Those killed in the attack on hotels in Egyptian Hurghada were citizens of Germany, not Ukraine. This was reported to Reuters by a representative of the security service of the Red Sea region, General Mohamed el-Hamzawi. As a result of the incident, a tourist from the Czech Republic was injured, the agency was confirmed in the Foreign Ministry of this country. Earlier it became known that a citizen of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, as well as two citizens of Armenia, suffered.

Turkish guards detain a Russian family with small children at the Syrian border. They were probably trying to join ISIS On July 12, reporters learned that a Russian family from the Saratov region had been detained at the Turkish border. Guards detained 24-year-old Svetlana Ukhanova, her husband Evgeny Kochaari, and her two young children as the family attempted to cross into Syria. Officials believe that the group was trying to join ISIS.

Yandex will receive a "minor" stake in Uber under the terms of an agreement to create a combined company to operate in Russia and some other countries of the former USSR. Ochir Mandzhikov, director of public relations at Yandex, told Meduza about this. “We have the right to sell these shares back to Uber at an agreed price and within a specified time frame,” he said. About how many shares in question, Mandzhikov did not specify.

A court in Manchester has sentenced British citizen Benjamin Stimson, who participated in the war in eastern Ukraine on the side of the DPR separatists. According to the BBC Russian Service, Stimson received five years and four months in prison on charges of terrorism. This is the first such verdict in the UK in connection with the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Stimson pleaded guilty to facilitating terrorist activities.

Roads turned into rivers, a roof flowed in the State Duma. Photos and videos of eyewitnesses Due to the rain in the afternoon of July 14, roads and sidewalks were flooded in Moscow. Eyewitnesses upload a video on which heated streams and huge puddles are visible. In addition, in the State Duma on Friday the roof flowed - I had to interrupt the meeting. "Medusa" monitors what is happening in the capital in real time.

Vladimir Kekhman leaves the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater. It doesn’t matter, he managed to do a lot there Kirill Kuhamar / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Kekhman announced that he was leaving the post of director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater (Novat). The acting director will be the chief director of the theater Vyacheslav Starodubtsev.

Disney showed a layout of the Star Wars Land entertainment parks, which will appear in Disneyland in California and Disneyword in Florida. It is planned to open the parks by 2019; The construction of each of them will cost a billion dollars. Published by Star Wars July 13, 2017 The model of the parks was presented at the D23 Expo conference in California.

A Russian citizen was injured in an attack on a hotel in Hurghada on July 14. This was announced to Interfax at the Russian Consulate General in Hurghada. “The woman received several stab wounds,” said a representative of the Consulate General. According to him, there is no threat to her life. According to Consul General Dzhashmet Boltaev, the victim is a citizen of both Russia and Ukraine. Two citizens of Armenia were also injured in the attack, said .

Iraqi police showed cars of the Islamic State terrorists, captured during the assault on Mosul. In such vehicles, militants lay bombs for attacks. To protect the suicide bomber from shelling on the way to the target, thick metal sheets are hung on cars, leaving only small cracks for the review. In order to mask the car, they paint in camouflage or blue, like Iraqi police cars.

Irina Solovyanova / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5) Novolazarevskaya research station. Photo taken from helicopter in February 2006 In March 2017, Petersburger Alexander Krasnikov set off for Antarctica to work as a system manager. His rotation at Russia’s Novolazarevskaya research station will last a full year. The website Bumaga recently published a story about Krasnikov’s preparations for his expedition and about his life now in Antarctica.

Update. Initially, it was reported that two tourists from Ukraine were killed in the attack on the hotel. Later it became known that the victims were German citizens. In Hurghada, two tourists were killed in an attack on a hotel, reports The Telegraph, citing the Egyptian Interior Ministry and sources in the security services. Reuters clarifies that two women died. Four more people were injured. The Telegraph notes that there is no official data on the citizenship of the victims.

In Jerusalem, after an attack on police officers on the Temple Mount, the city's chief mufti, Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, was detained, AFP reports citing his son. He was detained during a rally by local Muslims protesting the closure of the mosque for Friday prayers in connection with the incident. The reason for the detention is unknown. The clergyman later informed the agency of his release.

We explain why - along with Fujifilm Fujifilm Over the past four to five years, peeling cameras have appeared on the shelves of photographic equipment stores that can compete with traditional mirrors: both give an excellent picture, for those and others there is a replaceable optics. Medusa, along with Fujifilm , figured out whether the mirror is crucial and what advantages modern mirrorless have.

In early July, it was reported in several US media outlets that Chicago's The Newberry Science Library had asked internet users to help decipher a 17th-century spell book. We are talking about a handwritten book under the conditional name "The Book of Magic Spells" , which, according to scientists, was written by two people in England in the 17th century. The book is written in English and Latin, the names of the authors are unknown.

Five unanswered questions about Nemtsov’s murder; an interview with the volunteer who parted ways with Navalny; and Moscow’s new beef with Washington over diplomatic visas Five unanswered questions from the Boris Nemtsov murder trial. On July 3, a Moscow court sentenced five men convicted of murdering Boris Nemtsov — Zaur Dadayev, the brothers Anzor and Shadid Gubashev, Terirlan Eskerkhanov, and Khamzat Bakhayev — to prison terms ranging from 11 to 20 years.