In Seversk, during repairs in a house built in 1956, a note was found from builders - prisoners of correctional camps. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Tomsk, a resident of Seversk, Oleg Eroshkin, found the message in his apartment, it was hidden in the wall next to the window. Scraps of a cement paper bag were placed in a metal container.

On Wednesday, information appeared on a revised version of the standard of primary general education, according to which it was decided to introduce the study of Orthodox culture in primary school by reducing the lessons of the Russian language in the second half of the fourth grade (one hour a week will be taken away from Russian language teachers), informs the official portal of Russkaya Orthodox Church " Patriarchia.ru ".

The Moscow City Court extended until November 15 the term of arrest of FSKN General Alexander Bulbov, who is accused of illegal wiretapping. According to RIA Novosti, the prosecutor's office petitioned for an extension of the detention period. The FSKN general is charged with abuse of power, illegal wiretapping, giving a bribe, laundering money, and taking a $3.2 million bribe by an organized group, involving extortion.

The State Duma initiates the recall of the deputy, chairman of the Association of Regional Banks of Russia Anatoly Aksakov from the National Banking Council. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov. "I instructed Deputy Head of the United Russia faction, Chairman of the State Duma Financial Market Committee Vladislav Reznik to study the issue of changing the personal composition of the State Duma representatives in the NBS," Gryzlov said.

The state prosecutor Valery Lakhtin asked to extend until November 17 the arrest of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of the Menatep MFI Platon Lebedev, RIA Novosti reports. The content of the defendants in custody expires on August 17. According to the prosecutor's office, the arrest of the suspects must be extended for another three months.

On the night of August 11-12 and August 12-13, the Perseid meteor shower is expected to culminate, which promises to reach a special intensity this year, writes CNews . This meteor shower was named after the constellation in which its radiant is located - that is, the point from which the "rays" of meteors emanate. The source of the stream was the substance of the comet Swift-Tuttle, discovered in 1862 and rediscovered in 1992.

In the south of Moscow, a car driver hit a stroller with an 11-month-old baby, the baby was not seriously injured, a representative of the information and public relations department of the Moscow police department told RIA Novosti. Earlier, a source in law enforcement agencies of the capital said that the child was injured as a result of the incident and needed hospitalization. "Yes, indeed, an incident with an 11-month-old child took place.

The investigation established the identity of a man whose body was found at the Vladivostok airport while examining the landing gear hatch of a passenger plane. As Kristina Ilyinskaya, an assistant to the Primorsky transport prosecutor, told RIA Novosti, it turned out to be Philip Yurchenko, born in 1990 from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Experts believe that death occurred between five days and a month before the discovery of the corpse.

The Moscow City Court sentenced Andrei Taranov, former head of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund, to seven years in prison in a strict regime colony and a fine of 1 million rubles, RIA Novosti reports from the courtroom. The rest of the defendants in the high-profile case of corruption in the MHIF, on the basis of the earlier guilty verdict of the jury, were sentenced by the court to terms from 1.5 to nine years in prison.

The emissary of the Chechen separatists Akhmed Zakayev and the speaker of the Chechen parliament Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov agreed to hold a world congress of the Chechen people at the talks in London. Abdurakhmanov told Interfax about this. "Today, a new meeting took place between me and Akhmed Zakaev. Several other people living in different Western countries took part in it. We continued to discuss the issues put on the agenda during previous meetings.

Russia will spend about 2.5 billion rubles in 2010 to support the budget of Abkhazia and 15-16 billion for the military program, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said ahead of his visit to Abkhazia. The military program includes the arrangement of the border with Georgia and the construction of a military base, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Council of Europe expressed concern in connection with the murder of human rights activist Zarema Sadulaeva and her wife Alik Dzhabrailov. The text of the statement of the head of the authorized body of the Council - the Committee of Ministers, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia Samuel Zhbogar, is published on the website of the Council of Europe on Wednesday.

Interview of the President of Chechnya to Radio Liberty Photo report

The Kremlin was given installation: do not withdraw opposition candidates from the elections to the Moscow City Duma so that the process becomes more competitive. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to a source close to the presidential administration. The relevant instructions were brought to judges, members of the election commission and prosecutors.

Deputies of the Riga City Council approved the liquidation of 16 city schools within three years, reports the website Delfi.lv. According to RIA Novosti, eleven of these schools teach in Russian. As the head of the Department of Education Guntis Helmanis explained, schools will be closed due to a decrease in state subsidies for the maintenance of educational institutions - the city administration will receive 2.26 million lats instead of 4.9 million from September 1.