The Brazilian striker Khalk, playing for the Chinese club "Shanghai SIPG", may return to the Petersburg Zenit, with whom he became the Russian football champion. According to the South American portal UOL , the Turkish Galatasaray is also interested in the services of a 33-year-old football player. At the same time, the football player himself was tired of wandering around the world and he tends to the transition to the Brazilian Palmeiras.

The police checks and sets the organizers of the mass party arranged in the evening of July 17 under the windows of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region in Yekaterinburg.

Twitter reported on the preliminary results of the investigation of the massive hacking that happened on the night of July 16. The corporation believes that attackers applied to several Twitter employees methods of social engineering, that is, they deliberately manipulated them to perform certain actions and disclose confidential information.

In Khabarovsk, at a 30-degree heat, the most massive rallys and a march in support of the arrested governor Sergei Furgal have passed over the past eight days. According to various sources, from 10 to 85 thousand people participated in the action, which lasted more than five hours, Znak.com writes. Kommersant notes that there were noticeably more people on the streets than on Saturday July 11, when the number of protesters, according to various estimates, reached 10-35 thousand.

In Moscow, the 20-year-old world champion in figure skating among juniors, Ekaterina Aleksandrovskaya, performing in paired skating for Australia. According to preliminary data, the girl committed suicide. According to RIA Novosti, citing a source in law enforcement, she left a note in which I love it. The tragic incident occurred on the night of Saturday. The girl’s body was discovered by passers -by under the windows of the house on the street of 1905.

In Nan in the west of France, a fire broke out in the Cathedral of Peter and Paul - one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in the country. The Nantes Cathedral was built for 457 years: from 1434 to 1891. Prior to this, three more temples were in the same place - the early Christian Roman chapel of the III century, the Cathedral of the VI century and the cathedral in the Romanesque style of the XI century, Interfax reports. The fire became known at 7:44 (8:44 Moscow time).

Moscow Spartak suspended preparations for the new season of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) due to the identification of coronavirus infection among several players and club employees. According to the press service of the team , the three players of the club players were discovered before the general training collection of the team, hockey players were self-isolation at the place of residence.

Over the past day, 6234 cases of a new coronavirus infection in 84 regions have been identified in Russia, 124 people died. In total, 765,437 sick and 12,247 dead were identified in the country, according to the Telegram channel of the Federal Operational Staff. Of the hospitals per day, 7490 people were discharged, the total number of recovered patients increased to 546,863 people.

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, participants in single pickets were detained against the bill prohibiting transgender people to marry and complicates the adoption of children with persons who changed the floor. Senator Elena Mizulina spoke co -author of the initiative aimed at "strengthening the Institute of Family". In Moscow, more than 20 people detained the State Duma near the building, the OVD-info reports.

In the United States, next week, a naval naval soldier will appear before a military court, accused of transferring secret data to a familiar citizen of Russia. The Virginian-Pilot publication reports with reference to court documents that the chief foreman T. Briggsu, who works in the field of information and technology in the Naval Medical Center of Portusmut (Virginia), is charged with the unauthorized distribution of secret information received from the government computer in January 2019.

The Gulf of Guinea was attacked by a tanker under the flag of Liberia Curacao Trader, on board the Russian-Ukrainian crew. The edition of Maritime Bulletin ("Marine Bulletin") with reference to the company Alison Management, which is located on which the ship was located, the attack occurred on July 17 at 11:00 local time about 210 miles from the Benin coast. The portal reports from 13 captured sailors, the entire crew consists of 19 people. The ship drifts "with disabilities".

The Russian athlete Matvey Volkov, who is considered one of the most promising Shestoviks in the world, spoke about the reasons that prompted him to change sports citizenship to the Belarusian . According to the 16-year athlete, he took the decision made by his family to move to Minsk calmly, realizing that this would contribute to the development of his promising career.

The Sochi football club, despite the outbreak of coronavirus in the team, is preparing for the match of the 30th round of the Russian Premier League (RPL) against the Wings of the Soviets, which should be held on July 22. “We are preparing for the game,” TASS quoted by the CEO of the club Dmitry Rubashko. At the same time, the general director did not clarify the results of additional tests for coronavirus and the number of players who did not contact with infected club representatives.

On July 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin will sign a decree on the appointment of a temporarily acting governor of the Khabarovsk Territory instead of the arrested Sergey Furgal, the LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda with reference to unnamed sources. “They promised us that it would supposedly be a representative of the LDPR, others are not yet considered,” he said.

Andrei Vasilevsky fell into the top three applicants for the Vesina Trophy prize, awarded to the best goalkeeper in the national hockey league (NHL) season. The Finn Tuekka Raz (Boston) and the American Connor Hellebike (Winnipeg) will be competition to the Russian goalkeeper "Tampa". The laureate will be determined by the vote of club managers. Vasilevsky became a contender for the prize for the third year in a row. According to the results of last season, he became a laureate of awards.