Look at 3D how the forests have disappeared around the world since 1984, glaciers melted and cities have grown Google conducted the largest update to Google Earth since 2017. The company's specialists have improved the TimelaPse service to clearly show how the climate change and human activities influenced glaciers, beaches, forests, rivers, cities and other places around the world. To do this, they united 24 million satellite pictures received from 1984 to 2020.

The United States imposed new sanctions against Russia. Why the Russian Orthodox Church against the Vaccine "Sputnik V". We speak with reporters of the DOXA publication, which the authorities began to press Good evening, This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. By tradition, we start with a good - joyful run in the sun ! Join the giraffic of the linden and her girlfriend - the zebra debora, just look not out of breath: Lipa accelerated to 60 kilometers per hour!

Roman Anin, whose home and newsroom were raided by federal agents last week, explains the challenges of investigative journalism in Russia today Ivan Vodopyanov / Kommersant Journalist Roman Anin after interrogation by state investigators Roman Anin says part of his job is knowing to expect a visit from the authorities at any moment. When federal agents showed up at his Moscow apartment last week, however, he wasn’t immediately sure why they’d come.

Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The United States imposed new sanctions against Russia. What American politicians scared Russia in recent years finally happened: in addition to traditional blocking of individuals and companies, the sovereign debt of Russia also got into the sanctions list.

A Belgorod resident has become a defendant in a criminal case opened under the article on knowingly false information about a terrorist attack after he wrote the comment "It's a bomb!" in a closed VKontakte group run by local supporters of politician Alexei Navalny. This was reported by OVD-Info. A Belgorod resident left this comment under a post about a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23, shortly before the protest itself.

Google will fund the purchase of coronavirus vaccines for 250,000 people in low- and middle-income countries. Google's blog post says the company will send the money to the GAVI Alliance, a private-government partnership that aims to increase vaccine availability in poor countries. Google will also provide an additional $250 million in free advertising to spread accurate information about vaccines.

At the end of 2020, 17.8 million people in Russia were living below the poverty line, according to preliminary estimates from the Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat). This equates to 12.1 percent of the country’s population — meaning the poverty rate went down 0.2 percentage points (or, by 300,000 people) compared to 2019, according to Rosstat’s website.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland recognized three employees of the Russian Embassy in Warsaw as persona non grata. Representatives of the Foreign Ministry informed Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreev about this, the ministry said in a statement. The basis for such a decision was the commission by these people of actions that do not correspond to the status of a diplomat and harm Poland.

Russia’s State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sport has supported a proposal to provide tax and financial assistance to FC Akhmat Grozny, the U.S.-sanctioned, professional soccer club linked to Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov. According to the committee’s website, FC Akhmat Grozny lost the support of sponsorships from a number of companies after it was added to the U.S. Treasury’s sanctions list in December 2020.

The American Citigroup has announced that it will curtail its retail business in 13 countries, including Russia. The Russian branches of Citibank for working with clients - individuals will be closed within a few years, RBC reports, citing the press service of the bank.

The Investigative Committee for the Altai Territory organized an investigation following media reports about riot police officers who mistakenly broke down the door to the apartment of a resident of the city of Zarinsk . “We are conducting a preliminary investigation into this incident, based on the results of which we will make a legal decision,” representatives of the department told RIA Novosti.

Horrified residents hide pink briefcases and go for walks with sticks. It doesn't save them. Nature has become so pure that in Haifa, an Israeli city of about 300,000 people, wild boars have taken over. There is no hope: the mayor's office has no idea how to deal with the animals that have flooded the city, whose shooting was banned back in 2019.

Russia’s Sverdlovsk Regional Court has classified the criminal case concerning the deadly raid on the home of Yekaterinburg resident Vladimir Taushankov as “top secret.” Lawyer Alexey Bushmakov, who represents Taushankov’s parents, wrote on Facebook that the court’s decision to close the proceedings to the press and public was attributed to the case containing information constituting state secrets.

World Press Photo is the most prestigious annual prize for photojournalists. On April 15, prize winners were announced for 2020. In the main nomination-“Photo of the Year”-the picture of the Danish photographer Mads Nissen, taken in the elderly boarding house in San Paulo, won. In 2015, Nissen received the World Press Photo Award in this nomination for a picture of gay para from St. Petersburg.

Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation investigates the Russian president’s ‘most secret’ official residence Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (the FBK) has released a new investigation into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “most secret” official residence — a luxury lakeside mansion located near the town of Valdai. According to the report, the residence is part of a massive property that’s only partially state-owned.