Cryptocurrency developers have launched a new Segwit2x bitcoin protocol, report Coindesk and Bitcoiner.Tude . It is needed to increase the operability of the network and the speed of transactions. As Reuters and Business Insider write, those miners who have not agreed with the new protocol will work with the Bitcoin Cash asset. Thus, there will be two versions of Bitcoin and its blockchain (hard fork) - “ordinary” bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash.

The legal department of the State Duma instead of Mikhail Demenkov will be headed by the first deputy head of the FSB agreement and legal department Ekaterina Gorbacheva. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to sources in the apparatus of the lower house. Gorbacheva has been working in the FSB since 1986, she has been preparing regulatory legal acts, examination, as well as interaction with parliament and government.

On Sunday, Venezuela was held elections to a certain organ called the National Constituent Assembly - it should now develop and accept changes to the Constitution, thereby withdrawing the country that is now the country that is now problematic in Latin America from a protracted crisis.

The appointment of the alleged niece of the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin Daria Filippova Director of the Sochi National Park initiated the Ministry of Natural Resources. About this writes "Kommersant". According to the source of the newspaper, the Ministry of Natural Resources has long been displeased by the work of the former director of the park Nikolai Penkovsky, who did not want to “voluntarily” leave his post.

At the meeting in the Gangs of the GTA in the Moscow Regional Court, shooting occurred, reports Moscow Komsomolets. According to the newspaper, one of the accused tried to attack the convoy. RIA Novosti also writes about a shootout in the court building, according to the agency, there are wounded. “There was a shootout in the Moscow Regional Council, employees were injured, she saw a wounded woman-stand,” lawyer Sofya Rubasskaya told the agency, who added that she had heard at least 20 shots.

The Kobalt hacker group, presumably founded by Russians, in the first half of 2017 attacked 250 companies in 12 countries. This was written by RBC with reference to the study of Positive Technologies, which is at the disposal of the publication. Cobalt, resembles RBC, is known for attacks on banks. As Positive Technologies found out, hackers are evolving: now they are breaking partners of financial organizations (state bodies, telecom operators and industrial companies).

US Embassy in Moscow. Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS Vladimir Putin’s statement on the reduction of the staff of American diplomatic mission in the Russian Federation for 755 people and the Foreign Ministry’s statement on the establishment of mutual parity of the number of diplomatic departments of Russia and the United States 455 people look not just as a response measure of the Russian side for sanctions, but also as a significant escalation of the conflict in Russian-American relations.

Photo: Maris Bersons, Boris Kolesnikov / Photokhronika TASS Among the phobias of the domestic public in one of the first places is confidence in the inevitable territorial decay of Russia in the event that the country someday has radical political changes.

970 non -profit organizations from 79 regions of the country received grants of the President of the Russian Federation for the implementation of public projects, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports with reference to the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergei Kiriyenko. Three NPOs who won the competition have the status of a foreign agent. This is the “Levada Center”, “Samara Province” and the Center for the Development of NGOs.

The Moscow Basmanny Court ruled to expel the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta from Russia, Vecherdi Nurmatov (Ali Feruza). It is reported by "Mediazona." In addition, a journalist was fined five thousand rubles. On Facebook, Ali Feruz wrote that after the trial he was taken to a special detention center in Sakharovo. Nurmatova was detained on August 1 under the pretext of checking documents, after which he was taken to the police department to establish a person.

In the Moscow Regional Council, five people were “neutralized”, who opened fire on the escorts at a meeting in the GTA gang case. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the source. “Before that, they attacked a convoy with firearms,” the agency’s interlocutor said. “Moscow Komsomolets” writes with reference to the source that the attackers were “liquidated”. According to the interlocutor of Interfax, three attackers were killed, and two were detained.

The head of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, Sergei Donskoy, appointed Daria Filippova, Dmitry Rogozin, Director of Kommersant, Darya Daria Filippova, who, as Kommersant writes . Since 2002, the park was headed by Nikolai Penkovsky. He said to Kommersant that he was fired without explanation.

The Russians began to watch the video more often through the use of mobile devices and the Internet, learned Kommersant from the study of the Brandscience agency. On average, the inhabitants of Russia are watching a video of 4 hours 20 minutes a day.

In Moscow, the police detained the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta, Vecherdi Nurmatov (Ali Feruza). He reported this on Facebook. According to the New Gazeta, the journalist showed the press card, but the police said that they would take him to the Department of Internal Affairs of the Basmanny District to establish an individual. Now Nurmatov is going to the department. The journalist later said that the police are checking him on the search basis.

In South Korea, the scandal gradually fell silent, which led to the impeachment of President Pak Kyn Hy. As a result, the head of the Main Opposition Party Moon Jae Ying, he promised the Koreans to make the country clean and uncorolded. However, a significant part of the population of his promise was caused by skepticism.