Experts of the World Wildlife Fund of Russia revealed 30 facts of complex river pollution (including tributaries) with a total length of 1474 kilometers in four regions of Siberia. These are the data of monitoring of water bodies based on satellite images taken in May-June 2021. We are talking about damage due to the extraction of placket gold, reports with reference to the Foundation website of the Siberia. Realii project .

In Moscow, peak values of the incidence of the COVID-19 have been completed, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin told the Russia-1 television channel. "Now there is a certain stabilization. Even one might say, a slight decrease in the incidence rate," said Sobyanin. At the same time, he noticed that the number of patients with a severe course of coronavirus infection is still large - about 1,700 people a day.

In Bulgaria on Sunday, extraordinary parliamentary elections are held. They were appointed three months after the previous vote. It passed April 4, and according to its results, it was not possible to form a ruling coalition.

On a resident of Moscow, Valentina Muzhenskaya, who refused to put on a mask in the building of the multifunctional center of public services (MFC), opened a criminal case under the article on the use of violence against a police officer. On June 25, Muzhenskaya arrived at the MFC to restore the lost social card. According to her, she was in a medical mask, but briefly took her off because of the heat.

Richard Branson with a model of his cosmoplane The piloted flight of the aircraft of the private company "Vörjin Galaxy" under the direction of the 70-year-old billionaire, traveler, air melting-and now the astronaut-Richard Branson ended in the America spaceport, in New Mexico. For the first time in history, the creator of the spacecraft carried out a test flight on it. Together with Branson, US astronauts Sirisha Bandla, Kilin Bennet and Bett Moses were aboard.

In Tbilisi on Sunday evening, a mass protest rally gathered in connection with the death of a television operator, 37-year-old Lexo Lashkarava. He was brutally beaten during the riots on July 5. On that day, a gay parade was supposed to take place in Tbilisi, however, the crowds of opponents of the LGBT community prevented its conduct.

In Moldova, early parliamentary elections are held. In some areas in the morning, long lines of those who wanted to vote were lined up in the morning. The elections, as noted, can weaken the Russian influence on Moldova and contribute to the further integration of this poorest country in Europe with other states of the continent. In total, about 3 million 200 thousand citizens with the right to vote were registered, including representatives of the Moldavian diaspora abroad.

Soviet Ukraine, summer-island 1941. The defense is hastily preparing, but the army is already retreating, the columns of captured Red Army soldiers are stretched, trucks are thrown on the banks of the Dnieper, German troops destroy houses from flamethrowers, and somewhere the invaders are met with flowers and festive processions. Portraits of Stalin are torn, flags with swastikas and posters - liberator appear.

Panorama Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan The authorities of Turkmenistan led to the increased readiness of the forces of reservists in Ashgabat. This has become another reaction to a military-political situation in neighboring Afghanistan. A few days earlier, Turkmenistan began to concentrate heavy weapons, helicopters of armored vehicles near the border with Afghanistan. This was reported by the Turkmen Radio Liberty Service.

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The icons of style and troublemakers of calm. Who are they in Russian and European history? Archive of the program "Freedom in clubs" 2005

Despite the pandemic of coronavirus, the average life expectancy in the world is growing. The next generation of Russians will most likely live for more than a hundred years. But what will be the price of this for society? And is it necessary to strive to renew life by any means?

The United States "with deep concern is observed" as the Taliban is capturing more and more new territories in Afghanistan while American troops returned home in accordance with the order of President Joe Biden, Pentagon representative John Kirby said on Sunday . “The time has come when the Afghan government troops must act and defend their country,” Fox News told Kirby.

Suddenly, many began to talk about “discrimination”, although usually this word in Russia is not used very willingly, as well as the concept of “minorities' rights closely related to it. It still seemed to protect the rights of minorities and fight discrimination so far as it seemed to many somehow nonpatriotic. But even before open calls for discrimination-outside some radical xenophobic circles-has not yet reached.

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