On August 4, a new standard for cars, motorcycles and other vehicles finally entered into force in Russia. This was reported by RIA Novosti in Rosstandart, clarifying that the fonts and format of the main types of signs will remain unchanged. Recall that the new GOST for registration signs was prepared in the fall of 2018.

The general director and president of Ford Jim Hickett will leave his posts in October this year, and the operating director of Jim Farley will take his place in both positions. It is reported by CNN with reference to the announcement of the company. Hickett has been holding Ford CEO since May 2017.

The Victory Airlines sent about 100 of its pilots by unpaid vacation by the end of the year. This is about a third of all the pilots of the carrier. According to the Russian BBC Russian service , the pilots cannot quit, since in this case about 1.5 million rubles spent on their retraining will have to pay. This situation affected mainly the second and junior pilots.

Daily Mail published exclusive personnel from the detention of African American George Floyd, the death of which led to mass protests against racism in the United States. In the video made on the ground cameras of the police officers Thomas Lane and Alex Kuenga, it is clear how one of the law enforcement officers directs the Floyd’s head, which at that moment is in the car. In response, the man cries and asks not to shoot him. “Officer, please don’t shoot me.

The new General Sponsor of the Moscow Football Club of CSKA was the company "X Holding" Alisher Usmanov, which includes more than 30 companies in Russia and abroad. The agreement is designed for two years and, according to the Kommersant newspaper, will bring more than 1 billion rubles to the army team.

Russian hackers hacked and several times gained access to the mailbox of the British ex-minister of trade Liam Fox. It was from there that the Secret Documents about the American-British trading agreement revealed before the British Prime Minister were stolen, Reuters found out. In 2019, the publication of classified agreements was called the "Russian" way to prevent the election of the current Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The Volsky District Court of the Saratov Region sentenced a 15-year-old teenager who attacked a teacher and schoolchildren in May 2019. As reported on the website of the regional Investigative Committee, the teenager was sentenced to seven years in prison in the educational colony. The teenager was found guilty of attempted murder of two or more people (part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the season of tropical cyclones continues. On August 4, two of them immediately reached land - the Hurricane "Isaiaw" in the east of the United States and Typhoon "Hagupite" in the east of China. It is noteworthy that in both cases the maximum wind speed was 136.8 km/h.

An unregistered candidate of Belarus, Valery Temkonkalo, wrote an open letter to the presidents and prime minister of 32 countries, including the United States, Germany, France, and Great Britain with a request to pay attention to the public to the anti-people's policy pursued by the Belarusian regime. Photos of the open letter were published by Forbes .

US President Donald Trump said the Tiktok application will be banned in the United States if Microsoft or another American company will not buy it until September 15. It is reported by Bloomberg . Recall that the United States authorities intend to block Tiktok in the United States for reasons of national security. The US administration believes that the application can share the data of its American users with the China government.

For violation of the sanitary requirements established as part of the warning of the distribution of the Covid-19, more than 100 stores in Moscow have been suspended since May, the website of the capital’s department of Rospotrebnadzor on Tuesday. "Since May 1, 2020, for the failure to comply with a complex of anti -epidemic measures aimed at preventing the spread of a new coronavirus infection, 104 objects were suspended, including 48 objects trade enterprises," the report said.

On Tuesday, at the next rally in support of ex-governor Sergei Furgal, four provocateurs were calculated in Khabarovsk. In one of them, local residents recognized a member of United Russia. The protesters almost beat the second provocateur to the cries of "provocateurs shame!" After that, the man was handed over to the police, writes Znak.com .

The European Commission, as expected , announced the beginning of a full-scale antimonopoly investigation regarding a transaction on the purchase of a Fitbit Fitbit Fitbit manufacturer company Google. This was reported on the website of the regulator. "The use of wearable devices by European consumers will significantly grow in the coming years. This growth will be accompanied by the exponential growth of the data that generates these devices.

The Federal Agency for Print and Mass Communications (Rospping) proposed creating a service based on artificial intelligence (AI), which can be used to verify the reliability of news. This is stated in the letter of the deputy head of the Russian Printing Ilya Lazarev, sent to the Ministry of Communications on July 31. The letter says that a promising service using AI will be able to compare the "maximum number of facts related to the message" and identify incorrect.

The authorities of Chechnya returned from Moscow to Grozny more than 100 young people who discredited themselves outside the republic. They were collected together and publicly reported in the presence of television, relatives, representatives of the clergy and leaders of law enforcement agencies.