Photo courtesy of Arshak Makichyan On July 19, a group of about 35 Moscow students gathered to demand that the Russian government take action on the climate crisis , which threatens to cause widespread societal collapse within their lifetimes . While the group's counterparts in the global Fridays for Future movement have held hundreds of mass marches in the past several months, the Moscow climate strikers have faced a government unwilling to grant them protest permits in populated areas.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has initiated a criminal negligence investigation against government officials in the Irkutsk region. By early July, flooding in the Siberian federal subject had displaced 38,000 people from their homes, killed 25, and left 7 missing. The case became public after Alexander Bastrykin, the chair of the Investigative Committee, decided to transfer it to the Committee’s federal center during a conference session in Bratsk.

A same-sex couple from Moscow whose home was searched after investigators learned that they are raising two children may choose not to come back to Russia from a vacation abroad, attorney Maxim Olenichev said. “They are currently on vacation outside the country until the end of the summer. They are following recent developments and will decide by the end of their vacation whether it is worthwhile for them to return or not,” he explained.

Another protest demanding the registration of independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma took place on Trubnaya Square in Moscow. Several hundred people took part in it. The protesters first came out to protest on Sunday, July 14. It took place near the Moscow City Electoral Commission and was accompanied by arrests. Starting on Monday, demonstrators have been going out to Trubnaya Square. Meduza special correspondent Kristina Safonova reported on the progress of these protests in a report.

Alexey Andronov / URA.RU / ТАСС Two Russian National Guard officers planted drugs on a teenager and demanded a 300,000-ruble bribe On July 18, a St. Petersburg court jailed two Russian National Guard officers, Nikita Lavrentyev and Alexander Boikov, to await trial for extortion and taking bribes. The pair may face fines of up to four million rubles ($63,480) or up to 12 years in prison. Fontanka , a local St.

The Investigative Committee is investigating a criminal case of official negligence, initiated due to the death of 25 people as a result of flooding in the Irkutsk region . This became known from the announcement of the transfer of the case to the central office of the Investigative Committee. The decision was made by the chairman of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, at a meeting in Bratsk.

Beyoncé released the album The Lion King: The Gift, dedicated to the output of the remake of the cartoon "King Leo", for which the singer recorded the official soundtrack. There are as many as 27 compositions in the album. The singer emphasizes that he must be considered as a separate project from the soundtrack. Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Jay Z and other famous musicians took part in the record.

A same-sex couple from Moscow, who became the object of attention of law enforcement agencies because of the upbringing of two adopted boys, may not return to Russia. This was announced by the lawyer Maxim Olenichev. “They are currently on holiday abroad until the end of the summer. They are now following the development of events and by the end of the vacation they will decide whether they should return or not, ”he said. The couple went on vacation with their children, reported earlier.

Military investigators will interrogate the head of the "K" department of the FSB, Ivan Tkachev, as part of a pre-investigation check at the request of the former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun. This was reported to Interfax by Shestun's lawyer Oleg Shlyakhov. Tkachev's interrogation will take place next week. In March 2019, Shestun wrote to the main military investigation department of the Investigative Committee about extortion by Tkachev.

The trailer for the musical “Cats” with Taylor Swift and Judy Dench came out. They were turned into computer mutants - everyone is scary (and funny!) Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for cats. This is a film adaptation of the famous musical of the British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. In the video, erect cats with human faces (in fact, these are people in cat images) dance and sing against the backdrop of city garbage.

At the hearing on the “New Greatness” case, an ambulance was called for one of the defendants, Pavel Rebrovsky, who had already been sentenced after a plea bargain with the investigation and who was supposed to testify as a witness. According to a correspondent for MBKh Media, Rebrovsky “was pale, spoke quietly, abruptly, and moved with difficulty and slowly.” After Rebrovsky was examined by doctors, the hearing resumed, writes Mediazona.

Maxim Grigoryev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Eight people have been injured during the emergency landing and evacuation of a Nordwind flight from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. A Boeing 737 jet with 173 passengers and six crewmembers on board was about to begin flight N4-477 from Moscow to Yerevan, Armenia, on the night before July 19 when the incident occurred.

Russia’s transportation ministry has developed new regulations on international flights for Russian airlines.

Interview of the designer of Apollo-11 engines Richard Weiss, who sent people to the moon and saw that they really flew to her NASA Start of the Apollo 11 mission. July 16, 1969 July 20 marks the 50 years of the Apollo 11 historical mission, which ended with the landing of the first astronauts on the moon. The names of Bazz Oldrin and Nile Armstrong are known to everyone today, but few people recall about hundreds of specialists who worked in Kennedy and Johnson space centers in Houston.

The FaceApp application has earned more than a million dollars during the surge of its popularity in mid-July, writes Forbes magazine, citing data from App Annie, which analyzes the mobile application market. We are talking about ten days from July 9 to 19, during which the application was downloaded 6.5 million times. Most of the $746,000 was brought by Apple users to FaceApp. Throughout its history, FaceApp has been downloaded 73.2 million times and earned $11.6 million, writes Forbes.