The fire raging in the north of California, by the pace and scale of the destruction of everything in its path, is unprecedented in the history of this American state. This, according to TASS, said on Monday on CNN, the official representative of the protection department of forest land and fire protection of California Jonathan Fox. “Now we are observing in California something more destructive than ever in history, large fires have never blazed at this pace.

Google developers have posted an updated version of the Assistant voice assistant in the Google Play app store, which now supports the Russian language. As TASS notes, screenshots are attached to the description of the assistant, which show that communication is conducted in Russian. The description also clarifies that for Google Assistant to work, you must install the Google application version 7.11 or higher. Recall that the Google Assistant voice assistant was introduced in 2016.

“I have never been a fan of Dovlatov, but there is one phrase from his legacy that does not leave me indifferent - the same one, quoted with or without reason, about “who wrote four million denunciations”. It irritates me immensely,” writes the politician and ally of Alexei Navalny on his Facebook page.

The official representative of the Russian diplomatic department, Maria Zakharova, became the co -author of the song performed by singer Katya Lel. Zakharova herself admitted that she participated in writing a new song. This was a representative of the Foreign Ministry on the Facebook page . “They ask me whether I wrote the lyr of Katya Lel’s lyr song “ full, ” and no, yes. The story is amazing,” Zakharova answered diplomatically. “I was not familiar with her before.

Oppositionist Dmitry Gudkov announced new indirect evidence of the involvement of the municipal deputy Alexander Zakuskin in the "roofing" of the underground abortion in Barsonofievsky Lane. He reported this in his Telegram channel . “In the declaration of income at Karovyin for a year there are huge amounts - up to 6 million rubles. To the question of the colleagues“ Where ”he answers“ I will not say ”,” Gudkov writes, recalling that the attack on the artist was not the first.

From Thursday, August 2, 30-degree heat will return to the capital. Interfax reports this with reference to data from the Hydrometeorological Center. On Monday, July 30, in Moscow and the Moscow region it will warm up to 26-27 degrees, on Tuesday, July 31 - to 27-28 degrees. And on the first day of August the temperature is expected to reach 27-29 degrees. In the future, the temperature will also rise: until Saturday, August 4, the thermometer may reach 31 degrees Celsius.

Alexey Melnikov “Member of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev withdrew from the State Duma the draft law on the accreditation of visa centers. But, like Carlson, who “flew away but promised to return,” he is going to introduce the same thing to the State Duma in the fall,” the publicist writes in LiveJournal . “This is not necessary.

Car company Tesla, which is rumored to be preparing to release its own smartphone, released a limited edition of 200 surfboards over the weekend and successfully sold out within a few hours. Branded boards were created for Tesla by specialists from Lost Surfboards with the participation of Matt Biolos - they previously created boards for the World Surfing Championship.

Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Novruz Mamedov dissuaded a man from committing suicide who was planning to throw himself from the Koroglu road bridge on a busy highway in the Sabunchu district of Baku on the morning of July 30, APA reports. Press Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers Akif Ali told reporters that due to the suicide attempt, traffic towards the bridge was stopped, and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and other relevant structures arrived at the scene.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law, which from March 1, 2019 introduces mandatory labeling tobacco products, TASS reports. The document adopted by the State Duma on July 11 and approved by the Federation Council on July 24 was published on the official portal of legal information. According to the new law, each pack and packaging of tobacco products must be subject to marking by means of identification.

The Chinese prosecutor’s office on Monday charged the former senior official Lou Wei. The prosecutor's office of the city of Ninbo in the province of Zhejiang referred the case to the City Court of the middle stage. However, the date of the first court hearing has not yet been announced, Interfax reports with reference to the publication in The South China Morning Post.

Konstantin Sonin "The latest data on the growth rate of the American economy in the 2nd quarter (4.1% per year) is very good. One might say, monstrously good. For a developed, rich economy in the phase in which the American one is in - with record low unemployment, in the tenth "a year of sustained growth is exceptionally good numbers," the economist writes on Facebook .

On the morning of July 30, a fire occurred in the Adler district of Sochi, as a result of which eight people were killed, including a child. Three more people were taken to the hospital. On the fact of the incident, a criminal case has been instituted under Part 3 of Art. 109 ("Causing death by negligence to two or more persons") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the regional Investigative Committee reports.

The design projects of updating seven ground stations of the Filevskaya metro were agreed in the Moscow Mirmirchy. As reported on the website of the mayor and the government of the capital, the Kuntsevskaya, Pionerskaya, Filevsky Park, Bagrationovskaya, Fili, Kutuzovskaya and Student one will receive a new appearance: the last two stations have already been completely updated.

In the N8 correctional colony in the Yaroslavl region, a group of convicts who previously committed gross violations of the procedure for serving the sentence and the chamber -type contained in a single room wrote statements about the refusal of eating, the official website of the regional department of the FSIN reports. Among the starving were convicted Evgeny Makarov, who was brutally tortured by the warders who shot their actions on a video camera.