The aircraft of the speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi (the third party of American politics) landed at Taibey Airport in Taiwan. Before that, about 300 thousand people at the Flightradar service followed Pelosy's flight. Representatives of China promised that in the event of a visit by the US official, “tough and decisive measures” would be taken - up to the military.

On the page of Dmitry Medvedev in VK on the evening of August 1, a post appeared in which Kazakhstan was called an “artificial state”, and Georgia “did not exist”. In addition, part of the text is copied from the Lecture of the Arzamas project. Soon the publication was deleted.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia has prepared manuals for investigators and judges with an explanation of how to qualify new cases of “special operations” in Ukraine. What “violations” to be attributed to the criminal article - the “public distribution of knowingly false information” about the use of the Armed Forces (207.3 of the Criminal Code). And what are the administrative - “public discrediting use” of the Armed Forces (20.3.3 Code of Administrative Offenses).

In his recent appeal to the leaders of party factions in the State Duma, Vladimir Putin said: “The West is trying to impose a model of totalitarian liberalism and a widespread ban on the whole world,” however, “Russia, starting a military special operation in Ukraine, has begun a radical screening of the American world order”. But since the break is started, then what is the Putin alternative to the world named Pax Americana?

Alina Kabaeva. Photo: ITAR-TASS/ Valery Sharifulin 13 people fell under new restrictions, including Alina Kabaeva, metallurgists Dmitry Pumpyansky and Viktor Rashnikov, the founder of Eurochem and SUEK Andrei Melnichenko, co -owner of Sheremetyevo Alexander Ponomarenko, as well as representatives of the pro -Russian administration in the Kherson region and in Mariupol. Among the organizations under sanctions were, for example, the Skolkovo Foundation and the Skoltech Institute.

Viktor Orban, an example of anti-liberal populism in Europe, probably met his 59th anniversary in a good mood. In their struggle against Putin’s military aggression, the leaders of the European Union capitulated to the Prime Minister of Hungary and his demands to provide Budapest with almost complete exemption from the oil embargo .

Jews living in Russia notice alarming signs: statements with the anti -Semitic shower of officials and deputies, the firm intention of the Ministry of Justice to close “dry”, rumors about the declaration of foreign agents of several Jewish organizations, forced leaving the rabbi of Pinhas Goldschmidt from Moscow. Putin has never been characterized by personal anti -Semitism, but sometimes political interests prevail over personal ones.

Foreign YouTube video hosting continues to annoy the Russian authorities, which has been trying to accustom users to the Russian RUTUBE platform for several months. So far, Google is unsuccessfully trying to explain to Roskomnadzor (already at the level of the Supreme Court) that he does not agree to remove 12 links to YouTube videos, in which the RKN saw a call to minors to participate in rallies, Russian officials continue to hope for an ambulance of the Western platform.

VTsIOM provided the results of a survey on the scientific errors of Russians. According to them: - 35% of respondents are convinced that the sun rotates around the Earth. For 15 years, this indicator has grown by 7 percentage points; - 44% of Russians believe that products with GMO can cause cancer; - 21% of Russians think that primitive people could walk next to dinosaurs; - 12% of Russians believe that the Earth makes the turnover around the Sun in one month.

For more than five years, my grandmother fought on oncology. It was treated in hospitals, passed several courses of chemotherapy, went to church, to the healers, was treated with folk methods. She tried all the methods of treatment and for a long time believed in her healing. But at some point, the grandmother dropped her hands and sewed her funeral dress. Doctors began to ignore her illness, redirecting from one hospital to another.

Reading at one time (wonderful) book by Alexandra Arkhipova and Anna Kirzyuk “Dangerous Soviet things: city legends and fears in the USSR” , of course, I also recalled my own nightmares from Soviet childhood too. Oddly enough, stories about a black car with the inscription "SSD" ("Death to Soviet children") and other such horror stories did not scare me at all. And they probably didn’t scare anyone. We told them to each other at the breaks, just to have fun. But I remember my main horror.

The general director of the United Cinema Sinema Park and Formula Cinema (market leader, own 76 cinemas for 585 cinema halls) announced that from August 1, his company is ready to offer the audience a new service - the so -called “film product”. What does that mean? The cinema sells a ticket for a Russian film. But before the film, the audience is shown a new Western (most likely Hollywood) film.

The Lublin court of Moscow sentenced to five years in prison in a colony of general regime of former policeman Vladimir Vorontsov, the creator of the public Ombudsman of the Police. Vorontsov was found guilty of extortion and public insult to a representative of the authorities. The criminal case against Vorontsov was opened in 2020, he was arrested and spent more than two years in jail.

Konstantin Kokoshkin/Global Look Press Today, the Supreme Court of Russia recognized the Ukrainian Regiment of Azov with a terrorist organization. It is reported that the decision to recognize Azov will be executed immediately, without waiting for entry into force. The activity of the regiment is prohibited in Russia.