Researchers have discovered the oldest Homo sapiens fossils outside of Africa, estimated to be 210,000 years old. This is stated in a paper published in the journal Nature, briefly reported by BBC News. Scientists came to this conclusion after analyzing two skulls found in the late 1970s in the cave of Apidima in southern Greece. One of the skulls, the study showed, belonged to a Neanderthal man who lived 170 thousand years ago, the second - to an early representative of modern man in Europe.

The official representative of Bentley in Russia, Volkswagen Group Rus, announced the recall of 145 New Continental GT cars, Rosstandart reports. Vehicles sold in 2018-2019 are being recalled. The list of their VIN codes is published ( .pdf ) on the website of Rosstandart. On all recalled vehicles, low battery voltage can cause the center console switch box to fail, a Bentley representative in Russia said.

In the second quarter of 2019, Gazprom received 38% less revenue from Russian gas exports than in the first quarter, follows from the materials ( .xlsx ) of the Central Bank. In the second quarter, the income of the gas sales monopolist, according to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, amounted to $8.7 billion. In the first quarter they were equal to 14.1 billion dollars.

Ilya Yashin, an opposition politician who currently leads the Krasnoselsky District of Moscow, held office hours with his constituents outside the district government’s headquarters, which also houses the local election commission. Novaya Gazeta estimated that 200 – 250 people attended the appointment. Встреча Илья Яшин (Ilya Yashin) с избирателями началась. Перед зданием красносельского муниципалитета собрались более 300 человек. Опубликовано Петр Царьков Среда, 10 июля 2019 г.

The head of the Rosstat statistical information processing center , Evgeny Sychev, resigned of his own accord, Interfax reports, citing the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development. The Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin, the department noted, “was not satisfied with the poor financial and economic condition of the enterprise and a number of organizational problems,” which, among other things, led to the premature publication of inflation data.

The New York State Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit filed by former Senator from Chuvashia Leonid Lebedev against businessmen Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik , Bloomberg reports. The businessmen's former partner in TNK-BP, Leonid Lebedev, filed a lawsuit in February 2014. He stated that he was entitled to a portion of the money received from the sale of TNK-BP to Rosneft in 2013. Lebedev demanded 3.75% of the $55 billion for which the company was sold, or about $2 billion.

Ilya Yashin, who heads the Krasnoselsky municipality in Moscow, held a parliamentary reception at the entrance to the Krasnoselsky district administration, where the election commission is located. According to Novaya Gazeta, 200-250 people came to the meeting with him. Ilya Yashin's meeting with voters has begun. More than 200 people have gathered in front of the Krasnoselsky municipality building.

The head coach of the Russian national hockey team, Ilya Vorobyov, has left his post, according to the Russian Ice Hockey Federation. Aleksey Kudashov, who last season worked in the coaching staff of SKA and the national team, became the new coach. Kudashov also replaced Vorobyov as head coach of SKA. Alexei Kudashov has been playing for hockey clubs in various countries since the mid-1980s, including the USA, Finland and Canada. He began his coaching career in 2012 with Atlanta.

The supplier of products for the Russian National Guard, the Druzhba Narodov meat processing plant, complained about its difficult financial situation. This is stated in the decision of the Arbitration Court of Crimea, which reduced the administrative fine imposed on the company by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). Open Media was the first to draw attention to this.

The Samara Regional Court upheld the sentence of student Elizaveta Keneshova, who was previously sentenced to eight years in prison in a drug case. It is reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the mother of the student. The student was accused of attempted sale of drugs on an especially large scale. In September 2017, she was detained by the FSB when she was picking up a parcel with 649 grams of mephedrone from a courier service.

How Astro Pizza became the first Soviet fast food joint thanks to one of Russia's first massive business conglomerates Roman Poderny / TASS New Jersey entrepreneur Louis Piancone treats newlyweds to pizza on Lenin Hills. Moscow, April 1988 The Soviet-American company Dialog, created in 1987, was the first Russian high-tech company to attract Western capital investment.

Henrietta Feathers Thaw is a time of change in Soviet cinema. Censorship weakens, there are more genres, technologies are being improved. In the foreground is no longer a state idea, but a person and his environment. Together with the center of Voznesensky , where the exhibition “He is 20 years old now. About the thaw of the multimedia language ”, we compiled a list of key films of that era and talked about their fate.

Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev has sold his Palm Beach, Florida estate for $108 million, according to local real estate publication The Real Deal. The businessman divided the estate into three parts and sold them separately. The first section sold for $34.3 million in 2016, the second for $37 million in 2017. The sale of the third plot for $37.2 million became known on July 8. Rybolovlev's representative confirmed the completion of the transaction, RBC reports .

Alexey Nikolsky / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin and Matteo Salvini. October 17, 2014 “The shocking secret record shows how Russia tried to transport millions of“ European Trump ”,” the BuzzFeed published material published on July 10. The publication contains a retelling, audio recording fragments and a complete decoding of the conversation of three Russians with an assistant to the Italian politician of Matteo Salvini.

Rapper L ill - about leaving the Black Star and the trial with Timati Aram Kirakosyan / Pan Photo / TASS Musician Levan Gorosia (aka Lʼone) on July 5 sued the Black Star label, its owner Timur Yunusov (Timati) and general director Pavel Kuryanov (Pasha). Seven years ago, Gorosia signed a contract with Black Star, according to which all the rights to his songs and the stage pseudonym belong to the label.