Google has curtailed work on the censored search engine Dragonfly for the Chinese market. This was stated by Google Vice-President for Relations and Public Public Bhatia at a hearing in the US Senate, Buzzfeed reports . “We have no plans to launch a search engine in China, we do not work on such a project,” TJ top manager quotes the words.

On the night of July 17, in different regions of the Earth, people followed a private lunar eclipse . Its duration was 2 hours 58 minutes. Some phases saw in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, North America (southeast), South America and Antarctica. As noted in the Moscow Planetarium , in Russia an eclipse could be seen almost throughout the territory, with the exception of the northern and remote eastern regions.

Russian national hockey player Artem Anisimov moved from the National Hockey League (NHL) Chicago Blackhawks to the Ottawa Senators. According to Chicago's press service, the striker was exchanged for forward Zach Smith, with whom the Illinois club signed a contract until the end of the 2020/21 season for $3.25 million. The contract of the 31-year-old Russian is also valid until the end of the 2020/21 season, the amount of the agreement is 4.55 million per year.

The Brooklyn court sentenced the Mexican drug lord Hoacin Gusman, nicknamed El Chapo (Shortyshka) by a life sentence and in addition to 30 years in prison. In addition, Gusman will pay $ 12.6 billion, CBS reports. The 62-year-old leader of the drug cartel "Sinaloa" twice escaped from Mexican prisons. In February of this year, the jury found guusman guilty on all charges, including drug trafficking and money laundering.

The Turkish vice-consul died in the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan Erbile as a result of an attack by armed people, reports Iraqi television channel Al Sumaria. According to initial data, three employees of the Turkish consulate were killed. However, then it turned out that one of the victims survived. The attack using firearms was committed at the moment when the diplomat and his satellites had lunch at the restaurant.

Ukraine must be ready to host the Olympic Games in the future. This was stated by the country's President Vladimir Zelensky during a meeting on the territory of the state enterprise "Olympic Scientific and Sports Center "Koncha-Zaspa" with the Minister of Youth and Sports Igor Zhdanov and the head of the local Olympic Committee Sergei Bubka. “We need a certain plan, we are, say, ready to build everything in three or four years, and then we can be in line and host the Olympics.

The five -time Olympic champion in synchronous swimming Svetlana Romashin became a record holder for the number of gold medals in the world championships in its sport, defeating in a solo arbitrary program at the planet championship in the South Korean Quanju . Romashin in the image of Carmen scored 97,1333 points and won her 20th gold medal at the world championships in her career.

Yakov Kogan "Now it is fashionable to scold liberals. They are bad, they say. Unbearable. Absolutely. They love their homeland poorly, they don’t really know how to rally, all of their own unpleasant, reminiscent of what they want from life-they themselves do not know. The frivolous audience! Give them only one - go to the barbershop on scooters, to drink the buckets of buckets, to tie the pants and all kinds of nasty things about our life with you, ”writes the artist and blogger on Facebook .

In St. Petersburg, two employees of the private security of the Russian Guard were detained, who tossed the 16-year-old drugs and demanded a bribe of 300 thousand rubles. It is reported by Fontanka . According to the investigation, on July 16, the employees of the Russian Guard stopped the teenager’s metallists Avenue and "created the appearance of the removal of narcotic drugs." Then the security forces demanded that a minor give them 300 thousand rubles.

The domestic search engine "Yandex" introduced a map of Russia, painted taking into account football preferences of residents of different regions of the country. In most regions, the Moscow Spartak won - users most often searched for matches with the participation of this team. Fans of the red and white were found not only in Moscow, but also in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and even Novosibirsk. The second most popular was the Petersburg Zenit.

The continental hockey league (KHL) introduced a rule according to which in the 2019/20 season, the judges will be prohibited from using social networks. This was announced at the general collection of judges by the chief referee of the KHL Alexei Anisimov. “We are introducing a ban on the use of social networks. Believe me, such measures are taken for information security.

The Russian Foreign Ministry refused to provide visas to 30 teachers of the Anglo-American school managed by the embassies of Western countries, the newspaper The New York Times writes with reference to a letter of a member of the Council of the educational institution and an employee of the US Embassy Heather Birns. According to BIRNS, Russian visas were not received by new school employees.

Alexander Morozov "July 17 - the 5th anniversary of the death of the Boeing MH17. When you have to hear recently in connection with the elections in Moscow: why is it so rude? Why not allow independent candidates? Let's get justice, sue ... etc. - I think that all these issues will fall away immediately if you look realistically," the political scientist and publicist writes on his Facebook page. "In Moscow, people who killed 298 people on an airplane freely go around Moscow.

"New Gazeta" on the fifth anniversary of the disaster of the Malaysian Boeing MN17 published a statement of families of 12 dead to the Russian Federation. They called on the Russian authorities to fully cooperate with the investigation, recognize their part of responsibility in the destruction of MH17 and "stop hypocritically unlocking, stop sowing lies and deception." “Although five years later, our grief is not so burning, it is still immensely.

Russian volleyball player Pavel Moroz was disqualified for 18 months due to the fact that cocaine was discovered in his competitive doping industry. This was informed by the press service of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada). "Pavel Moroz is disqualified for 18 months for violation of paragraph 2.1 of all -Russian anti -doping rules, starting from November 12, 2018. Such a punishment is provided for the use of stimulants that are not related to special substances (S6A).