It is impossible to present the newly created Post Bank as a business project. Then what is it? It is impossible to present the newly created Post Bank as a business project. Then what is it? The decision to create the Postal Bank ( according to Kommersant, the political go-ahead has already been received) is much more surprising than, for example, the decree already signed by the president on the destruction of sanctioned products at the site of their discovery.

The US Department of Justice has placed the US National Endowment for Democracy on its list of "undesirable" organizations. The organization became the first in the "undesirable" registry since the entry into force of the relevant law. Earlier today, the US State Department criticized the recognition of the fund as undesirable.

On the desovetization of Ukraine, on the restoration of Russia, the literature of the Russian abroad and hidden geniuses On the desovetization of Ukraine, on the restoration of Russia, the literature of the Russian abroad and hidden geniuses Lazar Fleishman, professor at the University of Stanford, historian of Russian literature, author of works about Boris Pasternak, without which no Slavist will do without today, is expressed carefully and without hesitation about the current cultural

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine accused high-ranking officials of the Russian Federation of committing criminal offenses against the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, reports . Interfax-Ukraine According to the deputy head of the GPU, Yuri Stolyarchuk, seven Russian citizens are suspected of committing crimes. “First of all, these are the employees of the investigative unit of the ICR, who illegally, in our opinion (and there is evidence for this), detained and held her in custody.

The Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma has arrested Andrey Pivovarov, the head of the Parnas campaign headquarters, in the case of attempting to illegally access a police database, reports on Twitter. Ilya Yashin, a candidate for the local regional duma, The court also ordered the arrest for 2 months of police captain Alexei Nikanorov, who was detained along with Pivovarov. Nikanorov pleaded guilty to abuse of authority.

An initiative group of residents of the village of Rybachye, located in the southeast of the Crimean peninsula, spoke about the critical state of affairs in the region in an open letter to President Vladimir Putin. A copy of the letter was published on July 26 in the Alushta edition of Your Newspaper. The appeal speaks of problems to which the new Crimean government turns a blind eye.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the destruction at the border of imported goods from the food embargo list. The corresponding decree appeared on the Kremlin website. The law does not apply to individuals who import goods for personal use. In order to trace the schemes for circumventing the food embargo, transit cargoes that should arrive in another country will be checked at the border.

On July 26, the Red Bull Flugtag homemade aircraft championship was held at the Rowing Canal in Moscow. Our photojournalist spent several days with the participants of this unusual competition and saw with her own eyes how and by whom all these unique designs are created.

A draft resolution of the UN Security Council on the creation of a tribunal for the crash of the Malaysian Boeing has become publicly available. The document and charter of the resolution, which will be discussed by members of the Security Council at this evening’s meeting, were published by Kommersant.

Former Ukrainian politicians now living in Russia are planning to create a "Committee for the Salvation of Ukraine", which should become an "alternative" to the current Ukrainian government, Gazeta.ru writes . As the press secretary of the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov told the publication, the presentation of the project will take place this Thursday at the Ukraine Hotel.

The former head of Rosnano, Leonid Melamed, and the former financial director of the company, Svyatoslav Ponurov, were accused of embezzlement on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the reports . official website of the Investigative Committee The investigation also announces the appearance of new witnesses who spoke about other crimes of the former leadership of Rosnano.

The Board of Directors of the World Bank recognized the legitimacy and validity of all the arguments that environmental organizations in Russia and Mongolia put forward against plans to build large dams in the basin of the Selenga River, the largest tributary of Lake Baikal.

The Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, based on the results of inspections conducted in 2015, banned 51 higher educational institutions from accepting applicants, reports . TASS In most universities that do not meet the requirements of Rosobrnadzor, there are no sanitary and epidemiological certificates, documents for buildings and land, and there is also a shortage of teaching staff.

The working group of the election commission of the Magadan region recommended that the Parnassus list be removed from the elections to the local legislature. As the secretary of the Central Council of the Progress Party Dmitry Krainev said on his Twitter, 4% of the signatures did not pass the check on the FMS database, and another 22% were declared invalid by the graphologist. The election commission must make a decision within a few days.

The director of an orphanage in the city of Arsenyev in the Primorsky Territory was sentenced to two and a half years in a penal colony for selling the apartments of two orphans, the reports . press service of the Investigative Committee The investigation accused the director of the orphanage of violating part 3 of article 159 (fraud), part 1 of article 286 (abuse of power) and part 2 of article 292 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (forgery).