A meeting on pension reform photo from the State Duma website. License CC by 4.0 The State Duma adopted a bill on raising the retirement age in the first reading. Opposition parties acted and voted against. If the protests against the reform turn out to be massive, and the rating of Vladimir Putin will continue to fall, then by the second reading in the fall this may become the basis for concessions - but there will be no fundamental messages, political scientists say.

The American business magazine Fortune included the founder of Telegram and VKontakte Pavel Durov in the rating of the most influential people under 40 (“40 under 40”). Details “He is called the “Russian Mark Zuckerberg,” but it’s time to drop this epithet and recognize Durov’s own achievements,” Durov describes Fortune. Among his merits, the magazine indicates the creation of a "Facebook clone" - the social network "Vkontakte", as well as the Telegram messenger.

The Duma approved the increase in the retirement age, but left the ways to withdraw. What - read in the evening newsletter The Bell. Photo: http://duma.gov.ru The State Duma adopted a bill on raising the retirement age in the first reading. Opposition parties acted and voted against.

The Russian branch of the international anti-corruption organization Transparency International has ceased cooperation with the anti-corruption laboratory of the Higher School of Economics.

Cruiser "Dmitry Donskoy" South Korean traders were very impressionable-on the news about the discovery of the Russian Warship "Dmitry Donskoy" on the discovery of the Japanese Sea on the bottom of the Sea, they began to buy stocks of several South Korean companies. Investors believed the rumors that there was gold on the sunken ship worth more than $ 130 billion, writes Bloomberg.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on raising the retirement age. This was preceded by a three -hour discussion with the participation of the Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin, speaker of the chamber Vyacheslav Volodin, deputies and leaders of fractions. According to the results of the discussion, the bill supported only United Russia, and the rest of the parliamentary parties opposed.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. Photo: kremlin.ru/(cc by 4.0) The Russian authorities decided to systematize measures against Western sanctions. At a meeting with the First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov, in early July, a government plan of measures was approved to reduce the influence of foreign sanctions on the Russian economy, Kommersant found out .

The FBI followed Maria Butina from the very beginning of her stay in the United States. What did it find out - in the mailing room The Bell Maria Butina is the first of 26 Russians appearing in an investigation about a possible interference in the American elections, appeared in court, and her case is rapidly gaining momentum. We studied the decree presented yesterday by the American authorities in support of the pre -trial arrest of Butina.

Republican Senator John Barraso has submitted a bill to the US Congress to impose sanctions against Nord Stream 2. Details “Countries like Germany should be reducing the amount of natural gas they buy from Russia, not increasing it. But this is exactly what Nord Stream 2 does between Russia and Germany <...> Germany and other countries are members of NATO, and the reason they are in the alliance is to protect themselves from Russian aggression, ”the statement says Barasso.