In Moscow and the Moscow region, on August 1, the penultimate, orange, level of weather hazard was announced, TASS reports with reference to Roshydrometesenter. The service explained: “The orange level means that the weather is dangerous. There is a chance of natural disasters, damage. ” We are talking about a high danger of fires in connection with the heat. On the first day of the last month of summer, weather forecasters promise in the Moscow region an air temperature of more than 30 degrees.

The Sasna Tsrer armed group (Frantic Sasun residents) holds the regiment of the patrol service in Yerevan on the 15th day. Yesterday, in the area of ​​the captured building, shooting again occurred, as a result of which the policeman died. The authorities claim that a targeted sniper fire was conducted on the part of the regiment.

Assistant to US President Barack Obama, on the fight against terrorism, Lisa Monaco said that Washington may impose sanctions against the party responsible for the hack of the US National Committee of the US Democratic Party, reports The New York Times. At the same time, Monaco admitted that at the moment in the White House they could not name the performer of Kiberatak. The assistant to Obama noted: “Some of those who operate in this area are more professional than others.

Gleb Korepanov The main entrance to the IOC building The fate of Russian athletes made by international federations before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will be decided by a special commission of the International Olympic Committee. This decision was made by the organization’s executive committee on the night of July 31.

The French parliament in the current composition will not discuss the issue of recognizing Crimea part of Russia, since this is "technically impossible at the moment." This was stated by the head of the Crimea of ​​the delegation of French deputies Thierry Mariani, RIA Novosti reports.

The leaders of the national anti-doping agencies of 13 states signed a statement in which they sharply criticized the International Olympic Committee for refusing to completely remove Russia from participating in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, writes The Guardian . Among the signatories are the USA, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the European Union. They argue: “The publicity of a doping scandal in Russia provided a decisive moment in the struggle for the unity of international sports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the day of the Russian Navy, went aboard the restored cruiser Aurora, moored in St. Petersburg, Interfax reports. The head of state and the Supreme Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation accepted the report of the ship commander, over which the presidential standard was raised. Vladimir Putin greeted the cruiser's team.

July 31, 1937, singer Edita Piekha was born Personal business Edita Stanislavovna Piekha (79 years old) was born in the town of Nueel-Su-Lans in the north of France, 200 km from Paris in the Poles family who came there in the 1920s. Father - Shakhtar Stanislav Piekh, died of a professional disease of mining - silicosis - in 1941, when the girl was only four years old. Edita remained with her mother Felicia and her older brother.

Recently, American entomologists Eduard F. Knipling) and Raymond M. Bushland were posthumously awarded the Golden Goose Award for the study of the Sexy Life of Cochliomyia Homininirax . The work of scientists laid the foundation for a series of projects for the removal in laboratories of barren males of insect pests.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a decree that endows the heads of state and government with the right to give direct orders to the army commander, air forces and navy, reports Associated Press . We will remind, earlier Erdogan spoke about the reform of the Turkish Armed Forces, in which he was going to subjugate directly to himself the heads of the national intelligence organization and the General Staff, but this would require amendments to the Turkey Constitution.

In the German Cologne, a rally was held in support of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to various estimates, from 20 to 40 thousand people took part in it, reports Reuters . The action was announced as a protest against the attempt of a military coup in Turkey, which was committed on July 15. The organizers initially predicted the participation of up to 50 thousand people - about 1.5 million citizens of Turkey live in Germany.

The farewell ceremony with the writer Fazil Iskander will be held on Tuesday, August 2, in the Central House of Writers in Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to Iskander's relatives.

The recent wave of women's stories on social networks about the cases they have experienced, gave rise to many significant attempts to understand what was happening. Among the articles according to its results are the texts of such different but significant authors as psychologist Lyudmila Petranovskaya, economic journalist and social thinker Dmitry Butrin, sociologist, specialist in the field of gender research Irina Kosterina, political scientist and publicist Sergei Medvedev and others.

Dmitry Travin, Vitaly Gorokhov, Karina Ovsepyan We publish a transcript of the discussion, held as part of the first cycle of the educational project “Citizen Politicalologist” with the participation of Vitaly Gorokhov , the head of the research laboratory of the RANEPA “Politics, Society, Sports: Comparative Analysis” and Karina Ovsepyan , expert in the history of sports of the USSR and modern Russia.

At least one person died and four more were injured as a result of shooting in the American city of Austin, Texas. At the moment, it is known that shooting was carried out at once in two places in the central district of the city, but, apparently, these two incidents are not interconnected. According to local media, the shooting began at about 2:30 in the morning on the sixth street (historical entertainment area in the center of Austin).