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Putin awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland of the IV degree of his close friend Yuri Kovalchuk - one of the founders of the country cooperative "Lake" and the shareholder of the Bank "Russia". If you do not really imagine who it is, read the investigation of the “project” , which is recently recognized in Russia with an “unwanted organization”. Journalists of the “Project” call Kovalchuk “the Guardian of Putin’s Secrets”. The rest is like this:

• In St. Petersburg and Sevastopol, the audience was launched in honor of the Navy Day - despite the pandemic and the ban on mass events.
• The Russian CEC excluded Pavel Grudinin from the party list of the Communist Party, where he went to the third number.
• Lithuania was not enough barbed wire to fence on the border with Belarus.
• A commandant hour has been introduced throughout Afghanistan.

Chronicles of Pandemia

According to the operational headquarters on the morning of Sunday, the daily increase in the new cases of the Covid-19 in Russia amounted to 24,072. The official number of infected in the country since the beginning of the pandemic is 6 million 126 thousand; The official number of victims reached 153,874 people by Sunday (+799 per day). This on July 16, the daily mortality record has been repeated twice: Saturday and Sunday.

Despite the current prohibitions of mass events, naval parades were held in St. Petersburg and Sevastopol. In St. Petersburg, the audience did not want to let the audience on the embankments, but when people began to crowd at the barriers, they decided to remove them, because you can disperse along the embankments. Here is a report from the city; Sociologist Maria Matskevich explains the holding of mass holidays in the midst of the epidemic by the fact that the authorities respond to the request of the majority: people want holidays.

People do not want to be vaccinated at the same time ( here are hypotheses why ), not only in Russia: the Senate of France after the hundred thousandth protests softened the law on covid "sanitary passes" and postponed the beginning of its action.

There are fewer candidates

• The CEC excluded the director of the Lenin state farm Pavel Grudinin from the list of candidates for State Duma deputies from the Communist Party (he was the third number). The formal basis was the instruction of the Prosecutor General’s Office, from which the former wife of Grudinin shared information about the shares of Bontro LTD registered in Belize, which the politician allegedly owned. In fact, as sources close to the presidential administration explain , Grudinin is trying to completely exclude from politics due to resentment to the high result, he showed in the 2018 presidential election. The head of the Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, with the exception of Grudinin from the lists is dissatisfied and promises protests, coupled with enhanced election observation. The head of the CEC Ella Pamfilova, on the contrary, is proud of her work (because she "does everything possible so that the country does not fall apart"). The emotional monologue of Pamfilova was recorded and published on his blog by a deputy of the Saratov regional Duma from the Communist Party Nikolai Bondarenko. A day later, it became known that he was called to the police to draw up a protocol on the distribution of extremist materials. He believes that in this way they are trying to remove him from the Duma elections.
• Perm was refused to register a candidate in the City Duma of the former coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny Sergey Usevov, here is a conversation with him .
• In Tver, the election room refused to register a candidate for the region’s Legislative Assembly from the “Yabloko” of the former coordinator of “Open Russia” Artyom Vyzhenkov. The CEC referred to an indication of the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Justice refers to an article by a law prohibiting the ranks of any level to people who collaborated with organizations recognized as extremist or terrorist.
• In Omsk, “Yabloko” stopped collecting signatures after one of the collectors fell ill with Covid. The party’s branch turned to the CEC with a request to take into account these difficulties and register candidates, but they refused to the CEC.

Other Russian

• In Perm, the city defender Elena Germanova was fined for 20 thousand rubles, who organized the shooting of a video question for a direct line of Putin about the fate of the Hammer Stadium (the organization of a public event without notice).
• The court sent for forced treatment the Irkutsk blogger and the former volunteer of the headquarters of Navalny Dmitry Nadein (earlier the forensic experts found signs of “sluggish schizophrenia”). The decision was made in the framework of the criminal case on the justification of terrorism due to the statement about the explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB.
• The journalist Lenta.ru, who was detained for the shooting of the police, was beaten and then fined, decided to leave Russia.
• The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said in an interview with Rossiy newspaper that sites with “forbidden information” must be blocked within one or two hours. Otherwise, there will be a continuous promotion of extremism and terrorism.
• The Moscow Theater "Contemporary" changed the monologue of Leah Akhedzhakova after a complaint of "Russian officers"; The Insider publication refused to precede its materials with a message that they were created by the “media, a foreign agent”.
• Traffic on Trans -Siberia is restored , the flood in Sochi is overcome (but there are dead).

In Belarus and around her

Lithuania suspended the construction of a fence on the border with Belarus due to a lack of barbed wire (but soon resumes: one hundred kilometers of wire are already traveling from Estonia). In connection with the tributary of the Iraqi migrants, whom Belarus purposefully transported to the Lithuanian border, as well as refugees from Belarus itself , when and how it will end. Here, the possible scenarios of the further development of events are dismantled by political analyst Artem Shreibman (he also had to leave Minsk to Kiev).

According to The Wall Street Journal, the US presidential administration considers the possibility of imposing new sanctions against Belarus, which will affect oil and potassium fertilizers.

Around the world

• In Budapest on Saturday, the annual pride was held , but this year significantly more people took part in it than before. This is due to the protest against the recently adopted law, which protects schoolchildren from the “propaganda of LGBT”.
• Budapest and Kiev have a new conflict , this time due to garbage, which during the floods sailed to Hungary along the Tisa River.
• Due to the advance of the Taliban, a commandant hour has been introduced almost throughout Afghanistan.
• A new shootout occurred on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The border guard was wounded.
• Many areas of London were flooded due to heavy rains.

Six links

• Story. An excerpt from the book of Nathan Aidelman “Revolution from above in Russia” - about Peter's reforms (this is the text from the Eidelman’s collection “Say everything” that came out in UFOs). Or the story of how the Soviet authorities sold rarities from the scientific library at Tomsk University in order to finance the industrialization of Kuzbass.
• Movie. The guide for the cinema of the Hungarian director Bela Tarra. Or the story of the Zara Abdullaeva about the classics of Iranian cinema Abbas Kiarosts.
• Science. An excerpt from the book of the British anthropologist Chris Stringer “remained only. The only type of people on Earth” (Publishing House of Corpus)-about the emergence of speech. Or a fragment from the essay of the American astronomer Eric Asfog “When the Earth had two moon: the planets-cannibals, ice giants, mud comets and other luminaries of the night sky” (Publishing House of Alpina Non Fixes)-about comets.
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