The police launched a check on the application of a resident of the Rostov region, who accused Zemfira of hooliganism at a concert in 2013. The applicant is represented by Yaroslav Mikhailov from Kirov, who previously accused Ksenia Sobchak of insulting the feelings of believers. “The person whose interests I represent decided to report to the police just now, because he recently attended a concert of the singer in Georgia with a child. Zemfira waving the Ukrainian flag .

The Ukrainian nationalist movement "Right Sector" (an organization banned in Russia) gathered several thousand people on the Maidan. The leadership of the movement calls this action a people's council. According to the Ukrayinska Pravda publication, from one to four thousand people take part in the action. TV channel "112 Ukraine" reports about six thousand participants. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine noted that the rally was held without incident.

The program of celebrations in honor of the millennium since the death of Prince Vladimir provides for a reception in the Kremlin with the participation of 400 people and a water procession in the Crimea. The reception will take place on July 28. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that he does not exclude the presence of Vladimir Putin at this event.

In Moscow, a number of streets will introduce an increased rate for long-term parking. From the second hour, one hour will cost 130, not 80 rubles. Maxim Liksutov, the head of the Moscow Department of Transport, did not say which streets will increase parking prices. It is known that the tariff increase will affect about three thousand parking spaces (6.5 percent of the total). Most likely, prices will rise in the very center. The new tariff will come into effect on August 10.

Archaeologists who have been excavating since June 2015 in the settlement of Kültepe in the Turkish province of Kayseri have found more than 23,000 clay cuneiform tablets. They reveal some details of the social structure in Anatolia four thousand years ago. So, according to scientists, the tablets confirm that the inhabitants of the ancient city of Kanish in the XX-XIX centuries BC wrote letters to each other and made written calculations.

Photo: HeathCliff Omalley / Rex / Vida Press The French screbble championship was won by a native of New Zealand Nigel Richards, who does not know the French language. In the final, which took place on July 20, he defeated the representative of Gabon, who is fluent in French. Moreover, during the second batch of Nigel Richards, he successfully challenged his opponent, who used the wrong form of the word.

The Ukrainian nationalist movement "Right Sector" (an organization banned in Russia) at a closed congress in Kiev demanded a referendum on no confidence in the president, government and parliament of Ukraine, as well as the abolition of the Minsk agreements and the legalization of volunteer battalions. It was also decided at the congress that the Right Sector would not take part in the local elections to be held in Ukraine in the fall.

Photo: Olga Kuzkova's personal Vkontakte page Olga Kuzkova, the “Miss Charm” winner of this year’s Miss Russia Premier League beauty contest, has lost her title, after being accused of sympathizing with white supremacists. The scandal began earlier this week, when Internet users discovered pictures on her Vkontakte social media page advocating the burning of Jews and North Caucasians, as well as photographs of her giving the Nazi salute.

Photo: Mary Anne Cardinale / Facebook Photo: Mary Anne Cardinale / Facebook They put on an oxygen mask resembling a cap on a lifeless animal, so that the whole cat’s head was placed in it. Oxygen masks of this form are invented specifically for pets and are of different sizes. The victim came to her senses in a few minutes.

In Kaluga, on July 20, a pensioner died, who set himself on fire in the Russian Post office because of a low pension. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation officially confirmed that it was self-arson. “You can already tell that these are his conscious protest actions. He fought for a long time over one question, and his nerves could not stand it. The motives are clear enough.

The publication about Gawker scandals went against its principles: The New York Times On July 20, a popular American site about gossip, scandals and all in the world Gawker lost two leaders: Gawker Media Executive Editor Tommy Crags and chief editor of the site Max Reed in protest against the arbitrariness of the owners of the publication.

Preliminary hearings on the case of Ukrainian serviceman Nadezhda Savchenko in the court of Donetsk, Rostov region will be held on July 30. This was reported by the press secretary of the Donetsk City Court Tatiana Dieva. According to her, the meeting will be held behind closed doors. The lawyer for the Ukrainian serviceman, Mark Feigin, said that Savchenko had already been taken to one of the detention centers in Rostov-on-Don, which one is unknown.

A former prison inmate in Donetsk describes how the separatists changed life behind bars Illustration: Anya Leonova / MediaZone The war in eastern Ukraine has lasted more than a year now, and all public institutions in the Donetsk region—including prisons—have spent this period operating in a military emergency. The news agency MediaZona recently spoke to a former prisoner from Donetsk—a man who entered a penitentiary there when it was still under Kiev’s control.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation has prepared a bill on fines for organizers of public Wi-Fi networks that evade user registration. For connecting users to public Wi-Fi networks without identification, individual entrepreneurs will face a fine of 5-50 thousand rubles, legal entities - 100-200 thousand rubles.

The search engine employee was angry with the leadership by opening the salaries of colleagues Photo: Christian Hartmann / Reuters / Scanpix In large companies, as a rule, employees do not discuss salaries - no one knows how even those who are sitting with them in the same room receive. The Google employee Eric Baker did not like this unwritten rule: she created an open table in which her colleagues began to make her own salaries. It turned out that employees were discriminated.