Almost every criminal case, which was considered in the FBI and the US Department of Justice, had disadvantages from the point of view of the evidence base during the forensic medical examination. This was reported on Wednesday by the Washington Post newspaper, referring to its own investigation, begun in 2012.

The Moscow authorities, fearing the success of the opposition in the Moscow City Duma, took all possible measures so that this would not happen. They held the clown "primaries" to finally confuse Muscovites - many citizens decided: these were real elections.

In Japan, users of smartphones under the age of 18, participating in social networks, often turn out to be victims of sexual violence - last year the number of such adolescents was 741. This data was published today by the National Police Department of Japan. In the previous one, 2012, four times less such crimes related to social networks and the use of smartphones were registered, and in 2011-only a little more than ten. About the newspaper The Japan Times reports.

In the north of Nigeria, six people were killed in the explosion, another six were injured. According to local authorities, on Wednesday during the day, the suicide bomber made an explosion in the campus of the Polytechnic College of the city of Cano (Kano) - in the crowd of students who gathered to watch the schedule of compulsory summer work. Since the end of last week, this is the fourth attack committed by a suicide bomb in the second largest city in Nigeria.

In the Rostov region, the OSCE mission began observing the control and access points of Gukovo and Donetsk on the Russian-Ukrainian border. This was announced by the head of the group of Paul Picar during a working meeting with representatives of authorities in the region. According to him, at present, the mission includes four observers and three members of administrative personnel. In the near future, according to the agreements reached, the group will be replenished with new observers.

The Russian Foreign Ministry put forward oncoming claims to the United States as part of an agreement on the elimination of medium and smaller missiles (RSMD), signed in 1987 by the presidents of the USSR and the USA - Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan.

Poster from the protest against the actions of Russia in the Ukrainian conflict Political scientists disagree on how new sanctions against Russia will be reflected in the position of Vladimir Putin in power The European Union has published a list of Russian companies and businessmen, which are distributed by sectoral economic sanctions.

Today, the Taganrog City Court pronounced the seven members of the local religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses from sixteen, who passed in one case of extremism. The Court sentenced the four defendants a punishment of imprisonment conditionally from 5 to 5.5 years and fines in the amount of 100 thousand rubles, from which, however, he immediately released - due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

President Obama and initiator of the lawsuit speaker of the House of Representatives John Beiner in White House during the discussion of the Syrian crisis The House of Representatives of the US Congress on Wednesday voted for presenting President Barack Obama a court claim on charges of exceeding the powers granted by the Constitution. The voices of congressmen were divided along the party line.

The Moscow City Court recognized the decision of the Presnensky court of Moscow on the extension of the house arrest to the supporter of the opposition Alexei Navalny Konstantin Yankauskas. Thus, the court rejected the complaint of the parties to the defense, which insisted to a milder extent. An unregistered candidate for deputies of the Moscow City Duma will be in custody until October 17. Yankauskas is accused of especially large -scale fraud.

In Minsk today, as expected, a meeting of the tripartite contact group for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine will be held. Among the main topics of the consultations are the ceasefire in the area of the crash of the Malaysian liner near Donetsk, ensuring the access of international experts at the site of the disaster, as well as the release of all hostages.

The confrontation between the authorities and the opposition in Moscow is being discussed - the election expert Andrei Buzin, journalist Olga Gorelik, candidate for deputies of MGD Alena Popova

Donetsk, July 29 Ukrainian troops continue the operation in the east of the country. Explosions are heard in Donetsk, in Lugansk - new shelling Over the past day in the Donetsk region, 19 civilians became victims of hostilities. More than 30 were injured, according to the website of the Donetsk regional administration. The press service of the special operation in eastern Ukraine states that the losses of government forces per day amounted to 10 killed and more than 50 wounded.

Local residents carry the wounded when shelling the market under the gas (July 30, 2014) In the gas sector on Wednesday, 15 people were killed and more than a hundred were wounded when Israeli at the UN school in the Jabali refugee camp, where more than three thousand civilians hid from shelling. Another 17 people died and 200 were injured with a rocket fire to a market in the eastern suburb of Gaza. The UN and the United States sharply condemned the death of peaceful Palestinians.