Reporting "Medusa" and "7 × 7" from Belgorod - after the strongest shelling of the city from the beginning of the war Oleg Kharseev / Kommersant At three in the morning on July 3, Belgorod woke up from the explosions. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the border Belgorod region has repeatedly been shelling, according to local authorities, from the Ukrainian side.

More than a thousand exhibits of the museum-estate of the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in the village of Lyubensk, Pskov region, burned down as a result of a fire that occurred on July 2. As Svetlana Melnika, general director of the museum-reserve, told Interfax, 1,082 exhibits were destroyed by fire, a fifth of which can be restored. From the main fund of the museum, 1125 items have been preserved. “The biggest loss for the museum is the seven pieces of memorial furniture.

The New Yorker tells the story of the life and work of Yoko it - artists who remained in the shadow of her husband Mirrorpix / Vida Press Yoko it is one of the most famous contemporary artists. But many learned about her only after her marriage with one of The Beatles, British musician John Lennon. Although creativity it is of interest in itself. She was among the first conceptual artists, was engaged in feminist art when almost no one paid attention to this.

Another woman has died after being attacked by a shark in the Red Sea in the Egyptian city of Hurghada, Sky News reports. The body of a Romanian tourist was found in the Sahl Hasheesh resort area a few hours after the first incident , which killed a 68-year-old Austrian citizen. She lost an arm and a leg, later dying of blood loss in the hospital. Both attacks took place on July 1 within 600 meters of each other.

The Russian ship Zhibek Zholy with a cargo of grain was detained near the Turkish port of Karasu, Reuters reports. According to the Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey, Vasyl Bodnar, Turkish investigators intend to find out the origin of the grain and determine whether it was stolen. Earlier, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the Zhibek Zholy, which left the port of Berdyansk in the Zaporizhia region, was carrying 4.5 thousand tons of grain belonging to Ukraine.

The commander of the Novorossiysk naval base of the Black Sea Fleet, Viktor Kochemazov, called untrue information about a mine explosion of a Russian landing boat and the death of three servicemen. “This is a fake, just a fake and a desire to harm,” he told TASS. Information about the alleged incident began to appear in anonymous Telegram channels from June 30.

The US Embassy in Moscow removed the address of the diplomatic mission from the main page of its website. Instead of the street name, the coordinates are now indicated: 55.75566° N, 37.58028° E. However, on the inside page of the site with information about the location of the US embassy and consulates in Russia, the old Moscow address is still indicated - Bolshoy Devyatinsky lane, house 8.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out more than 30 strikes on Melitopol and disabled one of the four Russian military bases located in the city. This was stated by the mayor of the occupied city Ivan Fedorov. He clarified that the strikes were carried out exclusively on a military facility.

The viewer sees the work (now closed) from the inside "Artdokfest" Medusa continues a series of publications on documentaries, which during the Russian military invasion of Ukraine become even more relevant and more important. Every weekend film critic Anton Dolin talks about one documentary tape; These are both new films and released several years ago. We do not plan to limit ourselves to Ukrainian and Russian authors. All these paintings can be viewed online.

Shutterstock.com On February 28, 2022, on the fifth day of a full -scale war in Ukraine, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Tatyana Moskalkova, said that Russian students began to be deducted "from universities of France, the Czech Republic, Belgium and other European states in connection with the situation in Ukraine." Information about mass deductions was not confirmed , and many foreign universities expressed support to Russian students.

British theater and film director Peter Brooke died on July 2 in Paris at the age of 97, reports Le Monde. Richard Bord / Wiremage / Getty images One of the most important theatrical adventures of the second half of the 20th century ended with it, which made the theater a fabulous tool for researching a person in all its dimensions through legendary performances (French).

Former Director of Gogol Center Alexei Kabyshev-about the future of the theater Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta In February 2022, the artistic director of Gogol-Center Alexei Agranovich signed a letter from theatrical figures against the war in Ukraine. The actors of the theater did not support the actions of the Russian authorities: they stopped bow after the performances - instead, an image of a dove of the world appeared on the stage.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Sponsor of war or the Savior of the population? What the Bank of Russia does after February 24, the authors of our investigation Svetlana Reuters and Margarita Lyutova say The Russian economy in wartime, at the first philistine view, as if it is doing a good job.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the "liberation" of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic. In particular, the minister informed about the establishment of full control over the city of Lisichansk and the nearby settlements of Belogorovka, Novodruzhesk, Maloryazantsevo and Belaya Gora, the military department reports.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a “deliberate strike” on residential areas of Belgorod with three Tochka-U ballistic missiles with cluster munitions, the Russian Defense Ministry said. According to the department, all the missiles were destroyed by air defense systems, but fragments of one of them fell on a residential building.