The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg reinstated Tatyana Shumilova, chief bibliographer of the Russian National Library (RNL), who was fired in February under the pretext of violating labor discipline. According to Fontanka, the parties entered into a settlement agreement, which was approved by the court. Tatyana Shumilova will be reinstated. The decision to dismiss the public must be declared invalid. So the seniority of the bibliographer is considered uninterrupted.

American student Otto Warmbier, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in North Korea and released in June and returned to the United States, has recorded the death of a significant part of his brain cells. This was announced at a press conference by the doctors of the medical center of the University of Cincinnati. "Extensive tissue death in all parts of the brain" was found as a result of MRI.

In an interview on June 8, TV personality Ksenia Sobchak raised the hot-button issue of ethnicity with opposition politician Alexey Navalny, asking him if he considers his country to be a Russian monoethnic state or a multinational state. Navalny answered that most citizens self-identify as ethnic Russians, while clarifying that the Russian Federation is nevertheless a multiethnic state.

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said that the scale of the problem of "holes" in the blocking system, due to which some non-banned sites were inaccessible in June, seemed to him "greatly exaggerated." “Until now, there has been no threat to the stability of the Runet as a whole and its critical resources,” he said in a statement on the Roskomnadzor website.

Late in the evening of June 12, after the action against corruption, the office of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg opened a criminal case for violence against a government official (Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

IT consultant of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, head of Newcaster.tv company Vladislav Zdolnikov and activist Alexander Brusentsev left for Ukraine due to the fact that Roskomnadzor suspected them of exploiting a vulnerability in the system of blocking banned sites in Russia. This is reported by BBC Russian Service.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić instructed 41-year-old Ana Brnabić, who has held the post of Minister of State and Local Self-Government since 2016, to form a government. Her candidacy and the new composition of the government must be approved by the parliament, in which Vučić's supporters and his party's coalition partners have a majority. Brnabic will be the first woman to head the government of Serbia and the first person in this position to openly declare his homosexuality.

One of the main topics of disputes among programmers is how to beat off the strings when writing code. In many languages ​​of programming, indentes are needed simply “for beauty” so that it is easier for people to read the code. But in some - for example, Python - the indentation is required, they help the compiler understand where the command blocks begin and end. Some developers make spaces of spaces, while others make tabs (usually this symbol is placed by the TAB key).

The Anti-Corruption Center of the Yabloko party found that six companies, five of which Yabloko claims are linked to billionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin, have received contracts to provide meals for children in Moscow schools totaling about 50 billion rubles. A copy of the report of the anti-corruption center headed by Sergei Mitrokhin was received by the editors of Meduza. The contracts provide for the organization of meals in schools for the period up to 2019.

The four most memorable issues of the "Direct Line - 2017" Alexei Druzhinin / SCANPIX / Leta Russian President Vladimir Putin spent his 15th “direct line”, in four hours he answered 73 questions. The Medusa, who carefully monitored the questions and answers on the online , chose the four most memorable. We give questions almost completely, and answers in the genre of retelling.

Maxim Markin, a prisoner at Correctional Colony No. 3 in the Orenburg Region, who told human rights activists about the practice of coercion to commit telephone fraud in the colony, has retracted his words. Video recordings of Markin's new statements were published by the website Orsk.ru. In the video, Markin says that he was pushed to tell about the violations in the colony by another prisoner whom he met in the EPKT .

Interview of Boris Khlebnikov, holder of the main prize "Kinotavra-2017" Ekaterina Chesnokova / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta The main prize of Kinotavra was received by Boris Khlebnikova with Alexander Yatsenko (prize for the best male role) and actress Irina Gorbacheva. This is the first large award of the director of Koktebel, a long -happy life - in 2013 this film was on Berlinal - and the series Associated.

The trailer for The Jungle, starring Daniel Radcliffe, has been released. The film is based on the story of Israeli traveler Yossi Ginsberg, who survived for three weeks in the Amazonian jungle. Movieclips TrailersJungle International Trailer #1 (2017) | Movieclips Trailers In addition to Radcliffe, Lily Sullivan, Thomas Kretschmann and Yasmine Kassim starred in the film. Directed by Greg McLean (Wolf Pit, Darkness). In Russia, the film will be released on screens on September 28, 2017.

Art historian Yuri Mudrov has been appointed the new director of the Museum of St. Isaac's Cathedral, the committee on culture of St. Petersburg reported. Mudrov began work on June 15. According to Interfax, Mudrov has been working "in the field of culture of St. Petersburg since 1982" and has held senior positions in a number of museums. Since 2008, the Museum of St. Isaac's Cathedral has been directed by Nikolai Burov. On May 31, 2017, he left this post.

Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, revealed on Thursday that the United States never formally congratulated Russia on its celebration of Russia Day, which the country observed on Monday. “After we heard all these public statements, it turns out that the U.S. embassy in Moscow never conveyed any formal congratulations to Russian state officials,” Zakharova told reporters on Thursday.