French engineer Franky Zapata crossed the English Channel in a flying board with five jet engines on his second attempt, reports BBC . He flew 35 kilometers in 22 minutes. The jet-powered flying board was designed by Zapata himself. It runs on jet fuel and can take off to a height of 3–3.5 km, while accelerating to 195 km/h with a passenger, and on remote control – up to 400 km/h. Zapata took off from the French city of Sangat and landed in St. Margaret Bay in the English county of Kent.

Tension between Moscow and Washington is rising, and Russia is quite successful in reducing the role of the dollar in its trade, writes Bloomberg. The agency came to this conclusion after analyzing the data of the Central Bank for the first quarter. Details. Most of all, Russia managed to increase the share of the euro in trade with the EU and China, and with India - to significantly increase the share of payments for Russian imports (mainly weapons) in rubles. China.

Seven people were injured after an unidentified man opened fire on young people near a park in Chicago on the move from a car, NBC Chicago reports , citing police. Unknown shot at passers-by near the playground and fled the scene. All the victims are young people aged 19 to 25, they were hospitalized. One young man is in critical condition. The shooting in Chicago came hours after another shooter shot at a crowd outside a bar in downtown Dayton, US.

In the United States, shootings occurred twice in a day - at a bar in the center of the American city of Dayton, Ohio, and at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. As a result of mass executions, almost 30 people died. in a shooting in Ohio Ten people, including the attacker, were killed . At least 16 people were taken to hospital with injuries, their condition is unknown.

On the day of the inconsistent rally in Moscow in support of independent candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of legalization by employees of the Fund for the Combat Corruption of Alexei Navalny “Order of the billion rubles”.

According to updated data, 1,001 people were detained at a Moscow rally for fair elections on August 3, reports OVD-Info . Previously, the project reported 828 detainees. The Interior Ministry still claims that 600 people were detained at the protest. More people were detained only at the action on July 27 (1373 people) and at the action “He is not Dimon for us”, which took place on March 26, 2017 (1043 people in Moscow and 1805 in Russia).

Former CEO of VimpelCom (operating under the Beeline brand) and one of the most popular Russian top managers, Mikhail Slobodin, left Russia in 2016, and a year later was put on the international wanted list in a criminal case of bribery by Viktor Vekselberg's energy company. He was recently spotted at the B2B Marketing Expo 2019 business conference in London, where he presented a startup for creating advertising videos, Agenda.Video , RBC reported this week.

The final number of detainees at the Moscow rally for honest elections on Saturday, August 3, 828 people, summed up the OVD-Info project. According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow, 1.5 thousand people took part in the action, and the number of detainees amounted to 600 people.