On the Majorka, where on July 16, the meteotsuns occurred, a German tourist died as a result of the arrival of a huge tidal wave. A 53-year-old Russian rested on an island with his wife and eight-year-old twin children at the Porto-Petro resort, on the southern coast of Mallorca. The family in full force descended the stairs leading to the sea, when a powerful wave poured onto the shore. Children, a boy and a girl, fell into the water.

Roman Popkov "The Scott Sheppard team from the Carnegie Institute in Washington has been working with a dark energy camera (dec) located in the Chiles Observatory. DEC is usually used to search for objects on the outskirts of the solar system, but in 2017 it was sent to a section of the sky, where Jupiter can also be observed.

A 42-year-old Magadan resident accused of repeated rape of a 13-year-old girl will appear in court. The man was hiding from justice outside of Russia, but was detained in Thailand and extradited to his homeland. The completion of the criminal investigation was announced on the website of the regional department of the RF IC on July 20.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, having arrived on July 20 to Kaliningrad, first spoke about the upcoming increase in the retirement age in Russia. According to him, he personally does not like the increase in the retirement age in any form, but he can’t do without it. “This is, of course, very sensitive to a large number of our citizens.

The first wife of Vladimir Vysotsky, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, the leading actress of the Nizhny Tagil Drama Theater, Iza Vysotskaya, died on the morning of July 20 at the 82nd year of her life. Izolda Mashkova (as first marriage - Zhukov) was born on January 22, 1937 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). She graduated from the studio school named after V. Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Theater of the USSR.

Moscow "Torpedo" issued a statement regarding the situation with the acquisition of black defender Erving Botak-Iobom, whose transfer did not take place amid racist statements from the club's fans . The 19-year-old black graduate of the automaker had already been introduced as a player, but fans from the West-5 group protested in connection with his acquisition.

In the Barents Sea, a memorial plaque was installed on the body of the submarine D-1 "Decembrist", which sank in 1940 under unexplained circumstances. The initiator and executor of the installation of the memorial sign was the Northern Fleet. "In the immediate vicinity of the boat corps at the bottom of the Barents Sea, an Orthodox cross was also established," the Press Service of the fleet on July 20 quotes the Interfax-religion .

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation proposed a schedule of weekends and holidays for 2019. If the schedule posted on the official website of the department is approved, Russians will have a long weekend for the New Year - from December 30 to January 8 inclusive. In connection with the celebration of Defender of the Fatherland Day, Russians will rest for two days - February 23 and 24, which next year will fall on Saturday and Sunday.

In Finland, they calculated how much the organization cost the country on July 16 in Helsinki a meeting of the presidents of Russia and the USA Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. On the reception of leaders of states and journalists from the treasury, according to preliminary estimates, more than four million euros were spent. In particular, 400 thousand euros were spent on payment to employees and conscripts of the defensive forces, which ensured security on July 16.

The Russian government, which proposed increasing the age of retirement, and State Duma deputies who approved the pension reform in the first reading are ready to discuss options related to various benefits for pensioners. Now pensioners have a lot of benefits: payment of utilities, exemption from property tax, free travel, inexpensive medicines, and so on. These preferences are tied to retirement age. But if it is raised, then benefits by law will also come later.

A small tourist bus-amphibia rolled over and sank on Lake Table Rock in the American state of Missouri. According to preliminary data, at least 11 people were killed, including children, five more people are missing, seven were saved, but they received various injuries and were hospitalized, AP reports. According to the later information, the number of victims increased to 17 people. According to media reports, the incident occurred the night before, July 19.

Lawyer Dmitry Dinze visited the starry for more than two months Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov in the Labytnangi colony, where he was contained. Dinze said that his client looks pretty bad. “It looks even worse than last time. Very pale,” Radio Liberty quotes the lawyer. He specified that the director walks on his own. Two weeks ago, Sentsov had a second health crisis. The director became ill, and they wanted to hospitalize him in order to begin a full forced feeding and pour more the mixture.

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation proposed recognizing bears with a strategically important resource of the country and prepared a draft of the corresponding government decree. The document is published on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

The Pentagon announced on Friday, July 20, the allocation of funds in the amount of $ 200 million for the training of military personnel and the purchase of military equipment as part of security cooperation, CNN reports. This information was confirmed by the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington.

In Dagestan, unknown people attacked the DPS outfit, there are dead among the police, the Interfax and TASS agency reported on Friday, citing sources in emergency services and power structures. "Unknown people fired at the police outfit in the village of Steelskoye, Kizilyurt District Dagestan. Previously, two police officers died and one was wounded," said one of the sources of TASS. The Interfax source clarifies that these were militants. Their search is ongoing.