The Riga Municipal Police hired a female house sparrow. As stated on the Riga City Council website, she will work as a junior inspector. Workdays of Inspector Sparrow in Rīgas pašvaldības policija 🐦🐦🐦 Published by Riga.lv on July 10, 2017 The sparrow's name is not specified in the message. Inspektora zvirbuļa pirmā darba diena. Photo: Iluta Published by Rīgas pašvaldības policija on March 24, 2017 It is alleged that this is the sparrow's first working day in the police.

On July 8, a photo taken during the G20 meeting in Hamburg started circulating online showing several world leaders, including President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, huddled around Vladimir Putin. Standing behind the group, you can see German Chancellor Angela Merkel wearing a ribbon of St. George — a patriotic Russian military symbol.

In Ukraine, Russian citizens living in the country will be required to report on their movements. This was stated by Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov. When the new procedure will be introduced and how the Russians will have to report on their trips, he did not specify. Turchynov added that for Russian citizens in Ukraine they will also introduce mandatory registration at the place of residence.

How a failed Krasnodar politician created an army of the elderly to fight Alexey Navalny and other foes Dmitry Lesnov / Yuga.ru Marat Dinayev in his office at the charity “Social Justice” On July 4, members of a movement known as “Putin’s Troops” raided Alexey Navalny’s presidential campaign office in Krasnodar. Made up mostly of elderly people, the group chanted slogans, ripped up campaign materials, and flipped over furniture.

AHMAD Al-Rubaye / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The Iraqi military on Sunday, July 9, announced the liberation of Mosul from the militants of the Islamic State. This city in the north of Iraq was called the second “capital of the IG” after Rakka, it was in Mosul that the leader of the terrorist group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the creation of the Islamic caliphate. Now the Islamists are knocked out, the offensive on the main stronghold of IG, Syrian Rakka is also ongoing.

TASS announced the decision of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky to postpone the showing of the ballet "Nureyev" by Kirill Serebrennikov, and then tried to hide this news. Journalist Oleg Kashin drew attention to this. Around 15:30 on July 10, TASS published an article “Source: the screening of Serebrennikov’s production of Nureyev was postponed by order of Medinsky.” The media, including Meduza, published their news based on it .

In Moscow, a fire broke out in the Rio shopping center on Dmitrovsky highway. 14 people were sent from the shopping center to hospitals, four are in serious condition. According to Interfax, the area of ​​smoke was 70,000 square meters. The fire area is about a thousand square meters. According to TASS , the smoke exhaust system probably did not work, as a result of which the shopping center was covered in smoke.

Jackson's chameleon named Spike first saw a stream of water flowing from a faucet. He was interested in this phenomenon, and after a few seconds, Spike was already trying to climb up the jet. Male Jackson chameleons have three horns on their heads - one on the forehead and two above the eyes.

Everett Kennedy Brown / EPA / Scanpix / Leta the clergyman rises to the mountain on the island of Okinosima to conduct a cleansing ritual. June 9, 2017 UNESCO expanded the list of world heritage objects under the protection of the UN.

The Presnensky District Court dismissed the lawsuit filed by journalist Elena Zubova against Forbes publisher Alexander Fedotov and editor-in-chief Nikolai Uskov, Kommersant writes. Zubova accused the publisher and editor-in-chief of Forbes of changing editorial policy, which forced her to write a letter of resignation. The journalist asked the court to recover 1.2 million rubles from Fedotov.

On Monday, July 10, the Bolshoi Theater (GABT) held a press conference, at which the General Director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin spoke about the reasons for postponing the ballet "Nureyev" staged by Yuri Possokhov and Kirill Serebrennikov. According to the official version, the ballet is very complex - and in terms of choreography, it was not ready for the premiere on July 11.

Ukraine introduces biometric control for all citizens crossing the country's borders. This was announced at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

GUFSIN of Russia in the Novosibirsk Region The Yabloko party holds the campaign “ Time to return home! "Activists in different cities arrange pickets and tell passers -by how much the Russian campaign in Syria costs - and what could this money be spent on.

Siemens intends to sue those involved in the supply of gas turbines for power plants manufactured at its enterprise to Crimea, bypassing the sanctions. In the Crimea, according to a statement released by the company, at least two Siemens turbines got. “For several months, we have repeatedly received assurances from the buyer that there will be no deliveries to Crimea,” the company said.

One of the organizers of the "Russian Marches" and other nationalist actions, Yuri Gorsky, escaped from house arrest in Moscow. The nationalist, who is accused of calling for extremism, is currently in Lithuania. The investigation petitioned for house arrest for Gorsky, citing the fact that he could flee the country. Nationalist Yuri Gorsky is the organizer of the "Russian Marches" in 2015 and 2016.