The metropolitan museum of Mikhail Bulgakov holds a competition for the best photograph of the Cat of Hippo, who lives there. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the Deputy General Director of the Museum Svetlana Kostina. According to Kostina, the hippo is absolutely jerky, in all photographs it turns out in the form of an incomprehensible black blot. Everyone can take part in the competition: both professionals and amateurs.

The Federation of the Jewish communities of Russia (Feor) expresses concern for the recently "surge in anti -Semitism" in Ukraine.

In the Moscow City Court on Monday, a second consideration of the case against doctors of the 20th city hospital in Moscow , accused of illegal transplantology of human organs, began. The prosecutor announced the essence of the prosecution and the only witness in the case was questioned. According to the press, the lawyer of one of the defendants Yevgeny Martynov, on Monday, testimonies were given by a distant relative of the deceased Anatoly Orekhova.

The legendary striker of the National Hockey League Wayne Gretzky will most likely be headed by the Phoenix Koyotiz club. According to Reuters with reference to the data of the newspaper Arizona Republic, the corresponding application will be made at a press conference on Monday. Recall that Gretzky, who owns the NHL record for the number of abandoned goals, is a co -owner of this club.

The RTS index, the main mood indicator in the Russian stock market, continues to storm new heights. Last week, he easily jumped through 800 points and continues to move up. Market participants are waiting for the continuation of the rally, and analysts begin to increase their forecasts, reports Vedomosti . Last Friday, investors changed their rules to empty portfolios before the weekend.

Over the years, the CIA has spent billions on secret agents, eavesdropping equipment and the like, intends to create in its building a department engaged in unequal data: analytical articles, religious treatises, sites and even telephone reference books, which, nevertheless, are vital for national security.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov and a number of media reported some details of the rescue of the AS-28 bathyscaphe , and the hospital, where the Prize crew is now being examined, talked about how seven sailors lasted 4 days at a depth of 200 meters. According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, "the unmanned English apparatus Scorpio, which rescued the bathyscaphe from the trips, cables and networks, worked for six hours almost at the bottom.

At least 103 miners are blocked in the Dasin mine in southern China in the province of Guangdun. The chances of their salvation are small, according to the Chinese agency Xinhua with reference to the representative of the region’s authorities. According to ITAR-TASS, miners blocked on Monday night, when Dasin’s tunnels located at a depth of 480 meters of 480 meters, water suddenly began to flow.

Employees of the Inza city of the Inza of the Ulyanovsk Region opened a criminal case on the fact of cruel treatment of animals against a 53-year-old man. According to the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the region, the criminal case was opened under Article 245 (abbreviation with animals) and 235 (illegal occupation of private pharmaceutical activity by a person who does not have a license for the elected type of activity) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The US Department of Justice is conducting a criminal investigation against the Daimlerchrysler Auto Concert, manufacturer Mercedes. He is suspected of bribing officials in 12 countries of Africa and Latin America. The investigation has already led to the suicide of the managing director of the Nigerian factory of the company, Vedomosti reports. Daimlerchrysler himself announced the investigation into the investigation into the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

A native of Macedonia, traveling with his wife and a young child in Italy, accidentally left his wife at a car gas station and remembered this only after he drove for six hours. This happened on the coast of the resort city of Pesaro, where the spouses with a 4-year-old daughter stopped filling the car of the car on the way home to Germany.

According to the study of sociologists, 23 percent of Muscovites regularly watch sports programs. The survey, designed to determine the attitude of Muscovites to sports, was conducted among thousands of residents of the Russian capital from 18 years old and older. 17.6 percent of Muscovites never watch sports programs on TV. Sometimes the broadcasts of the competition are of interest among 58.3 percent of the inhabitants of Moscow.

According to weather forecasts, from the middle of the week in the metropolitan region it will get colder. In connection with the change in atmospheric processes, a solar anticyclone, which provides for a long time warm days, is destroyed, giving way to Atlantic cyclones. One of them is now raging in the south of the Baltic Sea, covering more and more new territories with its influence.

The happy resolution of the last tragedy on the submarine cannot hide the catastrophic position in which the majority of Russian military units are located, according to the editorial article of the German newspaper Handelsblatt . The government that the military budget increased by 8%last year, Russian experts only smiled wearily. According to their estimates, the costs of military needs make up only one thirtieth US military budget. Moreover, the number of armies is approximately the same.

The fourth international festival of video art "POST" will be held in Moscow on the territory of the New Gallery "Art Route" on the Bersenevskaya embankment from August 25 to 28. “The tasks of our festival include the expansion of the space of contemporary art. We work with a video art, most easily transferred to the urban environment,” the director of the festival Irina Saminskaya told Interfax.