The European Commission has proposed limiting the use and production of 10 types of plastic goods. It is, in particular, about disposable dishes, ear sticks and fishing gear. These measures will help to stop the growth of plastic garbage in the oceans. This is stated in the project of the EC Directive. Officials proposed to completely ban some goods, as there is an alternative to more environmentally friendly materials, others to limit in use.

The deputy of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg, Nikolai Kosarev, in an interview with Uralinformburo, said that the salvation of bedridden disabled people and premature babies was “not very good” “from the point of load on the state”. “We say that we have high technologies, we have all sorts of super modern things. But often these super modern things lead to the indicators not very good. Here we create perinatal centers, for example, where we nurse babies weighing 500 grams.

Participants in the youth human rights movement from St. Petersburg appealed to the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights with a complaint about the ban on choosing places for rallies and pickets during the World Cup, Kommersant writes .

The Central Bank of Russia withdrew the license from the company Central Insurance Society, which performed the functions of the Life and Health of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Life and Health of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The order is published on the website of the Central Bank. The license was revoked on May 25, the decision enters into force on May 28.

The head of the International Council of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev was canceled by the UN visa due to American sanctions. He reported this "RIA Novosti" According to the senator, because of this, he could not participate in a meeting of the Genasmblei at the end of May. Kosachev said that the canceled of the visa occurred two weeks after Washington brought his name to the sanctions lists.

Grigory Terentyev, the head of the department of supervision of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Kemerovo region, was arrested until July 25, TASS reports . Terentyev and the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Kemerovo region, Alexander Mamontov, were detained on May 25. They are accused of negligence and embezzlement.

The head of Yakutia, Yegor Borisov, announced his resignation. “I made a conscious decision on retired of my own free will. I think that today this moment has risen. The republic needs a new leader, ”Borisov wrote on his Instagram page.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich received Israeli citizenship. About this with reference to sources report the Israeli media. In May, it became known that Abramovich did not extend the British visa of the investor. The country's authorities asked the billionaire to explain the origin of his capital. According to media reports, it was because of this that the Russian oligarch decided to obtain Israeli citizenship.

The powerful tropical cyclone “Makuna”, which became the strongest in their entire story, fell on Oman and the neighboring Yemen. In some cities, according to the media, the norm of annual precipitation was three times exceeded. It is reported that 13 people have already become victims of the elements. Oman's infrastructure was seriously affected by the cyclone-the roofs are blown up at the houses, and some roads were completely washed off.

For billionaire, Ziyavudin Magomedov, who was suspected of fraud and the organization of the criminal group, 22 Olympic champions were entrusted with, his lawyer Maria Belyavskaya at a court meeting, considering the issue of extension of the arrest of Magomedov, announced this. Belyavskaya added that among them there are six -time Olympic champions without specifying their names.

After restoration, the picture of Ilya Repin “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan” will be exhibited in the halls of the Tretyakovka in a special armored glass case, said the director of the State Tretyakov Gallery Zelfir Tregulova. “We received a call from Sberbank to readily support the restoration and ensuring safe exhibiting this work upon completion of a long restoration in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery in a special armored glass case,” the director said.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said that “Instagram must be closed” because with his help “there was“ a terrorist attack in Leningrad ”. RBC cites such a quote from the congress of the Commissioners for Children's Rights. “In Turkey, instead of Yandex, Google has its own information system for children. And we can’t even close Instagram.

In Russia, cases of violence in families have become more frequent due to decriminalization of this type of offense in 2017. This was stated by the chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin at the congress of the Commissioners for the Rights of the Child. “Two years ago, we sharply opposed the decriminalization of domestic violence, transferring it to an administrative misconduct.

The Ministry of Culture and the Tretyakov Gallery asked the State Duma to consider the issue of tightening the punishment for damage to works of art after the damage to Repin's painting “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan”. It is reported by Interfax. The First Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Aristarkhov also stated that the Ministry of Culture requires a “most severe” punishment for a person who damaged Repin's canvas.

The video message of Julia Skripal, in which she asks not to intervene in her life and refuses the help, kindly proposed by the Russian embassy, ​​did not go unnoticed by the “news of the week”. The presenter Dmitry Kiselev devoted a separate commentary on the appeal, on the website of the program entitled as "British special services pierced with Julia Skripal." Kiselev claims that Skripal read out the learned text written not to her.