The “Slow Reading” section presents books included in the long list of the Enlightener Prize of 2021. It included 25 of more than two hundred books sent to the competition. In September, finalist books in the categories “Humanities” and “Natural and exact sciences” will be known. The awarding ceremony of laureates of book awards - “Enlightener” and “Enlightener. Transport” - will be held on November 18 in Moscow.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined 300 thousand rubles for violation of the law on “foreign agents” the Fund for the Protection of the Rights of Citizens (FZPG) of the opposition Alexei Navalny, and its director Olga Gusev - per 100 thousand rubles. This was reported by the United press service of St. Petersburg courts.

The prosecutor's office of the Pskov region refused to conduct an audit on the receipt by Governor Mikhail Vedernikov from journalist Denis Kamalyagin, recognized as a “foreign agent”. This was told by the MBH Media publication member of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko Timofei Bezugny - it was he who turned to the prosecutor's office.

The deputy chairman of the Russian government, Tatyana Golikova, during the meeting of the Council of the Russian Federation on the issues of trusteeship in the social sphere, entrusted the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Internal Affairs until September 20 to clarify the concept of “citizen without a specific place of residence”, develop criteria for classifying Russians as this category and the procedure for maintaining a separate register of such persons. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

The Department of Information Technology (DIT) Moscow plans to transfer to a private company the support and support of the Social Monitoring information system, which since the spring of 2020 has survived Muscovites with coronavirus. This was written by Kommersant, who discovered the appropriate tender on the public procurement portal.

The nurse of the Central District Hospital of the Zhukovsky District of the Kaluga Region was injected to two patients for injection instead of the anti -icing Kovivak vaccine, the head of the region Vladislav Shapsha spoke about this in social networks. According to Shapsha, the nurse " scared to inform the patient that the second component of the coronavirus vaccine was over ." The patient was a close relative of the chief physician of the same hospital.

Investigators opened a second criminal case against the former deputy head of the FSIN Valery Maksimenko, TASS told TASS, his lawyer Kadria Khazina. According to her, now he is accused of receiving a major bribe (part 6 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). “As on the first charges, he does not admit guilt in the second case,” the lawyer said. Maksimenko worked in the Federal Penitentiary Service since 2012 and in 2016 rose to the deputy head.

Three of the four accused in the criminal case of inflicting deadly injuries to the anti -fascist and Politsyk Alexei Socrates Sutuog did not appear at the meeting after the judge of the philistine court Olesya Mendeleev released them from the pre -trial detention center under the recognizance not to leave. About this Novaya Gazeta was told by a representative of the deceased Svetlana Sidorkina.

The Secretary of State at the Foreign Ministry of France, Kleman Bon, called on the European Union countries not to recognize the Russian and Chinese vaccines before the European agency of drugs (EMA) would approve them. He stated this on the air of the France 2 television channel. “The number of recognized vaccines should be limited by the use of which the European agency of drugs allowed,” Bon said.

The territorial election commission of the Dzerzhinsky district refused the former head of the Perm headquarters of Navalny (the organization was recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation) Sergei Ustrov in the right to become a candidate for deputies. The politician wrote on Twitter that formally this decision was based on the position of the Ministry of Justice, who established his connection with the extremist organization.

Ex-President of South Africa Jaycob Zuma began to serve his sentence for disrespect for court. He must spend 15 months in prison, writes The Guardian. On June 29, the Constitutional Court of South Africa sentenced Zumu to 15 months of imprisonment. Such a decision was made due to the fact that Zuma did not fulfill the demand of the court and did not make testimony during the investigation of corruption, which was during his reign of the country.

Maria Alekhin from Pussy Riot was arrested for the next 15 days for disobedience to the police, Daniil Berman told Open Media open. The Alekhin was drawn up on disobedience to police officers (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation).

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on July 8 signed a decree that takes restrictions on visiting the open territory of the zoo, as well as open citywide spaces. The document was published on the website of the head of the capital. According to the decree, the ban on the use of arbors, children's and sports grounds was canceled in Moscow. The restriction on visiting the zoo is partially canceled - open spaces of the zoo will be available there, and the premises will be closed.

Italian historians Alessandro Vutszosos and Alez Sabato traced the genealogy Tree Leonardo da Vinci for 690 years and 21 generations and found 14 male relatives that are now living. The results will be useful for further studies of the artist DNA. During the ten years of archival research, historians traced five branches, starting with the founder of the clan named Michele, born in 1331. Leonardo da Vinci was to him a great -great -great -granddaughter.

Moscow restaurants will be able to launch guests without QR codes for their summer verandas before August 1, the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, announced on his website. Initially, the resolution was valid until July 11. “At the request of public catering representatives, the service on the summer verandas of visitors without the presentation of QR codes will be allowed until August 1, 2021 (inclusive).