In the Military Court of Vladivostok, some witnesses in the case of Major Igor Matveev changed their testimonies to the opposite. The former major of the internal troops Matveev is accused of beating two colleagues. According to Interfax, his lawyer Margarita Ludenko, the acting military personnel, who previously claimed that they did not see how he beat the soldier, now they say the opposite. Dismissed to the reserve, on the contrary, change their testimonies in favor of the defendant.

The investigation of the criminal case of an attack on the spectators of the rock festival in the city of Miass of the Chelyabinsk region has been completed. According to the representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Vladimir Markin, 13 people are held in the case. He was charged with articles on the initiation of hatred of a social group and the organization of riots. After familiarizing the accused with the case materials, they will be sent to the court.

Three UN peacekeepers were injured as a result of the explosion in the south of Lebanon. It is reported that the bomb exploded in the city of Sidon on the bridge, along which a car with French military personnel from the peacekeeping forces was traveling. In May, as a result of such an explosion in Sidon, 6 Italian military were injured.

Water sports. World Cup. Shanghai, China Swimming. Back. 100 m. Men 1. Kamil Lacur and Germye Zhiveus (both - France) 3. Riosuke Irie

Morocco authorities reported the death of 78 people as a result of the disaster of a military transport aircraft in the south of the country. Three people are seriously injured. Earlier it was reported about 20 dead. The plane, according to preliminary messages, crashed uphill in the area of the city of Gelmin. Apparently, the cause of the disaster was the pilot's mistake in conditions of poor visibility.

Victor Petrik with one of his inventions On July 26, a group of authoritative Russian scientists made an official statement about the attitude to the projects of Viktor Petrik , which he submitted as sensational inventions in water purification. Scientists contrasted science and Petrik, accusing him of obscurantism and corruption.

Photo gallery: Ceramic painting lesson in the colony Journalists of Radio Liberty visited the master class on painting ceramics in the Mozhaisk educational colony for minors. In the Mozhaisk educational colony, adolescents find themselves mainly for robbery, robbery, causing serious bodily harm, theft. There are rapists and killers - but there are fewer of them. A light fence with barbed wire around the colony seems to be toy: there are higher.

FBI Director Robert Muller The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved for another 2 years the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations of Robert Muller. Now this bill entered the signature of Barack Obama to President, who will then send him for approval to the Senate.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev ruined not only the chapel, that is, the Soviet Union. Because of him, "Russia almost lost its sovereignty." And this is not an anecdote, but the point of view of a very official comrade - Sergey Neverov, acting Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia. The news is amazing. We, born in the USSR, seem to remember how the first and last president of the indestructible union tried to save his bankrupt Empire.

Football. Champions League. 3rd qualification round The first match Dynamo Kyiv (Ukraine) - Rubin (Russia) 1: 2

Chess. Command World Cup. Ninbo, China 9 tour Ukraine - Armenia 2: 2 Hungary - China 1.5: 2.5 India - Russia 2.5: 1.5 Israel - USA 1.5: 2.5 Azerbaijan - Egypt 2.5: 1.5 The final table: 1. Armenia 2. China 3. Ukraine 4. Russia 5. Hungary 6. USA 7. Azerbaijan 8. India 9. Israel 10. Egypt

In Israel, ten-day protests against the growth of housing prices resulted in mass demonstrations that forced the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go to the reform of housing, Radio Liberty correspondent in Israel Ela Kotler. For several decades, Israel has not known such mass shares of social protest. They began with a tent town in Tel Aviv, who put the youth in protest against exorbitant real estate prices. Soon, such towns appeared throughout Israel.

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