Searches for the leadership of the Federal Customs Service, including the house of her head Andrei Belianov, are an episode of the already cooled war of the security forces. So political scientist Mikhail Komin commented on the situation for Polit.ru. “The searches and subsequent actual dismissal of the head of the FCS Andrei Belleininov can only be partially put in the same line with the detention of Nikita Belykh and the tops of the SKRF week earlier.

On July 26, searches were held in the offices of the heads of the Federal Customs Service. According to media reports, they were carried out in the case of alcohol smuggling in connection with the testimony of one of the defendants in the case.

Twel JSC (Rosatom’s fuel division) signed the first contract for the experimental operation of Russian fuel “TVS-square” with one of the operators of the US nuclear power plant. Dmitry Kumanovsky , head of the analytical department of CJSC Investment Company LMS: Rosatom, developing his status of the global atomic corporation, in accordance with the best Western commercial practices made access to the North American fuel market for nuclear power plants.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Egypt announced the readiness to provide Russia with the investigation of the A321 crash. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the official representative of the Russian General Prosecutor General Alexander Kurenny.

After the record drop in the import of foreign alcohol products to Russia last year, the market began to recover: in the first half of 2016, rum deliveries increased by 34.9%, whiskey - by 2.1%, quiet and sparkling wines - by 10.1% and 7.1%, respectively, Kommersant writes. At the same time, over the specified period, the volume of import of vodka decreased by 24.7% to 1.22 million liters.

The press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian Federation considers Kiev’s debt in the amount of $ 3 billion to state and regards the refusal to pay it as a decision entailing “relevant consequences for the financial obligations of Ukraine”, RIA Novosti reports. According to Peskov, this position of Russia is “consistently articulated”, and no decisions that could change it were made.

The July rating of approval and trust published the Levada Center. 46% of Russians surveyed believe that the country is moving in the right direction, which is 4% less than in June. 37% expressed the opinion that this is not so. 82% of respondents approved the activities of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and 17% did not. The activities of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev were highly rated by 55% of the survey participants, 44% did not approve.

The Turkish prosecutor’s office issued a warrant for the detention of 47 journalists, the local CNN Turk television channel reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The reason is the sanctions from the state after the attempts of the coup committed by the military. On Monday, 42 journalists were authorized, who are suspected of relations with the opposition Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, accused of the Turkish authorities of organizing an attempt of a military coup.

The request of the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko on the admission of Russian athletes before participating in the 2016 Olympics was rejected by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), TASS reports with reference to the IAAF statement. Mutko addressed his request to President IAAF Sebastian Cow.

The press service of the metropolitan metro announced the restoration of trains on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya metro station 18:27. Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. Restored the movement of trains to the center from ST Spartak to ST Barrikadnaya. The movement is included in the schedule. - Moscow metro (@metrooperativno) July 27, 2016 Earlier, RIA Novosti , citing the subway press service, reported that the movement was stopped due to the incident with the passenger.

The beginning of new negotiations on the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline does not mean that Russia is interested in this project, although under certain conditions it could be useful to it. This was in an interview with Polit.ru was told by the head of the sector of the Economic Department of the Institute of Energy and Finance Sergey Agibalov, commenting on the media reports on the restoration of Turkey's interest in the gas pipeline.

The Federal Air Transport Agency does not intend to limit the certificate of the operator of the VIM-Avia airline and will not deprive it of the opportunity to execute charter flights. It is reported by Interfax . “The Federal Air Transport Agency conducts daily monitoring of the regularity of the VIM-Avia flights, the company's park was replenished with three Boeing-777, the company worked with the tour operator, adjusted the charter program,” he said.

The Bulgarian defense department explained the essence of its claims to Russian colleagues in connection with the flights of the Air Force of the Russian Air Force over the Black Sea: it turns out that it is not about a violation of airspace, which would be followed by a note of protest, but only about the lack of a flight plan and the transponders included, the department’s website says. In addition, the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense said that in some cases Russian aircraft had no distinction.

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The governor of the Kirov region, who was in the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center on charges of corruption, Nikita Belykh, denied the news published in the media that he asked for permission to make marriage right behind bars, Interfax reports with reference to a source familiar with the situation. According to this source, the White “did not submit a statement of intention to marry” - he simply found out how much this is really possible to do in the conditions of detention.