The US national basketball team lost to France in the opening match of the basketball tournament of the Olympics. The defeat in the Games was the first for the Americans since 2004. The meeting ended with a score of 83:76 (15:22, 22:23, 25:11, 21:20) in favor of the French. The most productive player in the French was Evan Fournier with 28 points, the Americans - Jrue Holiday (18 points). The US team will play their next match against Nigeria on July 27.

In Transbaikalia, the movement of trains along the Trans-Siberian Railway has been restored. It was interrupted due to the collapse of the bridge over the river Areda. Passenger train No. 11 Vladivostok - Samara was the first to cross the bridge. The Russian Railways stressed that the railway communication "was restored in a record two days." The work will continue until the opening of the second line of the bridge.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded businessman Yuri Kovalchuk the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th degree. Kovalchuk received the award “for his great contribution to the implementation of socially significant projects in the Republic of Crimea.” In addition, Putin awarded the Order of Friendship to the Commissioner for Children's Rights, Anna Kuznetsova.

But instead, he now watches football! We have become accustomed to the fact that Kanye West breaks deadlines, because he postponed the release of his previous album "Jesus is King" several times at the very last moment. On July 23, his next album, Donda, was supposed to appear on streaming services, but this never happened - here Kanye did not surprise us with anything.

Fragment of the book "Russia 2050", in which Ekaterina Shulman makes forecasts about the future of the country Artem Geodakyan / TASS military personnel in the main church of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. August 19, 2020 The New Publishing House is published by Russia-2050: utopias and forecasts, in which political scientists, writers, sociologists, philosophers, architects and comixists tried to represent and describe the future of the country after 30 years.

Christof Stache / AFP / Scanpix / Leta a poster with gratitude for the help near the house, whose inhabitants suffered from flooding in West Germany The 82-year-old resident of the city of Munster Horst Eshler donated more than a million euros to the floods in West Germany and helped to attract assistance from the Bavaria football club. This was reported by the Antenne Munster radio station.

According to the results of the second day of the Olympics, the Russian team rose to fifth place in the unofficial medal standings of the Games. On the second day of the competition, the Russians won five medals: Vitalina Batsarashkina, air pistol shooting (gold); Tatyana Minina, taekwondo (silver); Irina Deriglazova, foil fencing (silver); Svetlana Gomboeva, Elena Osipova, Ksenia Perova, team archery (silver); Larisa Korobeynikova, foil fencing (bronze).

Ferenc ISZA / AFP / Scanpix / Leta in Budapest on July 25, a annual promotion was held in support of the LGBT community. This year, much more people took part in it than usual-in addition to supporting LGBT, they protested against the law on the protection of children from “gay propaganda”, which, in particular, prohibits the distribution of materials about homosexuality and transgenderness adopted a month ago.

The Investigative Committee proposes to allow interrogations and face-to-face confrontations via video link. This was stated in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta by the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin. According to Bastrykin, interrogations via video link could be carried out, for example, if it is impossible to appear in person for health reasons or for other valid reasons, as well as to ensure the safety of the participants in the case.

At the Olympics in Tokyo, the 46-year-old gymnast Oksana Chusovitina ended her career-for her it is the eighth games. The athlete was escorted with tears Dylan Martinez / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Oksana Chusovitina after performing at the Olympics in Tokyo The Uzbekistan gymnast Oksana Chusovitina announced the end of her career after her performance at the Tokyo Olympics on July 25. Chusovitina - 46 years.

A military parade was held in St. Petersburg in honor of the Navy Day. According to Fontanka, thousands of people watched him on the city's embankments. Due to restrictions on public events in the city, it was initially announced that the parade would take place without spectators, and the passages to the Neva embankments were blocked. Despite this, before the start of the parade, crowds of people began to gather at the barriers, after which the police let them through to the embankments.

Archive of Bulat Sungatulina Bulat Sungatulin during training. 2020 On July 21, Tatyana Navka-the Olympic champion in figure skating and wife of the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov-sharply spoke about male rhythmic gymnastics.

In the Amur Region, the Minister of Digital Development Alexander Kurdyukov died. This was announced by the governor of the region Vasily Orlov. A week ago, 39-year-old Kurdyukov was hospitalized with a head injury, received, according to Interfax , as a result of a fight at the Berloga camp site. The Baza edition wrote that the conflict at the camp site occurred due to the fact that an unknown man molested the official's wife.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. We discuss the resonant text of the Medusa specialist Irina Kravtsova - about how her mother killed her son with disabilities, and then committed suicide This spring in Berdsk, the mother killed her son with disabilities, and then committed suicide. She took care of him for almost 40 years, but could not stand it when she was seriously ill herself.

In the first half of 2021, 180 accidents with electric scooters were registered in Russia. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. As a result of these accidents, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, five people died and 188 were injured.