The British Parliament Intelligence and Security Committee proposed to revise the policy of issuing “gold visas” by wealthy citizens of Russia, the report says, some of which is dedicated to the Russian diaspora in the UK.

The Investigative Committee of Russia began the withdrawal of lawyers of the accused of murders and the attempts of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal. According to the defense, the ultimate goal of the investigation is to neutralize the entire lawyer corps, which prevents him from agreeing with the accused about recognition, Kommersant writes. Furgal himself asked lawyers to urgently call psychiatric assistance if he wants to plead guilty.

The Security Service of Ukraine detained a former law enforcement officer Andrei Baidal. Last year, representatives of pro -Russian armed groups in eastern Ukraine called Baidala the organizer of the murder of the head of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Alexander Zakharchenko. Baidale (call sign "Swede") was reported to suspicion of illegal handling of weapons, UNIAN reports.

The American authorities decided not to resume the work of the US consulate in Jun. This was reported by Associated Press (AR) with reference to the representative of the US Presidential Administration Donald Trump. According to the AP source, such a step by the US authorities is explained by the desire to prevent possible response measures by the PRC government.

On July 21, the State Duma approved in the second reading a bill on digital financial assets and digital currency. The first reading the document was held at the end of May, but since then it was significantly redesigned. In the editorial deputies, the law adopted by the deputies recognizes a digital currency as a set of electronic data, which can be accepted as a means of payment that is not a monetary unit of the Russian Federation or a foreign state, as well as as an investment.

The World Health Organization (WHO) believe that the coronavirus vaccine will not be used massively until at least 2021. “If you really look at the situation, then before the vaccination of people begins, the first half of the next year will come,” said Michael Ryan, head of the WHO program in the field of healthcare. At the same time, he noted that researchers have already achieved serious success in developing a vaccine against Covid-19.

The Ministry of Energy developed and sent to the government the "road map" "The development of hydrogen energy in Russia" for 2020-2024, a representative of the ministry told RBC . Russia plans to produce and export hydrogen due to the global trend for the rejection of hydrocarbon energy due to its negative impact on the climate and the environmental situation, it follows from the explanation for the "road map".

The President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Aleksander Chefurin, said that the matches of European cub tournaments will be held without spectators before further orders. “We must be an optimist, and if something happens like this crisis, we need to have an action plan. Until further orders, we will conduct European Cup matches without spectators. We will not take risks,” the UEFA press service quotes his president.

On July 22, the State Duma adopted a bill on a tax maneuver in an IT industry in the third, final reading. This was reported on the website of the State Duma. The document provides that from January 1, 2021, income tax for IT companies will decrease from the current 20% to 3%, and the rate of income tax in the part to be enrolled in regional budgets will be rejoiced. In addition, from the New Year, the IT companies will pay not 14%, but 7.6%to state extra-budgetary funds.

On August 5, the South Korean company Samsung will hold a traditional summer presentation of new smartphones. At the event, among other devices, the flagship smartphones Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra will be presented. The characteristics of the latest version were on the network two weeks before the official premiere. According to Sammobile , Note 20 Ultra will receive a 6.9-inch Dynamic Amoled Infinity-Os with HDR10+ support and update frequency of 120 Hz.

The court arrested the brands "Recipes of Grandmother Agafia", Organic Shop and other brands of the cosmetic company Natura Siberica in the suit of the En+ Recycling LLC, which was part of EN+ Oleg Deripaska. According to The Bell , the amount of the claim is 4.5 billion rubles. Information about the arrest of RBC was confirmed by the representative of the company "First Solution" owning the brand "Recipes of Grandmother Agafia" and a subsidiary of Natura Siberica.

American skater Maria Gerber said she was experiencing problems with selecting costumes for performances because of her skin color. According to her, equipment manufacturers are only guided by white -skinned athletes, not taking into account the needs of the dark -skinned ones, and it is difficult for her to choose the right clothes. "It is difficult to feel beautiful when the ideals of beauty in figure skating do not correspond to what you are given.

The leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal, shortly before the arrest, was going to resign on his own. "The governor was already going to come to Moscow on Tuesday, write a statement of his own free will. You arrested him on Thursday? Someone wanted to show the muscles. He flew to Moscow, flew to me, I persuaded him - at his own request," the politician said, speaking in the State Duma.

The United States demanded to close the Consulate General of China in Houston for three days, explaining this by the protection of "American intellectual property." According to BBC , this statement was made after unknown, burning some documents in garbage tanks were discovered in the courtyard of the consulate building. Fire services were called to the building.

The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a government bill on the introduction of experimental legal regimes for the development of digital innovations (the law on "regulatory sandboxes"). This law should enter into force 180 days after the official publication. Recall that in the first reading the bill was approved on May 12.