Новости за 13.07.2017

The 72 small satellites, including a spacecraft for four separate commercial remote sensing and weather constellations, will launch into orbit on July 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 

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From a bird’s eye view, the edge of Cape Cooper - where the stadium is built - looks like a bright green dot that separates the waters of Amur Bay from the residential area of Vladivostok. The stadium is basically surrounded by water on three sides.

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Vladivostok’s Maritime State University, which owns the stadium, was at first reluctant to open its newly built gates to everyone.

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Anatoly Lifshitz and Lyubov Vovsi would laugh if you told them Frederik Begbeder's theory that love only lasts three years. They’ve been together for no more than 70, and celebrated their wedding anniversary on July 12 this year, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.

Russian ride-hailing app Yandex.Taxi and its U.S. equivalent Uber have agreed to merge their businesses in Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, and Kazakhstan to create a new venture - according to a Yandex report released on July 13.

Darnitskiy, or bukhanka

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We’re starting with one of the youngest types of bread, created in 1930s Leningrad. To bake Darnitskiy, or simply ‘the black bread,’ you need a mix of rye and wheat flour; yeast is not used, but rather zakvaska - leaven. This unique recipe is not only delicious but also makes Darnitskiy one of the least-calorie breads. Rather oddly, the original technology states that flour used for making Darnitskiy bread should not be of the best quality because in this case... Читать дальше...

Unique data on Russian-speaking hackers was provided to ElectricIQ by the Moscow-based Group-IB, which specializes in cyber intelligence, monitoring and prevention of cyber threats.    “It’s impossible to get valuable information about an underground community without a deep understanding of the region and of the cybercriminals’ motives, psychology, and language,” Dmitry Volkov, Co-Founder of Group-IB said in a statement.    Intelligence on Russian hackers is sourced from underground communities. Читать дальше...

Did you know that Russia’s Golden ring tourist route celebrates only its 50th anniversary in 2017? But these ancient towns of northeastern Rus have plenty of good memories to celebrate!

In December 1943 the Kalmyks, an ethnic group living in the Soviet Union, faced a tragic fate. They were forcibly deported as a form of collective punishment for allegedly collaborating with the Nazi occupation regime and fighting against the Soviet Red Army.

Only two days after the order issued by Joseph Stalin, about 100,000 people lost their homes. Women, children and the elderly were packed into standard cargo wagons for transportation to Siberia. Many died from hunger, hypothermia and epidemics before reaching their destination. Читать дальше...

Last year was a real challenge for the majority of Russians. The economic crisis accompanied by growing consumer prices and falling incomes plunged many into panic mode. A year later and the situation is not much better.

1. Kremlin Museum and Armoury Chamber

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There are separate apps for the Armoury Chamber and the Kremlin itself. The first one works both in Russian and English and offers a tour of historical items from different eras – not only weapons, but also tsarist clothing, elegant carriages and other items that have been held for centuries in the Imperial Treasury.  Another app tells about the other museums in the Kremlin. It works offline so... Читать дальше...

Can you imagine a biologist who is also the commander of a spaceship? And how is it possible – to be a cosmonaut and at the same time to have never been to outer space? There was a time when this would have been a big deal but now, it isn’t.

The author of Theatre, and The Razor’s Edge was an agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service during World War I, and he was entrusted with a secret mission to Russia, the true nature of which remains a mystery even 100 years later.

The Central Bank of Russia was founded on July 13, 1990.

It is Russia’s central bank and implements, together with the Russian government, a single monetary policy. According to the constitution, it is an independent entity, with the primary responsibility of protecting the stability of the national currency: The ruble.

Vladimir Putin's economic adviser from 2012 to 2013, Elvira Nabiullina, is a head of the Central Bank today.

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