He met with the Crown Prince, who is considered the customer of the murder of the journalist Khashogji. And avoided handshakes with him SPA / Chine Nouvelle / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta US President Joe Biden and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Salman On July 15, US President Joe Biden held negotiations with the king of Saudi Arabia Salman ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Sauda, ​​the meeting was attended by the hereditary prince Muhammad Bin Salman, who actually governed the country.

Says military expert Pavel Luzin Vladislav Shatilo / RBC / TASS new head of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov On July 15, Yuri Borisov left the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, responsible for the military-industrial complex, and was appointed head of Roscosmos instead of Dmitry Rogozin.

Russian Presidential Aide for Economic Affairs Maxim Oreshkin said that Russian authorities are working to abandon the international financial messaging system SWIFT , TASS reports. "It's very simple with SWIFT: we will make it so that there will be no need for it. I have already said this, this is in fact the key task now... We are now concentrating on making foreign economic activity as comfortable as possible," Oreshkin said, speaking at the Territory of Meanings forum.

The Belgorod police suspended the first aid courses that local volunteers were going to conduct on July 16 and 17, the Lantern newspaper reports. The police officers came to the premises where one three-hour lesson had passed and the next one was beginning, and demanded documents from the organizers that the courses had been agreed with the authorities.

But now she cannot think about science, but only about the war in her native country Fred Merz / EPFL / Scanpix / Leta Mathematician Marina Vyazovskaya graduated from Kiev University, and is now teaching at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne. In early July, she received Fields medal - the highest award in mathematics, comparable in importance with the Nobel Prize.

In Spain, due to the heat, which lasts almost a week, 360 people have died, Reuters reports, citing data from the Carlos III State Institute of Health. In Spain, the air temperature reached 45.7 degrees. In neighboring Portugal, temperatures reached 40 degrees for several days. The Portuguese Ministry of Health reported that from 7 to 13 July, 238 people died due to abnormal heat, most of them elderly people.

Update. On July 17, rescuers found a missing helicopter 13 kilometers from the Uzon volcano, it burned down, said the governor of the Kamchatka Territory Vladimir Solodov. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, all on board were killed. In Kamchatka, the Robinson RA-07350 helicopter, on board of which, according to preliminary data, there were three people, stopped communicating, the Russian Emergencies Ministry told TASS.

The decisive day is July 22, in Germany they are already preparing to reduce the temperature of the heating of houses Jens Buettner / DPA / AP / Scanpix / Leta Infrastructure in the Northern Stream -1 exit area on the shore in the village of Lubmin in Germany on the day the gas pipeline is maintained.

The Latvian Foreign Ministry demanded to conduct an audit, in Belarus announced the persecution of children with a "fascist regime" Telegram channel "Pool of the First" The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia demanded to evaluate the actions of the Riga Children's Academy of Radio and Television Academy Kidstv , whose pupils visited the Slavic Bazaar festival in Vitebsk and interviewed Alexander Lukashenko.

The Russian delegation visited the Kashan airfield in Iran at least twice in the last month to study the Shahed-191 and Shahed-129 combat drones. It is reported by CNN with reference to US national security adviser Jake Sullivan. In June and early July, Russian officials visited an airfield south of Tehran, where they were shown drones capable of carrying precision-guided missiles, according to the US.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and other Russian departments are assessing the feasibility of abolishing the value added tax (VAT) on socially significant products. Viktor Evtukhov, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, told TASS about this. “Now the expediency and, most importantly, the consequences of this decision are being assessed.

A serviceman from Buryatia, Ilya Kaminsky, wrote a report refusing to participate in military operations in Ukraine. After that, he could be sent to a pretrial detention center in Lugansk, said the head of the Free Buryatia Foundation, Alexandra Garmazhapova. Mediazona drew attention to the human rights activist's post.

The Ukrainian government has demanded that the management of the largest American and European banks cease cooperation with Russia in the oil trade sector. According to The Financial Times, the Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleh Ustenko sent a letter about this to the American JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, the British HSBC and the French Credit Agricole.

At the end of May, Russia announced the capture of Mariupol. This is how an almost destroyed city lives now Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta residents of Mariupol are preparing food in the courtyard of a destroyed residential building. April 28, 2022 On May 20, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the territory of the Azovstal plant and the entire Mariupol was taken under the full control of the Russian military.

The death toll during the rocket attack on the city of Vinnitsa on July 14 rose to 24 people. This was announced by the head of the Vinnitsa regional military administration Sergei Borzov. According to him, on July 16, one of the victims died in the hospital, having received burns on 85% of the body surface during the impact. Earlier it was known about 23 dead, including three children.