The discussion has reached Russia Tom Maddick / Swns / Scanpix / Leta In June, Oxford University decided to dismantle the monument to Cecil Rogs, the founder of the DED Beers diamond company, the “apartheid architect” and, as he was called at the beginning of the 20th century, “the Father of the British Empire”. Among those who demanded to demolish the monument - African graduate students who study in Oxford for money from the inheritance of Rhodes himself.

Acting police officer Pavel Gladchenko, who is friends with the administrator of the public "Police Ombudsman" Vladimir Vorontsov, was charged with a bribe. Vorontsov's lawyer Mikhail Mushailov told MBKh Media about this. Gladchenko, a traffic police inspector, was searched on the morning of July 5, after which he was detained and taken to the Kuzminsky Investigation Department.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 58-year-old doctor of the Uyar hospital Galina Lebedeva died from complications caused by a coronavirus infection. Lebedeva's daughter Elizaveta, according to NGS24, said that her mother was periodically on duty in the emergency room. At least five people who were brought to the hospital while Lebedeva was on duty tested positive for coronavirus. At the same time, according to Elizaveta Lebedeva, the hospital did not provide her mother with protective equipment.

This is Kitelov. And he, you know, is no worse. We talk about a bird with a shoe on the head, which looks directly into the soul Itsuo Inouye / Ap / Scanpix / Leta The beak is like a shoe! Lives in African swamps! The height is more than a meter! Not afraid of people at all! And in general, it looks like a dinosaur! All this is about the majestic Kitovlov, a fish fishing master, also known as the royal heron.

DAN ISTITENE / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Formula-1 pilots before the start of the Austria Grand Prix agreed to kneel in protest against racism and solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Six pilots, including Russian Daniil Kvyt, Max Ferstappen from the Netherlands and Charles Lekler from Monaco refused to join the action.

Food delivery service Delivery Club has announced that the wage arrears to couriers will be fully repaid, TASS reports. The debt to the couriers, the agency quotes the statement of the company, arose through the fault of the logistics partner Delivery Club. “We categorically do not accept such an attitude towards couriers who worked conscientiously during the period of home isolation, therefore we immediately terminate the contract with this logistics partner,” the Delivery Club said.

The head of Kalmykia, Batu Khasikov, proposed to rename Ostap Bender Avenue in Elista. Khasikov made such a proposal in a video message dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the autonomy of Kalmykia. “You can’t put the name of a fictional character who has become synonymous with a charming, but still a swindler, a rogue, on a par with the name of a man of flesh and blood, a real hero who gave his life for all of us,” Khasikov said.

Members of the St. Petersburg PEN Club issued an open statement in support of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, who is accused of justifying terrorism. The case of Svetlana Prokopyeva, the statement says, "endangers not only independent Russian journalism, but also the very right to think and speak, without which a democratic society is impossible." “Prokopieva is facing jail just for doing her job,” the appeal emphasizes.

The Constitution of the USSR contained a "time bomb" - a provision on the right of the union republics to secede from a single state, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with the Rossiya 1 TV channel.

Subscribe to our YouTube last week the CEC pleased the Kremlin with the results of voting on amendments to the Constitution, among which there was a zeroing of the presidential terms. But the reasons for joy were not only the President of the Russian Federation and his environment.

The Orenburg football club, where ten people - players and staff became infected with the coronavirus - received permission from Rospotrebnadzor for the match with Rubin, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Russian Premier League. Orenburg, according to the press service, provided all the necessary information about the health of the players and team members who plan to take part in the away match of the 26th round in Kazan.

Update: According to the latest data, according to TASS , three people died as a result of the collapse. Another was taken out from under the rubble alive, doctors assess the condition of the victim as serious. In Zuevka, Kirov region, the floors of a shopping center under construction collapsed. According to TASS, referring to the head of the Zuevsky district Anatoly Koshcheev, four builders were killed, one was injured.

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips, and then briefly talk about the best or at least the most noticeable of them. In this issue: Epic Singles from Kanye West and Sufyan Stevens, crazy videos from Nike Borzov and Disclosure, as well as replenishment in the top of the best Russian entries of the year from AcyTota. Subscribe to our updated playlists in Apple Music and Yandex.Music .

Over the past day, 6,736 new cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded in Russia, the federal operational headquarters said. A day earlier, 6,632 cases were reported. In total, 681,251 people have been infected in Russia since the start of the COVID-19 epidemic. Most of the new cases of coronavirus infection per day were detected in Moscow (+650), Moscow Region (+287), St. Petersburg (+275) and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (+272).

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Frontman of quarantine measures. How Sergey Sobyanin fought with coronavirus in Moscow, and in the end he ruined the image and relations with Putin In the spring, when the first cases of infection with a coronavirus infection began to register in Russia, Sergei Sobyanin turned out to be one of the most common news heroes. Moscow first began to introduce quarantine measures that other governors began to take as a sample.