The United States and Germany are close to agreement, which will finally resolve the disagreements regarding the North Stream-2 gas pipeline, according to which Russian gas will be supplied to Germany. Its achievement can be announced in the coming days, reports Reuters news agency with reference to its sources in the White House.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

The Investigative Committee charged the case of "insulting a representative of the authorities" by former policeman Sergei Roman. At the beginning of this year, he resigned from the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in protest against the dispersal of rallies in support of Alexei Navalny. Roman published a short video on Instagram, in which he spoke about his attitude to the actions of the law enforcement system.

This summer, after a long break, Russian neo -Nazis again began to fall into the news reports. In particular, representatives of law enforcement agencies are trying to represent ultra -right groups as "branches of Ukrainian radicals." Meanwhile, according to the Owl Center, in the first half of 2021 in Russia for the first time in many years, not a single murder was registered on the basis of national hostility or hatred.

The number of deaths from Covid-19 in India can be 10 times higher than officially stated. This was reported by specialists of the American Center for Global Development. Experts conducted their own investigation based on three different sources and found that from the beginning of the pandemic to June 2021, more than four million excess deaths were recorded in the country.

The ominous and mysterious news at the same time - in the Leningrad region they found an underground prison with a crematorium. 47news found out that one of the owners of the house was the former chief of the operational part of the pre -trial detention center, but he died in 2018, and after him the owners changed several times. A private prison with an area of 17,098,246 km² was discovered in Russia.

The European Union unfolds a " green transformation " , the results of which will directly affect Russia. What is proposed, why and what from this can become a reality?

The authorities of Yakutia did not receive official appeals from actor Leonardo DiCaprio with a proposal to help extinguish forest fires. This was announced in a conversation with the RBC television channel by the head of the republic Aisen Nikolaev.

The wife of the State Duma deputy from the LDPR party Andrei Lugovoi bought an apartment in the center of Moscow worth 51 million rubles, open media reports with reference to information about financial transactions of candidates for deputies registered for the coming new elections in September. Journalists calculated that the amount of the purchase exceeds the total income of the entire Lugovi family over three years.

The new motto of the Olympic Games will sound "faster, higher, stronger - together." The corresponding changes were approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at a session in Tokyo. The update of the motto occurred for the first time in 127 years. The initiator of the change was the head of the IOC Thomas Bach. He called the decision an epoch -making event. According to Bach, the word "together" will help to express the need for solidarity around the world.

Good morning! The presidents of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, during a meeting in Batumi, signed a declaration of European integration. Nobody promises them membership in the EU, but the document says that only the desire to get there gives these countries a powerful incentive for reforms. Against the background of current news, a clear idea of a bright future will not hurt: Journalists found a private underground prison with a crematorium near St. Petersburg.

The European Commission criticized Hungary and Poland for restricting the freedom of the press in conditions when corruption remains one of the main challenges for the authorities in both countries. The European Union has repeatedly warned Poland and Hungary regarding the erosion of democracy standards. In the new report of the European Commission, published on July 20, the situation in Slovenia, which now occupies the post of chairman of the European Union, is also highlighted.

The court sentenced nine workers of the Amur gas processing plant to deprivation of liberty for terms of one and a half years to one year and seven months.

The court in the United States sentenced a resident of Florida to eight months of prison in the case of the assault on the Capitol. Paul Hodgzhins became the first accused to receive a real term. Hodgkins pleaded guilty to obstructing the official process - Congress meeting for the approval of Democrat Joe Biden by US President. According to the investigation, Hodgkins went to the Capitol during the riots, took a selfie in the Senate meeting room and sent pictures to his friends.

In Russia, a website of the Russian Investigation of the Czech Radio is blocked due to an article on the self-immolation of student Jan Pajah in protest against the introduction of Soviet troops into the territory of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The blocking occurred by decision of Roskomnadzor, which was based on the data of the register of Rospotrebnadzor of July 17 this year, according to the website of the Czech radio.