The public transport system in large and wealthy cities is in a state of decline, writes Economist. First of all, this applies to the United States. According to the US Association of Public Transport, in 2016-2017 all its types - buses, metro, trains and trams - began to be used significantly less popular. Compared to the previous year, New York residents (data for April 2018) began to ride in public transport by 2.8% and 4.2% less on weekdays and weekends, respectively.

Dmitry Medvedev is photographed with tourists at the towers Petronas. Photo: Dmitry Astakhov / Press Service of the Government of the Russian Federation / TASS There is a lot of news for a day. Every evening we select only those events that we consider really important, and share them with our readers.

On June 29, Ilona Mask, Ilona Mask, successfully launched a Falcon 9 missile from Cape Dragon from Cape Dragon. He will deliver almost three tons of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), including a robot, which will become the “first form of artificial mind in the ISS” and an assistant to astronauts.

While experts are evaluating the share of Russians who may not survive to the new retirement age, power - along with the official press - invents excuses for reform. The other day, the head of the Ministry of Health Veronika Skvortsova said that the work supposedly helps to delay aging. “We can assess the influence of activity - professional and physical - on longevity.

Leaks, or Hansen's disease, is not the most common disease in our days. It is successfully treated with antibiotics and rarely causes death. So, according to WHO, in 2016, about 216 thousand new cases of illness were registered around the world (for comparison, from the flu annually from 300 thousand to 650 thousand, and even more infected).

Photo: kaveh kazemi / getty images The reputation of Russian official sociologists is not at all such as to read the percentages they call them and on their basis to draw conclusions about the state of Russian public opinion. Rather, they need to be treated so that at a particular moment, official sociologists or the patronizing power to want Russian society to believe that his opinion is described by those numbers that are given in the results of the next survey.

There is a lot of information. Every morning we select only what is interesting to us, and share with our readers. Oleg Navalny was released The brother of the opposition Alexei Navalny freed himself from the colony of general regime in the village of Naryshkino, Oryol region. At the exit of Oleg Navalny, the wife of Victoria, the elder brother and employees of the Corruption Fund.

It is pleasant when Russian publishers (in this case Eksmo) quickly react to the Western market news, reducing the lag between the international release and the release of the translation. This is what happened to the book of American journalist Jason Schreer “Blood, sweat and pixel. The reverse side of the video game industry ”, the first circulation of which went on sale in the home market in the middle of last year. However, the speed here is not the main thing.