The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved marijuana-based drugs for the first time, the Associated Press reports. Epidiolex is designed to help people with two rare types of congenital epilepsy. The seizure-reducing drug was tested on 500 volunteers and is a strawberry flavored syrup. The main component of the drug is the chemical cannabidiol, which is part of cannabis. Cannabidiol itself does not cause drug intoxication.

The Russian national team in the match of the 1/8 finals of the World Cup will play with Spain, and Uruguay with Portugal. The composition of the pairs was determined after the matches in group B were played on the evening of June 25. Portugal played with Iran in a draw 1:1. The Portuguese took the lead at the very end of the first half after Quaresma's goal, in the middle of the second half, Cristiano Ronaldo did not score a penalty.

Sasha Mordovian / Getty Images deputy of the State Duma Adam Delimkhanov (left), the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, the speaker of the Chechnya parliament Magomed Daudov. Almost the entire control system in Chechnya is personally tied to Ramzan Kadyrov and on people close to him. The BBC Russian Service considered that out of 158 large officials in Chechnya, 30% are Kadyrov’s relatives, 23% are fellow villagers, another 12% are friends of the Chechen leader and their relatives.

Lawyers for Concord Management and Consulting, a company owned by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, which the United States accuses of interfering in the presidential election, called the appointment of special prosecutor Robert Mueller to the post of head of the investigation illegal, CNN writes.

Anton Zavyalov / Diaghilev festival Scene from the play "Jeanne at the stake" From June 14 to 24, the International Diaghilev Festival was held in Perm - the largest regional review of musical performances and concerts of academic music, which is organized by the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater.

Students and graduates of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) demanded the closure of Rosobrnadzor, which on June 21 deprived the university of state accreditation. The initiative group's petition is posted on Change.org.

The Russian team suffered its first defeat at the World Cup, losing to the Uruguay team with a score of 0:3. And if the game of the Russian national team itself almost made the fans happy (they finally recognized their team, which loses all the time), then the commentators of Channel One annoyed many viewers. The fact is that Pavel Zanozin and Evgeny Savin tried to evaluate the game of the Russian team as positively as possible.

State Duma deputies Sergei Shargunov (KPRF) and Alexei Zhuravlev (not a member of any faction) submitted to parliament a bill to abolish criminal liability for reposts on the Internet. The document was published on the website of the State Duma. The authors of the initiative believe that the reposts of news and messages on social networks are “insignificant in terms of the degree of public danger”, and therefore cannot be considered a criminal offense.

NASA image of the ozone layer above the South Pole. In purple and blue, zones are marked, where the ozone layer is thinner. June 23, 2018 In May 2018, scientists recorded a sharp increase in emissions of the HFU-11 harmful substance into the atmosphere. Even 30 years ago, it became one of the substances prohibited by the Montreal protocol destroying the ozone layer.

June 25. Russia lost to Uruguay at the World Cup The Russian national team lost the last match of the group tournament at the World Cup to Uruguay - our players conceded three unanswered goals from the South Americans . Two goals were conceded at the very beginning of the match - and fans on the Internet began to joke that after incredible meetings with Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the team’s play had again become the way we are used to seeing it .

Update . The Kiev police found the kidnapped. He has "minor bodily injuries". Kiev police are looking for two people who kidnapped the son of a diplomat from Libya on June 25, reports Interfax-Ukraine . Around noon in the city center, the criminals put a 26-year-old man in a Volkswagen Golf car and drove away in an unknown direction. Eyewitnesses contacted the police, after which the operatives arrived at the scene and the “Interception” plan was announced in the city.

Facts "Medusa" Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Vida Press What Navalny writes The founder of the Corruption Fund Alexei Navalny published a note on his website, in which he criticizes the increase in the retirement age in Russia. He explains the essence of the reform in his own example - the average Russian is 42 years old.

For those who are lucky and who have not watched Whether it's the new reputation of the Russian national team, or the players have really become some other after two victories, but for the first 10 minutes it seemed that the Russians were playing smart: they were running in the right direction, opening up, passing into free zones. And this is even without Zhirkov, Fernandez and Golovin, whom Cherchesov decided not to put on the match with Uruguay!

The editor-in-chief of the BlogSochi website, Alexander Valov, who is in a pre-trial detention center, stuck a pen in his stomach. The journalist was hospitalized with a penetrating wound to the abdominal cavity. At the hospital, Valov's wound was sewn up, and the next day he was sent back to the isolation ward. Valov wounded himself during a hunger strike, which he had been holding since 4 June.

The judge of the Leninsky District Court of Ufa Nail Idiatov scattered salt at the courtroom, and circled its table with a strip of salt. According to the local publication Prufu.ru, this happened before the meeting at which they should have considered the case of pollution in the city of drinking water. “I go into the hall and see that through the threshold, around us and around the judge’s table, salt was poured with stripes.