France defeated Germany 2-0 in the semi-finals of Euro 2016 and reached the final of the tournament, where they will meet with Portugal. The French scored the first goal at the very end of the first half, when the referee awarded Bastian Schweinsteiger a penalty for handballing in his penalty area. It was implemented by Antoine Griezmann. In the second half, he also doubled the advantage of the French.

Wreckage believed to belong to an EgyptAir A320 that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea in May has been found off the coast of Israel. According to the administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the fragments were found north of Tel Aviv. They will be transferred to Egypt, where the crash is being investigated.

In Kyiv, activists of the nationalist association "Svoboda" disrupted the presentation of the book "Where did the Russian land come from" by Ukrainian historian and archaeologist Petro Tolochko. RIA Novosti writes that about 30 activists, including a member of the political council of the party Igor Miroshnichenko, came to the building of the Russian Center for Science and Culture (Rossotrudnichestvo) and occupied the hall where the presentation was to begin.

When Russian police go after Internet users, why do they target people on Vkontakte almost exclusively? Photo: Mikhail Dzhaparidze / AP / Scanpix / LETA According to the human rights group “Sova,” which monitors the enforcement of anti-extremism legislation in Russia, 119 people were convicted last year of criminal activity for posting and reposting content on the social network Vkontakte.

In Pereslavl-Zalessky, the rector of the Holy Trinity Danilov Monastery, Abbot Daniil (Sokolov), was found dead. This was reported by the local TV channel “First Yaroslavl”. It is reported that the body of the clergyman was found on the territory of the monastery. "Komsomolskaya Pravda Yaroslavl" writes that the abbot was found dead on the morning of July 7 in his cell. The death of the rector was confirmed in the Yaroslavl Metropolis.

The state of health of the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, who went on a hunger strike in the pre-trial detention center, has worsened. This was reported to Interfax by his lawyer Olga Mikhailova. “Nikita Belykh continues his hunger strike, he feels worse, he is really getting weaker,” her agency quoted her as saying. According to her, the governor intends to continue the hunger strike until he is allowed to meet with relatives.

How the French reached the final of the home Euro. Online Two years ago, at the World Cup in Brazil, the German team met with the hosts of the tournament just in the semi-finals - and won 7:1. At Euro 2016, the Germans also play in the semi-finals and also with the hosts - the French team. And it will be a very interesting match. We follow live. July 8, 2016 00:02:43 On this, our football editors say goodbye to you. Bonne Nuit! Gute nacht! July 8, 2016 00:01:01 France was stronger today.

Roskomnadzor added to the register of banned sites the page of the Forbes Ukraine website, which contains the 2014 article “Crimean Divorce” about the annexation of Crimea to Russia. The page address was entered into the register on June 27. The page was blocked due to an alteration of the song “Do Russians Want Wars” published in the comments to the article, which the court in Grozny in December 2015 recognized as extremist material . And about.

Valery Igumenov, editor-in-chief of RBC magazine, said that the decision to withdraw the editorial office of the publication from the combined editorial office of the holding is related to the different tasks facing the magazine and the RBC website, and has nothing to do with the change in the management of the combined editorial office. Igumenov promised to cooperate with the new heads of the joint editorial board, Elizaveta Golikova and Igor Trosnikov.

Entertainment Weekly editor Alex Steinman photographed a woman on the New York subway with printouts of Facebook comments. The passenger carefully studied them - apparently, there were more than ten pages. On Twitter, it was suggested that she reads comments from the social network not from her phone, because the Internet does not catch well in the subway.

Sheremetyevo Airport will purchase a set of imitators of explosive devices for training employees involved in screening. The amount of the contract, according to the public procurement website , is 638.8 thousand rubles. The agreement was concluded with the Scientific and Technical Center EVRAAS, a company engaged in the sale of security products, including imitators of explosive devices . A similar competition was announced by the Sochi airport.

Lawyer Valery Volokh, who is defending Kirov Region Governor Nikita Belykh, is a defendant in a criminal case on bribery. This was reported by the publication Novy Kaliningrad with reference to the press service of the Kaliningrad Region Prosecutor's Office. Volokh previously served as the prosecutor of the Nesterovsky District of the Kaliningrad Region. In January 2015, the court sentenced him to eight years in prison on charges of accepting a bribe.

Daniil Turovsky - about the FindFace application and total surveillance technologies Photo: Alexander Utkin for "Medusa" The FindFace application, which allows you to photograph a person on the street, and then find his account on VKontakte, has recently been regularly on the news: with the help of it, art projects are made or poisoning women who are filming in porn.

The International Earth Rotation Service has announced that it will add one second of coordination to time in 2016. As a result, according to UTC, the new year will come a second later. December 31 UTC time will go like this: December 31, 2016, 23:59:59 December 31, 2016, 23:59:60 January 01, 2017, 0:00:00 An extra second is needed so that the universal time, measured by atomic clocks, does not diverge from astronomical time.

In Tatarstan, a case was sent to court against a former police officer in Almetyevsk, Aidar Salmanov, who used a stun gun on a detainee. Mediazona reports this with reference to the victim's lawyer. According to investigators, on February 8, 2016, Salmanov interrogated a 26-year-old resident of Bashkiria suspected of stealing things from a tow truck.