Telegram founder Pavel Durov criticized the largest social networks for blocking false information about the coronavirus. According to Durov, this is an ineffective way to combat fakes. Durov noted that at the time of the emergence of any new idea, it is often difficult to immediately understand whether it is scientific or not. As an example, the founder of Telegram cited the blocking of messages that the coronavirus is of artificial origin on Twitter and Facebook.

'Black Widow' actress Scarlett Johansson has filed a lawsuit against Disney in Los Angeles. The reason for the lawsuit was the simultaneous release of the film both in theaters and on the Disney+ streaming platform, which negatively affected the box office. As emphasized in the lawsuit, Marvel guaranteed Johansson the exclusive release of "Black Widow" in theaters. Johansson's fee for the film was tied to the box office.

The Israeli authorities announced the start of mass revaccination against coronavirus in the country. According to Reuters, this is the first state in the world to take such a step. A third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will be available to people over 60 years of age who have completed two doses of the vaccine at least five months ago. The authorities explained the need for revaccination by the spread of the delta strain in the country.

A Moscow court has refused to satisfy a request from prison officials to transfer Pussy Riot activist Maria Alyokhina from house arrest to a pre-trial detention center. On Thursday, July 29, a representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) asked the Preobrazhensky District Court to change the preventive measures against Alyokhina in connection with the so-called “Sanitary Case” from house arrest to detention.

What kind of people are these, who helps them and why is all this Bulk Lukashenko? We retell the investigation of the migration crisis Petra Malukas / AFP / Scanpix / Leta migrants in the center of accommodation in the Lithuanian city of Kapchimestis. July 18, 2021 In the spring, a migration crisis began in Lithuania. Residents of the Middle East and Africa come to the country hundreds, and all through Belarus.

Ilyas akengin / AFP / Scanpix / Leta In Antalya and several neighboring provinces in southern Turkey, forest fires that arose due to the strong heat established in the region have been going on for two days. The glow from fires can be seen from the hotels of Antalya - the Turkish authorities note that so far nothing threatens hotels, although in some areas the fire "approached the hotels." Several hotels in other resort cities - Marmaris and Bodrum - already had to be evacuated.

The editor-in-chief of the publication "Proekt" Roman Badanin and his deputy Mikhail Rubin are in New York and do not plan to return to Russia. Badanin told Reuters. As Badanin explained, when the publisher of “Proekt”, the American company Project Media Inc., was declared “undesirable”, he and his family were on vacation abroad and did not return to the Russian Federation. Badanin noted that his stay in New York is “temporary” and he does not yet know where he will live permanently.

Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee, has ordered an inquiry into the Moscow Sovremennik Theater following allegations that a new play is offensive to veterans (which is no longer protected speech in Russia).

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A representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service asked the Preobrazhensky Court to change the measure of restraint for Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina in the “sanitary case” from house arrest to detention. “In his opinion, my client violated the conditions of house arrest when she went to the pharmacy and to the doctor,” Alyokhina’s lawyer Daniil Berman told TASS. The FSIN representative was supported by the prosecutor's office, but the court refused to change the preventive measure.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has ordered an investigation into the productions of the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre for insults to veterans.

Not the most obvious results of the sociological survey of the Rating group The Ukrainian sociological group Rating conducted a survey ( PDF. ) Of Ukrainians about their attitude to the words of Vladimir Putin that "Russians and Ukrainians are one people who belong to one historical and spiritual space." Most citizens of Ukraine do not agree with the opinion of the President of Russia, although quite a lot of people support him - in the east of the country there are more than half of them.

The Nauka multi-purpose module has successfully docked with the International Space Station. It is reported by TASS. Docking to the Russian module of the ISS Zvezda was carried out in automatic mode; an unscheduled spacewalk of cosmonauts to assist in docking was not required. The Proton-M launch vehicle with the Nauka module was launched on July 21. The next day, problems with the module's engines became known, due to which there was a risk that it would not be able to fly to the station.

Here is the story of the opposition, who decided to participate in the elections Violetta Grudina page on Facebook Violetta Grudina used to head the headquarters of Alexei Navalny in Murmansk - before the regional headquarters of politics recognized as “extremist”. And in the summer of 2021 she stated that she would run for the local city council.

In late July, a Russian court found Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev guilty of violence against a Russian National Guard Officer and incitement to extremism. The court sent him for compulsory medical treatment. Earlier, in May 2020, a court ruled in favor of Gabyshev’s involuntary hospitalization and he was held in a psychiatric clinic for two months. The shaman was involuntarily committed once again in January 2021.