The Government of Ukraine instructed the State Fiscal Service to draw up lists of companies with Russian capital operating in Ukraine. This was announced by the head of the SFS Igor Bilow, Interfax reports. According to him, the government will study the possibility of imposing sanctions against these companies. “Now a decision will be made in the government or at the Council of National Security and Defense regarding the possibility of applying certain sanctions,” Bilouse explained.

Behind the permanent conversations about good yields and excellent export prospects of Russian grain producers, it has somehow been in the background of understanding that there is another agricultural manufacturer nearby, the export of which is no less than Russian farmers. This manufacturer is Ukraine, in whose territory there are full -scale military operations today. These fighting did not prevent the export of grain in volumes exceeding Russian export deliveries.

From August 1, a number of amendments to the laws governing the exchange of information using information and telecommunication networks come into force in Russia. These legislative changes, first of all, relate to the registration of popular bloggers. Blog owners with a traffic of more than three thousand users per day are equated with the media. Now popular bloggers should be registered in the register of Roskomnadzor and comply with all the requirements of the legislation in the media.

The minimum price for a bottle of vodka with a volume of 0.5 liters from the beginning of August increased by 21 rubles - to 220 rubles, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. This is the second stage to increase the minimum vodka price in 2014. The first time the price was increased in March from 170 to 199 rubles.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow refused to arrest the opposition Alexei Navalny in the case of the theft of Yves Rocher. This was announced by Navalny himself in his microblog on Twitter. “The matter is the gene. The prosecutor’s office is not to return, to leave house arrest unchanged, ”the politician wrote. Earlier, the prosecutor's office asked the court to arrest Navalny.

In the Smolensk region, police detained a man suspected of arson of the hospital. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After the detention, the suspect was taken to the duty unit for further proceedings. The website of the Investigative Committee states that a man who was delivered to a medical institution in a state of alcohol psychosis will be checked for involvement in arson.

A group of Dutch and Australian forensic experts discovered human remains at the crash site of the Malaysian Boeing in the Donetsk region. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands. The number of bodies found by experts is not specified. Prior to this, 227 bodies of 298 people on board were discovered in the area of ​​the aircraft crash area.

The European Union will conduct the first assessment of the effectiveness of sector sanctions against Russia no later than October 31. This was announced by ITAR-TASS representative of the press service of the EU Council. According to him, the first assessment of the impact of sanctions will be given no later than October 31, 2014, taking into account their effect and measures taken by third countries.

It will take at least a few more weeks to eliminate the failures in the functioning of the computer system for processing applications for the issuance of US entry visas to the United States.

The American Senate approved John Teffta US Ambassador to Russia. Such a decision was made at a meeting on July 31, ITAR-TASS reports. 64-year-old diplomat John Tefft was nominated to the position of American ambassador to the Russian Federation by US President Barack Obama on July 10. On July 29, his candidacy was recommended by the profile Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.

The Russian writer and leader of the unregistered party “Other Russia” Eduard Limonov criticized the law on the registration of popular blogs as a media that had entered into force today. It is reported by Echo of Moscow . According to some reports, Limonov’s page entered the first number on the list of seven bloggers, which Roskomnadzor will send a notification about the need to register as the media.

Representatives of the Moscow authorities and police took from the apartment building of the leopard, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia. The animal, listed in the Red Book, was contained in improper conditions and without the necessary documents in the premises of a residential building at the address: st. Sorge, d.6, building 1.

In the traditional daily poll, Polit.ru invites readers to choose a media person of the week. This week, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Alexander Lukashenko, Obama’s marriage, Angel Merkel, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Victor Churkin, Arseny Yatsenyuk were the most active Newsmakers.

The State Duma deputies from the LDPR intend to “decorate” the packaging of fast -cooking food with inscriptions warning about the dangers of health contents. According to Izvestia newspaper, Igor Lebedev, Yaroslav Nilov and Andrei Svintsov prepare a draft law on amendments to the Federal Law “On Advertising”, “On Protection of Consumer Rights” and other legal acts. An example for innovations can be restrictive measures taken in relation to tobacco products.

Five civilians died as a result of the artillery shelling of Lugansk, nine more were hospitalized. This was reported on the website of the Donetsk City Council. The artillery shelling fell Artyomovsky, Zhovtnevy and Leninsky districts. The school, the local history museum, as well as residential buildings received from the hit of the shells of destruction. Among the wounded is one child.