The Atlantic observer Uri Friedman analyzed the meetings of Donald Trump and the most important representatives of his team with Russian officials. Some of these contacts seem quite harmless, some suspicious, but one thing unites them-the American side tried to hide them. The Insider offers a complete translation of the article. We know that Donald Trump and his main assistants had many meetings with Russian officials.

Alexander Karasev, a jury in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, who was excluded from the college five months after the start of the process, said that she was threatened. She stated this in an interview with Mediazone.

The Investigative Committee brought a criminal case against the police who are suspected of attacking a man and his lawyer in the Lefortovo police department. This is stated in the message of the Investigative Committee. The case was opened under paragraph “A” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (abuse of authority with the use of violence). Earlier, the lawyer Vera Podkolzina announced the beating of the Lefortovo Department of Internal Affairs.

The bill on the ban on anonymity in instant messengers introduces a provision on the possibility of blocking individual users. According to VC.ru, one of the authors of the amendments, the deputy of the Just Russia Oleg Nikolaev, told about this.

The Ambassador of Russia to the United States Sergey Kislyak, who, after the September regional elections, will most likely become a senator, will receive the post of deputy head of the Committee on International Affairs of Konstantin Kosachev, Interfax reports with reference to an informed source. “Kislyak will be deputy Kosachev,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

Senator Elena Mizulina again introduced a bill on the prohibition of baby boxes in Russia to the State Duma. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the parliamentarian.

The Central Bank revealed the facts of manipulation of Gazprom, Alfa-Bank, Bashneft and Alrosa at the auction of the Moscow Exchange. This is stated on the website of the Central Bank. According to the regulator, manipulative transactions were made in 2014-2015 between MSP-72 and Customer-L, based on counter applications with matching parameters and a slight time difference-“less than 30 seconds”.

Confession Confession of the propagandist. Part II. How do political talk shows on state TV Sofya Adamova July 20, 2017 The Insider continues to talk about how propaganda is arranged on Russian television, on the basis of interviews with employees of state television channels. The first part of the Confession was devoted to censorship and propaganda on the news broadcast, the second part that we publish today is how propaganda is organized in political talk shows.

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Israel for condemning the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers. With such a statement, he made a meeting of the Presidential Council on interethnic relations, Gazeta.ru reports . “We are grateful to those who in Israel give the correct historical assessments to all these events, condemn the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers,” Putin said.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Vladimir Putin promised human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva to have pardon a former Senator from Bashkiria Igor Izmestiev, who is serving a lifelong opinion on charges of organizing massacres, Interfax reports "Yes. The president said that this was possible, and that it would take time, ”Peskov said. Earlier, Lyudmila Alekseeva reported that during Putin’s visit to her home, she asked him to have mercy on Izmestiev.

Roman Filippov Roman Filippov resigned. According to Interfax, such a decision was made by the board of directors of the company. The powers of Filippov were terminated ahead of schedule, with him the employment contract was terminated. The reason for the solution is not called. On July 14, Wirtschafts Woche magazine, citing its sources, wrote that Siemens is considering leaving joint ventures with Russian companies after a scandal with the supply of gas turbines to Crimea.

Part of the new uniform for the Russian Olympic team was sewn in Turkey. According to RBC with reference to Zasport, this was done to have time to make equipment for the youth team. In Russia, only T -shirts, swimwear, swimming trunks and part of the costumes were able to make. Everything else, including towels, backpacks and bags, made a Turkish factory. Shoes for athletes were bought from Adidas.

News The DIA announced the start of payments to the depositors of the Yugra bank 20 July 2017 The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) announced the start of payments to the depositors of the Ugra bank. This is stated on the agency’s website. Since July 20, payments are made by Sberbank, VTB 24, Rosselkhozbank, Opening and Uralsib. Deposits are reimbursed within 1.4 million rubles.

The Tver court of Moscow sentenced to two and a half years in a colony of general regime Stanislav Zimovts. According to Medusa from the courtroom, he was found guilty of attacking the Rosguard fighter for protests on March 26 in Moscow. Previously, the prosecutor requested a punishment for the Bingers in the form of three years of a general regime colony.

Every eighth US citizen, who voted in the Donald Trump elections, would not have voted for him now. This follows from a sociological survey conducted by Reuters and IPSOS in May and July. According to the study, 12% of Trump's supporters in July announced that they would not vote for him if the elections had passed now. 7% of them said that they did not know who they would vote for, and 5% - that they would support another candidate or did not go to the site at all.