Athletes Taekwondo Digest "Polit.ru" is a brief selection of the ten most noticeable news of the outgoing day. Today, Russian martial arts teams received full admission to participate in the Olympics, the court recognized the arrest of the deputy head of the Moscow department of the TFR, the native of Somalia attacked tourists in London with a knife.

Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Zoryan Shkiryak said that the Russian special services are the customers of the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet, UNIAN reports. Skiryak said: “I would not want to make forecasts now, on my part it will not be entirely correct, but I can express my personal point of view.

The Egyptian military reported the liquidation of the leader of the Ansar Beit al-Makdis group (this is a cell of the Islamic State terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation on the Sinai Peninsula) Abu Dua al-Ansari, the country's statement said. He is considered the organizer of the attack, which crashed Airbus 321, flying from Sharm El Sheikh to St. Petersburg.

The sports arbitration court (CAS) rejected the appeal of the Russian heavy athletics federation (FTA) to the decision to suspend Russian rods from participating in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

On the website of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, a petition appeared with a request to appoint actress Lei Akhedzhakov to the new ambassador of Russia to Ukraine. “In our opinion, the best ambassador of Russia to Ukraine can be a Russian citizen, actress and big fan of Ukraine and its people, Madame Liya Medzhidovna Akhedzhakov,” the text of the appeal says. At the time of writing this note, one person signed the petition.

The man, whose personality is currently unknown, captured the hostages in the investigative isolator in the town of Le-Man in the west of France, reports Agency France-Presse . According to preliminary data, the prison employee and prisoner were hostage. Special units were sent to the scene.

The news of the day The chairman of the Yaroslavl City Assembly Pavel Zarubin will head the city until the next election of deputies. “According to the changes made in the charter of the city, the chairman of the municipality is the head of the city and can occupy this chair until the end of the municipality. The following elections will be held in September 2017. Thus, until this time, Pavel Zarubin will lead the city, ”the press service of the municipality said.

The Ministry of Justice proposed introducing a new form of punishment for officials into the law “On Combating Corruption”. In a document posted on Portal projects of regulatory legal acts, it is said that the law may appear a milder option - a warning. It will be applied to those guilty officials in respect of which will be concluded about the insignificance of the act they committed, as well as if the official is first noticed in such actions.

The Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed 29 Russian swimmers to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the press service of the International Swimming Federation (Fina) reports. Sofya Andreeva, Victoria Andreeva, Daria Chikunova, Svetlana Chimrova, Anastasia Fesikova, Daria Mullakaeva, Rosalia Nasretdinova, Arina Optnysheva, Veronika Popova, Vyacheslav Andrusenko, Alexey Bryazinsky, Anton Chupkov, Ilya Druzhinin, Andrei Grechin, Danila Chimova.

Currently, a working group is being formed in Russia, which will be engaged in the selection and testing of an Internet mixer for use by employees of state authorities and state enterprises, Kommersant writes. The group is created by the Institute for the Development of the Internet (IRI), the Ministry of Communications and Rostelecom. It is assumed that it will include “Russian Post”, the Ugra administration and the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP).

In Washington, they denied the payment of ransom for American prisoners in Iran, Reuters reports. According to the White House spokesman Josh Ernst, the United States was not paid and henceforth they are not going to pay a ransom for illegally detained citizens.

Quite unexpectedly, the question of the new Russian after Ukraine was not so simple. Vladimir Putin, recall, decided to transfer to this post the plenipotentiary in the Volga District of Mikhail Babich, but Kyiv was against it and refused to accept the messenger. You can understand Ukrainian politicians.

The prisoner of the city of Le-Man, who took hostages of the cellmate and an employee of the prison, is neutralized, according to the Twitter of the BFMTV television channel. On August 4, the media reported that a prisoner, armed with a knife, took two people hostage and demanded a transfer from the authorities to another prison. The special forces who arrived at the scene began negotiations with him. At some point, the criminal who lost his vigilance was captured.

During a visit to the Pervomaisky district of Crimea, the prosecutor of the republic Natalya Poklonskaya for the first time took a personal part in the harvest, sitting behind the wheel of the combine, the Crimea 2 4 television channel reports. The video says that the guest itself expressed a desire to try to manage agricultural equipment. The authors of the report noted how confidently the prosecutor mastered the combination management under the strict guidance of the combiner sitting nearby.

On the night of July 15, during the attempt of a coup d'etat, the F-16 fighter, who nearly knocked the plane of the Turkish president of Recep Erdogan, was forced to turn away due to a lack of fuel. It is reported by Hurriyet Daily News . After the CNN Turk television company told Turkey’s citizens about the beginning of the rebellion late at night, Erdogan came from the resort city of Marmaris to Dalaman, where he moved to the plane, which flew to Istanbul at Ataturk Airport.