How do Russian tourists deceive? What to do if your tour operator is bankrupt? How to return money for a failed trip? Repeat of April 24.

American Senator John Kennedy, together with a delegation of the US Congress, who recently visited Russia, stated that dealing with the Kremlin is like “dealing with the mafia”: “There is no political philosophy in Russia. It’s how to ask the question of what the political philosophy of the mafia is. Their philosophy is money and power. This is the philosophy of Putin. He ruled the dictator ... He is not Trust.

Maria Alekhina In Moscow, the bailiffs detained the participant of Pussy Riot Pussy Riot Maria Alekhina. She is accused of evading compulsory work appointed for the action against blocking the Telegram messenger by the FSB building on Lubyanka, the mediazone reports . The bailiffs were waiting for Alekhin in the Izmailovsky court of Moscow, where the activist came to her from the Nizhny Novgorod correctional colony.

Victoria Skripal The niece of the ex-officer of the GRU Sergei Skripal Victoria has been employed for several months in the company that has been making programs for Channel One. It is reported by the BBC. Victoria Skripal was credited with an economist to the company LLC Direct with a monthly salary of 115 thousand rubles, said in the certificate for the British Embassy, which she was issued in the company.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced the case of the abduction of the director of the defense enterprise "Zaslon" Alexander Gorbunov. He was suspected of organizing an attack on journalist Oleg Kashin in November 2010. Alexander Zemtsov received 7 years in a maximum security colony, Felix Gerashchenko and Alexander Borisov (convicted in absentia) - 6.5 years each, and Mikhail Novikov, Yuri Chukhnin, Mikhail Kavtaskin and Danila Veselov - 6 years each.

In Iranian social networks supported the arrested girl-dancer

Iranka Shaprak Shajarizade, who protested against the obligatory wearing of Hijab, said that she was sentenced to two years in prison in addition to an 18-year conditional period of imprisonment. In December, in Tehran, she took off her head scarf publicly. Shajarizade said this live, whose video was distributed on social networks this week. “This means that I will need to be silent for 20 years and not to participate in events,” Shajarizade said on Instagram.

Pure capital outflow from Russia in the first half of 2018 increased by 32%, according to the report of the Central Bank of Russia. From January to June, 17.3 billion dollars were withdrawn from the country, while 14.4 billion lasts the same period last year. According to the forecast of the Central Bank, the outflow of capital from Russia in 2018 at an average annual oil price of $ 67 per barrel is expected at $ 30 billion.

A resident of Moscow Elena Kozlova was sent to a narcological dispensary for a single action on Red Square in support of political prisoners. The activist told about her hospitalization by OVD-info. Kozlova entered the action on July 1 with two posters: the first with the inscription "Freedom Oleg Sentsov", and on the second there was a phrase with an insult to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The activist was detained and delivered to the police department.

The widow of the Chinese human rights activist Li Xiaviko - Liu left the PRC after eight -year maintenance under house arrest. This was reported on Tuesday by Reuters. Liu, an artist, a poet and a photographer, was under house arrest and state supervision after her husband was awarded the Nobel Prize of the World in absentia in 2010. The BBC reports that Liu flew out of Beijing aboard the FINNAIR flight flight, which was left from Beijing to Berlin. More information is not given.

I go out of the gallery to the landing, the neighboring door is open, on the walls of the photo, I see huge cacti and an uncleaned bed, I decide that this is an installation, and I’m going to go in, but the hostess appears: no, this is not an exhibition, but a private apartment. This is contemporary art: anything can turn out to be an exhibit.

In the zone of operation to evacuate people from a flooded cave in Thailand In Thailand, all 13 people were saved from a flooded cave - 12 teenagers from a local football team and their coach. About this with reference to rescuers reports Reuters. The search and rescue operation has lasted since the end of June. Foreign divers and members of the elite unit of the Thai Navy were involved in her.

Accused in the "swamp case" in the courtroom (archive photo) The police are going to recover from convicts in the "swamp case" the cost of radio and rubber batons, lost during collisions in Bolotnaya Square in May 2012. This was announced on his Facebook page by the opposition Sergey Udaltsov. The police estimated the damage from the loss of five batons and two radio stations of 43,800 rubles.

The leadership of the Football Federation of Ukraine decided to compensate for the scout of the national team of the fine, imposed on him FIFA for a video in which Firen Vukoevich devotes the victory over the Russian team of Kyiv Dynamo and Ukraine. This was announced on the air "112" by the head of FFU Andrei Pavelko.

Andrey Bursin in court The court in Kemerovo arrested until September 7 the head of the first fire extinguishing service in the Kemerovo region Andrei Bursin. He is accused of negligence in the case of a fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center, whose victims were dozens of people. The fireman did not plead guilty, the correspondent "Siberia. Reali" from the courtroom reports . According to investigators, he did not organize reconnaissance and management of forces and means at the scene.