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The State Duma deputies appreciated in the comments of the "RG" the proposal to introduce a working week of 36 hours for Russians instead of forty.

A group of Russian and Chinese ships off the coast of Alaska scared the Americans, said Colonel Douglas McGregor, a former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, in an interview with the Judging Freedom YouTube channel.

The St. Petersburg developer and manufacturer of robotic kits for the educational sphere "Robbo" has equipped classrooms in two educational institutions in Nigeria.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said in a Telegram channel that there is no point in a peaceful settlement of the conflict with Ukraine

The Institute of National Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INP RAS), commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Development

Two new heated swimming pools will be built in Moscow, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. A fragment of the mayor's speech was published in his Telegram channel.

In Russia, an unmanned pilotless car "Chisel" is being created for assault groups. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the developer company JSC "Remdiesel".

AvtoVAZ may change prices for more expensive and less popular modifications of its cars, and prices for more budget cars will remain the same, the company told RBC.

Preparations for the holding of the International Exhibition-Forum "Russia" have begun in Moscow on the territory of VDNH, the organizers of the event said.

President Vladimir Putin supported the transfer of the state package of the United Shipbuilding Corporation to the trust management of VTB. He announced this at a meeting with the head of VTB Andrey Kostin.

The office of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia will be restored in Krasnodar, the Belarusian ambassador to Russia Dmitry Krutoy said.

Most of the circulation of new textbooks on the history of Russia has already been printed and is ready for shipment, the first of which will be delivered on August 11 to Sakhalin Island

The government will additionally allocate another 5 billion rubles to the Federal Air Transport Agency to support the industry, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said.

The current President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, confirmed the information previously spread by the media about the murder of the presidential candidate of Ecuador, Fernando Villavicencio.

Rescuers began to take out the bodies of several victims from under the rubble after an explosion at a factory in Sergiev Posad near Moscow. This was reported by the Telegram channel "112".