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The State Duma adopted in the third and final reading a law on simplification for people with disabilities to receive measures of social support and public services.  This was reported on the website of the lower house of parliament.

More than 420 pilots had to be suspended from flying for the year in Russia because of the violations revealed by them. 

The case was brought to the Yakutsk City Court on charges of Mikhail Romanov, a journalist with the weekly Yakutsk Evening, of abusing the freedom of information.

The total fertility rate in Russia in 2018 was 1.58. This is the minimum value for the last 10 years. The demographic decline encompassed more than half of the subjects of the Russian Federation.

Tourists from St. Petersburg July 6, sailed on a yacht on the waters of the Aegean Sea, belonging to Turkey, and accidentally swam into the waters of Greece. The border guards detained them and fined 520 thousand rubles, Fontanka reports this.

A resident of the British city of Stansted, Mary Emerson claims that she lived to be a hundred years old thanks to her favorite dish, sausages in a pastry.

The Russian national team won seven medals on the first day of the summer Universiade, which takes place in Naples.

More than half of Russians (52%) love to kiss, another 38% do not like to do this, sociologists of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) have found out.

Today, July 3, at three o'clock in the afternoon, all the visitors were evacuated from the Kristall shopping center to Mendeleev.  Eyewitnesses reported hearing a few shots.

The natural decline in the population over the four months of 2019 was 149 thousand people, Russia catastrophically losing its population.

The Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation Pavel Kolobkov believes that now there is no need to make hasty conclusions regarding 298 Russian athletes suspected by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Kolobkov's statement leads the press service of the department.

 The Executive Committee of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) chose Yekaterinburg for the World Summer Universiade 2023.