The Typhoon fighters of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain on Thursday climbed in the sky above the Baltic to accompany Russian military transport aircraft, which were approaching the Baltic countries that approached the state borders. The Minister of Defense of Great Britain Michael Fallon has already called the actions of the Russian Federation an act of aggression and noted the coherence of the actions of the British Air Force, the forces of NATO and Estonia.

The self-portrait of the English expressionist Francis Bacon on Wednesday was sold at the Sotheby's auction in New York for $ 34.97 million, according to the website of the auction house. Experts estimated this canvas from 22 million to $ 30 million. The picture was created by the artist in 1970, when the author was 61 years old. Bacon canvases are in high demand among collectors.

Apple failed to restore data from the iPhone, which belonged to an American teenager named Austin Stefanos, who, along with his friend, went missing last summer in the area of ​​the Bermuda triangle. According to TJ , Apple experts dismantled the iPhone 6 Stepanos and carried out chemical processing and cleaning of the details of the device, however, it was not possible to turn it on or get it in the end.

The speaker of the Federation Council and ex-governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko opposed the transfer of the capital from Moscow to any other Russian city. According to her, there is absolutely no need for this. Matvienko expressed this opinion in an interview with the newspaper Moscow Komsomolets .

“One of Putin’s most ambitious goals, announced at the beginning of his third term in the so-called “May decrees,” was the creation of 25 million new jobs in the country. It was emphasized that we are not talking about the proliferation of unnecessary jobs, but about modern, highly productive places and highly paid.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny received a response from the Investigative Committee to his appeal , in which he asked to withdraw and check for the authenticity of “Secret Documents”, mentioned in the plot of the program of Dmitry Kiselev “Vesti Week”, where, in particular, it was about his cooperation with Western special services, British intelligence MI6 and the founder of the Hermitage investment fund Capital William Brauder.

Against the backdrop of the anti -corruption summit that opened on Thursday in London, dissatisfied residents of Great Britain arranged an action on Trafalgar Square. Dozens of the British temporarily turned the world -famous place into a real oasis with artificial palm trees, sand, ice cream and even lobsters. Activists, dressed in bankers, expressed a call to the local authorities in such an unusual way to close the “tax harbor”, controlled by the country, Mashable reports.

Google is preparing to release a device that resembles an "smart" Amazon Echo column used as a home voice assistant, reports Recode with reference to its own sources. According to the description, the Google column, which received the code name Chirp, will look like an onhub router and will receive support for the Google Now voice assistant. It is assumed that the device can be announced before the end of the year.

A family therapist from Saudi Arabia Haled al-Sakabi released a visual aid that instructs husbands in how to beat their wives. The manual recently saw light in the form of a video tutorial on the Internet. According to the British publication The Independent , the video in a fairly short time gained more than 200 thousand views and caused a scandal among believers from different countries.

The Federal Tax Service (Federal Tax Service) on behalf of the Russian Federation signed a multilateral agreement on the automatic exchange of financial information CRS MCAA at the anti -corruption summit in London, TASS reports. An agreement on a single information exchange standard (Common Reporting Standard, CRS) was approved by the Ministers of Finance of the G20 countries in February 2014 and the OECD Council in July of the same year.

The director of the Orthodox gymnasium of Novokuznetsk Archpriest Anatoly Koshkarov, who violated the ban on the funeral service of the deceased outside the temples, was involved in the church court of the Novokuznetsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The ban was introduced by Bishop of Novokuznetsk and Tashtagolsky Vladimir, but Father Anatoly allowed one of his subordinates to take the parishioner in the Morge Hall.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced the former guard of the order, which included a criminal group that had robbed. During one of the attacks, the policeman-robber killed the watchman. By a court decision, the accused Sergey Shigarev will spend 14 years behind bars. He will serve his sentence in a maximum security penal colony, the official website of the prosecutor's office of the Leningrad Region reports.

The Indian team of NP-Micnav engineers has begun to develop a small unmanned aerial vehicle, which in the future can be used to transport hearts intended for transplantation, writes N+1 . The new drone will be able to transport goods weighing up to 250 grams, and the range of its flight will be at least one hundred kilometers. In a special container of drone, conditions will be supported that is optimal for the long -term preservation of the donor heart.

“Sweden loves children, so they make the right playgrounds. The right playground should be quite safe, but at the same time it should not limit the activity and ingenuity of children. A good playground will offer activities for children of different ages, and ideally also for parents. It’s especially cool when children themselves are involved in designing the playground (or at least listen to their wishes).

The motto of the Russian national team at the 2016 European Championship in France in France will be the slogan of local musketeers from the famous novel by Alexander Dumas - "One - for all, all for one!".