At least 7 people have died as a result of large explosions in northeast China in the port city of Tianjin, reports People's China Dialy. Between 300 and 400 people have been hospitalized, the Associated Press reported, citing local state media. about 300 victims . reports Agence France-Presse also The explosion knocked out the windows and doors of houses in the area.

Opinions of the representative of the Yabloko party Photo: ITAR-TASS/ Interpress/ Sergey Ermokhin Attempts by Parnasa to collect signatures to participate in the regional elections were torn by the authorities. The only democratic party that can participate in them remains an apple. This situation can be transferred to the election campaign in the Duma-2016. Should democrats unite around the Yabloko program, or is it better to try to act independently again? The first word is Boris Vishnevsky.

Three people were burned as a result of an oil fire on the Moskva River, Interfax reports , citing the press service of the Moscow Department of Health. According to the victims, they were near the river at the time of the fire. The child was sent to the 9th children's city clinical hospital, and a man and a woman were hospitalized by helicopter to the 36th hospital.

Against the head of the election headquarters of the Democratic Coalition in Novosibirsk, Leonid Volkov, a criminal case was opened at the request of a LifeNews journalist, said on Twitter. the opposition leader himself The case was initiated under part 3 of article 144 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (obstruction of journalistic activities by damaging property).

A military court sentenced Valery Permyakov, an ordinary Russian military base in Armenia, to 10 years in prison to be served in a strict regime colony, Interfax reports . The Gyumri garrison court found Permyakov guilty under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - desertion, theft of weapons and their illegal carrying.

The Moscow City Court has recognized the lawful extension of the detention period for businessman Sergei Polonsky, who is accused of fraud on an especially large scale, the reports . Moskva news agency The defense asked to cancel the decision of the Tverskoy Court to place Polonsky in custody until October 11 and change the measure of restraint to house arrest. Lawyers also insisted that Polonsky would not be able to hide from the investigation, since he could not get a passport.

Ex-official of the Ministry of Defense Yevgenia Vasilyeva, convicted in the Oboronservis case, was assigned to work as a cleaner at a school, Interfax reports with reference to Anton Tsvetkov, head of the security commission of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation. He said that the members of the OP finally managed to catch Vasilyeva in the colony and talk. According to him, the former official was assigned to the economic block, where she works as a cleaner at the school.

The Supreme Court of Karelia refused to return direct mayoral elections in Petrozavodsk and Kostomuksha, TASS reports . The court recognized the amendments on the abolition of direct elections in Petrozavodsk and Kostomuksha, adopted by the deputies of the local legislative assembly, as legitimate and refused to satisfy the application.

The terrorist organization "Islamic State" has published a photograph showing the headless body of Croatian citizen Tomislav Salopek, who was held captive by militants, according to the website of the monitoring center SITE. The photo was posted online today. The caption to the picture says that Croatia is taking part in the war with the Islamic State.

German prosecutors did not manage to blame journalists of disclosing the secrets of the homeland German prosecutors did not manage to blame journalists of disclosing the secrets of the homeland Photo: RIA Novosti An attempt by German officials to restore journalists-bloggers of the Netzpolitik.org Internet portal for the publication of supposedly secret materials turned out to be complete Fiasco.

The Nizhny Novgorod environmental center "Dront" will not be excluded from the list of non-profit organizations - foreign agents, TASS reports with reference to the head of the non-profit organization Askhat Kayumov. According to him, the Ministry of Justice refused to exclude "Dront" from the register of foreign agents, because the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the department, during a repeated inspection, found several sources of foreign funding from the organization.

The head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, Sergei Dankvert, proposed to destroy counterfeit products at the expense of manufacturers and retail chains that distribute them, reports .

Parties that have been denied registration should better prepare for the elections and more carefully collect signatures, not likes, Leonid Ivlev, deputy chairman of the Central Election Commission, advised candidates, reports . TASS The deputy chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation said that the regional election commissions were tolerant of political parties registering for elections, supported and did not exert any pressure on the candidates.

The EU Foreign Service condemned the military actions against the territories controlled by the government of Ukraine and the burning of the cars of the OSCE mission in Donetsk, calling them a violation of the Minsk agreements. Late Tuesday evening, Federica Mogherini, spokeswoman for the agency, issued a statement effectively blaming the separatists for the provocations. The new escalation of the conflict, it says, has led to an increase in the number of victims.

The Central Bank set the official rate of the European currency on Thursday, August 13, at the level of 72.2 rubles, according to the website of the regulator. Thus, the cost of one euro per day increased by 2.53 rubles. The Central Bank set the dollar exchange rate at 65.01 rubles, which is 1.81 rubles higher than the rate of the previous day. The value of the dual-currency basket (0.55 dollars and 0.45 euros) increased by 2.13 rubles to 68.25 rubles.