Three buses with law enforcement officers arrived in the city of Likino-Duhovo in the Moscow Region, who began to beat local residents protesting against the construction of the garbage plant. This was reported on his Facebook politician Dmitry Gudkov. Who exactly beats people - riot police, the Russian Guard or another unit - is not known. According to Gudkov, one of the activists broke the rib.

In October of this year, Google will probably present the 4th generation of Pixel smartphone. The first leaks about the device of varying degrees of reliability appear on the Web now, and Google decided to join insiders: the company posted in the official microblog on the Twitter photo of the rear panel of Google Pixel 4.

Lawyer Ivan Pavlov, representing the interests of Viktor Kudryavtsev, an employee of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMash), who was arrested on charges of treason, spoke about the reasons why the court refused to transfer the sick 75-year-old scientist to house arrest. According to him, a letter about a pre-approved residence permit in the United States (green card) was found in Kudryavtsev’s mail, which was spam.

Alexander Golts "The public was made to understand: the fact that you managed to scratch Golunov is only a combination of unpleasant security for us, the circumstances, do not wait for any messages. We will not let go of anyone. The Kremlin is convinced that the arbitrariness under the guise of court decisions remains an effective way of governing the country.

In September of this year, the first commercial smartphones and tablets operating under the control of the domestic operating system Astra Linux, created on the basis of an open Linux OPS operating system, will enter the Russian market. According to Kommersant, representatives of the manufacturer of the Mobile Inform Group devices and the Astra Linux group of companies, one smartphone and two industrial class tablets will be released on this OS.

United Russia deputies Viktor Pinsky and Daniil Bessarabov introduced a bill to the State Duma that would increase fines for non-compliance with requirements for storing personal data of Russians to 18 million rubles.

On June 12, Volvo introduced the first serial unmanned vehicle, created on the basis of the XC90 crossover in the framework of cooperation with the American Uber taxi service. According to RBC , the car is equipped with all modern auxiliary systems responsible for the operation of the accelerator, brakes and steering, which are adapted to interact with Uber software.

Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev won one of the games in 29 seconds in the first round match of the MercedesCup tournament in Stuttgart, hitting four aces in a row. It is quite possible that this is a record. Daniil played a perfect game in the match against the Frenchman Lucy Pouille. The stands appreciated the Russian's accuracy and rate of fire, giving him thunderous applause.

The Chairman of the Spiritual Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Adam Schiff (Democrat from the state of California) ordered ex-assistant to US President Donald Trump Michael Flynn to hear the committee and former adviser to Trump Rick Gates for testimony in the framework of the investigation of Russian intervention in the American presidential elections in 2016 years. This is stated in the extended committee on Thursday statement.

The developer of the Avast protective software announced the closure of his Avast Secureline VPN VPN service in Russia, which allows, among other things, access to blocked sites. The inaccessibility of the service in Russia is reported on the Avast website , and the company set out the details in a message sent to Russian service users.

In the Gulf of Oman, two tankers were subjected to a torpedo attack. On one of these courts, the crew partially consisted of Russians. From the Front Altair tanker, 12 Russian sailors were evacuated. This was reported to "Interfax" in the press service of the Russian trade union of sailors. About the alleged torpedo attack on two major tankers who transported the cargo "associated with Japan," the Japanese Ministry of Trade reported earlier.

The fall of real incomes of the population and the competition of retail chains for the buyer led to the fact that more than 50% of Russians acquire goods only with discounts. Some retail chains have already thought about limiting promotional. But the market participants can abandon the discounts only synchronously, and there are no premises for such a step yet, Kommersant writes.

The Russian traffic police prepared a draft new edition of the Government Decree on the rules for the examination of drivers for intoxication. A review of the updated version of the document is given by the Kommersant newspaper. According to the current rules, inspectors can offer the driver to undergo an examination if they feel the smell of alcohol and observe the instability of the pose, speech impairment, redness of the face, as well as inadequate behavior.

In Russia, commenting on the decision of the American Council on the geographical names to write the name of Kiev in the new transliteration * - "KYIV" (Kyiv) , they emphasized that this decision has power exclusively in the United States. According to Rossreestr, the US Council in geographical names extends its activities exclusively to the territory of the United States. And this decision is not mandatory or advisory for other countries, including for Russia.

The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus on Thursday in the second reading adopted amendments to the Criminal Code, which soften the punishment for certain crimes in the field of drug trafficking. Parliamentarians voted for reducing the lower limits of punishment in parts 2 and 3 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code of Belarus, Interfax reports.