The Soyuz-2.1В launch vehicle with four spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense launched on Wednesday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.

The Scientific and Production Association of Automation (Roskosmos enterprise) presented a prototype of an unmanned tractor at the international industrial exhibition INNOPROM 2019 in Yekaterinburg, the company said in a press release.

On Tuesday, July 9, the State Duma adopted in the second reading draft laws aimed at combating the issuance of fake diagnostic vehicle inspection cards (MOT) of a car without actually passing it.

To date, Russia has fully fulfilled its obligations to provide India with all the technological kits of the Su-30MKI fighter jets. 

In the Krasnodar Territory, a recreational catamaran, sunk near Dzhubga (not far from Tuapse), was raised from the bottom of the Black Sea.

The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg has introduced a bill to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, which proposes punishing people under the article on animal cruelty from the age of 14.

In St. Petersburg, opens the ninth International Naval Salon.  Lenexpo gathered 45 delegations from 33 states, as well as 28 companies from 19 countries.

British authorities refused to issue a visa to an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation to participate in a conference on media freedom. 

The administration of Transbaikalia from the FSB of Russia received a negative opinion about the possibility of building a cross-border bridge over the Amur near the village of Pokrovka, Mogochinsk District.

Ex-head of Disney in Russia, Marina Zhigalova-Ozkan, from September 2, will become senior vice president and head of marketing.