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FBK was included in the list of extremist organizations. Lionel Messi has moved to PSG. Why is the historical center of St. Petersburg falling apart

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The main thing for the day - point by point

• The Anti-Corruption Foundation* and the Citizens' Rights Protection Foundation* were included in the list of extremists and terrorists . also got there Blogger Yuri Khovansky .
• against Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for financing extremists.
• Lionel Messi has moved to French club Paris Saint-Germain.
• In Kamchatka, United Russia deputy Igor Redkin shot and killed a local resident who was collecting scrap metal at a landfill. Redkin confessed to the murder and stated that he mistook the man who had been shot for a bear.
• The Electoral Committee reinstated Boris Vishnevsky in the elections in a single-mandate district to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.
• after the verdict In Vyborg, two brothers fled the court by jumping out the window.
• American Virginia Giuffre has filed a lawsuit against Britain's Prince Andrew, accusing him of sexual assault.

* Both foundations were recognized as extremist organizations and liquidated by a court decision. FBK is also recognized in Russia as a "foreign agent".

Texts of the day

Roskosmos announced that it wants to leave the ISS and build its own station. And what, is this a serious conversation?

The attitude of the major powers towards space is changing. Key agreements on joint work on the ISS were concluded in the 1990s, when Russian-American cooperation in space seemed mutually beneficial and even inevitable. And in April 2021, Russia announced that it wanted to withdraw from the project and launch its own manned station. China is also building an autonomous orbital station, while the United States is preparing its own lunar program. We ask the main questions about this story (and, of course, answer them). Will Russia build its own orbital station? Does Russia have an alternative to cooperation with the US in space? And can Russia form its own space coalition around Russia?

The historical center of St. Petersburg is falling apart. Who is to blame? And what to do?

Even the UNESCO World Heritage status that buildings in the city center have does not help much. Stucco is peeling off houses and balconies are (literally) collapsing; historical buildings burn several times a month, activists save pre-revolutionary buildings from demolition. Briefly, the problems of St. Petersburg can be described as follows: the city has no money, buildings are being reconstructed poorly, the city authorities are indifferent to the problem, and investors do not see benefits in preserving the heritage. In general, the residents of the city are also indifferent. And city defenders and developers constantly quarrel. Petersburg journalist Sergei Kagermazov tells about what is happening in more detail .

In a children's camp in the Urals, during the "Reverse Day", the boys put on skirts and put on makeup. Parents accused the camp of LGBT propaganda

July 31 in the children's summer camp at the sanatorium "Salyut" in the Sverdlovsk region was "Day on the contrary." The administration of the sanatorium said that the essence of the event is “ridiculous dressing up: turn clothes inside out, put on a jacket instead of pants, and pants instead of a jacket.” However, one of the boys at the camp called his mother and said that boys "are forced to change into girls' clothes, put on makeup," and girls "should change into boys' clothes and act like members of the opposite sex all day long." The mother of the child told other parents about this - and as a result, the prosecutor's office was asked to check the camp.

The coronavirus

An oxygen supply pipe burst in a hospital in North Ossetia. Nine of 13 ventilated patients died

due to a pipe rupture In a Vladikavkaz hospital , an oxygen supply failed . Nine of the 13 patients who were on a ventilator at that moment died. All of them were sick with covid and were in serious condition. The surviving patients were transferred to reserve sources of oxygen. All available resuscitators in North Ossetia were mobilized to monitor them.

Podcast "What Happened"

UN experts release report on climate change - in short, everything is very bad

Over the past ten years, the average temperature on Earth has been 1.09 degrees higher than in the second half of the 19th century. Much of this rise is caused by human actions. In the next decades, humanity will face natural disasters caused by climate change: fires, floods, droughts - similar to those that happened this year. Around the world, periods of extreme heat will increase and cold periods will decrease. We discussed this gloomy future with Aleksey Ekaikin, Ph.D.

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Interview of the day

Alexander Gudkov came to visit the Ukrainian stand-up artist Vasily Baidak - and did not say a word for an hour

Here is the approximate content of the video: Gudkov and Baydak munching on toast with avocado and fish. They are drinking something. They sigh. They look at each other. They chug again. Stroke the ships painted on the wall. They fidget. They fidget a lot! They puff with sanitizer. They make a hammock from a medical mask, pulling it between two glasses. Scatter avocados on the table. At the end, they nod to each other, then to the audience - and disperse. Simply top content !

We eat avocados and are mysteriously silent, your "Medusa"