Volunteers in South African Johannesburg distribute food in poor quarters For several months, scientists warned that after Covid -19 more or less able to take control of the most developed and rich states, the epicenters of the pandemia will move to Asia, Africa and Latin America and turn into a chronic problem. Obviously, this script has now begun to be implemented. The new coronavirus hits the most poorly or torn -by -tireless wars and conflict countries that are not able to restrain it.

The so -called popular vote ended this week. My colleague Ivan Voronin voted in polling stations and voted on amendments.

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The investigator of the central apparatus of the Investigative Committee of Russia Ruslan Minihakhmetov was released after the interrogation, the decision to institute criminal proceedings was canceled against him. This was reported by RBC and TASS with reference to his lawyer and the Investigative Committee. The miniakhmetov was detained the day before by the FSB officers, he was tried to impose two episodes of receiving a bribe.

How to explain the record jump in the number of infected Covid-19 in the United States? Is the situation comparable in the USA and Europe? Did authoritarianism help in the fight against the epidemic? Is it far to the vaccine from coronavirus? How did coronavirus become a factor in the ideological struggle? We discuss these and other issues with a biophysicist, an honorary professor at the University of Boston, Maxim Frank-Kamenetsky and Radio observer, Liberty Efim Fishtein .

The cousin of Russian President Vladimir Putin, entrepreneur Roman Putin was nominated as chairman of the Personal Party against Corruption (NPK). The party’s website reports that the decision on the appointment of Putin’s novel by the party leader will be made at the NPK Congress on July 5. Roman Putin joined the party on June 21.

One of the pickets in defense of Svetlana Prokopyeva. Samara, archive The new Russian independent magazine Kholod published the opinions of more than thirty journalists about the state’s attempt to punish Svetlana Prokopyev for participating in the discussion of the problem of terrorism. Ivan Kolunov, special correspondent of the Medusa publication The case of Svetlana Prokopyeva, unfortunately, clearly shows the meaninglessness and inefficiency of the law enforcement system in the country.

A woman passes by a poster supporting the cancellation of female circumcision Do you have a girl? Crimes against sexual integrity of girls, called “female circumcision”, are committed mainly in 30 countries of Africa and the Middle East. At least 200 million living women (5.17%) have been subjected to this type of violence. There are countries in which more than half of the girls are circumcised. The approximate data are known about how many women have been postponed 15–49 years.

Mamihan Umarov (Anzor from Vienna), a screenshot from the Utuub channel "Chechens in Austria" A native of Chechnya was killed in the suburbs in the vein with a shot in the head. According to the sources of the Caucasus. Realities, we are talking about Mamihan Umarov, known as Anzor from Vienna.

July 4 marks the 70th anniversary of the first air of the Radio Free Europe. Radio Free Europe was born in the midst of the Cold War for broadcasting on the countries of the then Soviet bloc - Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia. The first gear was broadcast from the Bavarian town of Lampertheim in Czech. Soon after, the construction of a powerful transmitter in the Portuguese resort place of Gloria began.

"... not foreseeing any hope for the amendment of the ruling undergoing, they were found for those who were forced to make a solemn declaration of this, which the United colonies were announced by the free and independent state ...

In social networks, they discuss the action near the Russian Embassy in Kiev - July 1, on the day of voting on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the group of activists established the stretching of “The Death of Russia!”, And the publicist Boris Stomakhin , recently left the colony after the third term for his articles and asked for asylum in Ukraine, was stomping the Russian flag.

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Few people believe in official statistics, a lot of politics, a little science, hence the confusion in the minds: either Russia is waiting for the second wave of the pandemic, or the digestion of the first.

Briefly about the events of the week