Investigators charged the 74-year-old employee TsNIIMASH (head of the State Corporation Roscosmos) Viktor Kudryavtseva . This was announced by TASS by his lawyer, head of the "team 29" Ivan Pavlov. "Our client Kudryavtsev today was officially charged under the article on the Stateizer (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)," the defender said. He noted that he was not allowed before the procedure for charges by the scientist.

Law enforcement officers detained high-ranking defendants in the case of fraud in the NPO nPO Lavochkin, one of whom was the general director of this enterprise of the missile and space industry. Sergey Lemeshevsky, who led the NGOs, and the head of the legal support of the enterprise Ekaterina Averyanova, fell into the hands of the security forces. The detention was informed about their detention by an informed source.

On July 24, Roskomnadzor began blocking the site of the popular Hidemy.name VPN service, previously known as hideme.ru. According to Roskomsvoboda , the resource was included in the register of prohibited sites. According to VC.ru , the decision of the Medvedevsky District Court of Yoshkar-Ola of July 4, 2017, adopted on the complaint of a local prosecutor, was the basis for entering the site in the register of Roskomnadzor.

The judge of Magistrate Court District No. 364 decided to fine Pussy Riot participant Pyotr Verzilov one and a half thousand rubles for an action during which the activist and his associates ran out onto the field in a police uniform during the 2018 World Cup final. The Moscow agency reports this. “The court decided to find Verzilov guilty and sentence him to a fine of one and a half thousand rubles,” judge Svetlana Shatrova announced the decision.

Russian airlines, as warned , began to increase ticket prices, shifting to their cost a spring jump in the prices for airline by more than 20%. This is written by the newspaper "Kommersant" . At the disposal of the publication was a letter from Aeroflot to travel agents, which refers to an increase in the fuel fee for tickets for internal flights of all the airlines of the group, except for Victory.

Volleyball players from the Finnish student team caused a scandal at the European University Games in Coimbra, Portugal, accusing members of the Russian team from the Dagestan State University of sexual harassment. The athletes claim they were subjected to harassment, sexual assault and attempted rape. As Fontanka reports with reference to the Yle portal, it all started with verbal and physical attacks from the Russian team, including the coach.

After the World Cup, the sport FM sports radio station format will be changed: more music will be aired to solve financial problems and win a young audience. This newspaper Vedomosti was told by the general director of the European Media Group (EMG) Roman Emelyanov. According to him, the broadcast will now consist of 80% of the music, but the station will save the main sports direction: the rest of the time will be occupied by sports news.

British musician Elton John criticized the government of Russia and other Eastern European countries for their attitude to people of homosexual orientation. Speaking in Amsterdam at the 22nd International Conference on the AIDS problem, he emphasized that a discriminatory attitude to the LGBT community (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people) contributes to the growth of AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Dmitry Enteo and other participants in the “Decommunization” movement held a rally near the “execution house” on Nikolskaya Street in Moscow, where they could open an elite department store . According to the Dozhd TV channel, they hung a poster with a photograph of a girl whom the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, located in this house, sentenced to death. “My name is Tamara. I was a second-year student. In this house, me and 31,455 other people were sentenced to death.

Boris Vishnevsky "In early June, Volodya Kara -Murza wrote to me that our common friend, deputy of the Sejm of the Lithuanian Republic and one of the most famous Lithuanian politicians, Emanuelis Zingeris, for five years banned the entrance to Russia. For what and why - it was not reported. He was" notified "from the Russian Foreign Ministry about the ban - and everything was not reduced to the explanation," the deputy writes. Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg on its Facebook page.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the third, final, reading a law that allows the registration of new cars without visiting the Department of the traffic police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A document entitled "On State Registration of Vehicles" was made to the lower house of parliament in 2011. He was prepared by the former senator from Karelia and ex-head of the traffic police Vladimir Fedorov. The bill was the first reading in 2013 and has since been finalizing.

The Tagansky court of Moscow, which previously decided to block the Telgram messenger, on July 30, will essentially consider the administrative lawsuit LLC "Living Photography" to Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The social network Facebook has been blocked in China since 2009, but does not give up hope of returning to the Chinese market. So, in 2016, the company's founder Mark Zuckerberg came to China, and last year Facebook secretly released a photo-sharing application in China called Colorful Balloons, which copies the Facebook Moments photo service. Now the social network has received permission from the authorities to open its own office in China, which can be called a serious success.

The 2018 USE champion, a graduate of the Moscow school Ruslan Salimgareev, who scored 100 points at each of the four school graduation state examinations, received 100 points at the exam at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. It is reported by TASS. The results of the exam in mathematics are published on the website of the faculty of bioenginery and bioinformatics of Moscow State University, where Salimgareev submitted documents.

A criminal case has been opened following the crash of a light aircraft with two pilots on board in the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, according to the website of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. “The investigation established that during the flight, while making a right turn, the aircraft lost speed and stalled, as a result of which the plane fell to the ground,” the report says.