The Dzerzhinsky Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the former head of the disbanded main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the North-Western Federal District (NWFD) Vitaly Bykov to seven years in prison for embezzlement during the liquidation of the department, Interfax . reports He was stripped of his rank of Major General of Police and fined 400,000 rubles.

The inscription on the bench in the memory of the victims of the shot down "Boeing" opposite the Russian Embassy in The Hague. Photo Photos provided by families of victims of the Boeing MH17 In the park opposite the Russian Embassy in The Hague on the third anniversary of the death of Boeing passengers, shot down over the Donbass on July 17, 2014, they installed a memory bench. A small memorial plaque in memory of the victims of the tragedy with the inscription in Russian is attached to it.

In the building of the State Duma, a leak of the roof was eliminated, due to which the plenary meeting was interrupted on July 14. This was reported by the Moscow Agency with reference to the head of the Committee on Regulations and the organization of the work of the State Duma Olga Savastyanova. “Everything is fine, the hall is in working condition,” she said.

Rosneft said that they had nothing to do with the threats against the journalist of the Vedomosti newspaper Rinat Sagdiev, reports . Ekho Moskvy radio station “These threats are not from us. Principles and completely obvious risks do not allow us to send threats to this creature, ”Mikhail Leontiev, vice president and press secretary of the oil company, said on the air of the radio station. According to him, Sagdiyev is a “biased” journalist, and his article is custom-made.

The largest Russian banks - Sberbank, VTB, VTB24, Otkritie, Rosselkhozbank, Gazprombank, Binbank and Alfa-Bank announced their withdrawal from the Association of Russian Banks (ARB). This was reported by Interfax with reference to a joint statement of credit institutions.

State Duma deputy from United Russia, coordinator of the All-Russian People's Front (ONF) project "For Fair Purchases" Anton Guetta sent a request to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to check the declaration of the judge of the Krasnodar Regional Court Elena Khakhaleva, whose daughter's wedding caused public indignation. “We asked to verify the accuracy of the information contained in the declaration, for compliance with income and expenses,” he told Novaya Gazeta.

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed amendments to the law banning the propaganda of communism or any other totalitarian regime. Relevant information is published on the official website of the head of state. The law will enter into force three months after the date of signing, and the monuments will have to be dismantled within a year after that. Monuments that are not intended "for public viewing" and have educational or cultural significance do not fall under the law.

Anton Mamaev, a disabled person of the first group, convicted of robbery, was returned to the pre-trial detention center after a medical examination. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Federal Penitentiary Service. The results of the examination of the Federal Penitentiary Service sent to the court to decide on the release of the man.

The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal by the defense of Alexander Shpakov, who was accused of using violence against a policeman at a rally on March 26. This is reported by the agency "Moscow". Shpakov's defense asked to replace the real imprisonment with a suspended sentence, pointing out that the court of first instance did not take into account mitigating circumstances - the daughter he maintains alone and the mother's disability.

Vedomosti journalist Rinat Sagdiev filed a police report about threats, Vladimir Rumyantsev, head of the legal department of the publisher Business News Media, told RNS. “We discussed this with Rinat Sagdiev on Sunday morning when the text messages arrived, and yesterday he filed a police report – we regard these messages as real threats, since, judging by the text of the text messages, the journalist may have been followed,” he said.

The chairman of the administrative board of the Krasnodar Regional Court, Elena Khakhaleva, called the message about the “multi-million dollar” wedding of her daughter with the participation of domestic show business stars pressure and revenge. “I regard the organized bacchanalia as undisguised pressure on the judge. This is revenge for not succumbing to blackmail and not allowing an illegal decision to be made. I know perfectly well who ordered the scandal.

The Turkish authorities have blacklisted 4,128 Russian citizens and banned them from crossing the country's border due to suspicions of links with the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia, the reports . Turkish Interior Ministry According to Turkish law enforcement agencies, since 2011, 804 Russians have been deported from the country for a similar reason.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has included the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Protection" of the Russian Guard in the list of strategic enterprises. The decree is published on the official portal of legal information. The document comes into force from the date of its signing, July 17. Federal State Unitary Enterprise Okhrana was established in 2005.

The founder of SpaceX and Tesla Elon Musk said that the main threat to humanity is artificial intelligence, reports Fortune magazine. “In the field of artificial intelligence, I have access to the most advanced technologies. And I think that people have something to worry about," Musk said during his speech to the National Association of US Governors. He called this the only area in which the government should intervene, also artificially limit the speed at which such technologies spread.

The renovation program in Moscow may include another 1,500 houses that do not participate in the vote, reports , citing an employee of the mayor's office. Vedomosti According to the publication, if the program includes 5,500 houses, about 17.5 million square meters of housing will be demolished in Moscow. However, the exact number of houses is still unclear, now there is a reconciliation of documents and protocols.