Victor Mironenko , George Chizhov V. Zelensky 112.ua President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the deaths of four Ukrainian troops in the Donbass. About whether in the foreseeable future it is worth expecting a progress in the peaceful process of the correspondent "Polit.ru" Ane Goldman was told by political scientists Georgy Chizhov and Viktor Mironenko.

Alexey Smirnov Gas stove / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Ivanko Igor Alexei Smirnov, Head of the Energy Committee of the Moscow Regional Branch of Business Russia, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Energoalansa Group of Companies - about gas culture and ways to protect citizens from gas emergency. The problem of the safe use of household gas remains one of the most acute in our country. The beginning of 2019 will be remembered at once with two tragedies.

The US citizen filed a lawsuit against the American company Apple, accusing it of providing contractors with the opportunity to listen to the teams that the iPhone owners give to the Siri voice assistant. The lawsuit went to the court of the North California San Jose from the guardian of a minor American who indicated that they and their wards use iPhones. The plaintiff accuses Apple of violating the state law on the inviolability of private life, clarifies Bloomberg .

Alexander Khanzhonkov, the first Russian film industrialist, was born on August 8, 1877. Private bussiness Alexander Alekseevich Khanzhonkov (1877-1945) was born in the village of Verkhne-Khanzhonovsky, (now Nizhnyaya Krynka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine) in the family of a retired Cossack officer. After graduating from the cadet school in 1896, he was accepted into one of the best Cossack regiments in Moscow - Donskoy First. A year later, the 20-year-old Cossack was promoted to officer.

The central apparatus of the FSIN identified in a pre -trial detention center in St. Petersburg a “bunch of violations”. About this, as reports RBC , said the deputy head of the department Valery Maksimenko. Recall that earlier the agency began to verify information about the use of torture to prisoners in the pre-trial detention center-1 in Kolpino, also known as “Crosses-2”.

The ex-investigator of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation for particularly important matters, Igor Stepanov, addressed his former colleagues and employees of the Investigative Committee with a request to be held accountable for the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who was considered guilty of mass killings of citizens during the years of repressions.

Scientists from the USA and Great Britain, together with employees of the National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydemala, argue that representatives of the Monte-Alto archaeological culture that existed from 500 BC. e. for 100 years. e., not only were familiar with the phenomenon of magnetism, but also knew how to determine the strength of the natural magnet. Monte Alto culture was widespread on the Pacific coast, on the territory of the current Guatemala.

Firefighters (archival photos) / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Voronin Denis Digest "Polit.ru" is a brief selection of the ten most noticeable news of the outgoing day. Today at the training ground near Arkhangelsk, an explosion thundered, the Navalny fund complained about the mass blocking of accounts, the confrontation between the former and current presidents continues in Kyrgyzstan.

"Kommersant" in the article "The Ministry of Industry and Trade Purishes Dieselship" writes about how the Russian auto industry will protect from possible refusals to supply imported components. “ Taxi Law ”: the State Duma proposed a radical version of the reform of the taxi activities. The Explosive Situations : a broken truce in the east of Ukraine fired in a tripartite contact group. “ Debt in their hands”: the Supreme Court allowed not to fine banks for hard work with borrowers.

The Crimean authorities terminated the investment agreement with Tavrika Crimea LLC, concluded in March 2016 and provided for the investment of 543.2 million rubles in the construction of the "plant for roser and conservation, processing and roslice of quiet wines and cognacs." In return for the specified amount of financing, the leadership of the republic obliged to provide Tavrika Crimea with a total area of ​​7 hectares for 49 years, RBC recalls.

Peter Talents Meserism Wellcome Images We continue to introduce readers with books included in the long list of the annual Enlightener Prize . In October, eight publications will be selected from among them, among which the winners in two nominations will later be determined: “Natural and exact sciences” and “humanitarian sciences”.

The explosion at the training ground in the Arkhangelsk region occurred when testing the liquid reactive motor installation. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported. “When testing the liquid reactive motor installation, an explosion and fire of the product occurred. As a result of the incident, six representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the development enterprise were injured of varying severity, ”the department noted.

The persecution of Soviet power to the Russian Church was such that it was not to say about their faith, but even silently follow it as a feat. The new martyrs and confessors, glorified in the face of the saints did not come: believed, prayed and meekly went to their Calvarys. “Polit.ru” recalls those who gave their lives for faith and by whose prayers the Russian Church is alive - even if almost nothing came to us besides the name.

Reading books today is practiced by every second Russian (53%). According to the results of a thematic survey , they came to this conclusion at the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM). As specified, the current indicator exceeds the one that was than five years ago (45%), but slightly below last year (55%).

Farewell to the Fashion Director of Tsum and the Vice President of Mercury Alla Verber will be held on August 12 in Toronto, RBC reports. Recall that Alla Verber was the vice president of the Mercury Group of Companies, which since the beginning of the 2000s ruled Tsum in Moscow and DLT in St. Petersburg. She died at the 62nd year of life from a heart attack.