Russia has asked Belarus for preliminary consent (agrement) to appoint Mikhail Babich , the Russian President's Plenipotentiary Representative in the Volga Federal District, as ambassador. A source close to the Kremlin told RBK about this. Sources in both houses of parliament confirmed to the publication that Babić's candidacy will be discussed there next week. RIA Novosti reported on Babich's possible appointment as ambassador to Belarus at the end of June.

In 2018, the population of the Russian Federation for the first time since 2009 may begin to decline, according to the review "Monitoring the economic situation in Russia", prepared by experts from the RANEPA and the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy. In the first four months of 2018, the migration increase in the population in Russia was less than in previous years (57.1 thousand people), and compensated for only 47.1% of the natural population loss .

A doctor from the city of Sovetskaya Gavan in Khabarovsk Krai became a suspect in a criminal case on extremism ( Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ) because of a like on the social network Odnoklassniki (there, likes are called “classes”). As lawyer Konstantin Sukovaty told MBKh Media, in 2017 his client gave a “like” to a picture condemning the participation of Russians in the war in eastern Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump tweeted a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, calling the message a "very sweet note." In the letter, Kim called his meeting with Trump "the start of an important journey" and praised the "vigorous and extraordinary efforts" of the American president to improve relations between countries. The letter is dated July 6th. On this day, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was at the talks in North Korea .

On July 9, the community /r/thanosdidnothingwrong (“Thanos did nothing wrong”) experienced the most massive ban in Reddit history. Hundreds of thousands of participants asked to be randomly blocked in order to reproduce in real life the events of Avengers: Infinity War, in which the villain Thanos destroyed half the universe in the same way. Now community members have fun as they can.

The Opener company showed Blackfly the flying car - a single multicopter with eight propellers. The device can fly 40 kilometers on one charge. Opener is said to have been working on Blackfly for nine years. He can go on sale already in 2019 and will cost, as claimed , “as an SUV”; In the USA, it will be possible to manage Blackfly without a pilot license.

The HBO television series Game of Thrones has received 22 nominations at the annual Primetime Emmy Awards, the American Television Academy announced on July 12. Saturday Night Live and Westworld received 21 nominations each, while The Handmaid's Tale received 20. One of the main awards - "Best Drama Series" - is claimed by: "Game of Thrones", "Westworld", " Stranger Things" , "The Handmaid's Tale", "The Americans", "The Crown" and "This Is Us".

July 12. Sixty -five thousand traitors of the homeland and four candidates for mayors of Moscow The main news of the day. Putin extended the food embargo (until the end of 2019). In the elections of the Moscow Mayor there will be only four candidates (Sobyanin and three from parliamentary parties). The defendant of the case of the “new greatness” went to the hospital (after four months in jail).

In Novy Urengoy, ambulance doctors refused to take a 92-year-old patient to the hospital in order to underestimate the death rate in the presence of a brigade. This was stated by the prosecutor's office of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. As the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation reported , on June 27, the deputy chairman of the city council of veterans, Vladimir Nikolenko, became ill.

The newspaper "Kommersant" will change the editor-in-chief. Sergei Yakovlev will leave this position, he will be replaced by the general director of the publishing house "Kommersant" Vladimir Zhelonkin. A Kommersant source told a Meduza correspondent: “Zhelonkin is temporary.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How the Soviet surgeon decided on the first floor change in history The Special Corps of Medusa Daniil Turovsky tells Alexei Ponomarev about the text about the first sex-change operation in history, which was done in the USSR in the early 1970s.

Cybersecurity company Recorded Future has discovered that classified information about US military drones is being offered for sale on the dark web . The files contain maintenance manuals for the MQ-9 Reaper drone and training manuals for troops serving overseas. The data was stolen from a US Air Force captain's computer. To steal files, the hacker used a critical vulnerability in the firmware of the American soldier's router.

Drake and Face play it, and dancing from it is performed by Antoine Griezmann Epic Games At the end of 2017, Medusa predicted that Playerunknownʼs Battlegrounds could be the main game of 2018. We were mistaken: it is already obvious that its main (and more successful) competitor is firmly restrained by the first place - Fortnite. In recent weeks, Fortnite has forced fans to rack their heads over crazy riddles like a giant burger found in the California desert.

since April 2018 British actress Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones, has been running an Instagram with sausage reviews . So far, only nine posts have appeared in it, and only three of them are devoted to sausages in the classical sense (Americans also call meatballs "sausages"), but Turner each time describes in detail the impressions of what he ate. "London, England. Classic cumberland sauce. Juicy sausage. The skin is not too hard.

Anna Pavlikova, a defendant in the New Greatness case , was taken from the pretrial detention center to the hospital, her mother Yulia said. According to Yulia Pavlikova, she learned that her daughter had been sent to the hospital when she came to visit her at the Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention center; the duty officer told her about it. It is unknown what kind of examination and in which hospital Pavlikova is undergoing. Anna Pavlikova was placed under arrest on March 16, 2018.