Photo: Androth09 / Instagram The special correspondent of the BuzzFeed publication Max Sedon, specializing in Russia and Ukraine, has prepared a comic investigation about cat aggression. The heading of the material reads: "Shocking video testing proves the growth of aggression of Russian cats." Sedon quotes the information of Moscow veterinarians that in only one area of ​​Moscow, eight aggressive cats have been sent to quarantine over the past year and a half - eight times more than usual.

Continuation: the court freed the patient with cystic fibrosis The prosecutor's office appealed the decision of the Kochubeevsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory, who released Anton Lanshakov from the colony, who was sick with cystic fibrosis. Despite the fact that the court decided to release him on June 30, Lanshakov remains in imprisonment, and will remain behind bars until the appeal.

The court sentenced Alexander Byvshev, a schoolteacher from the village of Kromy, Oryol region, for publishing a poem in support of Ukraine, reports Grani.ru . Byvshev was sentenced to 300 hours of compulsory work. In addition, he was banned from teaching for two years. Byvshev's laptop was taken away. His bank account is blocked. Alexander Byvshev, who taught German at school, was accused of violating the "extremist" Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) has filed a lawsuit to declare him bankrupt. He indicated that his debts ranged from 10 to 50 million dollars. The bankruptcy filing came almost immediately after a court ordered him to pay $5 million to a woman whose intimate video 50 Cent posted online. In 2014, the court also ordered him to pay $17.2 million to Sleek Audio. She accused him of stealing the design of the headphones. In May 2015, Forbes estimated the artist's annual earnings at $155 million.

Photo: Chenarora / Weibo Attention: of course, you will try to repeat it at home. So, if it doesn’t work, do not crush! You will damage your hand and neck, and no one will come to the hospital, and you will be sad, watch TV and scold the Medusa. No so. On the official page of the Chinese actress Sun Lee in the Sina Weibo microblogs service, a gif appeared on July 10, on which she throws her hand behind her head and reaches her fingers to her ear through the chin.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko promised that not a single political organization in the country "will have any armed cells." He made such a statement at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, which discussed the conflict between the fighters of the "Right Sector" and the police in the city of Mukachevo, Transcarpathian region. According to Poroshenko, the essence of the conflict is the redistribution of smuggling flows.

Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Antonov called the tests of a nuclear bomb without a warhead carried out at a test site in Nevada in early July a provocation. Antonov noted that the bomb was dropped from an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter-bomber. According to the deputy minister, this fact suggests that the United States is working out the possibility of using nuclear bombs from NATO aircraft deployed in Europe.

The head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, canceled the decree on the creation of a commission in the republic to protect the rights of officials. He decided to abandon this idea "in order to avoid ambiguous interpretation of the goals and intentions" of the commission. On July 9, the Crimean government created a commission to protect the rights of Crimean officials. She was supposed to check whether a criminal case was legally opened against this or that official.

The head coach of the Russian national team Fabio Capello terminated the contract with the Russian Football Union. This is reported by Sports.ru, citing its sources. Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said earlier that an official statement about the fate of the Italian coach would be made on July 13 or 14. Rumors about the resignation of Fabio Capello began to circulate after the defeat of the Russian team from Austria in the qualifying match for Euro 2016.

Screengrab: YouTube Three years ago, just in time for Vladimir Putin to win a third presidential term, Russia launched an ambitious transparency measure in its electoral process, installing webcams at voting stations throughout the nation. Much of Russia is abandoning that effort later this year, however, and elections in 2015 won’t offer the same coverage of democracy in action.

The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation appealed to the British authorities with a demand to urgently clarify the situation with the closure of the Rossiya Segodnya account at Barclayʼs. The account of the news agency, emphasized in the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry, was closed on July 8, 2015 unilaterally. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rossiya Segodnya did not receive any notifications about the closure of the account.

What letters Australians write to trees Screenshot: Melbourneurbanforstvisual.com.au In 2013, the Melbourne authorities issued each tree in the city at a unique identifier and their own email address. It was assumed that the townspeople in this way will be able to quickly report the problems that arose with one or another tree. But the inhabitants of Melbourne began to write letters to trees. Real. Someone admired their beauty, someone confessed to them love, and someone discussed politics.

Attention. After the publication of this material, the organizers made correction to the program. Instead of Andrei Smirnov, Viktor Shenderovich will take part in the first dialogue. The Open Library published the names of the participants of the July Dialogues, which will be held on July 25 in the Mayakovsky library in St. Petersburg.

Twelve police officers who participated in the dispersal of a demonstration against the increase in electricity tariffs in Yerevan were reprimanded. This was reported by the press service of the Armenian police. In addition, Lieutenant Colonel Gurgen Abrahamyan, deputy head of the department of public security of the police, was demoted "for gross disciplinary violation of the law on the police" during the detention of a demonstrator.

VKontakte, Russia’s most popular online social network, has shut down an atheist community called There Is No God . When trying to access the group’s page, Internet users now find a notice explaining that it was closed following a Chechen court’s decision that the community is extremist. On May 13, a court in Grozny granted a request by the Attorney General’s Office, which asked to have the community blocked.