The AssocAced Press (AP) agency found that the owner of the Renova group Victor Vekselberg supported the lobbying campaign in the amount of about $ 1.6 million in the interests of Russia in the United States.

The region's first "Grandfather's Garden" has opened in the city of Kemerovo, which is a special group for day care for the elderly and disabled, according to the website of the regional department of social protection of the population. “Dedsad” appeared on the basis of a specialized city boarding house located on Kosmicheskaya Street, building 14. The first group included 18 people, the report says.

For the second year in a row, Russia has been closing the top 5 of the most working countries of the world. From the report of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on work and employment it follows that in 2017 the average number of hours worked by Russians increased to 1980 (six hours more than a year earlier), and this indicator for the first time has grown since 2014, RBC notes.

A resident of the Sakhalin village Pravda Alexander Konovalov, who tried to sail to Japan on a home -made boat, will be fined for violation of the border. Firstly, the citizen did not notify the border body about going to sea on a swimming tool, sets out Sakh.com the essence of the FSB claims. Secondly, movement on a home-made raft in adverse weather conditions (east wind up to 20 m/s, water temperature about +6 ° C) posed a threat to the life and health of Sakhalin.

Russian Ekaterina Makarova beat Danish Caroline Wozniacki in the second round match of the women's singles at the Wimbledon tennis tournament - the third Grand Slam competition of the season taking place these days in the suburbs of London. The meeting lasted 2 hours 10 minutes and ended with the capitulation of the second number in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking with a score of 4:6, 6:1, 5:7. "It was a very good match, I played great.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) denied reports on the application of force to Ukrainian Pavel Griba, convicted in Russia on charges of assisting terrorism. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the department. The FSIN assured that upon receipt of the accused in the investigative insulator during a medical examination, "abrasions, hematomas, cuts or other circumstances" indicating the use of physical strength to him was not revealed.

The ruling political coalition of the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the HDS/CSS alliance and the Social Democratic Party (SDPG) reached agreements on the settlement of the migration problem. This was announced on Thursday evening by the Vice Chancellor of Germany Olaf Sholts and the chairman of the SDPG Andrea Nales, writes Merkur.de . They said that the process of consideration of applications for providing temporary asylum or refugee status will be accelerated.

British Security Minister Ben Wallace called on Russia to give detailed information about the nervous agent "Novice" created in the USSR, which two more people were recently undergoing the recently. According to Wallace in a comment by Skynews , according to the current police information, poisoning in the city of Eimsbury, located near Salisbury, was not a focused attack, as in the case of Skripals.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin, at a meeting with the President of Interpol, Deputy Minister of Public Security of the People's Republic of China Meng Hongwei, discussed issues of interaction between departments in the field of international search, as well as the participation of Russian security forces in this work. A brief report on the meeting was published on the official website of the RF IC.

The head of the Counter-Terrorism Office of Scotland Yard, Neil Base said that two people who received poisoning in the British city of Eimsbury, located near Salisbury, were poisoned by the novice poison, as a former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. The application is published on the website of the department.

“In his mansion, Igor Ivanovich is sitting at the dining table. He has a napkin tucked into his collar, and in front of him on a plate is a giant steak with blood. Igor Ivanovich’s face is somewhat smeared with fat, he chews intensively, cutting off large pieces and making sure that each next one is more,” a columnist and teacher at the National Research University Higher School of Economics fantasizes on Facebook in connection with discussions of the upcoming pension reform.

The company "Natalie Tours", faced with financial problems, began to pay money to tourists for failed tours. The message about this is posted on the company's website . It states that "next to yesterday (July 4), 800 thousand rubles were sent to direct financial payments on failed trips." Based on the average prices for packages, this is about 10-15 rounds, it was calculated in the association of tour operators ( atore ).

Akira Nishino will leave his post as head coach of the Japanese national football team after the World Cup. The same fate befell the coach of the Costa Rican national team, Oscar Ramirez. The 63-year-old Japanese specialist's contract ran until the end of July, and the Japan Football Association (JFA) does not intend to renew it.

The annual World Architecture Festival International Architectural Prize has announced a 2018 finalists list. This year, the short list of the prize collected a record number of nominees - in 39 categories , 536 best projects of architectural bureaus from 81 countries of the world were selected. The winners will be declared on November 28-30, 2018 in Amsterdam, when the jury of more than 100 professional judges will complete the assessment of all the work of the nominees.

The Russian State Duma adopted in the second, mainly reading amendments to the Civil Code on the responsibility of persons who have seized other people's property. The bill, in particular, obliges car hijackers to compensate for the damage for damage to vehicles. "A person who is unlawfully seized someone else's property, who was damaged or lost due to the actions of another person acting independently of the first, is responsible for the harm caused.