Probably the best match of this World Cup First half without goals, although Belgium attack all the time. And then - when the teams come out after the break - Japan unexpectedly scores on the counterattack. A minute later, Hazard hits the post. And after three more - Inui scores the second goal against Belgium with a long-range shot! Belgium rushes to recoup.

Deputy Energy Minister Kirill Molodtsov will leave the department, RBC reports citing sources. Molodtsov's new place of work will be the presidential administration. What position he will take is not yet clear; according to various sources, he can become an assistant or adviser to President Vladimir Putin or an assistant to the head of the presidential administration, Anton Vaino.

Shocked by a dramatic World Cup victory over Spain, Russians are fulfilling all kinds of long-shot promises made in desperation before Sunday Russia's unprecedented advance to the FIFA World Cup quarterfinals and shocking victory over Spain means a lot to many Russians. It's a national event and a cause for celebration. It's also something even the most ardent fans didn't expect, and now a lot of those folks are honor-bound to live up to some pretty wild public promises.

Businessman Gennady Timchenko has sold his private jet Gulfstream G650, Reuters reports, citing aircraft registry documents. According to the agency, this is due to the impossibility of using the jet after sanctions were imposed on Timchenko. The new owner of the business jet, the agency points out, since June 2018 has been the Cypriot subsidiary of the Russian Direct Investment Fund . The RDIF did not respond to Reuters' questions about the purchase of the plane.

New York prosecutors have filed new sexual assault charges against producer Harvey Weinstein. The producer is charged with three counts of coercion to a sexual act and two counts of predatory sexual assault , punishable by ten years in prison to life imprisonment. The alleged episodes of violence took place in 2006. The name of the woman who suffered from the actions of the producer was not disclosed.

Update. The search at the headquarters is over. According to police officers, retold by human rights activists, it was held in connection with the World Cup. Law enforcement officers conduct a search at the headquarters of the Other Russia organization. There were six activists at the headquarters, two of whom were minors. According to the telegrams of the human rights organization "Open Russia", they were taken away in paddy wagons. The reasons for the search are still unclear.

In Thailand, 12 schoolchildren from the football team and their coach were found missing in a cave. It is reported by AFP. The children, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach went missing on June 23. Their things were found at the entrance to one of the caves in northern Thailand. The next day it began to rain, because of which the entrance to it was blocked. The cave was partially flooded.

The forest fire in the north of California, which began on June 30, over the weekend spread over an area of ​​131 square kilometers. In the area of ​​the fire, they were evacuated, more than 100 buildings are at risk of destruction. Smoke reached San Francisco: because of it, the sky above the city became orange, and the streets fell asleep as ash.

Director Oleg Sentsov, convicted on charges of terrorism, may be on the list for the prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense Andrei Kondratiev. “I think Sentsov can get (on the exchange list). The topic of his exchange has been raised by the Ukrainian side more than once, his surname is still relevant (for exchange),” Kondratiev said.

July 2nd Russia celebrates victory over Spain daily News Natalya Timakova will step down as press secretary of Dmitry Medvedev. While this is unofficial information. According to RBC sources, Timakova wants to change her field of activity - after leaving the government, she can take the post of deputy chairman of Vnesheconombank. Yabloko refused to nominate a candidate for the Moscow mayoral elections.

Federal Emergency Management Agency workers say they’ve uncovered 270,000 safety violations at shopping centers, movie theaters, hotels, and other public facilities since the deadly fire at a shopping mall in Kemerovo this March. According to the news agency TASS , officials have charged more than 17,000 people with related administrative offenses. Federal officials are about two-thirds done inspecting almost 90,000 public facilities across the country.

The Brazilian national team reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup. In the match of the ⅛ finals, the Brazilians defeated the Mexican national team with a score of 2: 0. The goals were scored by Neymar and Roberto Firmino. Brazil will play the winner of the Belgium-Japan pair in the ¼ finals. The match will take place in Kazan on July 6. Previously, France, Uruguay, Russia and Croatia became the participants of the quarter-finals.

Fifty of the biggest universities in Russia have endorsed a public appeal to Vladimir Putin recalling for reforms to the federal government’s accreditation process. According to the petition, the state’s college accreditation regulations have grown outdated, and the experts who carry out school inspections are often under-qualified. Academics want to add professional representatives to inspection commissions and force the state to publish the full results of their inspections.

Sergey Mitrokhin has called off his lawsuit against the federal bureau of his own political party, Yabloko, after declaring that he doesn’t have the votes to pass Moscow’s “municipal filter” for this September’s mayoral race. Hours later, Yabloko returned the favor by suspending Mitrokhin from office as the head of Yabloko’s Moscow branch, arguing that he tried to wreck the party’s campaign in Moscow to promote himself.

In executive orders on Monday, President Putin assigned code names to several Russian army units based on the names of Ukrainian cities. For example, the 6th Tank Regiment now has the honorary name “The Lviv Guards,” the 68th Tank Regiment is now “The Zhytomyr-Berlin Guards,” and the 163rd Tank Regiment is “The Nizhyn Guards.” According to the magazine RBC , the names are intended to commemorate the units’ roles in liberating these cities in the Second World War.