, US Prosecutor General Jeff Sessnes led to the new head of the FBI Christopher Ray, who was appointed to this post after President Donald Trump dismissed the previous director of the bureau James Komi.

In Mstislavl, the Mogilev region of Belarus, a sentence to the family of pedophiles was sentenced, who for a long time subjected sexual violence of adoptive children of both sexes. As a result of rape, the girl became pregnant, and subsequently gave birth to a child. The senior accused with the initials of H. M. was sentenced to 14 years in colony. And his son H. I. was sentenced to 19 years in a maximum security colony, the official website of the regional court reports.

Gleb Kuznetsov “Young progressive Spaniards of leftist views are fighting tourism. From Barcelona to San Sebastian. In Barcelona, ​​their struggle has already begun to cross the border of “left activism” and is rapidly approaching terrorism. They are breaking bus windows, writing “Tourists, get out!” on the walls.” , says the political scientist on his Facebook page. “Fighters against tourism are, as a rule, left-wing nationalists. Catalans and Basques.

“The main story of the week is Putin and the pike. Judging by the Russian media, Putin’s feat in the battle with the pike far exceeds in scale what was accomplished by the Cuban fisherman Santiago, glorified by Hemingway, and is quite comparable to the battle with the sea monster Moby Dick from the novel of the same name Melville," writes a Daily Journal columnist.