Since July 3, the banking license of the St. Petersburg bank Sovetsky has been revoked. This was reported in the Central Bank . On April 12, it became known about the detention of banker Vladimir Antonov . He was taken from Moscow to St. Petersburg as part of a criminal investigation into a major embezzlement from the Sovetsky bank.

The requirements of the law on the storage of the content of telephone conversations and correspondence have come into force, but telecom operators cannot legally fulfill them yet. According to Kommersant , the problem is the lack of certified equipment. “Currently, there are no certificates of conformity for technical means of accumulating voice information for operational search activities in the certification system in the field of communications,” Rossvyaz said.

The last elected head of the Moscow region is not allowed to participate in elections even from prison The arrested head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, filed a complaint against the head of SIZO-5 with the Human Rights Council, the Public Monitoring Commission and the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia.

The authors of the media - foreign agents are offered to give that gesture Updated: The State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications approved amendments that equate to the media - foreign agents of individuals who disseminate information published by them.

The anti-ratings of opposition politicians have significantly decreased compared to the data at the beginning of the year, a poll conducted by sociologists at the Levada Center showed. So the level of distrust towards Alexei Navalny decreased from 13 to 6%, and towards Ksenia Sobchak - from 30 to 15%. Russians began to distrust less the chairman of the board of Rosnano, Anatoly Chubais (from 10 to 3%) and the head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin (from 4 to 3%).

US President Donald Trump has written a series of letters to the leaders of several NATO countries, including Germany, Belgium, Norway and Canada, demanding they increase defense spending. According to The New York Times , Trump hinted in his letters that since the allies have not done enough to share the burden of collective defense, he may adjust the US military presence around the world. “There is growing frustration in the United States that some allies have not stepped up as promised.

Tour operator DSBW-TOURS suspended its activities on July 3, as it can no longer fulfill its obligations to customers and to the bank, said the owner of the company Karen Goncharov. “Over the past few years, we have fought honestly to keep our business going. Our company has become a home for most of the employees, and customers have become our friends, the people with whom we made our tours together. Today we have lost everything.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill to increase VAT from 18% to 20% from January 1, 2019 The document was submitted to parliament by the government on 16 June. It is planned that the increase in VAT by 2% will attract an additional 620 billion rubles to the budget. in year.

The main goal of the US sanctions against Iran, which will be restored, is to reduce to zero the country's revenue from crude oil sales, said Brian Hook, director of political planning at the US State Department. “Our goal is to increase pressure on the Iranian regime by cutting crude oil revenues to zero,” Bloomberg quoted Hook as saying .

The Press Emblem Campaign records an increase in the number of journalists killed. Since the beginning of 2018, 66 reporters have been killed around the world, compared to 50 in the first half of last year. More than half of the journalists killed have died in Afghanistan, Mexico, Syria, the United States and Yemen, according to a report by the non-governmental organization Press Emblem Campaign. In Afghanistan, terrorists are responsible for the death of reporters; in Mexico, criminal gangs.

The defense of the head of the Chechen branch of "Memorial" filed a petition with the Supreme Court to transfer the consideration of the case to another region. According to lawyers, the case can be considered, for example, by a court in Moscow. “The leadership of the republic has repeatedly spoken out about the guilt of Oyub, thereby, according to the defense, pressure on representatives of the judiciary was denied, so the consideration should be moved to another region,” the explains .

On July 3, representatives of the Confederation of Labor of Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Yabloko, the ROT Front party, Just Russia and Civil Solidarity submitted a collective application to the Moscow City Hall to hold a march and rally against raising the retirement age. The action is scheduled for the evening of July 18 on the eve of the first reading of the relevant bill in Parliament.

Thirty-two people declared their desire to fight for the chair of the mayor of Moscow, but only five were able to collect the required number of signatures from municipal deputies.

The White House said that the United States does not recognize Crimea as part of Russia, and sanctions will remain in place until the peninsula is returned to Ukraine. "We do not recognize Russia's attempt to annex Crimea, sanctions against Russia remain in place until Russia returns the peninsula to Ukraine," was quoted as saying by AFP .

Thirty-two people spoke of their desire to fight for the chair of the mayor of Moscow, but only five managed to collect the signatures of municipal deputies. The necessary package of documents for registration as a candidate for the city election committee was submitted only by the current mayor Sergei Sobyanin. “In total, 32 people were nominated as candidates for mayor, of which 14 were nominated by parties, 18 were self-nominated.