Soeren stache / dpa / alamy / vida Press Facebook moderator at work in Leshentrum (Removal Center) in Berlin, July 10, 2017 A group of deputies from United Russia introduced a bill to the State Duma, obliging social networks to delete “illegitimate content” at the request of users. If social networks cannot cope with this task, they face a great fine.

Audio version of Taisiya Bekbulatova's report about Moscow Vice Mayor Anastasia Rakova Anastasia Rakova, 41, a native of Khanty-Mansiysk, has been working as Moscow's vice-mayor for almost seven years. Formally, Rakova heads the mayor's office; in reality, it affects almost all political processes in the city and can interfere in the activities of various departments, sometimes in a very sharp form.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The hostess of the city The 41-year-old native of Khanty-Mansiysk Anastasia Rakova has been working as vice-mayor of Moscow for almost seven years. Formally, Rakova heads the mayor's apparatus; In reality, it affects almost all political processes in the city and can interfere in the activities of a variety of departments, sometimes in a very harsh form.

The former head of the Yukos security service, Alexei Pichugin, convicted of organizing the murders, asked for pardon. As his lawyer, Ksenia Kostromina, explained, Pichugin filed the petition to “enable Russia to enforce two decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, which found the judgments against Pichugin unfair.” Alexey Pichugin is serving a life sentence.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. Da Silva was elected president in 2003 and served as acting head of state in 2011. In 2016, he was charged with money laundering. In addition, he was accused of receiving a villa as a gift from a company that worked with the Petrobras oil company. After the indictment, Da Silva tried to get a job in the government, which would guarantee him immunity.

"We sit down with Roskomnadzor and teach social networks that we need to delete" On Wednesday, July 12, State Duma deputies, unicorn Sergey Boyarsky and Andrei Alshevsky introduced a bill obliging social networks and messengers to delete information "clearly aimed at inciting hatred and propaganda of violence." The document applies to services that use more than two million people. For unfair moderation, companies will face a fine of up to 50 million rubles.

Microsoft's Corporation has released the Seeing AI mobile application designed for visually impaired and blind people. It works on the basis of neural networks: when the user leads the phone camera to the object, the application recognizes it and tells what is happening around. The free Seeing AI application is still available only on iOS and only in the American App Store. When it appears on Android and in other countries, they do not specify Microsoft.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 11, the day of the Valaam wonderworkers Sergius and Herman, as in 2016, arrived at the Valaam Monastery. He will spend three days there. We tell what has already happened on the island. Key words: secret companion, yacht, patriarch. Putin found a secret companion The Zvezda TV channel showed a story in which Vladimir Putin gets out of the car and opens the back door.

Anna Pisarevskaya, the widow of Anton Nosik, asked to help the Life Goes On Charitable Foundation , which she registered in September 2016. The Foundation provides support to families who have lost their breadwinner. Pisarevskaya published on her Facebook bank details for transferring money to the fund. Life goes on. life-goes-on.ru My dears, it is difficult for me to formulate something intelligible now. Therefore, I will write a short...

The Russian state-owned television network Rossiya 24 aired a news segment last month about the supposed connection between the sudden popularity of “fidget spinners” and the actions of Russia’s anti-Kremlin political opposition. Titled “Spinners: Stress Relief, a Get-Rich Scheme, and an Oppositionist Toy,” the report aired on June 19, but it didn’t draw public attention until comments by journalist Alexey Kovalev.

An iceberg with a mass of more than a trillion tons and an area of ​​5800 square kilometers has separated from Antarctica (for comparison, the area of ​​​​Moscow within the Moscow Ring Road is about 900 square kilometers). The iceberg broke away from the Larsen Ice Shelf, which has been gradually eroding since the 1990s. Initially, the glacier consisted of three large parts (A, B and C) and several smaller ones. Larsen A collapsed in 1995, Larsen B in 2002.

Snapchat has a dancing hot dog camera effect. The cartoon sausage roll has a face, arms and legs; she listens to music and dances. The hot dog recognizes surfaces and interacts with the objects around it. Sometimes surprises happen because of this: for example, a hot dog can be hit by a train or carried away by a passing cart. The hot dog looks really cute, so it's no surprise that it has become a very popular meme.

Seven colony officers No. 1 in Elista were sentenced to the terms of imprisonment from one and a half to 11 years for torture by the prisoner Dmitry Batyrev, who died after beating. The 11-year deadlines were received by the assistant to the head of the colony of Kazbek Israilov and the operative of Ceresne Nusunov. They were found guilty of intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, which resulted in the death of the victim by negligence, and abuse of authority.

US National Archives photography discovered by a former FBI employee in the National Archive of the United States. On it, the pilot Amelia Erhart (a figure sitting with her back) and her navigator Fred Nunan (extreme on the left on the pier) in the port of Atoll Jalut in the Pacific Ocean were allegedly removed.

In the Vesti program on the Russia 24 channel, a story was released, the author of which is looking for a connection between the popularity of spinners - toys that rotate around its axis - and the actions of the non-systemic opposition in Russia. The plot "Spinner: a cure for stress, a way to get rich and a toy of the opposition" was released on June 19; in July, drew attention to him.