The law forbids “United Russia” to use photographs of Vladimir Putin in its pre -election campaign - so the party will adopt the voice of the Russian president and quote from his speeches. There were no other ways to remind the Russians about the connection of the EP and the president.

Anna Sakoyan Teresa May, Prime Minister of Great Britain Russian President Vladimir Putin and the new British Prime Minister Teresa May talked on the phone. According to the results of this conversation, it became known that leaders plan to meet at the G-20 summit, which will be held in September in China. Guardian writes that in recent years in relations between Russia and Britain there has been cooling.

Sculptor Ernst is unknown On August 9, the famous Soviet sculptor Ernst, an unknown person who lived in the United States, died in New York in New York. Art historians, human rights activists and art lovers recall him, his life and his works. Ernst Unknown was born in 1925 in Yekaterinburg. In 1943, he volunteered for the front, and a month before the end of the war he received a severe wound and was even declared the dead, but survived.

The City Hall of St. Petersburg found a new contractor for the construction of the Krestovsky stadium, now this duty is assigned to the local Metrostroy. The new St. Petersburg stadium, which during the construction managed to rise in price by an order of magnitude and several times change the name, can be considered a “megaproject” of regional significance.

Belgian judoka Dirk Van Tichelt decided to celebrate the conquest of the Olympic bronze medal in the category of up to 73 kg on the beach of Kopakaban. Local robbers attacked him there, reports Yahoo Sports . The 32-year-old athlete hit the face several times and selected a mobile phone. The robbers could not take the medal. The judoka himself called doctors who found that he had no serious damage, and quickly released.

Russian athletes Aida Shanaeva and Inna Deriglazova made their way to the semifinals So, Rapirist Shanaev in the 1/4 finals of Shanaev defeated the Frenchwoman Isaor Tibya with a score of 15:13. Deriglazova defeated another Frenchwoman Astrid Guar with a score of 15: 6. In the semifinals, Russians will fight each other. The beginning of the semifinals is at 00:00 Moscow time. According to the results of the Russian competition, at least a silver medal is provided.

The Russian Union of Auto Strakhovchikov proposed to immediately increase the fine for driving without insurance 10 times. About this writes " Kommersant ". So, the RSA proposes to increase the penalty for driving without compulsory motor liability insurance from 800 to 8 thousand rubles. Among other things, insurers believe that for malicious violators of road rules, the coefficients of the CTP policy must be increased several times.

The officer of the Turkish Armed Forces, who served in the NATO unit in Virginia (USA) and was withdrawn to his homeland by the Turkish authorities after the military coup , asked for refuge in America, reports Reuters with reference to American officials. According to them, this is the first such case with the Turkish troops in the United States. The officials who told about the situation wished to remain unknown.

In the case of the collapse of the passenger liner of the FlyDubai airline in Rostov-on-Don, a version of the deliberate actions of the pilot appeared. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source close to the investigation.

The British army admitted that Russia has a military advantage. This is stated in a secret report, which was at the disposal of The Times . The document says that Russian weapons, in particular, missile launchers and air defense systems, are more powerful than the British ones, which gives a “significant advantage in functionality”. The report states that in the event of war, Russian hackers can track the location of the British military in social networks.

Two Russian mercenaries from the private military company (PMC) Wagner told Sky News that the Syrian campaign cost Russia a much larger number of victims than it is customary. Alexander and Dmitry (names are replaced) claim that they were recruited and transferred to Syria on military transport aircraft. The monthly salary of each was three thousand pounds. They informed the TV channel that from 500 to 600 people died there.

The winner on tenders for the completion of the arena on Krestovsky Island was the Metrostroy company, Fontanka reports with reference to a senior source in Smolny. Recall, on July 25, the general contractor for the construction of the Zenit Arena stadium on Krestovsky Island of Inzhtransstroy-SPB announced the coercion of subcontracting contracts to stop.

The head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Yuri Transidite, denied the FSB statement about the attempt of Ukrainian special forces to break into the territory of the Crimea, reports 112 Ukraine . “Ukraine does not capture and does not return its territory by force, and will not do this,” said Yuri Tangita. In turn, he said that the Ukrainian border guards noticed high activity on the border with the Crimea.

The head coach of the Russian Federation for boxing, Alexander Lebzyak, did not resign. This was written by R-Sport , referring to the director of the Boxing Federation of Russia Evgeny Sudakov. “This is the first time I hear about it. Alexander Borisovich works with the team and prepares it for the next battles, ”Sudakov told the agency.

Sberbank is updating the software in his system of self-service devices (terminals and ATMs), and therefore decided to limit the reception of bills with a face value of five thousand rubles for each tenth of them, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the financial organization.