Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that he instructed the departments to install video surveillance cameras on construction sites, where the houses burned out in the fires will be restored.

Bloggers are trying to find and punish the warrant officer of the police, who, during the dispersal of the "disagreement" campaign in defense of the Constitution in St. Petersburg near the Gostiny Dvor on July 31 called the participants in the rally "ferrets" and hit one of them with a club of head.

The huge luxury SUV Cadillac Escalade regained the palm of the championship in the ranking of the most stolen cars in the United States. For every thousand Escalade cars in America, there are 10 appeals to insurance companies for compensation due to theft. Over the past seven years, Cadillac Escalade has become the most stolen car in the United States six times. The average payment to the owners of Escalade, who suffered from car lunkers, in insurance companies is 12 thousand dollars.

The Danish Group of Companies Moller-MARSK paid the United States $ 3.1 million for violating the American embargo in Sudan and Iran. The American authorities accused the Maersk Line branch of using courts registered in the United States for commercial flights to Sudan and Iran in violation of the embargo introduced by the United States regarding these two countries. In 2003-2007, Maersk Line was delivered to these two countries and 4714 cargoes of them, ITAR-TASS reports.

At the SIGGRAPH 2010 conference, held July 25-29 in Los Angeles, Japanese designers from Tokyo Central University (TMU) and the National Institute of Special Needs Education (NISE) presented an experimental ThermoGame system, a game controller capable of transmitting the sensation of heat or cold to the player. The main component of ThermoGame is a manipulator with two plates located on the sides, MEMBRANA.ru reports with reference to Technology Review .

The metropolitan police detained a native of Kyrgyzstan, who is suspected of beating and rape of a drunken Muscovite. A citizen of Kyrgyzstan was detained for rape a woman in the south of the capital, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement. "The incident occurred last Saturday on the Warsaw Highway, in the area of ​​the house number 16," the police explained.

The new model of the Hyundai Avante sedan, represented in the Russian market called Elantra, appeared on the roads of South Korea. Sales of new items should begin in the second half of the year, first the car will appear in South Korea, and then go to the salons of European and American dealers. The next generation of Hyundai Elantra is three centimeters longer than Ford Focus, Autoblog notes.

US President Barack Obama confirmed that the military operation in Iraq will end within the previously set deadlines. Speaking at the national congress of disabled veterans in Atlanta (Georgia), the head of the White House said that his promise to withdraw all combat units from Iraq by the end of August remained in force. “Our goal in Iraq is changing with the military that our soldiers reached, to the civilian, which our diplomats will reach, ” Interfax quotes Obama’s excerpts.

Additional US financial sanctions against the DPRK are mainly aimed at secret funds created by the current leader Kim Jong Ir for his third son Jung Una, to whom his father intends to transfer power, says the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo .

On July 28, the SV group of companies filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court on bankrupt, Interfax reports. “SV group of companies”, founded by the Vyacheslav brothers and Viktor Zaitsev in 1993, is the head company of the Technolas group. In May 2010, Technosila LLC and GREATI-B LLC (managed by real estate of retailer) filed claims about their own bankruptcy.

In Central China, as a result of gas release, nine people died on a coal mine, seven more miners are blocked underground. This was reported by the agency Sinhua. The accident occurred the night before at the Sanyanjuandun mine in the city of Danfen of the Province of Henan. At the time of the gas release, 127 miners were in the face, 111 of them were safely lifted to the surface. To date, the death of nine people is confirmed, the fate of the seven is not yet known.

In Russia, due to a long abnormal heat, forest fires continue to blaze. In the villages and villages to which the fire gets, the number of dead is growing steadily. Meanwhile, in the West they are already trying to draw political conclusions from what is happening: according to some publications, fires in Russia played into the hands of Prime Minister Putin. Meanwhile, the situation with fires in Russia continues to be critical.

T-shirts with the name of the Russian striker Andrei Arshavin became one of the best-selling football players representing clubs in the English Premier League. The Russian in the TOP-10 of popular football players takes fifth place, according to Sporting ID research, which is engaged in sports brands. This top list is based on data from official club stores that sell T-shirts in England and send orders abroad. In the first place are Fernando Torres T -shirts, who plays for Liverpool.

Law enforcement agencies of the Nikolaev region began to verify information about the squabble in the family of a deputy of the City Council from the faction of the progressive socialist party of Ukraine (PSPU) Tamara Diament. The woman is suspected of organizing the beating of her own son. A scandalous criminal story occurred in Nikolaev in the family of 47-year-old socialist Tamara Diament, which only recently occupied a chair in a deputy corps.

The US government experts again adjusted their data on the amount of oil, which fell into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico as a result of an accident in the British Petrolium (BP) exploration well.