No well -known independent candidate was allowed to elections to the Moscow City Duma Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin votes in the municipal elections. Photo: AGN "Moscow" The Moscow authorities were not afraid of protests and decided to prevent not only Navalny's associates, but also not a single well -known independent candidate before the elections to the Moscow City Duma.

The Moscow Election Commission (MGEC) refused to register more than 30 candidates for Moscow City Duma deputies - this is more than 10% of all applications. Registration was denied to all the most famous applicants - Alexei Navalny's associates Lyubov Sobol and Ivan Zhdanov, as well as Dmitry Gudkov, Yulia Galyamina and others. All of them, according to the Moscow City Election Commission (MGIK), exceeded the threshold of 10% of invalid and unreliable signatures.

What is a working stress? People who spend long hours on stressful work, as a rule, transfer the load to their lives at home. This "effect of transferring" bad mood reduces productivity in all areas of life. The effect manifests itself quickly: people begin to increase their voice on their children and do not want to spend time with a partner. About this writes The Wall Street Journal.

Rospotrebnadzor has launched an investigation into the poisoning of 30 office workers with food from Healthy Food vending machines. By July 16, 28 people had sought medical help, 17 of whom were hospitalized with a preliminary diagnosis of salmonellosis. The company, co-owned by Nikolai Tsvetkov, a well-known healthy eating fanatic and former owner of Uralsib, has focused on selling dishes made from perishable products from the very beginning, although its founders were dissuaded from doing so.

In 2019, Moscow is going to install a face recognition system on 105,000 surveillance cameras. The contract amount will be up to 2.7 billion rubles, according to The Bell calculations. We found out who is fighting for a billion dollar contract. According to the plans of the Moscow government, in 2019 video streams from 105 thousand devices will be connected to the system of cameras with face recognition. Market participants call this network the largest in the world.

Businessman Roman Trotsenko, a former adviser to Igor Sechin at Rosneft, is buying up Russian gold miners. Following 48.2% in GeoProMining, he acquired 22.4% in Petropavlovsk. The capitalization of the latter now exceeds $400 million, Vedomosti writes .

The State Duma today adopted in the first reading a bill on special smoking rooms ("smoking rooms") in the transit areas of airports, which was submitted for consideration back in November 2017. True, by the second reading, electronic cigarettes at airports can also be banned everywhere except for smoking rooms. There were already smoking rooms at airports, but they were closed in 2013 under the "anti-tobacco" law.

The pound fell to its lowest level since 2017 - today the British currency fell by 0.8% to $1.2418, bringing the overall decline in July to 2.2%. The pound also fell 0.5% to 90.38 pence per euro (the lowest level since January 2019) and also fell against the Swiss franc (the lowest level since August 2017). Experts attribute the fall in the money market to the risk that the UK will still leave the European Union without an agreement. about it Bloomberg writes . Quote.

Deputies of three factions of the State Duma, including United Russia, introduced a bill according to which a lawsuit against Russian citizens and companies under Western sanctions can only be filed in Russia. Why is this needed?

Sberbank and Yandex will continue cooperation, and there is no reason to break the partnership, reported , citing bank president German Gref. Interfax Quote: “We have very good, partnership relations. We are partners in a number of projects, very large projects. What's the point of breaking up a relationship? We have exceptionally good, respectful relations. I hope that we will always cooperate,” said .

A quarter of Russians do not plan any investments, except for deductions to the Pension Fund for savings for retirement, RBC reports with reference to a survey by VTsIOM . The reason is the lack of state guarantees and control over money by the authorities when using alternatives. Slightly more than half (58%) knew about additional savings opportunities, such as buying shares or investing in securities through insurance companies.

The Ministry of Defense has prepared a draft presidential decree, which significantly expands the list of gross disciplinary offenses by military personnel. The decree will supplement the famous Appendix No. 7 to the Disciplinary Regulations, which now includes hazing and unauthorized abandonment of a military unit, with communication with the media and storage of smartphones. What is being tightened?

Four employees of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the ZAO Moscow have been fired in connection with the case of Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov, reported Interfax , citing the Interior Ministry. Their names and positions are not specified. Three employees were fired due to the fact that they did not allow Golunov to contact his relatives and a lawyer in due time, writes Baza. They intend to sue the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the newspaper claims.

Roskomnadzor (RKN), at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, again sent a demand to remove a picture that offends Russian state symbols - this time on Instagram. The photo "contains an image of obscene acts with the state flag of the Russian Federation," the department's website says. A day earlier, Roskomnadzor sent a similar request to Facebook. The reason was the emblem of Russia with a swastika published on the social network.

The launch of Elon Musk's SpaceX Crew Dragon manned spacecraft, on which NASA plans to deliver American astronauts to the ISS instead of the Soyuz, is delayed by a year due to a failed test in April, Bloomberg reported, citing Vice President Hans Koenigsmann . During this time, SpaceX will correct a defect in the design of the SuperDraco rocket engine, the explosion of which destroyed the capsule during testing.