Listen to nine hits from Bol', the summer event Moscow can't stop talking about The Bol’ (Pain) music festival may have closed at the end of last weekend, but Moscow still can’t stop talking about it. Bol’ was founded in 2015 by promoter Stepan Kazaryan to support young, highly talented Russian indie artists.

Matilde Campodonico / AP / Scanpix / LETA The Central Prison of Montevideo, Uruguay, where Rocco Morabito staged a high-profile escape. June 24, 2019 On July 10, Interpol worked with local police in Montevideo, Uruguay, to arrest a group of Russian citizens suspected of aiding the Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito, who has escaped from a prison the Uruguayan capital. Reports on the arrest were published in the Uruguayan publications Subrayado , Ecos , Montevideo Portal , and El Observador .

A group of independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma announced a meeting with voters on July 14 to "defend their right to competitive elections." The meeting is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. in Novopushkinsky Square near the Pushkinskaya metro station.

Alexander Avilov / Moskva news agency Moscow’s first test for a new remote electronic voting system ended in a technological failure, prominent election analyst Grigory Melkonyants announced on Facebook. The Internet voting mechanism was put to the test during an election for the best student congress president in Moscow’s higher education system. 1,794 “voters” — that is, Moscow university students — were asked to select their favorites from a list of 15 candidates.

The father of Kaliningrad resident Antonina Zimina , who was arrested for treason in 2018, gave an interview to Novy Kaliningrad about the possible reasons for her criminal prosecution. According to Konstantin Zimin, after his daughter’s arrest, the investigator told him that she “revealed an FSB officer to the Latvians” by transmitting his image “via computer.” According to Zimin, this is about an old friend of his daughter’s who was a guest at her wedding in 2015.

But the fun is over - soon there will be guards and cameras Not far from Novosibirsk there is a small pond with water of an alluring bright blue color. Against its background, you can take pictures, pretending that you are on some tropical island. That's just the turquoise color of the water is given by the waste that the CHPP-5 drains. In the summer of 2019, the local publication NGS wrote about the Novosibirsk Maldives .

On June 12, 530 people were detained by 530 people at the Medusa Medusa correspondent in support of the Medusa correspondent Ivan Golunov, unjustly accused of attempted drugs. Over the next month, dozens of them were fined by the courts: most of the Articles 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (participation in an inconsistent action that entailed interference with transport or pedestrians), several people - in part 8 of the same article (repeated violation of the rules of the rally).

Russia’s National Guard has prepared draft documents that would transfer all authority to guard crops of narcotic plants to its agents. The documents indicate that the National Guard would negotiate agreements with farmers to guard fields of plants like cannabis and opium poppies intended for medical, scientific, or educational purposes. Guards within the government agencies that control poppy and cannabis cultivation will also be permitted to provide security for those crops.

The Russian presidential administration is discussing increasing the share of single-mandate deputies in the State Duma from 50% to 75% in order to maintain Vladimir Putin's control over the lower house of parliament after the 2021 elections, Bloomberg writes citing sources. According to the article, the Kremlin hopes to form a pro-government parliamentary majority in this way in the face of falling United Russia ratings.

Pavel Valenchuk, 23-year-old deputy of the Kirov City Duma, wrote a statement to the police to the administrators of the Borshch public in VKontakte. All due to the fact that a meme appeared there with his participation and a call to sign up for “eyebrows and nails”. Here: According to the Baza publication, Valenchuk asked to hold public administrators of public under the articles “slander” and “insulting a representative of power”.

The Moscow District Military court sentenced seven Tajikistan natives to prison time after convicting them of an attempted terrorist attack. The defendants, who allegedly support the Islamic State, were convicted of attempting to bomb the popular Sapsan high-speed train line running from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Investigators asserted that, in the summer of 2017, the defendants placed an explosive device on the line’s train tracks to protest the Russian military presence in Syria.

The police of Makhachala refused to open a criminal case against the author of the public "Stalingulag" Alexander Gorbunov. As Pavel Chikov, the head of Agora, specified, the corresponding check was carried out on the fact of a telephone call from Gorbunov's Makhachkala address about mining objects in Moscow. The Ministry of Internal Affairs claimed that it had begun an audit at the request of the blogger himself. Gorbunov said that he did not apply to law enforcement agencies.

Rospatent, Russia’s patent and trademark agency, has declined an application from Apple to register the trademark AR, an abbreviation that stands for “augmented reality.” The agency’s Chamber of Patent disputes determined that several other companies have already trademarked similar abbreviations for phrases like “airports of the regions.” Apple argued unsuccessfully that because AR is a broadly used term for augmented reality, the presence of similar abbreviations in Russia should not prevent

A fire broke out on July 12 at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI) in Moscow. A source told the wire service TASS that the archive was evacuated while firefighters searched for the source of the flames on the fourth floor. RIA Novosti reported that approximately 100 people were asked to leave the building. Russia’s Emergency Ministry confirmed that its employees were fighting the fire and indicated that the ignition source may have been located in a ventilation shaft.

Barcelona have announced the signing of French striker Antoine Griezmann. The agreement was signed for a period of five years, under its terms, the 28-year-old player will receive a total of 105 million euros. Barcelona paid 120 million euros for Griezmann's transfer. Griezmann has spent the past five seasons with Atlético Madrid, one of Barcelona's biggest rivals in the Spanish Liga. In 257 official matches for the club, he scored 133 goals.