Chinese human rights activist, Nobel laureate of the World Li Xiaviko, died at the age of 61. It is reported by Reuters . In May 2017, he was diagnosed with liver cancer in the terminal stage. In early July, it became known that the state of Li Xiashobi worsened. Prior to this, at the insistence of relatives to the human rights activist, specialists from the USA, Germany and other countries were invited to the hospital.

Non-profit partnership “Development of the Effective Investment Market” (RREI), registered in March 2015 in St. Petersburg, has financial investments in the amount of almost 24 billion rubles, follows from its accounting balance. Partnership co -owners are billionaire Gennady Timchenko and Peter Kolbin, former co -owner of Yamal LNG and oil -winner Gunvor, whom rain represented by a friend of the childhood of President Vladimir Putin.

The opening of the educational center for gifted children "Sirius". Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev / RIA Novosti About 22 thousand different funds have been registered in Russia and more than a thousand new ones appear every year. The popularity of this form of ownership over the past six years has doubled. Funds are almost not controlled, but they can accept and transfer property free of charge, save on taxes and not advertise real owners.

Yandex and Uber combine taxi services, according to the Yandex release, which entered the Republic. Under the terms of the agreement, Uber and Yandex are invested, respectively, $ 225 million and $ 100 million in a new company. “We, Yandex.Taxi” and Uber, decided to combine our services and businesses in Russia, as well as in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia and Kazakhstan, - the words of the general director of Yandex.Taxi Tigran Khudardyan are given in the statement.

Igor Strelkov (Girkin) in Donetsk. Photo: Mikhail Voskresensky / RIA Novosti Alexei Navalny accepted the challenge of Igor Strelkov and promises the debate with him on his own Utuub channel. Even the topics are indicated: how to defeat corruption, how to relate to the West and what to do with the Donbass and Crimea.

US President Donald Trump did not know about the meeting of his son Donald Trump Jr. with Russian lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya. The American leader told Reuters about this. “I did not know about the meeting until I heard about it a few days ago,” he said. Previously, Veselnitskaya spoke about a meeting with Trump Jr. According to her, the parties discussed only the issue of adoption by Russian children by Americans. The lawyer emphasized that she has nothing to do with the Kremlin.

In St. Petersburg, the technical director of the VIPS design bureau Krzyshtof Pomorsky was detained, Fontanka reports . According to the publication, we are talking about the case "On the spread of pornography with the participation of children and animals." Pomorsky - a citizen of Poland, as Fontanka writes, he was wanted by Interpol. The Polish Ministry of Justice addressed the Prosecutor General’s request, the publication clarifies.

In 1937, the physicist Peter Kapitsa noted that with a temperature close to absolute zero, minus 271 degrees Celsius with liquefied helium, strange things begin to happen. He seeps through the thinnest crack. It is selected from any vessel - it envelops the walls with a thin film and flows up.

The head of the Central Bank announced the statistics in the first half of 2017 The profit of Russian banks for the first half of 2017 amounted to 770 billion rubles. This was announced by the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, Prime reports. “This is twice as much as in the same period last year. This is a source of capital growth for the banking system, ” Interfax quotes Nabiullina. In the first six months of last year, the profit of banks reached 360 billion rubles.

The FSB officers detained the general director of the Power Machines Roman Filippov on suspicion of disclosing GOSTaina, writes Fontanka. According to Interfax , Filippov was released after interrogation. Fontanka indicates that Filippov’s detention occurred “against the background of the scandal around the supply of Siemens turbines”.

Russian lawyer Yevgeny Nikulin, who is accused of breaking the servers of LinkedIn, Dropbox and FormSpring, Martin Sadilek transmitted a document in which, according to the lawyer, contains written testimonies of the FBI employee Jeffrey Miller. These testimonies, according to Sadilek, were announced in a court of extradition of Nikulin. The issuance of a Russian is achieved by Washington and Moscow.

The police terminated the investigation on the attack on the politician Alexei Navalny. He wrote about this on his blog.

The Moscow District Military Court sentenced Zaur Dadaev, accused of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, to 20 years in prison in a maximum security colony. The broadcast is carried out by the Rain TV channel. The court deprived Dadaev’s military rank and the Order of Courage, the judge also appointed him a fine of 100 thousand rubles. In addition to Dadaev in the case, the Anzor and Shadid Gubashevs, Temirlan Eskerkhanov and Khamzat Bakhaev are held in the case.

The Publishing House of Aram Gabrelyanov JSC News Media by 75% belongs to the Media+Foundation, related to the National Media group (NMG), follows from the data of Spark-Interfax. The remaining 25%, according to 2015, owned the INGL International News Group Limited. This is Gabrelyanov’s company, the media manager himself confirmed the Republic. It was previously believed that NMG structures belong to only 50% minus one share of News Media.

Lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya. Photo: Yuri Martyanov / Kommersant The emergence of a lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in the plot about the Russian connections of Donald Trump demonstrates some almost parody of betting-to replace the senior Russian officials, scouts and the famous ambassador, a near Moscow, suddenly comes to the Moscow Region with a reputation of “Result”, appropriate in scandals at the regional level, but absurd in world politics. The charming title “Trump Jr.