Lawyers for Paul Manafort, the former head of Donald Trump's campaign headquarters, are asking the court to exclude from the case evidence related to Manafort's work for Viktor Yanukovych and his Party of Regions. Agents of Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the US elections, have collected 474 pages of documents and photographs to prove that Manafort received hundreds of millions of dollars from Ukrainian politicians and oligarchs, but did not pay US taxes on them.

US President Donald Trump is full of pride in the US economic achievements in the second quarter. The data was released yesterday - US GDP growth was 4.1% year-on-year, and this is the fastest pace since 2014. Details Trump called these figures "an economic reversal of historic significance" and, of course, attributed it to the success of his own America First program.

Sakharov rally, photo from Twitter Sergey Udaltsov On Saturday, shares against pension reform were held in dozens of Russian cities. In most cases, rallies were organized by local branches of the Communist Party, but supporters of the opposition Alexei Navalny, representatives of the Open Russia, Left Front and the Yabloko party also participated in them. The shares were collected from several hundred to several thousand people.

The authors of the high-profile bill on accreditation of visa centers withdrew the document from the State Duma, said Senator Konstantin Kosachev. “We cannot but take into account the information campaign launched by the opponents of the idea itself and fueled, as one might assume, by the owners and beneficiaries of such centers,” he explained on his Facebook. But Kosachev promises to return to consideration of the bill already in the fall.

Writer Vladimir Voinovich died on July 27 at the age of 86. The first to report his death was former dissident and journalist Viktor Davydov on his Facebook. According to him, Voinovich died of a heart attack. The date and place of farewell to him are not yet known, but the funeral will most likely take place on Monday, the writer’s wife Svetlana Kolesnichenko told Tass. Voinovich was born on September 26, 1932 in Stalinabad (present-day Dushanbe).