The Croatian national team after the victory over the British. Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" In the second semifinals of the World Cup, the Croatian national team beat England in extra time and reached the final of the tournament. The game that took place in Moscow ended with a score of 2: 1 in favor of the Croats. In the first half, the advantage was on the side of the British who attacked and controlled the ball more. Kiran Trippier is preparing to break through the penalty.

The Twitter microblogging service will remove accounts blocked due to suspicious activity from subscriber counters. This was reported in the official blog of the social network. Twitter plans to remove supposedly those accounts that used to belong to real people, but at some point they lost access to their account and could not restore it. “This week we will be removing blocked accounts from profiles around the world.

Members of the "Civic Solidarity" movement applied to hold a protest against raising the retirement age in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. This is reported on the park's website. The declared number of participants of the action is up to 1000 people. "Civil Solidarity" plans to hold it on the evening of July 18. Previously, "Civic Solidarity" was one of the organizers of the rally and march against raising the retirement age.

During excavations at the site of the ancient Greek city of Olympia, German and Greek archaeologists found a clay tablet with verses from the poem "Odyssey" by the ancient Greek poet Homer, reports Reuters. This is the oldest fragment of the poem found in Greece. Preliminary estimates indicate that it was created before the third century AD. The fragment contains 13 verses, where Odysseus addresses his friend Eumeus.

Near the editorial office of Novy, Anin Garden will appear. We invite gardeners and just caring Photo from the archive The name of Anna Politkovskaya adorned maps of many cities in the world. Politkovskaya Square is, for example, in Rome and in the French city of Montrey, the street in Tbilisi and Ferrara. In Karlovy Vary, the park is named after Anna Politkovskaya, in Milan - the garden. In Russia, there is no street or alley that would immortalize our colleague. But now there will be a garden.

The new online publication launched in the USA, American media are associated with the Kremlin cook Prigozhin Screenshot from the film "Captain America". Kinopoisk.ru A messenger from St. Petersburg “The USA actually. Wake up, America! " - This is the name of this project.

The Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk replaced a suspended sentence of three years in prison for former serviceman Askhat Alibekov, who is known as the blogger Wild Paratrooper. This is reported by "Mediazona" with reference to his wife Patimat Alibekova. According to her, Alibekov was detained on July 5 in the city of Shakhty.

The Kherson city court extended the arrest of the editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti Ukraine Kirill Vyshinsky until September 13. This was announced by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of Crimea, which is part of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, Igor Ponochovny on his Facebook. “The Kherson City Court granted the petition of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (ARC - ed.

In Ulyanovsk, high -profile arrests in the criminal case of fraud in the field of public procurement of drugs were made Photo: Photoxpress Among the suspects are the deputy of the regional Legislative Assembly Igor Tikhonov (in the past - the secretary of the regional political council of United Russia), the general director of the state JSC Ulyanovskfarmasia Olga Kuznetsova and its deputy Evgeny Kogan.

The police of Krasnoyarsk was taken to the teenager living and healthy, a corpse in bruise was returned a few days later Ilya Torokhov. Photo from the archive According to the Krasnoyarsk investigation, Ilya Torokhov, 17 years old, “was taken to the police department on suspicion of robbery, where he began to inadequately lead and attacked a police officer, in connection with which handcuffs were applied to him. Two hours later, he calmed down, and handcuffs were removed from him.

The former head of Roskosmos, Igor Komarov, has been appointed Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education Mikhail Kotyukov. The corresponding order is published on the website of the Russian government. Igor Komarov has served as head of Roskosmos since 2015. his place .

A criminal case was opened against the KIT Film Company under Part 4 of Art. 159.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud) for the theft of more than 7 million rubles from the Cinema Fund. Interfax was told this by a source familiar with the situation. According to the case file, in 2015 the Film Foundation provided the film company with funds to create a full-length feature film. KIT Film Company undertook to pay the money no later than March 2017, but did not do so.

UPDATE RBC reports that Rostelecom announced the suspension of the company's planned work during the World Cup. “There were no emergency calls at this address. Therefore, an employee of the company could not be at this facility on official duties, ”the company said. Rostelecom also added that law enforcement agencies did not contact the company on this occasion.

Russian journalist Yevgeny Titov has been granted asylum in Lithuania, reports Delfi . He left Russia two years ago out of fear for his own safety. “We confirm that we have made a decision on Titov, who was granted refugee status,” said Evelina Gudzinskaite, director of the Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of Lithuania. In February 2018, Titov was denied asylum. The department considered that his fears were unfounded.

In Italy, Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), a union that includes workers from carmaker Fiat, a sponsor of the Juventus club, went on strike over Cristiano Ronaldo's move to the club. This is stated in a statement on the USB website. The strikers say it is unacceptable to be persuaded to save money until the company launches new car models, while Fiat owners spend 100 million euros to buy a football player. The strike will last two days - from the evening of July 15 to the evening of July 17.