In the Trans -Baikal Territory, 10 miners of the Darasu mine were hospitalized, who previously announced a hunger strike. It is reported by "Siberia. Realities." According to the publication, despite the deterioration of the state of health, the miners are not going to terminate the protest. On July 24, almost 100 miners of the Darasu gold mining mine announced a hunger strike. This happened after the owner of the mine threatened to turn off the electricity in the mine and flood it.

Economic consequences of VAT increase economists Evgeny Gontmamer and Pavel Kudyukin The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a bill to increase the VAT rate from 18 to 20% from January 1, 2019. An increase in VAT will inevitably entail an increase in prices, since manufacturers will transfer the increased tax burden to the buyer of their goods. The economy will not develop for the better: even according to official forecasts, in the coming years, GDP growth rates will be less than 2%.

Employees of the military counterintelligence of the FSB conducted searches in Zelenograd in the apartment of 56-year-old Sergei Taraskin, who proclaimed himself as the "president of the USSR." The searches also took place at the comrade-in-arms of Taraskin, 52-year-old Alexander Solovyov. They took audio and video materials on the activities of the USSR organization, charter documents, seals and printing products.

A lake with liquid water was found on Mars. This was reported by researchers from Italy. They studied the data of the radar, which is installed at the station of the European Space Agency.

In Moscow, law enforcement officers detained the General Director of NGO named after Lavochkin Sergey Lemeshevsky and the lawyer of the enterprise Ekaterina Averyanova. They are suspected of embezzlement in the amount of 330 million rubles, Interfax reports with reference to the source. Earlier it became known about the resignation of Lemeshevsky and searches from him and from Averyanova. According to investigators, they stole the money, paying them fictitiously by legal services.

In the German national team, a dispute broke about racism

An avalanche went on the road was cleared in the evening. On the basis of the anti -vanity detachment, it was dark and quiet - everyone went home, only in the house on the opposite the light burns - the leading engineer of the detachment Oleg Ostaptsov lives here. - I do not get off here. You can hang a jacket here - he shows the skis attached vertically to the wall, which serve as a hanger, then leads me to another room. - But my iconostasis!

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Polish authorities banned swimming on more than 50 beaches of the Baltic coast after the heat led to the toxic growth of the amount of bacteria in the unusually warm sea. According to the Associated Press Agency, rescuers recommend that vacationers on sandy beaches from Pig in the west to Gdynia in the east, do not enter the sea, where thick green-brown colonies of cyanobacteria that pose a threat to human health.

CNN journalist Keitlan Collins, due to “uncomfortable questions”, was not launched at the press conference of US President Donald Trump and the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker. Before that, Collins during the photo shoot asked Trump if he believed that he was betrayed by lawyer Michael Cohen , and whether the president of the lawyer’s testimony for interrogation fears him.

The news of the possible imminent closure of all visa centers in Russia, in connection with the new law “On the procedure for leaving and entry into the Russian Federation, which is now being discussed in the State Duma”, on July 26, became one of the most popular in RuNet and brought many Russian tourist companies close to panic. Radio Liberty figured out what was happening.

A lake with salted unornse water was found on Mars. This was reported by researchers from Italy. They studied the data of the radar, which is installed at the station of the European Space Agency. The information was collected from 2012 to 2015. The reservoir is located at the south poles of Mars and covered with thick ice. Its diameter is approximately 20 kilometers, and the depth is about one. The lake is hidden from cosmic rays and has properties in which some life forms can exist.

Yaroslavskaya IK-1 The seventh suspect in the beating of convicted Evgeny Makarov in the IK-1 colony in 2017 was detained in Yaroslavl. The TASS agency reports with reference to the city court that this is the junior inspector of the colony Dmitry Solovyov. He was placed under arrest for two months. The day before, the court in Yaroslavl arrested five accused of torture. The sixth - the deputy chief of the colony - extended the period of detention.

In Johannesburg, a jubilee, tenth, the Brix summit is taking place. Negotiations of the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and the South African Republic will last two days. As part of the summit, President Vladimir Putin has already performed. He stated that "the BRICS countries together counteract the most acute challenges and threats to peace and stability." Among such threats, he called terrorism, extremism, illegal drug trafficking and “cross -border crime”.