The head of the office of the President of Ukraine (the former presidential administration), Andriy Bohdan, wrote a letter of resignation of his own free will, reported Interfax-Ukraine , citing a source in the office of Volodymyr Zelensky. He worked in the position for less than three months. Bogdan was considered the closest member of the Zelensky team to the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky.

If it seems to you that flights are already too expensive, know that this is not the limit Dmitry Medvedev signed a resolution, due to which the flights are accurately rise in price, and the S7 airline threatened with a stop. We are talking about a decree that obliges foreign air booking systems for domestic flights that most Russian airlines use, to transfer servers with personal data of passengers to Russia.

The Investigative Committee filed charges against four defendants in the case of mass riots at an unscheduled rally for fair elections on July 27. Volunteer of Lyubov Sobol's headquarters Aleksey Minyailo and rally participants Kirill Zhukov, Ivan Podkopaev and Samariddin Radjabov were among the accused. All the accused are charged with Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code - participation in mass riots. The maximum sentence under this article is 8 years.

The theme of the release is significant Internet resources and the purge of Russian technology companies. The law on the sovereign Runet (we wrote about it many times: one , two , three ) isolates the network technologically, but does not touch economic ties. Anton Gorelkin decided to correct this omission at the end of July.

The main media assets of the RBC holding - the website rbc.ru, the RBC TV channel and the newspaper and magazine of the same name - are pledged to the state bank VTB, the found out BBC Russian Service . This may suggest that the mortgagee receives some of the corporate control over the company and management capabilities. The media holding and the bank claim that VTB does not have such rights, and the owner of RBC, Grigory Berezkin, also denies the existence of the pledge itself.

In November, the law on sovereign RuNet will come into force, which will allow Roskomnadzor to isolate the Russian segment of the network from the Internet. This law aims to manage technical infrastructure. At the end of July, United Russia deputy Anton Gorelkin proposed to control the economic infrastructure of the Runet. The document allows the same Roskomnadzor to select key IT companies, and the government to prohibit or limit foreign ownership of them.

The Gagarinsky Court of Moscow suspended the operation of the Healthy Food chain, including all its vending machines, for 90 days, finding it guilty of mass poisoning of customers under Article 6.6 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“Violation of sanitary and epidemiological requirements for catering to the population”), TASS writes with reference to the press secretary of the court.

FBK published a new investigation , this time about the First Deputy Mayor of Moscow, Natalya Sergunina, who headed the capital's property department and now oversees elections in Moscow. According to the FBK, for many years Sergunina sold historic houses in the center of Moscow at low prices to companies of family members, as a result of which the official's family received property worth 6.5 billion rubles.

The tax inspectorate has begun checking the Dozhd TV channel, its CEO Natalya Sindeeva said on Facebook, attaching a copy of the document to the post. She believes that the check may be related to the way the TV channel covered the July 27 protests.

Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree obliging foreign air ticket booking systems used by most Russian airlines to transfer servers with passengers' personal data to Russia, RBC reports citing a copy of the document. The purpose of the document is the safety of domestic flights and the safety of personal data of Russians. Through booking systems, foreign intelligence services can theoretically learn about the movements of officials and military personnel, adds a RBC source close to the government.

Hong Kong's GDP growth has slowed to a record low: in the second quarter, the indicator grew by only 0.6%, which is much worse than forecasts (1.6%), according to the Hong Kong authorities . The slowdown in the region's economy was caused by the political crisis, the trade war between China and the United States, as well as the ongoing mass protests, which especially damaged retail and tourism. The observed growth rate is the worst in a decade.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) detained five suspects in the case of mass riots on June 27. Among the detainees are Lyubov Sobol's headquarters volunteer Aleksey Minyailo, Kirill Zhukov and Ivan Podkopaev.

From September, Finland will cancel the simplified issuance of visas for Russians and, following other Schengen countries, will request a full package of documents - including proof of solvency, reservations at places of residence and tickets, according to the website of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Previously, this was done in exceptional cases. The reasons for the tightening of requirements are not specified.

A quarter of Russians have ceased to trust television in 10 years, according to a Levada Center study on the Russian media landscape in 2019. It is described by RBC. A television. TV remains the main source of information for the majority of Russians, but its share is declining: now 74% of Russians watch TV, while in 2009 it was 94%. TV viewing differs sharply by age categories: 93% of people over 65 regularly watch TV, among young people under 25 only 42% of such people.

The investment division of Alfa Group A1 is ready to pay those who tell her about the foreign assets of the former owner of Vneshprombank Georgy Bedzhamov, writes RBC. The company will even launch an advertising campaign on the screens of Sheremetyevo International Airport and Vnukovo-3 Business Aviation Center. For information will pay a fixed amount or a percentage of the value of the assets, if they can be foreclosed.