The Soyuz-2.1В launch vehicle with four spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense launched on Wednesday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.

According to the plan of biologist Denis Rebrikov, the correction of a single gene will help future children avoid hereditary deafness.  However, colleagues are skeptical about the project.

In the Krasnodar Territory, a recreational catamaran, sunk near Dzhubga (not far from Tuapse), was raised from the bottom of the Black Sea.

The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg has introduced a bill to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, which proposes punishing people under the article on animal cruelty from the age of 14.

Doctors called the most useful summer fruit.  They argue that regular use of apricots is the ideal prevention of many diseases. 

The Investigation Committee of the Russian Federation reported that a man suspected of selling a minor was detained.

The satellite images got the time of the eruption of the volcano Raikol in the Kuriles.