Over the past day, 5204 have been identified in Russia with a new coronavirus infection in 83 regions, of which 1342 cases (25.8%) were actively in contact persons without clinical manifestations of the disease. It is reported by the business station for coronavirus. In total, 866,627 cases in 85 regions were identified in the country. There are also 139 lethal cases per day. Over the entire period, 14,490 people died in Russia from coronavirus.

“Russian-Belorussian relations became a“ petty exchange coin ”during the election campaign in Belarus, the consequences of deterioration in relations between Moscow and Minsk will be sad, said deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, the leader of United Russia Dmitry Medvedev. “Of course, we cannot help but see that today Russian-Belarusian relations, I will even say more, the union state, integration has become a petty exchange coin during the election campaign.

The environmental organization Deutsche Umwelthilfe from Germany disputed in the Higher Administrative Court of the Earth of the Earth Meklenburg-transition in the Grainwald the issuance of permission to commission the Russian North Stream 2 gas pipeline. This was reported in the organization. Ecologists achieve a new consideration by the City of Stralzund by the City of Stolzund applications for the commissioning of the gas pipeline.

Vice -Rector of Moscow State University Alexei Grishin was detained in Moscow on suspicion of deliberate bankruptcy. This was written by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. “The vice -rector of Moscow State University Alexei Grishin was detained as part of a criminal case instituted under an article for deliberate bankruptcy,” the source said.

300 thousand inhabitants of Beirut were left without shelter as a result of the explosion. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the governor of the Lebanese capital, Marvan Abbud. According to Abbud, the damage from the explosion is estimated at $ 3 billion. The explosion was so force that the wave was felt even in Cyprus, which is more than 200 km from the Lebanese capital.

The Switzerland authorities decided to exclude Russia, Azerbaijan and the UAE from the list of countries, upon arrival of which quarantine is required. It is reported by Interfax. This decision will enter into force on August 8. Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order to remove restrictions on entering Russia for Switzerland citizens introduced from coronavirus. “Switzerland citizens will be able to arrive in Russia by air.

News Ministry of Justice: Lawyers Ivan Safronov violated the requirements of the Code of Professional Ethics 5 August 2020 The Ministry of Justice said that the lawyers Ivan Safronov violated the requirements of the Code of Professional Ethics. The department asked the lawyer chambers of the regions to bring them to disciplinary liability. The Ministry of Justice believes that lawyers have violated the requirements of Part 3 of Art.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund, together with Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports, will launch express passenger testing for coronavirus, according to the fund's website . The test results will be available in 60 minutes. Testing will be available to all passengers from next week. It will be used for him to use test systems for the production of the Russian-Japanese company EMG, created with the support of the RDIP. The test results will be issued in Russian and English.

“The Council of the Federation Council has no unnecessary funds that could fall under the reduction, RIA Novosti said on Wednesday the head of the Rules Committee Vyacheslav Timchenko ...“ We will not agree with the proposed reduction in financing of the upper house of the parliament ... ”the parliamentarian said.

Russian intelligence monitored journalist Ivan Safronov at least since the fall of 2019. This was reported by Interfax with reference to his lawyer, head of the human rights association "Team 29" Ivan Pavlov. “The decision to attract Safronov as the accused mentions two messages from certain foreign intelligence authorities - from September 2019 and March 2020,” Pavlov said.

The Russian Ministry of Finance sent the Netherlands a proposal to revise the current tax agreement. It is reported by TASS. Moscow proposes to raise the tax rate when paying dividends from Russia to the Netherlands from the current 5% to 15%. Previously, similar letters were sent to Cyprus and Malta, as well as to Luxembourg. The most Russian business may suffer from the revision of the agreement with the Netherlands.

Livan authorities sent several employees of the Port administration of Beirut during the investigation, which is associated with the storage of ammonium nitrate. This is reported on Wednesday Associated Press. According to the agency, the decision was made at a meeting of the Lebanese government. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lebanon Muhammad Fehmi said that the investigation of the cause of the explosions will be open and take five days.

The ship "Mikhail Dudin" with toxic radioactive waste of the process of enriching uranium on board comes from Amsterdam to Russia. This was reported by Echo of Moscow with reference to the co -chair of the Russian Ecological Group "Eco -Protection" Vladimir Slivak. According to the organization, we are talking about uranium "tails". On August 3, nuclear waste was transported to Amsterdam from German Gronu, where the Uranus enrichment enterprise is located.

Vladimir Zelensky asked the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to transfer to Kyiv the mercenaries of the PMC Wagner, detained near Minsk. He stated this during a telephone conversation with the Belarusian leader. “I hope that all suspects in terrorist activities in Ukraine will be transferred to us for prosecution in accordance with the current international legal documents,” Zelensky explained.

The host of the news at the Kamchatka GRK, Alexander Novikov, quit after organizing the action in support of the arrested former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. This is written by Open Media. “I was fired of my own free will the day after I gathered people in the square. The chef and I were: when he will unbearable to smear me, I will write a statement. I kept the word, ”said the TV presenter.