The head of the Russian Football Premier League (Premier League) Sergey Prygkin expects a serious decline in the attendance of the rental in the first months of the new season-2018/19 in connection with the world championship in the country. “Of course, two months later, a decline in attendance will be, because everyone was saturated with football, ” RIA Novosti quotes the head of the Premier League.

About 4 million people who visited Moscow during the World Cup spent more than 96.5 billion rubles in the capital, according to the materials of the Moscow Urban Forum. Additional revenues of the Moscow budget from the World Cup amounted to 13.2 billion rubles, TASS reports. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported on the rapid return on the city's expenses for hosting the World Cup.

The footballer of the Croatian national team Domaga of the Vida, around which a scandal arose due to the cries of "Glory to Ukraine" after the victory over the Russian national team at the World Cup, revealed the political background of the mundial and forced to recall the history of Croatia of the Second World War.

Swans appeared in Leonovsky Pond and were painted pink. The bird owners claim that they did this for the safety of the birds, while townspeople believe that this is animal cruelty. Some argue that the paint is of poor quality, and the birds are trying to pluck the painted plumage, the Moscow 24 TV channel reports. Having seen the swans, which were painted pink, local residents decided to wash the birds and invited ornithologists to do this.

Major General of Justice Alexander Drymanov, who resigned from the post of head of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Moscow at the end of May, was detained by the FSB officers. This was first announced by the RBC website, and then the sources of TASS, Interfax and Kommersant confirmed.

The first deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations between the Russian Orthodox Church with society and the media, professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Doctor of Political Sciences Alexander Shchipkov advocated the abolition of paid roads in Russia, since they, in his opinion, share the "Russian space". He stated this on the air of the "Savior" television channel.

In St. Petersburg, a drunken Finnish citizen tried to break into the building of the regional department of the Federal Security Service, had a row with employees of this department and was eventually detained by the police, Fontanka reports. According to the publication, on the afternoon of July 17, a 44-year-old Finn entered the reception area of ​​the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on Liteiny Prospekt. He was clearly drunk and at the same time very demanding.

The literary prize "Russian Bucher" can cease to exist due to financial problems. The Organizing Committee of the Prize has no money, so in 2018 the Russian Bookter will not be awarded to any of the writers. If there is no sponsor in the near future, then the oldest Russian literary prize will have to be closed completely. "The prize still does not have a sponsor. It is clear that the current year will be missed," the prize committee said in a statement .

The Yandex company and Sberbank commented on the large-scale leak of personal data of clients , which the CEO-specialist in working with search engines, Rush Agency expert Pavel Medvedev warned about the day before. Yandex blamed the leak on the online services of Russian Railways, Sberbank, VTB, Moscow municipal services and ticket booking services.

“I don’t understand anything. Trump is traditionally compared to Reagan. But can one imagine that Reagan would be eager to meet, for example, with Andropov? He shot down a South Korean Boeing, is waging a war in Afghanistan, persecuting dissidents, and Reagan is just eager meet him, and when we meet he also winks at him in his own way - how is that difficult for you to imagine,” writes publicist Alexey Shiropaev on his Facebook page.

In the resort area of ​​St. Petersburg, unknown people abducted the symbol of the World Cup - Wolf Zabivaku. This is the second stolen mascot of the mundial in the northern capital. “The applicant just came to write a statement about the loss. According to him, the bunches were stolen on a dividing strip in the village of Komarovo,” Fontanka was told in the district police officer on July 17.

The Russian billionaire of Greek origin, Ivan Savvidi, transferred to the opponents of Macedonia to North Macedonia up to 350 thousand dollars for organizing June protests in this country, the organization for the combating of organized crime and corruption ( OCCRP ) and the publication of Buzzfeed reported from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic.

The legend of world football, Argentinean Diego Maradona, after a brilliant world championship in Russia, arrived in Brest, where, as chairman of the board, he plans to make the local “Dynamo” a great football club. “I’m not only a great football player. I want to become a great president of the Dynamo Brest club,” TASS quotes Maradona.

US President Donald Trump agreed with the conclusions of American investigators and special services that Russia had intervened in the presidential election in 2016, writes The New York Post . However, the head of state denies the fact that the intervention had any influence on the outcome of the vote. At the same time, the president expressed his readiness to reflect similar attempts to interfere in the future.

Lilia Shevtsova "The circus is leaving. The lights went out. Trump and Putin said goodbye. Everyone who can write has unsubscribed on the topic of their date. And here's what it is funny: the world was discussing (and still continues) the event that can not even be called the event. It is a meeting of the leaders of states that have no full relations.