A fraudster has been arrested in China for getting into an accident an average of once every three days for three years in order to collect insurance payments. This with reference to a Shenzhen television report. was reported by the South China Morning Post According to police, from the end of 2010 to May 2013, the arrested person requested 334 insurance payments. Thus, he managed to receive 357 thousand yuan (58 thousand dollars), notes Agence France-Presse .

The first accused in the case of the theft of 4.4 billion rubles from the budget by refunding value added tax (VAT) was Olga Tsymay, a former employee of Moscow tax inspectorate number 28, who is considered involved in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. newspaper writes about this on Friday, July 5 The Kommersant . Tsymai was charged under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).

Project "Budget" Putin's election promises made life difficult for the government Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Sergey Guneev / RIA Novosti Discussion of the budget for 2014-2016 has begun in Russia. The document has not yet been published in the public domain, but has already become the cause of a public conflict in the government: the social bloc accused financiers of saving on the disabled, orphans and the program to help families with children.

Ukrainian researchers discovered a Soviet submarine off the coast of Crimea that sank during the Great Patriotic War. This was reported by the ARC Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage. The submarine was noticed during testing of the Sophocles-1 underwater vehicle at Cape Tarkhankut. It lies at a depth of 52 meters. According to the committee, we are talking about the Shch-216 submarine (Pike-class), which disappeared in February-March 1944 while performing a combat mission.

On July 5, State Duma deputies adopted in the third reading a bill on an increased tax on expensive cars. According to Interfax , the bill was adopted taking into account amendments prepared for the second reading and proposing to levy additional fees on cars over three million rubles. In the first reading, only cars worth more than five million appeared in the document. A special transport tax rate coefficient will be applied to expensive cars.

Tomsk oppositionist Sergei Zaikov was released from prison after serving time for an attack on regional governor Viktor Kress, Interfax reported on Friday, July 5. Zaikov spent two and a half years behind bars. While in prison, Sergei Zaikov twice applied for parole, but the court denied him parole both times. The reason was that the oppositionist had many criticisms from the colony leadership, including for sleeping at the wrong time and refusing to work.

Perm official Sergei Fedorets discovered incitement of ethnic hatred in the “Zarnitsa” game held by the “Russian Dobryanka” movement, according to the website of the publication “Zori Plus”. The deputy head of the Dobryansky district of the Perm Territory, Sergei Fedorets, imposed a resolution on the movement’s application: “What does “Russian Dobryanka” mean? This is inciting national hatred, not military-patriotic education.

A law on the privatization of residential premises has come into force in Turkmenistan, RIA Novosti reports . The law gives citizens of the country who have lived in municipal houses for more than ten years the right to free privatization. In this case, you will only have to pay the cost of services for preparing documents on ownership; no state duty will be charged.

Plastic surgery Artists brought Barbie into the real world Photo: Nickolay Lamm of MyDeals.com / Rex Features / FOTODOM.RU Barbie, which has long been rightfully considered a classic of the children's toy industry and a collectible treasure among doll lovers, in recent years has become less and less perceived as a standard of beauty (even artificial) and is increasingly subject to harsh criticism.

The Philippine Department of Defense will purchase from Italy two new-built Maestrale-class frigates. This was stated by Deputy Defense Minister Fernando Manalo, as reported by Defense News. According to him, the acquisition of the ships is included in the government's recently approved five-year program to modernize the armed forces, the funding of which is set at 75 billion pesos ($1.7 billion).

On July 5, State Duma deputies adopted in the third reading a bill on the creation of a financial mega-regulator in Russia on the basis of the Central Bank. reports this Interfax . As part of the creation of a mega-regulator, the Bank of Russia will receive the powers of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) for control and supervision.

At least five new episodes will appear in the criminal case of Yaroslavl Mayor Evgeny Urlashov. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to a statement from a representative of the prosecutor's office. According to him, the alleged intermediary in Urlashov receiving a bribe, Andrei Zakharov, said that he was ready to tell additionally “at least five episodes of criminal activity” of the mayor. Previously, he admitted guilt and made a plea deal.

The first fifth-generation non-nuclear submarine with an anaerobic propulsion system will be created in 2018. This as reported by RIA Novosti was stated by the chief designer of the Rubin Central Design Bureau, Igor Molchanov, . According to him, the power plant for the ship will be created in 2016. At the same time, Molchanov noted that the designers will meet all the deadlines set by the Russian Navy.

Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation approved the reform of state academies of sciences in the second reading, RIA Novosti reports . 344 deputies voted in favor, one abstained, and there was not a single vote against.

The Ukrainian prosecutor's office will check information about large-scale abuses in the internal affairs bodies of the Nikolaev region, where two police officers (residents of the village of Vradievka) were recently arrested for rape. UNIAN reports this. This is how the supervisory agency responded to the appearance on the Internet of an appeal on behalf of the arrested police officers, which contained incriminating evidence against their colleagues and superiors.