About how domestic referees judged at the World Championships The referee uses the video assistant referee (VAR) system. Photo: AP / TASS The topic of judging runs like a red thread through the North American Forum 2026. The work of Themis football ministers is now being looked at under a microscope. And sometimes they themselves, even after auxiliary video sessions, make very controversial decisions. But the bad thing is not that the main arbiters are wrong.

"Shanghai Foxtrot", "Once Upon a Time in Harlem" and "Four Airports and a Train Station". Review of books of the week Collage: “Novaya Gazeta” Another three wonderful books of the week, reflecting on the past and present. The setting is Shanghai in the 1930s, New York in the 1960s, and modern Moscow and its environs. At the center of all three books is moral choice (or lack thereof) and the desire to be satisfied with life or try to change something.

The Russian Foreign Ministry published a complaint against Serbia for the fact that Belgrade allowed the speaker of the Ukrainian Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, to “abuse the platform” by making an anti-Russian speech at the conference of candidate countries for EU membership.

“Greatness” by Sergei Mostovshchikov, illustrations by Pyotr Sarukhanov Illustration: Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta Oh, if only I had been born a shark, To scare people and ships. And so I became some kind of scoundrel, I need power, contracts and rubles.

In Russian cinemas - "Dante's Code" Still from the film "Dante's Code". Source: "Kinoafisha" The theatrical version of the film "Dante's Code" in Russia differs from the author's version, which was shown at the Venice Film Festival. Instead of 2.5 hours of the original, our viewers will see a “light version” with a running time of 1 hour 44 minutes.

Governor Igor Artamonov asked Lipetsk residents to “respect” the volunteers helping to regulate queues at gas stations, where, as of today in July, a regime for selling gasoline “by numbers” has been introduced. “They are there to help. We are all in the same situation,” Artamonov asked . “Today is July 11th, an odd date on the calendar. Accordingly, owners of cars whose first digit of the license plate is odd: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 can buy gasoline.

What really happened? Aliens, comet or explosion? What happened on the morning of June 30, 1908 over Siberia? Why didn't an explosion with a power of tens of megatons leave a crater? Was it a meteorite, a comet, a natural explosion, or an alien spacecraft? In the new episode, Alexey Kuznetsov and Anton Oreh examine one of the most famous mysteries of the 20th century.

VTB has limited until August 1 the ability to withdraw cash from its ATMs in Crimea using cards from third-party banks, RBC reported .

Information anxiety in society is growing at the speed of the gasoline crisis Illustration: Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta By mid-summer, an unforeseen circumstance became clear: Russian propaganda was losing to Ukrainian propaganda. Andrei Norkin, leaving us (on vacation), asked himself the question: why are we inferior to them? It turns out the reason is simple. We, unlike them, report the truth, but it does not give ratings. The situation is catastrophic. What to do next?

A well-known city defender in St. Petersburg was arrested for posts made 8 years ago, having been lured into a meeting with “fake” journalists. They put a deputy of the Legislative Assembly with him Ivan Apostolevsky and Oleg Mukhin. Photo: MR7 In St. Petersburg, the Smolninsky court placed the famous city defender Oleg Mukhin and the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region Ivan Apostolevsky under arrest for 10 days.

Several Reuters sources reported the suspension of all cargo shipping through the Azov-Don Canal and the Kerch Strait due to Ukrainian attacks on ships in this location that have continued since July. Shipping companies allegedly received a notification from the Russian border service as early as Friday evening that ships would not temporarily pass through the Kerch Strait. There is no official confirmation of this information from Russia yet.

What is the highest good, great goals, good and evil today Illustration: Petr Sarukhanov / Novaya Gazeta The present tense encourages a person to turn to abstract thoughts about good and evil. Which is probably generally characteristic of dangerous times. In calm, ordinary times, such thoughts appear to people extremely rarely. In ordinary times, good and evil are almost always understood only situationally, in connection with personal circumstances.

Taganrog Bay. Screenshot of "Yandex.Maps" Governor Yuriy Slyusar spoke about the night attack of Ukrainian drones on Taganrog and the Taganrog Bay. “A dozen and a half” of drones were shot down, a sailor of a technical vessel was killed, but no one was injured. Four vessels, including a methanol tanker, had “minor damage.” There is no threat of poison spilling into the sea.

Russians are learning to live in endless queues at gas stations and with the exorbitant cost of everything in general Photo: Andrey Bok As you know, everything is fine with us. The President said just that: “The safety margin of the Russian energy system is very high, one of the highest in the world.” We have no reason not to believe him. Apparently, the long queues at gas stations are simply a collection of people who want to see with their own eyes the “strength” indicated above.