Manu Fernandez / AP / Scanpix / Leta Aircraft with the Shapeecoens football club suffered a disaster on the night of November 29, 2016. Only three football players survived - Jackson Folman (left), Elio Neto (in the center) and Alan Rushel. On August 7, a re -collected team of Shapeecoens held a charity match with Barcelona in Spain.

Russians who won green cards in the lottery Trump wants to abolish talk about life in the United States President Donald Trump has prepared new legislation that would make it harder to obtain a green card, which provides foreigners with permanent residency, work authorization, and a fast-track to citizenship.

A journalist for the Berega newspaper, which is published in the city of Tutaev, Yaroslavl region, said that he was forced to resign after he criticized the protection of the region's governor. As Aleksey Krivtsov explained to the 7×7 publication, he was told that if he did not quit, he would be fired under the article. The editor-in-chief of Beregov, Alena Sokolova, said that Krivtsov “suffers from a harmful addiction to alcohol,” and behaves rudely on social networks.

The Russian government has planned to allocate about a billion rubles to the Match TV channel to cover the Winter Universiade 2019, which will be held in Krasnoyarsk. They want to allocate money in 2018 and 2019; only 988 million rubles. According to the draft resolution, subsidies are provided both for equipment rental and for obtaining licenses, permits and frequencies for broadcasting, communications and other expenses.

Interview of MP Maxim Reznik, who has served 10 days in a special detention center Roman Pimenov / PHOTOXPress detention Maxim Reznik on an inconsistent promotion on the Marse Field in St. Petersburg, June 12, 2017 On the evening of August 7, after ten days of imprisonment, Maxim Reznik, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, was released in a special reception. On July 28, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St.

In St. Petersburg, unemployed chess player Vladimir Abrosimov was sentenced to a fine of one hundred thousand rubles for hitting a Russian Guard fighter at a rally on June 12, Rosbalt reports. The case was considered without examining the evidence, since the accused fully admitted his guilt. As the court found, Abrosimov, during an uncoordinated action on June 12 on the Champ de Mars, punched police sergeant Anton Belik on the back because of hostile relations.

Apple has launched an Instagram account. It uploads photos taken on an iPhone (all posts are accompanied by the hashtag #ShotoniPhone - “shot on an iPhone”). Apple does not publish individual photos, but videos that collect a series of shots from different photographers. The videos are accompanied by the comments of the authors. Among the authors that Apple noted in the first series of nine posts is dancer Daniil Simkin from Novosibirsk, the premiere of the American Ballet Theatre.

HBO / "Amediathek" One of the key heroes of “Game of Thrones” Daenerys Targaryen has three dragons. Dragons are an incredible combat unit for Westeros and the main trump card in the claims of the mother of dragons to the iron throne. True, the opponents of Daenerys had a weapon against fire -breathing monsters in the seventh season.

A Moscow judge has rejected a defamation lawsuit by businessman Sergey Mikhailov against opposition politician Alexey Navalny. Mikhailov demanded the retraction of allegations that he is a mafia boss. Lawyers for Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation argued that Navalny never explicitly named Mikhailov in his 2015 investigative film reviewing the supposedly corrupt business ties of Russian Attorney General Yuri Chaika’s family.

A Russian National Security Council commission held in early July reportedly advised the government to “liberalize” federal laws on natural gas exports, taking aim at the monopoly enjoyed by the state gas company Gazprom. According to the newspaper Vedomosti , two means of liberalizing Russia’s gas exports would be limiting Gazprom’s monopoly on gas pipelines used to supply foreign consumers, and expanding Russia’s exports of liquefied natural gas.

Vladimir Putin has instructed his cabinet to increase access to funeral services. The Kremlin is reportedly working on amendments to legislation that would allow for the creation of commercial cemeteries to address problems associated with “paid reservations” at existing cemeteries. According to the newspaper Kommersant , Putin has also ordered the government to simplify the paperwork required for burials.

Belarusian cops nab a visiting Petersburg clergyman on charges of recruiting prostitutes Nikolai Kiriyev's personal Vkontakte page Belarusian state investigators in Vitebsk confirmed to Meduza that they’ve detained a Russian priest on suspicion of pimping. The holy man is charged with attempting to recruit local women to work as prostitutes in a foreign country.

On August 7, volunteers from the Animal Rescue Team caught a meter-long iguana in the Kiev region. The animal was discovered by a local resident who mistook the lizard for a dinosaur. “I’ve already eaten the entire zucchini harvest and trampled the beds,” she told animal rights activists. Published by Kyiv Animal Rescue Group on August 6, 2017 Published by Kyiv Animal Rescue Group on August 6, 2017 Volunteers believe that the iguana was domestic, but escaped from its owner.

The Scottish Vysloukhi Kat, who lives in Japan, had a fight with his fluffy brother dandelion (we hope we correctly translated their names). But to fight both cats was lazy, so it turned out not very spectacular. A fight with a dandelion resembles a fight of two other cats: hard, but technical. Super Funny Brutal Fight Between 2 Cats

With a donation of 3.5 million rubles ($58,300), the Russian Internet giant Yandex has become a sponsor of the nonprofit organization “Wikimedia RU,” which manages the Russian segment of Wikipedia. The funds will support Wikipedia’s Russian projects, including contests organized by Wikinews, Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wiktionaries, and other offshoots.