Photo: NASA-JHUAPL-SWRI NASA showed the first detailed photograph of the surface of Pluto. It was made by the New Horizons interplanetary station one and a half hours before the maximum rapprochement with the dwarf planet - from a distance of about 77 thousand kilometers. The photograph captures the area of ​​Pluto's equator. According to the researchers, these are the youngest mountains that they have seen in the solar system.

Photo: NASA The American aerospace agency demonstrated how the idea of ​​Pluto has changed over the past 85 years. NASA gathered in one animated image pictures of the dwarf planet received for the entire time of its research. Animation: NASA The first photo is an increased picture of Pluto, taken in 1930, when the planet was opened by the astronomer Clyde Tombo. The remaining photos have been taken since the 1990s-the Hubble space telescope and the New Horizons automatic interplanetary station.

Russian schoolchildren took eighth place at the International Mathematical Olympiad, which took place in Thailand. None of the six Russians received a gold medal - all received silver. According to "Expert", for the first time in 50 years, no one from the Russian or USSR national team won a gold medal. At the 2015 Olympics, Russia was represented by Alexander Zimin, Nikita Gladkov, Ivan Bochkov, Ruslan Salimov, Ivan Frolov and Alexander Kuznetsov.

For the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, Moscow officials are reportedly planning to remove or cover up billboard advertisements throughout the city that feature images of half-naked bodies. According to the website M24.ru , the mayor’s office says city officials are responding to complaints by religious groups that the advertisements are offensive to holiday worshippers. Eid al-Fitr festivities are scheduled to take place in and around the city at 40 different public squares.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said that the Boeing over Ukraine was shot down by an air-to-air missile that was not produced in Russia. According to the official representative of the department, Vladimir Markin, this is confirmed by the results of the examinations.

Pussy Riot’s bid to change the face of Russian criminal justice Photo: Evgeny Feldman / Novaya Gazeta In December 2013, Pussy Riot members Maria Alekhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova left prison two months before their scheduled release, following an amnesty bill signed by President Vladimir Putin. But the two women felt they were leaving unfinished business they started in prison: from fighting to improve detention conditions to holding officials accountable for mistreating prisoners.

The head of Rocketbank Viktor Lysenko explains how cryptocurrencies will change our world Photo: Jim Urquhart / Reuters / Scanpix Vladimir Putin first spoke about the prospects of cryptocurrency, which is in a semi -legal position in Russia. “They are not provided with anything, this money, that’s the whole thing, this is the most important problem. They are not really attached to anything and are not provided with anything.

On July 14, 2015, Roskomnadzor entered the Esquire article “In good shape and score a lot”, published in 2010, in the register of prohibited information. The journal closed access to the article by placing a stub, but it can be read in the cache of search engines. “Traditionally, the editors express a negative attitude towards drug use, as well as towards the actions of Roskomnadzor,” the says .

Screenshot: Super Epic Cats / YouTube In the Super Epic Cats on YouTube, a video was published, which shows a kotzuka - a device named by analogy with the bazuka, but shooting cats. The meaning is this: you scan the cat, and then this thing closes it and shoots clones. Sounds like nonsense, but you just look. Super Epic Cats Catzooka - Cat Launcher! A video about a cat is published in the same channel, which shoots a laser from the eyes and others, no less delusional. Super Epic Cats Laser Cat

Shot: Warcraft Update. Unfortunately, the video has already been deleted. Who managed to see is well done. At the Comic-Con conference, shots from the Warcraft game Duncan Jones were shown-this fragment got into the network. Although the video is not of very good quality, it becomes clear from it what the orcs will look like - Durotan, the leader of the Northern Wolf clan, appears in the video. Embed video hosting Vidme was built in.

At his trial in St. Petersburg this week, a controversial Russian artist has called in his own defense Pavel Yasman, the former investigator who first launched the case against him. Petr Pavlensky, who’s famous for wrapping himself nude in barbed wire, sewing his mouth shut, and hammering a nail through his scrotum, is now in court for setting fire to several tires in downtown St.

The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine appealed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service of Ukraine with a request to ban Emir Kusturica from participating in the concert on July 28, which will be timed to coincide with the millennium since the death of Prince Vladimir the Great of Kiev. According to the Ministry of Culture, the speech of Kusturica, who has repeatedly spoken out in support of Russia's policy, could provoke mass violations of public order.

The artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who is on trial for burning tires on a bridge in St. Petersburg, took a vow of silence at a meeting on July 15. He refused to answer any questions, including with signs. Pavlensky took a vow of silence in protest against the fact that the court forbade the former investigator Pavel Yasman, who, before his dismissal from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, was in charge of the artist's case, to participate in the process as a defender.

The Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar sentenced 26-year-old inventor Dmitry Lopatin to three years probation for ordering a solvent from China (the substance was on the list of banned imports to Russia). Prosecutors demanded that he be given 11 years of real life, but the court refused to find Lopatin guilty of smuggling, and sentenced him only for attempted trafficking in psychotropic substances.

The investigation sent a petition to the Basmanny Court for the arrest in absentia of State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev. The Basmanny Court scheduled the consideration of the petition for July 17, said court spokeswoman Anna Fadeeva. Due to the fact that Ponomarev is outside the Russian Federation, the investigation also plans to initiate an international search for him with subsequent extradition.