Shot: BBC Earth Unplugged / YouTube The BBC has published a fragment of the upcoming television show Big Blue Live, which tells about blue whales. In the frame, Zoologist Mark Karoodine says that it is very difficult to find giant marine mammals: they are usually in depth, and you can easily swim over the whales without noticing them. On the day of filming in the sea there were many waves, Carudaine says, and this also made it difficult to search.

What became the “Russian railways” over 10 years of the reign of Vladimir Yakunin Photo: Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant Vladimir Yakunin, who announced an ambulance a few days ago, has been led by Russian Railways for 10 years. According to the reform plan of the monopoly, which was developed in the early 2000s, it was assumed that Russian Railways would only receive money for the use of railway tracks and infrastructure, and private traders will be carried out.

A LiveJournal blogger by the name of Otakvot has published evidence that he says demonstrates the locations of several "troll factories" throughout Russia: companies that pay people to blanket the blogosphere and news media with pro-Kremlin comments. Otakvot says he was able to locate these centers using the service Google Trends, which reveals how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.

In connection with the fire on the Moscow River, a criminal case was opened . As stated in the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the case was initiated under article 246 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of the rules of environmental protection in the course of work”). No suspects have been reported. on the Moscow River On August 12 , oil products spilled in water caught fire .

The price of Brent oil on the ICE exchange fell below $47 per barrel. As of 18:45 Moscow time, one barrel cost 46.83. Later, the price rose slightly and slightly exceeded $47. The last time Brent oil was so cheap was in March 2009 during the global economic crisis. The price of oil is consistently falling due to the fact that sanctions may soon be lifted from Iran, which will begin deliveries to the world market. In addition, China is expected to consume less oil than planned.

Photo: David Alliet / flickr A particularly daring entrepreneur in the town of Borisoglebsk (about 380 miles south of Moscow) is in trouble with local police, after being reported for selling pornographic magazines and videos from an Orthodox gift shop near a church. According to Kirill Mekhelkin, a senior aide to the local district attorney, the businessman runs a small kiosk near an Orthodox church, and often complains that the venue brings him little profit.

Shot: Devinsupertramp / YouTube American video blogger David Graham shot a parody video based on the film Mad Max: Road Road. The parody repeats the scene of the chase - only Max and its pursuers are sitting on racing cards. Shoots occur using paintball rifles. Devinsupertramp Mad Max Gokart Paintball War - 4K! The video was sponsored by WB Games, the game unit of Warner Bros. The video was shot in support of the game on the Mad Max, which is released in September.

In Vladivostok, by order of the police, the graffiti "Earthlings, unite" was painted over. According to Felix Mashkov, one of the employees of the Concrete Jungle design studio, which made the drawing, the police demanded that he write an explanatory note about the image. Here's what the graffiti looked like before: Now the wall looks like this . According to Vostok -Media, the police checked and concluded that the graffiti could be extremist. Now the artists are being investigated.

Who are Jeremy Corbin and Bernie Sanders, who are visited to the leaders of the Labor and Democrats Photo: Win McNamee / Getty images / AFP / Scanpix In the UK, September 12, the results of the vote for the new leader of the Labor Party will be summed up, in the USA the preparations for the elections of the unified candidate from the Democrats are in full swing.

Scientists from the University of Maryland have developed a system , thanks to which users will be able to transmit information bypassing certain countries. Information is transmitted by packages over the network, and users, as a rule, do not know what countries their letters will be sent through. In a number of countries where Internet censorship is introduced, data packages can be replaced.

Officials in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, one of Ukraine's two separatist enclaves, have announced that 666 individuals from its territory have been admitted to 11 different universities and colleges in Russia. The majority of these students will be attending Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Southern Federal University, and Don State Technical University.

The gritty world of Russia's underground professional wrestling. A photos series Photo: Pavel Volkov In the United States, "professional wrestling sports entertainment" is a multimillion-dollar industry with television broadcasts, sold-out stadiums, and adoring fans from coast to coast.

The Moscow authorities allocated a plot of 19 hectares to the Night Wolves in a specially protected area in the Krylatskaya floodplain opposite the Fantasy Island residential complex, RBC reports. The Night Wolves received this site as compensation for the land under the Sexton bike club in the Mnevniki district, on the site of which it is planned to build a parliamentary center.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Kuril District began an investigation into cruelty to wild animals in connection with the publication of a video where unknown people are trying to run over a bear in an SUV. In the video, an animal caught in the wheel of an SUV is trying to free itself, and the authors of the video claim that they ran over it several times. One of the participants suggests slaughtering a bear.

Some schoolchildren in Kaliningrad, Russia's western exclave, are reportedly being called to class early, despite the fact that it's still summer vacation, because Acting Governor Nikolai Tsukanov is planning a visit.