Workers demolished the wooden building of the planetarium, located in the Penza park of culture and recreation named after Belinsky. The Penza branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments published a photograph of the building destroyed during the restoration on VKontakte.

Vladimir Putin runs roughshod over Ukrainian history in new essay During his annual call-in show on June 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to write an article to back up his much-touted claim that Ukrainians and Russians are “one people.” As promised, on July 12, the Kremlin published Putin’s take “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians.” In an essay that spans the Middle Ages to the present day, Putin touches on everything from the Mongol invasion to the collapse of the

Stopcoronavirus.rf has stopped publishing statistics on active cases of COVID-19 in Russian regions, that is, the number of infected people who are sick right now. Such information was published in the “Live data” section in the “Number of active cases” column, as well as in detailed statistics by region. The last time, according to the web archive, such data appeared on the site on July 8. At that time, there were 423,422 active cases in Russia.

Three black England players - Marcus Rushford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka - received offensive and racist comments on social media after they failed to score against Italy in the penalty shoot-out in the Euro 2020 final, Reuters writes. The London Police called such comments unacceptable and promised to investigate. In support of the players, England coach Gareth Southgate spoke out, who called such comments inexcusable.

On June 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on a direct line that "Ukrainians and Russians are generally one people." He promised to write a separate article about this - and on July 12, a voluminous text entitled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” appeared on the Kremlin’s website ( in Russian and Ukrainian ). Here is our retelling of the presidential article.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced mandatory vaccination against coronavirus for representatives of various professions, primarily medical workers. By September 15, hospital staff, as well as people who have regular contact with the elderly, for example in nursing homes, must be vaccinated against coronavirus. If they refuse, employees will face sanctions.

Russian journalist and political scientist Fyodor Krasheninnikov confirmed on July 12 that he has left Yekaterinburg and is now living in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he plans to stay there “for the foreseeable future.” In a Facebook post, Krasheninnikov explained that he had initially planned a short-term stay abroad, but “the development of the situation in Russia in recent months implies that there’s no need to rush home.” In conversation with the independent television network Dozhd (TV Rain),

Andreas Rentz / Getty Images on July 12 at the 74th Cannes Film Festival presented the film directed by Kirill Serebrennikov “Petrovs in the GRUPP” . After the show, the audience applauded standing. Many participants in the film crew arrived in Cannes, including (in the photo in order) producer Ilya Stuart, actors Yuri Borisov, Julia Peresild, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Ivan Dorn and Chulpan Khamatova.

“Electricity is state-owned, I ask you not to use it.” Putin wrote an article about the history of Ukraine. Jackie Chan is a communist Good evening, This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the important news of the day. And on Mondays we also talk about what happened over the weekend. Let's start with an amazing story. A British soldier's parachute did not fully open during a training jump. We don’t even know if it’s appropriate to say that he was very unlucky.

Murmansk authorities threaten opposition candidate Violetta Grudina with forced hospitalization for allegedly breaking quarantine Violetta Grudina on Facebook Violetta Grudina, the former head of Alexey Navalny’s campaign office in Murmansk, announced her candidacy for the upcoming City Council election back in April. But in the midst of campaigning in June, she fell ill and decided to self-isolate — she didn’t leave home for 16 days straight.

A brief (if possible) retelling of the new historical article by the President of Russia Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are the heirs of Ancient Rus. When this state fell apart, people still perceived its territory as their Fatherland. After Batu's invasion, the eastern Russian lands fell under the Horde's dependence, and the western ones became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (it was called Lithuanian and Russian).

The head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radionova took advantage of the law on the "right to be forgotten" , which allows her to remove links to some materials about herself from search engine results. The publication "MBKh Media" drew attention to this. Some materials for the queries “Svetlana Radionova”, “Svetlana Radionova France”, “Svetlana Radionova Nice” have disappeared from search results for Russian users.

In St. Petersburg on the night of July 12, local residents complained about the noise from the Kresty detention center. According to Fontanka, this happened due to the fact that in the institution the prisoners watched the final of the European Football Championship. According to the publication, the head of the pre-trial detention center allowed to watch the match in the isolation ward. After the final, the prisoners were given 10 minutes to "express joy or frustration".

The musical marathon "Summer Agents" in support of "Medusa" has been going on for the second month. Every day on weekdays we publish premieres, special performances and appeals of artists about the situation with independent journalism in Russia. You can arrange a regular donation to Medusa here . The next day of the marathon is continued by Alexander Cheparukhin, one of the most famous festival figures in Russia and (absolutely invaluable) producer of “summer agents”.

Climatologist Pavel Konstantinov answers Jorge Sanz / Sopa Images / Lightroquet / Getty Images In June 2021, Moscow recorded an absolute temperature record - 34.8 degrees. And in early July, the temperature in the capital (as in many other cities of Russia) again exceeded 30. In Canada, an abnormal heat was also recently observed - almost +50. And in Kuwait - one of the warmest countries of the world - and completely “more than 70 degrees in the sun,” local media reports.