Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will make a working visit to Qatar on August 2 and 3, where he will meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry. This is stated in a message published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The meeting is planned in a trilateral format: in addition to Lavrov and Kerry, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir will take part in it.

At the site of the Mi-28N helicopter crash in the Ryazan region, prompt dismantling of the flight recorders began. Subsequently, they will be transferred for decoding and study by an expert commission. reports this TASS with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to the report, the exact cause of the helicopter crash will be determined after studying the data from the flight recorders.

An airplane door that may have belonged to the Malaysian Boeing 777 that went missing in March 2014 has been thrown onto Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, Sky News reported , citing unnamed sources. According to sources, the door was found in a different place than the previously discovered fragment of the Boeing 777 wing. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing deviated from its route on March 8, 2014 and disappeared.

The high appreciation of the activities of Chancellor Angela Merkel by voters allowed her party to set a popularity record - if the elections were held now, the CDU/CSU bloc of parties would form a government independently German Chancellor and leader of the CDU speaks at celebrations marking the party's 70th anniversary (Photo: REUTERS 2015) If elections were held in Germany now, the bloc of conservative parties CDU/CSU would receive an absolute majority of seats in the German Bundestag and

Plot A year with Crimea The decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept the Tauride Chersonese Nature Reserve into federal jurisdiction has no force. This opinion was expressed by the Minister of Culture of Ukraine Vyacheslav Kirilenko. “Crimea is Ukraine. "Chersonese Tauride" is a national reserve, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Putin’s decisions have no force,” he wrote on Twitter .

On August 2, Airborne Forces Day is celebrated throughout Russia. In Moscow, many Russian paratroopers traditionally gathered to celebrate this holiday in Gorky Park. A festive concert and a charity meal from the field kitchen took place on Vasilyevsky Spusk. The day of the patron saint of the Russian Airborne Forces, the prophet of God Elijah, was also celebrated with a bishop's service in the Ilyinskaya Church in Kitay-Gorod.

The demonstration on German television of a film about the use of doping in Russian athletics is connected with the struggle for power in the International Association of Athletics Federations, says Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko (Photo: RIA Novosti) According to Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, the new doping scandal, which erupted after the film “Doping - Top Secret: The Dark World of Athletics” was shown on German

The Latvian Ministry of Defense reported the discovery of Russian Navy ships near its border. We are talking about the vessels “Viktor Konetsky” and “Alexander Obukhov” Photo: REUTERS 2015 “On August 2, the armed forces detected at a distance of 5 nautical miles from the territorial waters of Latvia the ship “Viktor Konetsky”, which was towing the minelayer “Alexander Obukhov” of the Russian Navy,” the Latvian military department said on Twitter.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has signed an agreement to sell a 48% stake in the AC Milan football club to Thai businessman Bee Techaubol. about this Football Italia writes with reference to Berlusconi’s companies Fininvest and Mediaset. According to the publication, the deal will be closed on September 30. Its amount will be €480 million. According to Forbes, as of June 2014 the club was valued at $856 million. Milan currently ranks 10th in the Italian Championship.

Exports of Russian oil to non-CIS countries in January-July 2015 amounted to 127 million 556 thousand tons (4 million 410 thousand barrels per day), which is 8.7% higher than the same figure in 2014. reported this on August 2 Interfax with reference to data from the operational report of the Central Dispatch Directorate of the Fuel and Energy Complex (CDFEC).

Security forces did not find an explosive device at the Radisson Slavyanskaya hotel on Europe Square in Moscow. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to a source in the city’s law enforcement agencies. On the afternoon of Sunday, August 2, 120 people were evacuated from the hotel . This happened after an email was sent to the hotel with information about an impending explosion of a device weighing 110 kg.

A 16-year-old girl stabbed at a gay pride parade in Jerusalem has died in hospital. about this with reference to a hospital representative. writes The Times of Israel The girl, Shira Banki, was hospitalized in serious condition. Her family was willing to become organ donors. In total, 6 people were injured at the parade. One of them, Yarden Noah, was seriously injured, but is recovering and will be released from the hospital in the coming days.

Youtube video hosting has published a video from the wedding of Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov and Olympic figure skating champion Tatyana Navka. The wedding ceremony took place in one of the most expensive Sochi hotels, Rodina. There is happiness) The wedding of Peskov and Navka continued... pic.twitter.com/uabrCzXoBe — Lisa (@LizaLondon3) August 1, 2015 For Tatyana Navka, who won the Olympic gold medal in Turin, Italy in 2006, this was already the second marriage.

Residents of Reunion Island, where the wreckage of a Boeing 777 believed to have disappeared in March 2014 was found, saw the wreckage of the plane back in May. But then they didn’t attach any importance to it The wreckage of the Boeing 777, which allegedly disappeared in March 2014, washed ashore on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean three months ago.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Internal Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Viktor Zolotov, whose declaration was not published on time, finally reported on his income.