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1. Skyfalls, Sinking Feelings, and Smitings: Falling from a Russian sky near you: airplanes, bags of money, and well-timed lightning bolts!; Tags: World Cup, soccer, orthodox church, Altai, sochi, Ufa; By Irina Bukharin

2. The Plagues of Russia: the Risen Dead, Bees, and Floods: Shed a tear for our last World Cup TWERF, in which we finally learn about the Romanovs and feel the wrath of nature.; Tags: Trump, football, World Cup, soccer, Volgograd, romanovs, romanov, putin; By Irina Bukharin

3. Lost Game, but Newfound Pride: What’s out of this world? Russia’s performance in the World Cup, a Russian cargo ship, and showers in Samara!; Tags: space, soccer, World Cup, samara; By Irina Bukharin

4. That Other Red, White, and Blue: As Americans celebrate their Independence Day, Russia may have gained a new national holiday as well: the day they beat Spain in the World Cup.; Tags: Volgograd, football, World Cup, soccer; By Irina Bukharin

5. Against Some Odds, Still in the Game!: This week Russia lost but isn’t out yet; football fans, amazingly, spread cheer across Russia; and a storm reminds us of the world outside.; Tags: Rostov-on-Don, soccer, World Cup, barnaul, Nizhny Novgorod; By Irina Bukharin

6. Russia Makes Hay in Moscow and Surmounts in St. Petersburg: Russia wins its first two World Cup games and Jeff Monson is running for CIty Council in Krasnogorsk. Does life get better than this?; Tags: soccer, cat, World Cup; By Irina Bukharin

7. Births, Rebirths, and Nuclear Weapons: Nukes get names, a truck becomes a camera, and an old church gets a fresh look.; Tags: soccer, putin, moscow; By Irina Bukharin

8. Baller Ballerinas, Flying Taxis, & Gardens in the Sky: Celebrate soccer with metro-station ballet, explore the galaxy with Yandex, and take a stroll through Moscow's rooftop gardens. Plus the Beatles, Stephen Colbert, and 29 Russian writers.; Tags: beatles, yandex, ballet, soccer, confederations cup, moscow, russia; By Alice E.M. Underwood

9. Soccer, Sci-Fi, Snipers, and Tsoy: Russia hosts the Confederations Cup, Strugatsky sci-fi gets a reboot (or just gets booted), and we honor the memories of WWII's female snipers and of the rock legend Viktor Tsoy.; Tags: Tsoy, Strugatsky, FIFA, soccer, Russia; By Alice E.M. Underwood

10. Bananas, Ballerinas, and Bubble Bath: Blackface and bananas raise racist concerns ahead of soccer match, a linguist links Siberian Ket and Navajo languages, and video bloggers bring bubbles and pets to parliament.; Tags: ballet, Duma, language, Ket, soccer, World Cup, Cameroon, Russia; By Alice E.M. Underwood

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Notable events on this day in Russian history

1556: Ivan the Terrible decrees an explicit connection between landholding and military service. Anyone who possessed an estate had to provide a fully equipped, mounted man-at-arms for every 400 acres of arable land, with an additional horse for distant campaigns

1862: Petersburg State Conservatory named for Rimsky-Korsakov founded

1945: US ends Lend-Lease program to the Soviet Union.

1970: Soviet Luna 16 space probe landed on the moon and collected samples of lunar soil. It was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth (four days later). American manned craft had already landed on the moon and brought back samples.

1993: Azerbaijan's parliament voted to rejoin the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).