Destroyed by the explosion of the sea port of Beirut. August 4, 2020 The monstrous explosion in the capital of Lebanon Beirut on Tuesday took at least a hundred people, perhaps there are many more dead. Injured and wounded at least 4 thousand. The sound of the explosion, which the city authorities have already compared with the nuclear bombardment of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , was heard for hundreds of kilometers, even in Cyprus.

The European Court of Human Rights Comminized 130 complaints from opposition shares in the Moscow Center last summer. There are more than five hundred such complaints. The coordinator of the human rights project "OTD-info" Alexander Baeva reported that the accepted complaints were united for consideration.

Beyutians are indignant how negligence in the storage of ammonium nitrate could lead to such a disaster

According to the preliminary version, the cause of the most powerful explosion in the port of Beirut was the detonation of ammonium nitrate during welding work *** Police confiscated in the Moscow bookstore “Khodasevich” the Fem-calendar “Solidarity”, the funds from which went to the charity organization “Vasily.nn” *** Petersburg may deprive the famous yacht club

Actor Mikhail Efremov, who is accused of fatal accidents, on Wednesday at a meeting of the Presnensky court of Moscow refused to admit guilt. It is reported by "Interfax." “I don’t remember anything. No, I don’t admit,” Efremov said. Its lawyers believe that to admit guilt prematurely. The prosecutor said that Efremov at the time of the accident was in a state of alcohol and drug intoxication, exceeded a speed of 25 km/h and lost control over the car.

Radio Liberty correspondent Alexander Valiev is talking with the captain of the Rossus vessel, from which in 2014, a nitrate was unloaded, who was detonated on August 4 in Beirut. The owner of the vessel Igor Grechushkin did not pay with the crew and threw it to the mercy of fate. Fragment of the program "Time of Freedom"

In five cities of Kuzbass, the authorities resumed the action of restrictive measures in connection with the growth of the number of those sick with coronavirus , Interfax reports with reference to the Covid-19 operating system. The restrictions affected five cities, including large regional centers - Novokuznetsk and Mezhdurechensk. In all five cities, the work of children's circles and sections, summer cinemas, cultural and leisure institutions and fitness centers have been suspended.

Have you tried listening to the appeals of the leaders of the post -Soviet countries to their citizens? No? Tired? No time? Family-children? And you try. Of course, you need not to listen to Turkmen Berdimuhamedov - there you simply will not hear a word, because every word of the father of the nation will drown out "stormy and long", and then speech with gratitude words from the people follow. Mothers thank for successful birth, men for an erection.

In Belarus on the second day of early voting in the election of the President of the country, human rights activists from the Vesna Center reported a detention directly at the polling stations of at least 12 independent observers. In particular, there were detentions in sites in Minsk, in Vitebsk and Bobruisk, writes TUT.BY agency .

The American corporation SpaceX conducted successful flight tests of the prototype of the second stage of the Starship launch vehicle. The launch took place at the Boka-Chika training ground in Texas, the broadcast was carried out on the NASASPACEFLIGHT UTUB channel. During the tests, the prototype rose 150 meters, moved to the side and made a soft landing on a given part of the test site. “Starship” is a promising super -heavy rocket consisting of two reusable steps.

Foreign intelligence service was observed by Ivan Safronov at least since the fall of 2019, his lawyer Ivan Pavlov told Interfax. According to the text of the decision to attract a journalist to the accused, Russian intelligence learned about the possible transfer of secret information abroad and the existence of an employee of the Czech special services, with whom he, according to the investigation, has worked at least in the fall of 2019.

During the exercises of the railway troops on Wednesday in the Jewish Autonomous Region, a bridge collapsed, 18 people were injured. This was reported by TASS with reference to the emergency services of the region. The victims were sent to the military hospital of Khabarovsk. According to one version, safety precautions could be violated. According to Interfax, the railway bridge collapsed .

The Goskosmos State Corporation spent 22 million 900 thousand rubles on the arrangement of the negotiation room in one of its buildings in Moscow, MBH Media reports with reference to the public procurement portal. For this money, the room, the layout of which will be determined by the contractor - Ai Ko KO, will be equipped with a large screen, several displays, a table for twenty -one persons and a darling system.