Lilia Shevtsova "You can ask as much as you like: why are they lifting the hatches? After all, it is stupid! Well, it’s stupid! It was possible to allow opposition candidates not only to the elections of the Moscow Legislative Assembly, but also to the elections of the St. Petersburg governor. Was a handful of oppositionists will crush the power? They would give it the appearance of vitality, and we would give rise to a faith in the possibility of evolution of autocracy.

The Meds of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the European Union approved the introduction of sanctions against Turkey for exploration in the territorial waters of Cyprus, TASS reports. This is stated in the statement adopted by European ministers at a meeting in Brussels. According to the document, the EU will reduce the financial support of Ankara by 146 million euros out of 400 million euros, the publication of Cyprus Mail reported.

The Russian national team took second place in the navigable medal standings of the XXX World Summer Universiade, which ended in Naples. In total, the Russians won 82 medals - 22 gold, 24 silver, 36 bronze. Students of Japan (33-21-28) won the victory in the medal standings. The third place was taken by the China team (22-13-8), the fourth-the USA (21-17-15), the fifth-South Korea (17-17-16). In just 11 days, 222 sets of awards were played.

Russian synchronized swimmers Alexander Maltsev and Maya Gurbanberdieva won gold medals in the technical program of the mixed duet competition at the World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. For the Tango program, the winners received 92.0749 points. The second place was taken by the Italians Manila Flamini and Giorgio Minisini (90.8511), the third were the Japanese Yumi Adachi and Atsushi Abe (88.5113).

The Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service), due to debts to the budget, suspended operations on accounts of at least six companies related to business school and the largest private university in Russia Synergy. According to The Bell , the accounts of the companies of the Synergy rector Vadim Lobov were also made under the blocking. The amount of the debt of "synergy" to the budget is unknown, but the publication found writ of execution for at least 27.3 million rubles.

The Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin during a visit to Togliatti visited the AvtoVAZ plant and shared his impressions of the trip to Togliatti announced last week by Lada Xray. “It is clear that for any Russian AvtoVAZ means a lot. We were at the factory now. The machine that my parents had was a“ penny. ”I myself drove in the time to the 99th, and now I was able to try Xray. This is a very good car.

Sochi Olympic champion Anton Shipulin, who recently completed his career as a biathlete, submitted documents to the election commission of the Sverdlovsk region to participate in by-elections to the State Duma in the 174th Serov single-mandate constituency. The athlete himself announced this on Instagram. “Today I submitted documents to be nominated as a candidate for the State Duma. A difficult, but very interesting period lies ahead!

The MEGVII Chinese startup, which develops persons recognition systems for the Chinese government, created a service to search for lost dogs from a photograph of the nose. The main purpose of the service is to help and identify lost dogs. To replenish the database, the owner of the dog needs to photograph the pet’s nose from different angles, and then load the pictures into the system.

The head of the Moscow City Walentine Gorbunov refused to communicate with candidates for the Moscow City Duma in the presence of the media, offering them a personal reception; As a result, the meeting did not actually take place, Interfax reports with reference to the statement of the opposition Ilya Yashin. Yashin told reporters about this near the commission of the commission - the media was not allowed inside.

The city hall of the city of Sochi prepared a draft order to assist citizens who invested in the construction of illegal houses, which stipulates the conditions of global agreements to legalize these buildings. According to Kommersant , the project includes a list of 25 houses. 10 of them were built in the Khostinsky district of the city, eight in Adler, and seven in the Central. All these houses were built without permits or with deviations from the issued building permit.

Russian Daniil Medvedev first entered the top ten world rating of the Association of Professional tennis players (ATP), the new version of which was published on the official website of the organization. There he joined his compatriot Karen Khachanov. According to the results of the Wimbleon Tennis tournament, Khachanov rose in the ATP rating from the ninth to eighth place, Daniil Medvedev-from the 13th to the 10th.

The Yandex.Taxi service has reached an agreement on the purchase of software and call centers of the Vysya Group of Companies, one of the largest aggregators to order a taxi. This was reported in the press release of "Yandex". Under the terms of the transaction, which should be approved by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), within three years, Yandex.Taxi will invest about 8 billion rubles in the development of a taxi in the regions of Russia.

“We must congratulate Sobol, Yashin and others on the fact that they were not allowed to participate in the “elections”. This is the best result that a real opposition candidate can get. It was for this and only for this that they should have been nominated,” the sociologist writes on Facebook . “In elections at some more or less serious level, the opposition candidate will still not be allowed to win. In the Russian election circus, only hired clowns are allowed to participate.

Victor Shenderovich “The plane, which has entered the corkscrew, lives according to its own laws - each next second of its flight is due to the inertia of the previous second, and not the plans of the crew.

"Not a joke: the Moscow authorities recognized a friend - a man of forty years old, married and with children - nonexistent. As the official said, his signature for the opposition candidate in future elections in the city parliament is a fake , because he has never been and never, ”writes a philosopher and publicist on his Facebook page. The acquaintance is outraged - he is sure that he is - and wants to sue to prove that he exists. I think we are incredibly lucky!