Intelligence watched the adviser to the head of Roskosmos, former journalist Ivan Safronov at least since the fall of 2019, Interfax told the lawyer, head of the 29 team of human rights association, Ivan Pavlov. The resolution on the attraction of Safronov as the accused in Gosizmen mentions two messages from certain foreign intelligence authorities - from September 2019 and March 2020.

The second racket of the world, Spaniard Rafael Nadal, will not participate in the rally of the US Open Tennis Championship in 2020, which is planned to be held in New York from August 31 to September 13. The last year's champion of the tournament was reported through social networks. "After long thoughts, I decided not to participate in US Open this year. The situation around the world is very difficult, the number of coronavirus is increasing, it seems that we still can’t control it.

Phil Schiller holding the position of senior vice president of Apple on marketing will leave his post. According to Apple’s press release , in this position he will be replaced by the head of the marketing department Gregag Josviak. The report clarifies that Schiller, who has been working in Apple since 1987 (he entered the top management of the company in 1997) and is known to the general public as an active participant in the presentations of new Apple products, will not leave the company.

In the Krasnodar Territory, 4.5 million rubles were recovered from the colony for minors for the torture of adolescents, the website of the regional department of the prosecutor's office reports. Earlier, the court ordered the Ministry of Finance to pay 4.5 million rubles to the families of victims, one of which died. The ministry fulfilled the court decision, and the prosecutor filed a regression lawsuit against the FSIN officers - demanded that they return the money to the budget.

In St. Petersburg, at the Gostiny Dvor, where single pickets were held on Wednesday in support of the Chelyabinsk activists of another Russia, accused of extremism, three participants in the action were detained: Anatoly Korshunovsky, Oleg Petrov, Ivan Bodalev. In Moscow, the representative of the Chelyabinsk region also detained the activist of the Movement "Another Russia" Elena Chigareva.

The company "Volkswagen Group Rus" (official representative of the Volkswagen concern in Russia) announced the recall of almost 60 cars of different models that came to the owners by mistake. "57 Volkswagen Tiguan, Touareg, Multivan, Amarok, Caddy, made in the period from 2008 to 2018 are subject to recall, with VIN codes according to the application .

The designs of the bridge fell on military exercises in the Jewish Autonomous Region, as a result, 18 people were injured. This was reported in emergency services. "In the village of Telman in the Smidovichi district during the exercises of the railway troops, the bridge was collapsed. 18 people were injured," the agency’s interlocutor said. He specified that all the victims were sent to the Khabarovsk military hospital, the reasons for the incident were being clarified.

The host of the news of the GTRK "Kamchatka" Alexander Novikov quit after organizing the protesters of the Khabarovsk Territory in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka. She herself told the open media about this, as well as on her Instagram page . “I was fired at my own request the day after I gathered people in the square. I had an agreement with the chef: when it would not be unbearable to smear me, I will write a statement. I restrained my word,” said Alexandra Novikova.

In Turkey, after the opening of borders with Russia, a sharp increase in the number of infection with coronavirus was recorded. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Health of Turkey Fakhrettin Koja. “For the first time in a long time, we see a serious increase in the number of infections,” Koja wrote on his Twitter .

In the first half of 2020, 368 thousand new cars with an automatic transmission were sold in Russia, Avtostat agency reports. Thus, the share of such cars in the market amounted to 62%, increasing by 3 percentage points compared to the indicator of the same period last year. The category of machines with automatic transmission analysts includes cars with classic "automatic", variators, robotic boxes and other machines that are not installed by a mechanical gearbox.

The hockey federation on the grass of Russia (FHR) is continued by Nikolai Alexandrov , who is currently under house arrest and is a defendant in two criminal cases of embezzlement of Metrostroy OJSC.

The Polish police turned to citizens of the republic with a request to inform law enforcement agencies in case of dubious parcels from China containing seeds. This was announced on Wednesday by the Polish press agency Preferent Secretary of the Chief Communist Police of the police Marius Charc. The cases of receiving such parcels by the Poles were reported by Polish public television. The authorities also recommend destroying suspicious seeds, reports TASS.

The US District Court in San Francisco sentenced the former Google engineer Anthony Lewandowski by 18 months of imprisonment in the case of the theft of commercial secrets. We are talking about the theft of unmanned vehicles. According to TJ , the prosecution requested 27 months of prison for Lewandovsky, but the court reduced a period of a third. Lewandowski himself asked for pardon, but, according to the judge, this decision would give a "green light" similar to crimes.

The Moscow Football Club Spartak on its official website announced the signing of an agreement with the Uzbek midfielder Oston Urunov, who had previously played for Ufa. 19-year-old football player signed a long-term contract with red and white, the details of which were not disclosed, and will play under the 20th number. According to the media, Spartak was ready to pay 2 million euros for a beginner, and Urunov himself will earn 600 thousand euros per year in the Moscow club.

Armenian President Armen Sargsyan signed the Law "On Audiovisual Media", which limits the broadcasting of foreign television channels in a public multiplex, the press service of the head of state said. The restrictions also concern Russian television channels. The law was adopted by parliament on July 16. It is stipulated that foreign audiovisual programs can be relayed without a license through a public multiplex only on the basis of an interstate agreement, Interfax reports.