Belgorod is experiencing problems with electricity and water supply, local and federal publications report.

Rapper Kanye West, also known by his stage name Ye, has been sued by his former employees. They claim that the artist did not pay them for overtime and called them "slaves," The Washington Post reports after reviewing the lawsuit. According to the publication, eight programmers from different countries, including minors, filed a lawsuit. They claim that in April of this year, the rapper and his manager Milo Yiannopoulos hired them to develop an app for the YZYVSN streaming service.

On the evening of July 1, a powerful downpour with a strong squall wind hit St. Petersburg. As a result of the hurricane, according to preliminary data from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, one person died and at least two more were injured. According to Fontanka, a 36-year-old woman died as a result of a tree falling in the Moskovsky District of St. Petersburg. The local administration press service reported this to the publication.

The Z-community requires “its Kadyrov” for Dagestan and opposes Habib-in the new column of Ivan Filippov The writer and producer Ivan Filippov leads the telegram channel “ On the ZzzzzaPadnaya Front without Changes” , in which he analyzes Russian wire propaganda. To do this, he studies about 300 Z-channels daily. Especially for the “cold”, Filippov tells how last week the OZ-community reacted to terrorist attacks in Dagestan and what conclusions it came to.

One of the gays detained in Dagestan was able to leave Russia. This was reported by the crisis group "SK SOS". The man in the publication is called Yusuf, it is noted that his name was changed for security reasons. As reported by SK SOS, the man was detained on June 5, the same time that the previously arrested porn blogger Matvey Volodin , known by the nickname USSRboy, was supposed to be released from the temporary detention facility (IVS).

Ukraine has exactly one month left to pay off its debt to holders of international bonds. If Kiev fails to pay off investors by August 1, the country risks defaulting, The Economist writes . Ukraine's creditors agreed to suspend debt servicing payments for the entire two years of the war with Russia. In mid-June 2024, investors rejected Ukraine's latest debt restructuring (change in contract terms) in the amount of $20 billion.

In Zabaikalsky Krai, a 19-year-old man attacked a schoolboy, thinking he was a Ukrainian spy. Filming the incident on his phone, the attacker began to strangle the boy, demanding that he confess to spying for Ukraine, the local publication Chita.ru reports . A local resident reported the attack to the publication's journalists, and she also sent the editorial office a video of the incident.

Lego, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), has released a set of parts of its famous construction set made from crushed meteorite. As explained by ESA, this is intended to test a promising construction technology on the Moon. For this purpose, it is proposed to use lunar dust, from which blocks for the construction of buildings will be made.

Sicily is already turning into a desert due to drought: since 2003, rainfall has fallen by 40%, and in the summer of 2021, a temperature record was broken - 48.8 ° C. Farmers have to water their cattle with dirty water from a small pond, and they fear that they will soon have to kill all the animals and close the farms - they are calling on the government and even the army for help.

In France, anti-fascists and supporters of left-wing parties took to the streets in mass protests that ended in pogroms and clashes with the police. The riots were triggered by the results of the first round of parliamentary elections, in which the far-right National Rally party received the most votes. According to Huffington Post France, thousands of angry leftists gathered in places like the Place de la Republique in central Paris.

Part of the Crocus City Hall concert hall, which burned down after a terrorist attack in March 2024, may be turned into exhibition space. This was stated by Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov, as reported by RIA Novosti. "There will most likely be an exhibition area there," he said in a conversation with the agency. A few days earlier, the governor of the Moscow region had already said that there would be no new concert hall on the site of the burnt-down Crocus.

The canceled rapper who praised Hitler, and modern Russia - the perfect couple, says music critic Nikolai Ovchinnikov Kanye West came to Moscow, and entertainment media went crazy. Since the beginning of a full -scale war in Ukraine in Russia, there has not been such a status foreign guest. Baza reports that the artist’s concert will be held in Moscow on September 6, but there is no official evidence of this yet.

At her graduation, Tambov Medical College student Darya Petrunina criticized the school's teachers, accusing them of unprofessionalism, bad attitude, and also reminding them of the classes that her group could have been assigned at 10 p.m. A video recording of her speech was distributed online. "Perhaps I am an exception, and only I have been as unlucky as I have been for these four years. I can proudly say that I am completely disappointed in my profession.

Recruiters come to Ukrainian prisons and offer convicts parole in exchange for signing a contract and being sent to war with Russia. Recruiting convicts to participate in military operations has been officially legalized in Ukraine. This was reported by The Washington Post. Journalists visited a rural penal colony in the Dnipropetrovsk region. An army recruiter, a sergeant from the Arey battalion, arrived there.

Russia and Ukraine are facing a "deadly summer" on the front line that will not bring significant territorial gains to either side, The Wall Street Journal journalists and experts warn . The front line stretches for more than a thousand kilometers, and both sides have fortified their defenses well. Thus, the WSJ writes, the warring forces will have to look for gaps in the virtually static defense line. Such tactics of warfare will bring thousands of casualties without much gain on the ground.