The Moscow authorities will not introduce a unified school uniform in the city, ITAR-TASS reported on July 24 , citing the capital’s Department of Education. According to the acting head of the department, Isaac Kalina, requirements for the appearance of students will be set by educational institutions themselves. Therefore, he noted, each school will have its own uniform.

Google has released the Google Play Games application for the Android platform , designed for fans of mobile games, reports the Android Community blog. The program collects information about the games the user plays, shows achievements and compiles ratings of the best players. They display the results of the user himself, his friends from the Google+ social network and other players.

Near the State Duma building in Moscow, work began on installing a steel fence on the sidewalk. The Village reported this on July 25. The fence, as follows from the published photograph of Okhotny Ryad Street, will run along the edge of the pedestrian sidewalk in front of the façade of the lower house of parliament.

The Moscow leadership has decided to allocate additional revenues to the city budget from the tax on expensive cars for the needs of public transport. This was stated by the acting head of the department of economic policy and city development, Maxim Reshetnikov, according to the department’s website. The number of cars that fall under the law on increased taxes, signed by President Vladimir Putin on July 23, as Reshetnikov noted, is at least 150 thousand units.

Researchers from the USA and Canada reported the discovery of a magnetic mode of polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. We are talking about a signal that was predicted by theorists for a long time and at the same time remained inaccessible for registration. The discovery was made using a radio telescope at the South Pole, and details with reference to a preprint of scientists . provides Nature News The scientists' work deals with the so-called magnetic polarization mode.

The court sentenced a resident of Lvov to two years in prison for falsely reporting an attempt on the life of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Lviv region. At the same time, guided by Article 75 of the criminal code of the republic, the court suspended the execution of the sentence for one year. Thus, the punishment can be considered conditional.

Grace with suicidal risk A scandal broke out around the Protestant church in Kazakhstan Sign of the Grace Church in Almaty. Frame: YouTube video In 2011, Kazakhstan adopted the Law “On Religious Activities and Religious Associations.” In accordance with this document, all religious associations operating in the country were required to undergo re-registration with the Agency for Religious Affairs.

Former Latvian Interior Minister Dzintars Jaundzheikars, who was accused of inciting the disclosure of state secrets, filed a lawsuit against the country in the European Court of Human Rights. DELFI reports this with reference to the lawyer of the politician Pavel Rebenok. According to the lawyer, two articles of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights were violated in relation to his client - the right to a fair trial and the prohibition of torture.

An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of the first brown dwarf orbited by a Jupiter-sized planet. This is the first discovery of this kind, since previously scientists were only able to find brown dwarfs with companions whose mass was much greater than the mass of the planets. Details are given in the researchers' article, currently available as a preprint .

Rosselkhoznadzor sent the Australian veterinary service a notice of the need to stop certifying the products of the only legal supplier of kangaroo meat to Russia, Macro Investments. This is stated in the official press release of Rosselkhoznadzor. The notification was sent after a shipment of 18.6 tons of kangaroo meat was detained in Primorye.

Shares of Uralkali, one of the leading potash producers on the world market, have fallen by more than 11 percent since the beginning of the week. If on Friday, July 19, they closed at around 215 rubles apiece, then by the middle of the trading session on July 25 they were already worth less than 190 rubles. Over the past three days, Uralkali shares have been one of the leaders of the fall on the Moscow Exchange. For comparison, the MICEX index fell by one and a half percent over the same time.

The Indian Ministry of Defense intends to purchase an additional number of AH-64E Apache attack helicopters by the end of the year, in addition to the 22 such helicopters purchased in 2012 for $1.3 billion. According to Defense News, a new batch of combat vehicles will be purchased for the Indian Army Aviation. In addition, Boeing intends to offer the Indian military department the supply of AH-64E for new units of mountain troops.

A German policeman, while on duty, noticed a roofless car full of water on the road and began to pursue it. The incident occurred in Eibenstock in Saxony on Sunday, July 21. about this . writes The Local When the driver and a group of his friends noticed a law enforcement officer, they rushed to the nearest parking lot. Having parked their swimming pool car, the men, dressed only in swimming trunks, began to run.

The civil war in Syria, which began as an uprising against a dictator and continued as a religious conflict, has entered a new stage. The participants in the confrontation, realizing the impossibility of military victory in the near future, are consolidating their acquisitions, preparing the ground for a possible division of the country. The war in Syria, essentially left to chance by world powers, is becoming increasingly similar to the events in Afghanistan at the turn of the 1980s-1990s.

Russia has put the head of the British investment fund Hermitage Capital, William Browder, on the international wanted list. As reported on the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Russian bureau of Interpol sent a corresponding request to the General Secretariat of the organization at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.