YouTube may experience disruptions in Russia due to problems with equipment owned by Google, Rostelecom reported on its website. "Due to problems with the operation of the said equipment and the impossibility of expanding it in the context of the growth of processed traffic, there is a serious overload of the existing capacities, including at peering junctions.

The retailer M.Video-Eldorado has contacted the Samara Region departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee with a request to initiate criminal cases due to numerous requests for compensation from customers after purchasing allegedly damaged smartphones. This was reported by Vedomosti, citing an anonymous source. The company claims that buyers abused their rights, citing the Consumer Protection Act.

Magadan Region Prosecutor Dmitry Razuvaev promised to file a lawsuit to have the regulation allowing euthanasia of homeless animals declared illegal. Kedr drew attention to this. The publication notes that in February of this year, Magadan Mayor Yuri Grishan ordered amendments to be prepared to the regional law that would allow the killing of animals if they spent more than 15 days in a special point.

What became the President of Ukraine, his colleagues, friends and Western officials said “All I wanted five years ago is a liberal country with a liberal economy,” Vladimir Zelensky said Reuters in May 2024, on the five -year anniversary of his inauguration.

Scientists from Oxford have discovered a mutation in genes that causes serious delays in human development – ​​and subsequently leads to disability. The new genetic disease has already been diagnosed in hundreds of people in the US and Europe. The study was published in the journal Nature. The mutation was found in the RNU4-2 gene. Patients with the disorder cannot speak or eat independently. They also often suffer from seizures.

Research conducted by a group of American scientists led by Catherine Schilling, associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York, showed that tampons contain arsenic and lead, CNN reports . The researchers note that the levels of the chemicals were low, but there is no safe level of lead exposure for humans, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Trainer Alena Maslyanova has died in St. Petersburg. Her husband, trainer Maxim Maslyanov, reported this on the social network VKontakte. “Yesterday, my love, my other half, the irreplaceable and outstanding circus artist Alena Maslyanova, tragically died,” he wrote. The state agency TASS, citing a police source, writes that Maslyanova died as a result of a bear attack. The trainers reportedly kept two bears on their property in the village of Pargolovo.

Starting from the New Year, Russians will pay an increased income tax, legal entities will pay an increased profit tax, and hotels will pay a new tourist tax. President Vladimir Putin signed the corresponding law. The document will come into force on January 1, 2025. Russian citizens will switch to a five-stage system of paying personal income tax.

In recent years, their number has grown 15 times, but almost nothing is known about them. Who are they and what they blame them for? The Russian authorities set an absolute record for “identified spies” allegedly operating in Russia: if in 2022 only one person was condemned under the article “Spying”, then in 2023 - 15 people. The growth rate is so high that in the first half of 2024 the number of new affairs has already exceeded the indicators of 2023.

The Prosecutor General's Office has demanded that Ivan Filippov's novel "Mouse" be removed from sale. This was reported by the founder of the Freedom Letters publishing house, Georgy Urushadze, on his Facebook page. Urushadze posted part of the notification from the department. "There is no reasoning, although it is interesting why the mouse. What kind of biography are they making for our furry one," the head of the publishing house wrote.

Russian Yuri Frolov told CNN about his visit to a North Korean camp as a teenager. He said the only difference from Russian camps was that there was no internet. Frolov, now 25, went to the North Korean camp in the summer of 2015. The two-week trip cost his family $500.

The American Cancer Society conducted a study that found that nearly half of cancer deaths could be prevented through lifestyle changes, CNN reports . Arif Kamal, chief patient officer for the American Cancer Society, says nearly 50 percent of deaths were due to preventable risk factors.

The parents of three-year-old Misha Bakhtin, who suffers from a rare genetic disease, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type 1, have managed to get the authorities to allocate him the expensive drug Risdiplam. The boy's mother, Yana Bakhtina, told Kholod about this. "Today, our son is provided with the drug "Risdiplam".

A serviceman from Chuvashia opened fire at a unit in the Belgorod region and fled. This was reported by the Telegram channels Baza and Shot . According to Baza, on the evening of July 11, a soldier opened fire, killing two people and wounding another. The Telegram channel claims that the soldier took a Kalashnikov machine gun and 70 rounds of ammunition with him, but the weapon was found near the unit. Shot claims that the man signed a contract with the Russian army and held the rank of private.

Three Swiss political parties have set out to block the country from hosting the Eurovision final, The Guardian has learned . The Conservatives plan to “block celebrations of Satanism and the occult” by holding referendums in cities bidding to host the five-day show scheduled for May 2025.