Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The word officer and complete Despacito Evgeny Berg and Alexei Ponomarev are discussing the debate of Igor Strelkov and Alexei Navalny, the confrontation between video bloggers and the leadership of the Russian YouTube office, the adventures of American journalists in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Grozny and the main musical and serial hits of summer.

Media owner Demyan Kudryavtsev was stripped of his Russian citizenship on February 2, 2017, according to a letter from the Interior Ministry to Kudryavtsev, obtained by the news agency RBC . Documents also show that Kudryavtsev voluntarily surrendered his Russian passport on March 16. Kudryavtsev has refused to comment on the story, though a source close to him confirmed to Meduza that the prominent media owner has indeed lost his Russian citizenship.

Paraphrasing Putin's remarks today to a bunch of schoolkids in Sochi Kremlin Press Service On July 21, Vladimir Putin met with a studio audience packed with youngsters from Sochi's “Sirius School for the Gifted.” In a televised event , the president fielded a lot of very different questions, sharing personal thoughts about everything from nicknames to the formation of our solar system. Summarizing Putin’s remarks, Meduza paraphrases the president’s Friday performance in Sochi.

Media manager Demyan Kudryavtsev was deprived of Russian citizenship on February 2, 2017. RBC writes about this with reference to a letter to Kudryavtsev from the deputy head of the citizenship department of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, Irina Tsyplyaeva. In addition, at the disposal of RBC was an act on the seizure of a voluntarily surrendered passport, dated March 16.

Sources tell the newspaper Vedomosti that the management at Forbes Russia has been putting pressure on staff members appearing as witnesses in a lawsuit brought by journalist Elena Zubova, a former reporter at Forbes who says changes to the outlet’s editorial policy by publisher Alexander Fedotov and chief editor Nikolai Uskov forced her to resign. After reporter Maria Abakumova appeared as a witness in court, Zubova says Forbes Russia suddenly forced her to go on an unscheduled vacation.

The President on his plans for the future, feminism and bitcoin I have not yet decided whether I will leave the presidency or not. There is no successor. Certain political personalities are trying to speculate on corruption, and this cannot be done. The main event in life is the collapse of the USSR. Three main values: life itself, love and freedom. You can write treatises about it. There is no time for Instagram. We are wary of bitcoin. You can't dodge the army.

The leadership of the Russian Forbes is putting pressure on employees who acted as witnesses at the trial at the suit of journalist Elena Zubova, who announced an illegal change in the editorial policy of the publication. This is reported by Vedomosti. The fact that witnesses - journalists Elena Berezanskaya and Maria Abakumova - may be under pressure, Zubova herself said at a press conference.

US President Donald Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, has resigned, The New York Times reported, citing a source. The reason for the dismissal was Spicer's disagreement with the appointment of businessman Anthony Scaramucci as director of communications for the White House, the newspaper writes. Trump suggested that Spicer continue to work, but he resigned, calling the appointment of Scaramucci a big mistake.

Roughly three weeks ago, Russian police and pro-Kremlin activists started harassing Alexey Navalny’s volunteers with renewed vigor. The nationwide surge in raids on the opposition politician’s campaign offices followed an announcement by the head of Russia’s Central Election Commission, claiming that Navalny would only appear on the presidential ballot next March “by some miracle,” referring to federal laws that prohibit his candidacy as a recently convicted felon.

Ahead of summer recess, Russia's State Duma races ahead with a mountain of far-reaching legislation Vladimir Fedorenko / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA Ahead of its summer recess, the State Duma passed final drafts (third readings) of 69 very different pieces of legislation. Many of the laws adopted in this hurried flurry of activity will likely have a profound impact on the lives of millions of ordinary Russians.

In Zimbabwe, a hunter killed Xandu the lion, the son of Cecil the lion, who was killed by American dentist Walter Palmer in 2015. Xanda was killed July 7 outside Hwange Park, AFP reported. He was six years old - hunting a lion of this age is legal, notes The Telegraph. The death of a lion became known after a local hunter Richard Cook returned his electronic collar to scientists (like Cecil, Xanda was the object of research at Oxford University).

The Investigative Committee asked the court to release teacher Dmitry Bogatov from the pre-trial detention center and place him under house arrest. Alexei Teptsov, a lawyer who defends Bogatov, told Meduza about this. According to Teptsov, the investigation is filing a motion to change the measure of restraint in connection with Bogatov's state of health. “Nothing happened, but the medical documents that were provided resulted in such a form of reaction,” the lawyer said.

A government committee in St. Petersburg has refused to pay compensation to 15 people injured in a subway bombing on April 3, earlier this year. According to the committee’s official report, medical examiners concluded that the 15 victims in question suffered no harm in the attack. Of the 82 individuals who petitioned the state for compensation, only 67 requests were satisfied, resulting in the total payment of 46 million rubles ($778,160) from the state and municipal budgets.

Adam Chelstowski / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Promotion against judicial reform to the presidential palace in Warsaw. July 20, 2017 For more than a week in Warsaw and other cities of Poland, rallies and protest performances continue. Oppositionists and many local residents protest against the judicial reform of the ruling party “Law and Justice” - it subordinates the courts to the Polish Ministry of Justice, that is, it actually deprives the judiciary in Poland of Independence.

Russia’s State Duma passed final versions of legislation that will impose new restrictions on instant messengers and prohibit the use of technologies that make it possible to circumvent Internet censorship. Both draft laws were adopted with overwhelming majorities.