64 1 min. ... According to the State Committee for Social and Economic Monitoring of Tatarstan, in 2013, every sixth resident in the republic encountered corruption (16.3% versus 15% in 2012), the average bribe increased (from 25.8 thousand rubles to 34. 5 thousand rubles), as well as the intensity of everyday corruption (the average number of bribes per year per bribe-giver from 1.6 times to 1.8).

Control over the finances of senior officials of Tatarstan has been transferred to the anti-corruption policy department The President of Tatarstan transferred the authority to control the income and expenses of the region's top officials, including the Prime Minister and his deputies, to his specialized unit - the department for anti-corruption policy.

A group of additional military contingent may be sent to Iraq to strengthen security in the vicinity of Baghdad, ITAR-TASS reported on August 20. The number of military personnel will not exceed 300 people. However, the Pentagon has not yet made a final decision. In turn, the deputy head of the State Department press service, Marie Harf, did not confirm this information. “I didn’t see these comments.

Rospotrebnadzor closed four restaurants of the chain in Moscow Rospotrebnadzor has suspended the operation of four McDonald's restaurants in Moscow, including the company's oldest establishment on Pushkinskaya Square, opened during Soviet times. Inspectors refer to massive violations of sanitary legislation and promise to continue inspections of McDonald's, which has 160 establishments in the capital alone.

Russian Vladimir Morozov won gold in the 50m backstroke at the European Aquatics Championships in Berlin. The Russian showed a result of 24.64 seconds in the final. Frenchman Jeremy Stravius ​​won silver (24.84), and bronze went to European 100-meter champion Christopher Walker-Hebborn (25.00), RIA Novosti reports.

Today, at a plenary meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory, deputies approved the estimate of their own expenses for 2015 and the planning period of 2016 and 2017. The total amount of expenses will be 486.4 million rubles. This is by 6.5% or 29 million rubles. more than last year, but at the level of officially predicted inflation. Among other expenses, an increase in costs for the development of the youth parliament by 1.6 million rubles is provided.

By the beginning of autumn, theatrical and dance street life will flow through the veins of Almaty. Passers-by will be treated to performances and art installations in free space, not limited by the walls of the exhibition halls. Farewell to summer in the largest city of Kazakhstan will be marked by Artbat Fest, an international festival of contemporary art, curated by the well-known in Russia Christina Steinbrecher, says columnist Dmitry Butkevich.

The Russian women's volleyball team on Thursday defeated the Belgian team in the second match of the Final Six of the World Grand Prix in Tokyo - 3:0 (25:23, 25:16, 25:19). In the first match of the Final Six, the Russians lost to the Japanese. The next opponent of the Russian team on August 22 will be the Turkish team.

Employees of Rospotrebnadzor in Bashkiria plan to begin unscheduled inspections of McDonald's restaurants from September 1, a source at the department told Kommersant. According to him, the department has already received an order from the federal supervisory agency on the need to check the network’s products for compliance with safety requirements, as well as the energy and nutritional value indicated in the consumer information.

Vasily Bochkarev held negotiations with the management of the Turkish company Mefa Governor of the Penza region Vasily Bochkarev, while on official vacation in Turkey, simultaneously holds a number of working meetings with representatives of foreign business. “In Turkey, I held negotiations with the management of the Mefa company - I was interested in possible projects in the agro-industrial complex and the field of modern infrastructure,” the head of the region wrote on Twitter.

The Ministry of Justice took care of the freedom of religion of prisoners A government commission yesterday approved a bill protecting prisoners' right to freedom of religion. If the document is adopted, convicts will be able to count, in particular, on meetings with a clergy lasting at least two hours without the participation of guards. Representatives of confessions interviewed by Kommersant believe that such rules of communication with convicts should have been introduced a long time ago.

A passenger car crashed into a transformer substation in the Leninsky district of Novosibirsk, leaving 168 private residential buildings without power supply. “On Wednesday at 16:00 (Moscow time) a passenger car hit a transformer substation at the address: st. Biyskaya, 43. The driver of the car was taken to the 34th city hospital with a traumatic brain injury, the condition is moderate,” Interfax quotes a message from the Siberian Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

222 1 min. ... As the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion found out, 91% of citizens know or “have heard something” about the elections to the Moscow City Duma in the 43rd electoral district (Arbat, Khamovniki and Presnensky districts).

Today, at a plenary meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory, deputies approved the governor’s draft law “On scholarships and additional forms of financial support for students in general education institutions, educational institutions of primary and secondary vocational education.” According to the governor’s project, students in the tenth and eleventh grades of general education institutions are excluded from the list of scholarship recipients.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin held an operational meeting in Tomsk today, at which he heard the progress and results of the investigation into the criminal case into the abduction and murder of a three-year-old girl, which shocked the entire city.