The first edition of Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" was sold at Christie's for 467.2 thousand pounds sterling, the auction house's website reports. The estimate for the lot of three books was 120-160 thousand pounds. A Christie's representative told RIA Novosti that the auction was for a bibliographic rarity, since the set included an edition of the first chapter of the novel in its original binding.

An essay by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova on the ecological crisis in her hometown that inspired Pussy Riot's new music video On July 9, Pussy Riot released a new music video for the song “Black Snowballs.” The group conducted a series of protest actions by the same title from January through March of 2019. The primary objective of the campaign as a whole is to shed light on the operations of Russia’s corporations and on the country’s ecological crisis.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed abandoning the idea of ​​holding a military parade on Independence Day and instead allocating 300 million hryvnias to military bonuses. In a video address published on Facebook, Zelensky called the parade “pompous and certainly not cheap.” Published by Volodymyr Zelensky Tuesday, July 9, 2019 "It seems to me that instead of a parade, it would be better to allocate this money to our heroes, our military," Zelensky said.

Norwegian researchers have discovered an excess of the concentration of radioactive substances at the site of the sinking of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-278 "Komsomolets" in the Norwegian Sea, according to the local television channel TV2. On July 8, experts aboard the research vessel GO Sars took water samples from a vent pipe on the disabled submarine. A preliminary study showed that the norms for the concentration of radioactive substances were exceeded by 100,000 times.

Three candidates for governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Bortko, Nadezhda Tikhonova and Mikhail Amosov told Ekho Moskvy that they were able to overcome the municipal filter thanks to the administration of St. Petersburg. Opposition candidates reported that municipal deputies cast their votes for them at the command of Smolny. Vladimir Bortko noted that the signatures were simply brought to him.

Assistant to the Russian presidential envoy in the Urals Federal District Alexander Vorobyov, suspected of treason, could work for Poland, Kommersant reports, citing sources. According to sources, Vorobyov is being checked for involvement in the disclosure in favor of Poland of data on meetings of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, in which the Urals plenipotentiary Nikolai Tsukanov is a member.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev excluded the state program “Development of the Pension System” from the list of state programs implemented in Russia. The corresponding order , dated July 6, was published on the legal information portal. In the previous version of the list of state programs, as Interfax notes, it was stated that the pension system development program should be implemented in 2020-2035. Earlier versions had different dates.

The fire on a submarine in the Barents Sea may have started due to the explosion of a lithium battery, Fontanka reports, citing five anonymous sources. The explosion or series of explosions occurred during the deep-sea vehicle's docking with the carrier submarine, the sources said. A short circuit caused the battery to discharge, causing thermal runaway of the battery, followed by an explosion and spontaneous combustion.

Suddenly you missed everything? It's time to listen to songs from the main music festival of this summer Everyone around is discussing the musical festival "Pain", which was held last weekend in Moscow. The “pain” was invented in 2015 by promoter Stepan Kazaryan to support young and most capable Russian indie artists-but the efforts of the Pop Farm concert agency grew into a powerful event with foreign headlines, lectures, theatrical scenes and a food court.

The Investigative Department of the Russian FSB has brought final charges against all 24 Ukrainian sailors detained in November 2018 near the Kerch Strait. This was reported by Interfax, citing lawyer Nikolai Polozov. “This means that the active phase of the investigation of the case, related to the collection and procedural recording of evidence, has been completed,” the lawyer said. The sailors began to be presented with the final charges on July 1.

Russian Community Council of the USA Fragment of the fresco Viktor Arnautov on the wall of the George Washington school in San Francisco At the end of June 2019, the city council of education San Francisco decided to hide the frescoes on the walls of the local school named after George Washington. For decades, defenders of minority rights have been sought for decades: Washington on frescoes is depicted with his dark -skinned slaves, as well as next to the Indian killed colonialists.

A New York appeals court upheld a 2018 court ruling that blocking US President Donald Trump's Twitter users is unconstitutional. According to The Washington Post, the court referred to the first amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibits restricting freedom of speech. The court ruling said the First Amendment does not allow officials to exclude people from open online dialogue because of criticism.

Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Vida Press The Moscow City Hall monitors the movements of the city residents using taxi data and mobile operators, pictures from photo and video recording cameras, information about trips on the Troika card and a complaint of residents about the work of transport. This was reported by the "Russian BBC service" with reference to the vice-mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov.

Niall Carson / Pa / Scanpix / Leta UK Ambassador to the United States Kim Darrok Donald Trump for the second day in a row continues to attack the British ambassador to the United States, Sir Kim Darrok, whose secret dispatches were published on Sunday, July 7, The Daily Mail British tabloid. In these letters, Darrok described the administration of Trump as “incompetent”, “dysfunctional”, “clumsy in matters of diplomacy” and “split into the faction”.

Build Your House Underground is bringing electronic beats to Russia's underserved psychiatric residential system Yegor Tsvetkov Build Your House Underground performs at the Anton’s Right Here festival in St. Petersburg’s New Holland club. Build Your House Underground is an internationally successful EDM group whose members live in Peterhof, Russia’s Psychoneurological Residential Hospital (PNI) No. 3.