The congressmen called on US President Donald Trump to introduce secondary sanctions required by American legislation against Moscow for the use of prohibited funds during an attempt to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter. The text of the relevant letter is published on the website of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives of the US Congress.

The bill on limiting foreign capital in significant Internet resources, which was criticized by the Internet company and the head of the Ministry of Communications of Konstantin Noskov, which was brought to the State Duma, may be a pressure lever to Yandex, which should help transfer the company under state control. This opinion was made by the analysts of the Renaissance Capital company, who prepared a note on the bill.

Russian law enforcement agencies are investigating the murder of a 24-year-old model and beauty blogger, participants in the Miss Maxim 2018 contest, whose corpse was found in a suitcase last week in her apartment on Pyryeva Street in the capital's district of Ramenka. Investigators do not call the exact date of Catherine's death. She stopped in touch on July 22, and the owner of the apartment found her dead on July 27.

In Ukraine, it was proposed to create a "World Russian -speaking TV channel", designed to "struggle for minds" of Ukrainians in the Donbass and Crimea and Russians in Russia. According to the deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine Kirill Tymoshenko, whose words are quoted by RIA Novosti , this channel may be state -owned. At the same time, the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting refused to comment on this initiative, since they do not know in detail about it.

Due to forest fires, the authorities introduced an emergency regime in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk region, partially it operates in Buryatia. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation. The regions introduced the "Emergency situation in the forests". The report notes that the most fires were registered in Yakutia, the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk region.

The National Hockey League (NHL) club Vegas has traded Russian forward Nikita Gusev to New Jersey. The 27-year-old forward signed a two-year contract with the Devils with an average annual salary of $4.5 million. Vegas received a third-round pick in the 2020 draft and a second-round pick in the 2021 draft for Gusev. Nikita went to Las Vegas in April of this year from St. Petersburg SKA, for which he has played since 2015.

The United States are directly involved in the riots in the special administrative district of Hong Kong and this is evidenced by video and photos from the places where riots took place. This opinion was voiced on Tuesday by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China Hua Chunin. Her words are cited by TASS.

In the Main Investigative Department of the IC of Russia in the city of Moscow, a criminal case has been instituted on the grounds of a crime under Part 1, 2, 3 of Art. 212 of the Criminal Code (mass riots). The article provides for a punishment up to 15 years in prison for the organizers. The case was started in connection with street protests on July 27. Three criminal cases are also being investigated on the grounds of a crime under Art.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan came to the conclusion that the remains exported several years ago from the Trans -Baikal Territory did not belong to the Japanese prisoner of war who died in the USSR after the end of World War II. This was stated at a press conference in Tokyo, Secretary General of the Cabinet of Ministers of the country Yoshihide Suga. His words are given by TASS.

Ivan Kurill “This phrase, about the fact that there will not be extinguishing forest fires, because the costs of extinguishing are higher than economic damage from fire - it is very important (not in a specific political sense, much wider),” writes a historian on Facebook , commenting on the sensational words of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Vladimir Guriev “In general, the most important difference for me to Europe and Russia is the absence in the interpersonal communications of frenzy and our ability to plan on the day after tomorrow. I, by the way, think that these are related things. That this is not softness, not politeness, not kindness and even understanding and respect of other people's borders, more precisely, all this, of course, is also in conditionally homeopathic assessments.

American sanctions did not stop the Chinese company Huawei to improve financial indicators following the results of the second quarter of 2019. This is evidenced by the report of the company, the review of which is given by The Verge . According to the report, the revenue of Huawei from April to June amounted to $ 32.2 billion, increasing by 23% compared to the first quarter of the year. The company's revenue for the first half of the year amounted to 58.3 billion dollars.

“The Moscow City Court canceled the registration of the independent candidate Sergei Tsukasov, the mayor of the Ostankino district. He is the winner of the preliminary civil vote for the election of a single candidate from the opposition, supported by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. In the 14th district, he competed with the administrative candidate Natalya Pochinok, rector of the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering,” writes the co-chairman of the “Voice” movement.

The situation with forest fires in Russia is difficult and requires coordinated operational measures both through the regions and through the federal center, said Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday, July 30, when the total fire area in Siberia exceeded 2.5 million hectares. At a meeting with Deputy Prime Ministers, Medvedev heard reports of the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources Dmitry Kobylkin and the head of the Ministry of Emergencies Evgenia Zinichev on the work of combating forest fires.

People's Artist of the USSR Inna Churikova, who was injured on the stage of the Moscow Song Theater, remains at the Sklifosovsky ambulance research institute. Doctors evaluate her condition as difficult, TASS reported in the hospital's reference service. “It has not yet been written out, is in the department of acute endotoxicosis. She has a difficult condition,” the agency’s interlocutor said.