Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) The average life expectancy of the population of the European Union for the first time reached 80 years - 6 years more than in 1990. Moreover, the difference in indicators for the western and eastern parts of the EU is 8 years. At the same time - according to research - the number of chronic diseases associated with obesity, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption has sharply increased.

We reported on the mismatch of the Pitersky “Zenit-Arena” football field with the requirements of FIFA. The field is unique, it is truly popular - for the sake of building it, the Russians froze pensions, crushed the ruble. Even the most important expenses had to be modeled: such as the reconstruction of Novorossia and the shame of the Black Sea Overseas plainos. The international football mission was met in the most decent way.

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Dmitry Gudkov, Andrey Svintsov, Valery Gartung about the price of the crisis How do the Russian authorities force citizens to pay for a crisis, how do the expenses of wars in Syria and Ukraine are shifting to the population, for the annexation of Crimea? Who and how pushes an endless increase in real estate, land, housing and communal services, duties? Who is lobbying for new prohibitions for small business, for example, for the sale of beer? And why all new conflicts are taking place in power.

Schoolchildren are waiting for innovations that came directly from the USSR A lot of interesting things can occur with school education in the near future. Those who studied during the Soviet Union, when listing preparing changes, can experience easy nostalgia: astronomy will be returned to the program and include choral singing lessons , and after class, students will be able to attend free circles - theatrical, musical, technical, sports sections and chess.

The son of the daughter of the late President of Uzbekistan Gulnara Karimova Islam Karimov Jr. denied recent media reports about the death of his mother. In an interview with the Uzbek service of the Air Force channel, he confirmed that since 2014 Gulnara Karimova has been under house arrest in Tashkent. This week, the Center-1 publication with reference to an unnamed National Security Service of Uzbekistan reported the death of Karimova, who allegedly came from poisoning on November 5.

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Elena Masyuk Human rights activists Elena Masyuk, Lyubov Volkova and Lidia Dubikova filed a lawsuit in the Tver court of Moscow against the Council of the Public Chamber. They demand to cancel its decisions on the formation of new public observation commissions (PMCs) and the deviation of their candidates. About this on Wednesday is written "Vedomosti". Similar claims plan to file several more people in other Russian regions.

One of the holidays in the Moscow Palace of Pioneers on the Vorobyovy Mountains In the largest educational institution of the capital, the "Sparrow Mountains", a serious corruption scandal. Verification of the Department of Education of the Moscow City Hall revealed a waste of tens of millions of rubles. The leaders of the Sparrow Mountains were fired, but received new major positions. The publication Rus2web says about how the GBPOU "Vorobyovy Gory" spent budget money.

Victor Kapitonov, activist The Tver court of Moscow fined 300 rubles of opposition activist Viktor Kapitonov, detained during the picket in memory of the victims of the attack in Beslan. According to ATD-Info, Kapitonov found guilty of repeated violation of the procedure for public events.

Photo by Joe Cox (London, June 16, 2016) The court in London sentenced the murderer of the deputy of the British parliament Joe Cox to life imprisonment . The jury brought out the indictment unanimously. Then the 53-year-old defendant Thomas Meyr, who had refused earlier, had refused to speak, but Judge Alan Wilki refused permission.

The poster "reporters without borders": "Politicians without limits require reporters without borders" The European Parliament resolution on countering propaganda against the EU, including from Russia, caused an extremely violent reaction in Moscow. President Vladimir Putin spoke about the “degradation of ideas about democracy in Western society” and congratulated journalists who “prompted representatives of the European body to make such decisions,” with “productive and talented work”.

Member of the protest of truckers against the Plato system In Russia, the Plato system can also be extended to small trucks weighing from 3.5 tons. This was reported on Wednesday by the newspaper Vedomosti with reference to the federal official and to the contract that appeared on the public procurement website. Now Plato (payment per ton) is working for cars with weighing over 12 tons.

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov Chechnya authorities want to attract private instructors from the USA for work in Gudermes created in Gudermes. This was in an interview with Interfax was told by the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. According to him, they have already received about a dozen applications for hiring for work.