The Ministry of Defense commented on Yabloko’s calculations of the costs of Russia’s military operation in Syria . “Once again we have to disappoint all former and future would-be accountants and analysts of military expenditures.

The State Duma Commission for control over the income of deputies, headed by Natalya Poklonskaya, held one working meeting The State Duma Commission for control over the income of deputies, headed by Natalya Poklonskaya , held one working meeting.

Barbara Veldens, French singer, died during her performance at the age of 36. The death of the 35-year-old singer was reported by the BBC. It is noted that Veldens died during her performance in a church in southwest France from cardiac arrest. According to preliminary data, she was electrocuted. The police began an investigation into the incident, but law enforcement officials refused to talk about the cause of death.

Photo: “They just didn’t let in a fan who had the USSR coat of arms on his jersey” // YouTube still frame The deputy head of the Russian Water Polo Federation said that the incident actually happened in Hungary with the coat of arms of the USSR. Representatives of the Russian delegation, upon entering the stadium in Budapest, where the World Aquatics Championships are taking place, were forced to remove T-shirts with Soviet symbols and the words “USSR”. RIA Novosti reported this on Thursday.

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On Thursday, July 20, Russian actor Viktor Kinakh died at the age of 57. The Stanislavsky Electrotheater announced the death of Viktor Kinakh on its website on Thursday. Kinakh was born in Karaganda, graduated from the Shchukin School and was accepted into the Theater of Miniatures under the direction of Arkady Raikin. The actor worked for 20 years at Satyricon, where he played dozens of roles, including in the plays The Thief of Baghdad, The Magnificent Cuckold, and The Threepenny Opera.

Stanislav Zimovets, a participant in the anti-corruption rally on March 26, was sentenced to 2.5 years in a general regime colony. The Tverskoy Court of Moscow found Stanislav Zimovets, a veteran of military operations in Chechnya, guilty of violence against a government official, writes RBC. According to investigators, at Alexei Navalny’s rally in Moscow, he threw a fragment of a brick at Russian Guard fighter Vadim Kotenev.

The Central Federal District has declared a yellow alert level due to rain with thunderstorms and strong winds. The yellow alert level will be in effect on Friday, July 21. “The degree of intensity of hazardous phenomena: yellow – the weather is potentially dangerous,” according to the website of the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation. Forecasters predict that on July 21 the air in the capital will warm up to 23 degrees.

Photo: In the global “pension ranking” Russia took fortyth place out of 43 possible // Global Look Press The Sobesednik.ru columnist talks about Russia’s stable (fourth from bottom) place in the ranking of the best countries for living in retirement. Russia once again demonstrates rare stability: in the global “pension rating”, compiled for the fifth year in a row by experts from the French bank Natixis, it took forty place out of 43 possible. Just like a year ago.

In 2017, bailiffs will write off about a trillion rubles of bad debts of Russians to banks . “The volume of credit debt that cannot be collected after a court decision is growing every year - this year the bailiffs will be able to collect approximately half of the debts transferred to them.

Photo: Is there a lightning rod... or a lightning rod (as you like) at your dacha? // Global Look Press The chief gardener of Russia, Andrei Tumanov, tells Sobesednik.ru readers how to make a simple lightning rod at the dacha. Rain and thunderstorms are everywhere and endlessly. I read reports of incidents at dachas: “Due to a lightning strike, the garden house caught fire, the fire spread...” Well, let's remember the school physics course.

On the night of Thursday, July 20, in a parking lot in Kiev , unknown assailants shot and killed a Russian citizen who was being prosecuted for murder. According to UNN, the Russian citizen killed in Kyiv is Asif Mamedov, an Azerbaijani by nationality. According to the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Artem Shevchenko, Mamedov committed murder in his homeland and was hiding from justice in Ukraine.

Alexey Uchitel asked the Cinema Fund for 60 million on a non-refundable basis and 30 million on a refundable basis for the film “Tsoi”. Alexey Uchitel intends to make a movie about musician Viktor Tsoi. According to the director's idea, the film will show how a bus with relatives and friends of a musician who died in an accident in Latvia carried his body to St. Petersburg. In this case, the main character of the film will be the driver of the car that Tsoi’s car collided with.

The police detained an employee of a capital supermarket suspected of causing grievous bodily harm. The Moscow agency reports that a 22-year-old supermarket employee was detained for beating a man. At the same time, he was convicted of another crime.

Photo: Organized by the Italian National Tourism Agency with the support of the Moscow Department of Culture and the Italian Embassy in Russia, the festival invites guests. The festival's concert program includes performances by street performers, mimes and tarantella dancers.