The head of the Ministry of Transport Roman Starovoit said that the cost of air tickets in Russia for the first half of this year increased by about 20%. This was reported by RBC with reference to the performance of the Starovoit at the Eastern Economic Forum (VEF). The minister claims that prices are fixed not only in Russia, but also in other countries. Referring to the data of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, he said that the average price of a ticket in Russia is 9.1 thousand rubles.

Amsterdam authorities decided to introduce restrictions in the central district of the city on the number and size of flower pots that are located on the street. It is reported by The Guardian. According to the publication, local media called this initiative “Operation“ Plant Plant ”. According to restrictions, residents of the capital can have no more than two flower pots in the size of not more than 50x50 centimeters.

The Swedish Radiation Security Directorate asked mushroom pickers to send this year’s crop samples to check the amount of radioactive precipitation 38 years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It is reported by Associated Press. According to the publication, the purpose of the study is to measure the level of cesium-137-a key material that falls into radioactive precipitation. Its half -life is about 30 years. Associated Press notes that mushrooms can absorb it from the soil.

The Boeing Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth, but the American astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunit Williams, whom he had to deliver, remained at the International Space Station (ISS). It is reported by the BBC. According to the publication, the flight lasted six hours. An empty ship moved in autonomous mode after a slopping from the orbital laboratory.

The birth rate in Spain fell about nine months after an extremely hot period in the country. The corresponding study is published in the journal Population Studies. It is reported by The Economist. According to the publication, such an effect as a whole is not too tangible on the planet, but it can intensify as climatic changes accelerate.

In Venice, the 81st film festival ends. The winner of the film contest was the film Pedro Almodovara “Room in the neighborhood”. This was reported by Susanna Alperina in her telegram channel.

In Moscow, the first section of the Trinity line of the metro was opened. She became the 16th branch of the Moscow metro. It is reported by RBC. At the moment, the length of the site is 8.3 kilometers. It consists of four stations: “innovative”, “University of Friendship of Peoples”, “General Tyulenev” and “Tyutchevskaya”. On the "innovatorskaya" provides for a transplant to a large ring line (BCL).

Over the past decades, the population of foxes in Scandinavia has fallen sharply. All due to the fact that the population of lemmings, their traditional production, decreases due to global warming. In the struggle to preserve the species, biologists from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Nina) are bred in captivity before releasing into the protected area. As scientists are trying to save the whole species from the growing climatic threat - in the photo station of "cold".

In the city of Oldem, in the English county of Bolshoi Manchester, a mass grave was found, in which more than 300 bodies belonging to children and babies were buried. It is reported by Sky News. A grave of 12 × 12 feet (about 13 square meters) in the Roiton cemetery was found by a woman who was looking for her brothers, one of whom was born dead, and the other died within five hours in 1962.

At the 81st Venice Film Festival, the premiere of the documentary “Russians in the war” of the Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova was held. The film caused criticism in the art community of Ukraine. This is reported by The Guardian and the Russian BBC service. According to the BBC, in Kyiv Trofimov was accused of trying to justify the occupation of Ukrainian territories, while the director itself claims that her task was to make an anti-war film.

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