The DPRK continues to test the nuclear and missile weapons programs contrary to the sanctions of the Security Council. According to Reuters, the report of this UN experts was submitted by the organization of the organization on sanctions on Friday, August 3. In the report, experts claim that Pyongyang continues the military program. According to UN experts, a tracking system was disconnected to disguise the supply of petroleum products on ships.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Mi-8 helicopter of Utair, all 18 people on board, were killed. It is reported by TASS with reference to the source On board the helicopter were three crew members and 15 watchmen. The helicopter fell 180 km from the city of Igar. The ship was heading from the oil pumping station No. 1 Vankor and followed the Vankor -Purpe route. Passengers were employees of the contracting organization who worked at the Vankor site.

The crew of the Mi-8 crashed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory incorrectly calculated the distance of a helicopter with an external cargo that had previously taken off. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the operational headquarters at the scene of the emergency.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained 29 LGBT activists at St. Petersburg Pride. The participants of the action themselves wrote about this on VKontakte. According to the OVD-Info, there are minors among the detainees. Activists were delivered to the police departments No. 78 and No. 29. Activists carried out single pickets, because they could not agree on a mass action.

The Rosneft NK called the “inexplicable” actions of the crew of the helicopter, which crashed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. This is stated in the message on the website of the oil company. “According to the already existing preliminary information, the crash occurred due to the inexplicable actions of the Mi -8 helicopter crew of the Yutair Airlines, which, when working and warning about dangerous ranges, made a clash with another helicopter of the same airline,” the company said.

An attempt to commit self -immolation in protest against the arbitrariness of the authorities in the center of Simferopol is a staging aimed at undermining the trust of people to power. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the State Duma deputy from Crimea Ruslan Balbek. “Under the sign of Crimean Tatar protests, representatives of extremist organizations prohibited in Russia arrange staged scenes in the best Hollywood traditions designed for an external consumer,” Balbek said.

Russian woman Maria Butina, arrested in the United States on suspicion of espionage, communicated with the former member of the pre -election campaign of Donald Trump Jeffrey Gordon. It is reported by The Washington Post. Gordon worked for Trump’s election campaign from March to August 2016, at the headquarters he was responsible for national security issues. The newspaper writes that Butina met Gordon on September 29, 2016 at a party in the residence of the Swiss ambassador.

On Thursday, July 26, Facebook shares collapsed by almost 19%, while another technological giant, Apple, exceeded the expectations of investors - showed an increase and set a market value - $ 1 trillion. The analyst of the Finam group Leonid Delitsyn explained The Insider, what caused these events in the market, whether Mark Zuckerberg will return its former power and it can be said that the era of social networks is coming to an end.

A flash mob is taking place on Chistoprudny Boulevard in support of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted in Russia, who holds a hunger strike on the 83rd day. It is reported by the New Gazeta. The organizer of the action was the film critic and friend of Sentsov Alexei Medvedev. He told Facebook on his page that he was originally trying to coordinate a “peaceful, non -political rally”, but the city authorities refused him to agree on the action.