The Department of Information and Press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation commented on the decision of the European Council on the introduction of sanctions in relation to a number of Russian companies that took part in the construction of the Crimean bridge. Recall that PJSC Mostotrest, Stroygazmontazh LLC, Institute Giprostroymost-St. Petersburg, JSC Shipbuilding Plant Zavil, and Stroygazmontazh-Most LLC and JSC VAD, fell under the sanctions.

The official print body of the European Union EUR-Lex has published a decision of the European Council on the introduction of sanctions against a number of Russian companies participating in the construction of the Crimean bridge. PJSC Mostotrest, Stroygazmontazh LLC, Institute Giprostroymost-St. Petersburg JSC, JSC Shipbuilding Plant Zuliv, LLC Stroygazmontazh-Bridge and JSC VAD, fell under the sanctions. Mostotrest and Stroygazmontazh were previously included in the US sanctions list.

From tomorrow - August 1 - the Federal Tax Service will begin to publish on the Internet data on taxpayers previously protected by tax secrets. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Federal Tax Service itself.

The Russian Federation received the right to adopt the XXV world energy Congress of 2022 , the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation reports . The National Committee of the United States and Portugal also submitted an application for the right to hold the XXV of the World Energy Congress, however, according to the results of the vote, representatives of the national committees of the countries of the World Energy Council won the application of Russia.

The Pakistani military pilots saved the St. Petersburg climber Alexander Gukov, who spent almost a week at an altitude of 6.2 thousand meters on the slope of Mount Latka-1 (Himalay), Anna Punova, the rescue coordinator of rescue operations said on Facebook . The man climbed the mountain with his partner - Sergey Glazunov from Irkutsk. At an altitude of about 6.7 thousand meters, they were caught the weather, they could not go down and decided to gain a foothold in order to wait.

The head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Gennady Kornienko, first commented on the incident with torture in the Yaroslavl correctional colony No. 1, which he called the "wild case." “The main thing that will allow us to overcome this situation, and so that in the future there are no such cases - everyone must realize that the crime will inevitably follow the punishment, and any employee will be punished to the extent of his guilt,” Kornienko reports RIA Novosti .

Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Valery Maksimenko apologized to Evgeny Makarov, who was tortured in the Yaroslavl colony No. 1. In addition, the Ministry of Justice is preparing a law on compensation for inappropriate conditions for detention, the media reports. Maksimenko reported the apology on July 31 to the RBC information agency.

The Supreme Court of Russia left unchanged verdict to the ex-head of the Office of its own security department of the Investigative Committee of Russia Mikhail Maksimenko, Interfax reports. Recall that Maksimenko was found guilty of receiving two bribes totaling a total of 550 thousand dollars and sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony, as well as a fine of 165 million rubles. In addition, by a decision of the court, Maksimenko is deprived of the title of colonel.

The organizers of the dissemination of information on the Internet (they include social networks, instant messengers, forums and dating sites) are not able to fulfill the requirements of the Yarovaya Law regarding the storage of data within six months in Russia and the transfer of it by the competent authorities at the request, RBC reports with reference to representatives of the Internet community.

Former FSIN Director Alexander Reimer and the former head of the Ministry of Economy Alexei Ulyukaev settled in librarians in colonies, where they are serving a sentence on court decisions, the head of the Agora human rights organization Pavel Chikov said in Telegram. Reimer became a librarian in a colony in the Sverdlovsk region, Ulyukaev - in a colony in the Tver region.

Unim.su Resident of the Clister of Biotechnologies of the Skolkovo Foundation, Yonya, can be called the pioneer in the field of innovative medicine in Russia. In 2017, Yonya opened the first laboratory in the Skolkovo technology park, where digging all primary data for histological tests is carried out. And already in 2018, Yony became the first Russian company to insure patients in case of errors in diagnosis.

Satellite pictures of high resolution showed that the world's largest colony of royal penguins, located on the territory of the National Reserve of the French Southern and Antarctic territories, decreased by 88 %. The reasons for this reduction are still unclear, but perhaps they are associated with changes in environmental conditions. The penguin colony on the island of Koshon as part of the Croza archipelago has been known since the 1960s.

A group of deputies of the State Duma, headed by United Russia Vladimir Athos, developed a bill to increase fines for entrepreneurial activities without registration, Izvestia writes. The authors of the bill believe that the current penal penalty, which has not changed for a decade, has lost its relevance: the amount of recovery is less than the cost of registering a legal entity and even an individual entrepreneur.

Ilya Karpyuk A rally in Moscow against pension reform kPRF.ru The Communist Party decided not to appeal the decision of the CEC in the Supreme Court, which previously called the issue of preserving the retirement age that the Communists wanted to submit to the referendum incorrect.

On July 30, the XVI International Olympiad in Linguistics ended in Prague. International linguistics Olympiads have been held since 2003. Their prototype was Moscow traditional Olympiads in linguistics, the first of which was held at Moscow State University back in 1965. During the Olympiad, schoolchildren offer linguistic tasks on the material of various languages ​​for which the knowledge of these languages ​​is not required.