NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken successfully splash down on the Crew Dragon spacecraft in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. The crew is feeling well, SpaceX speedboats will arrive at the splashdown site within an hour, said . NASA The first manned mission of the new US-built spacecraft was a complete success. On May 30, Elon Musk's Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS).

How to react to accusations in the Harassment - our colleagues from the BluePrint publication have prepared special instructions. Over the past few weeks, a new wave of local #Metoo has launched in Russian social networks and the media. At first, several journalists on Twitter spoke about harassment and sexual violence by former colleagues and acquaintances, the discussion turned to Facebook and telegram channels, and then partially to the federal media and the yellow press.

Rich countries, including the US, UK, EU and Japan, have agreed to supply 1.3 billion doses of a coronavirus vaccine. This can lead to a monopolization of stocks: the first to receive the vaccine are not the most in need, as during the swine flu pandemic in 2009, writes Bloomberg. More than 1.5 billion could be added to the 1.3 billion hard doses, according to Airfinity, a London-based analytics company. enough in a world with a population of 7.8 billion people," the agency notes.

Negotiations by China's ByteDance to sell video service TikTok to US Microsoft were at an advanced stage, but stalled due to US President Donald Trump's announcement, found out The Wall Street Journal . Companies are now waiting for clarification. On July 31, Donald Trump said he would prefer to sell TikTok by blocking the application in the United States because China can use it to collect the personal data of Americans.

The Vector Science Center plans to start producing a vaccine against COVID-19 in November, Rinat Maksutov, Director General of the institution, said in an interview on the program . Vesti “We expect to start production in November of this year. Therefore, towards the end of the year - the beginning of the next one, we can talk about the transition to vaccination of at least risk groups, followed by the transition to mass vaccination, ”he said.

The first scheduled flight from Turkey since the end of March has landed at Vnukovo Airport. Turkish Airlines resumed flights with Russia. “Vnukovo Airport served the first flight from Turkey after the restoration of regular international air traffic: the flight on the route Istanbul (IST) — Moscow (VKO) — Istanbul (IST) on a special vessel in a new livery was operated by Turkish Airlines,” the airport said in a statement.

Bitcoin briefly broke the $12,000 mark for the first time since August 2019. This is evidenced by the morning data of the Binance exchange . During trading, the CoinMarketCap portal calculated the average cost of a cryptocurrency for more than 20 exchanges. According to his estimates, Bitcoin rose by 4.91%, amounting to $11,918. More recently, on July 26, bitcoin reached the psychological mark of $10,000.

Political and religious views during the pandemic crisis can cost people of life. Political addictions and misinformation by media affect the behavior of people and their perception of risks are stronger than even the number of infected and dead in their city, our friends from the Econs.online project claim . In addition to social capital , their political views greatly affect people's behavior.

Russia slightly exceeded its oil production quota in July, Reuters writes , citing data from the Energy Ministry. From August, OPEC+ restrictions will be eased. In July, Russia produced 9.37 million b/d of oil and gas condensate compared to 9.32 million b/d in June. Over the month, the increase in production amounted to about 1.5 million tons. Russia usually produces 700-800 thousand b/d of gas condensate, which gives oil production at the level of 8.57-8.67 million b/d.