What drives Putin's Russia

Residents of the CAR with the flag of PMCs In the Central African Republic, as a result of shooting at one of the mines, controlled by the structures associated with the Russian PMC Wagner, at least 11 people were killed. It is reported by Associated Press with reference to local residents and rescuers. Shooting, stated, occurred on Wednesday on the gold mine of Ndassima, located about 450 km east of the capital of the country of Banga.

Rustem Umarov Ukraine offered Russia next week to hold a new round of negotiations. This evening was stated on Saturday by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. According to him, the head of the Ukrainian delegation at negotiations Rustem Umarov handed over the proposal to the Russian side. This week he was appointed secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, having left the post of Minister of Defense.

US President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the owner of The Wall Street Journal News Corp, founder of News Corp Media Magnate Rupert Murdok and two WSJ reporters. It requires compensation in the amount of at least 10 billion dollars for publication, which states that in 2003 Trump allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein a congratulatory letter with a frank pattern and a hint of “general secrets”.

Sanctions were imposed against Karen Shakhnazarov In the official messenger of the EU legislation, documents adopted on the eve of the EU by the Council drawing up the 18th package of sanctions against Russia were published . The publication contains, in particular, a list of Russian banks on which restrictions are imposed, a list of vessels of the so -called shadow fleet, as well as individuals and legal entities that have fallen under sanctions.

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At least 34 people died in Vietnam after the boat transporting tourists, in stormy weather, rolled over in the Bay of Halong near the coast in the north of the country. 11 people reportedly were saved, 8 remain missing. Among the dead are at least eight children. In total, there were 48 passengers and five crew members. The boat, reportedly, turned over because of a strong wind accompanied by a downpour. Search and rescue work continues.

President Trump signs a decree on the dismantling of the US Department of Education Does the country need the Ministry of Education? Is the American higher education cost to study? What does Donald Trump want to achieve? We are discussing these and other issues today with a biophysicist, a professor at Harvard University Evgeny Shakhnovich , historian, professor of Seton-Hall University Maxim Matusevich and economist Professor Heverford College Vladimir Kondorovich .

More than 130 passenger trains as of the morning of July 20 followed in Russia with delays, as reported in Russian Railways, "in connection with the incident at the Lihai station," where, on the eve of the morning, according to the Russian authorities, Ukrainian drones damaged the contact network. On Saturday evening, the federal passenger company reported that 75 trains were delayed. According to Russian Railways, delays are from 33 minutes to 15 hours.

At least 30 people were injured in East Hollywood in Los Angeles, when at about 2 in the morning local time on Saturday the car drove into a crowd of people on the Boulevard of the West Santa-Monica Boulevard. According to CNN with reference to the fire safety control of Los Angeles (LAFD), 7 people are in critical condition, 6 received serious injuries. The incident occurred near one of the local concert venues.

Israel expressed serious concern to the position of ethnic and religious minorities in Syria against the backdrop of a sharp escalation of violence in the province of Es -Suyid. According to the Syrian monitoring center for compliance with human rights, more than 900 people have died there in recent days, including women, children and medical personnel. Local sources also report abductions and extrajudicial executions.

In Israel, at the age of 87, the brigade General Gior Epstein, a veteran of the IDF Air Force, the most effective fighter-fighter in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the world record holder for the number of knocked down combat aircraft died. This was reported by the Israeli Russian -speaking publication Newsru. Giora Epstein was born in 1938 in the kibbutz Negba. He entered the Air Force service in 1963.

Opposition action in Minsk in 2020 In Belarus, the five -year limitation period for holding on some "protest" articles will soon expire. This directly applies to thousands of people who took part in the mass protests of the summer and autumn of 2020 - they began after the CEC of Belarus declared the winner of the presidential election of Alexander Lukashenko, and not Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, and the elections themselves were held with mass falsifications.

Warsaw Airport named after Chopin The Polish authorities are investigating the air traffic control system used by the Polish Air Navigation Agency (Pansa) on Saturday. "Employees of the internal security agency collect information on this case, analyze it and check for possible sabotage," said a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland. According to Pansa press secretary, Marcin Hadai, a reserve system was activated in connection with the failure.

The President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev advised Ukraine to "not humble" with the occupation of its territories by Russia. He said this on a media forum in the city of Shusha, answering the question of Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon. Aliyev spent parallels between the situation of Azerbaijan, part of the territory of which - the Nagorny Karabakh and the surrounding areas - was not controlled by Baku for about 30 years, and Ukraine.