Former President of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsha, was posthumously awarded the title of the hero of the country, he was also awarded the Order of "Honor and Glory" of the first degree. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the administration of the head of state. Decrees on the appropriation of Bagapsh of the title of Hero of Abkhazia and on awarding him the Order of "Honor and Glory" were signed by the acting president Alexander Ankvab.

A nuclear scientist, founder and head of the Pakistani nuclear program Abdul Kadir Khan claims that North Korea bribed the highest military officials in Islamabad in the late 1990s to gain access to Pakistan nuclear technologies, according to The Washington Post . In confirmation of his words, Khan provided documents, in particular, a letter dated July 15, 1998, in which all the details of the underground transaction are presented in English.

In Germany, animal defenders invited Christians to abandon the consumption of meat on church holidays in order to make their contribution to the fight against hunger in underdeveloped countries. The defenders of animals from the PETA organization turned to the land management of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland Palata with an appeal to replace meat dishes with vegetarian during the festive church meal, Sedmits.ru reports with reference to the Domradio.de website.

Another 15 employees of Turkish football clubs were arrested during the investigation of the scandal with contractual matches. According to ITAR-TASS with reference to local television, among the Fenerbahce, deputy head of the Fenerbahce club, Tesip Mosturoglu, Technical Director of Eskishekhirspor Bulant Uygun, the head of Sivassport, Medzhnun Otiakmaz, other leaders and former athletes.

The Cassini interplanetary station managed to get clear pictures of Saturn Storm raging on the planet, which surrounds the planet with a giant ring. This was reported by the NASA reactive laboratory located in Pasadin (California). The thunderstorm of unprecedented scales has been raging on a gas giant for several months. Recently, this powerful atmospheric education has grown and now covers an area of ​​4 billion square meters. km.

The British organization The Crown Estate, which runs royal property, reported on record profit. For the financial year, which ended on March 31, she earned £ 231 million ($ 370 million), writes Bfm.ru with reference to The Telegraph newspaper. The indicator grew by 9.6% in annual calculus. The value of the royal property rose 12.9% to the record 7 billion pounds.

The police of the Komi Republic detained a man suspected of a series of impudent attacks on children in strollers. Right in the presence of his parents, the attacker greatly beat the stroller with his foot with the expectation of the child's head. It was possible to find a criminal who turned out to be a psychiatric hospital after the appearance of video frames on the Internet with one of such attacks.

More than half, or rather, 56% of Greek realtors interviewed by specialists of the Institute of Business and Economics, believe that a crisis in the country's real estate market will be observed for another two or three years. Most respondents also believe that in the next six months, housing prices in Greece will continue to decline, writes Prian.ru with reference to the Bloomberg agency.

Singer Valery Meladze, whom the photocor of Komsomolskaya Pravda accused the attack and beating, applying to the police, gave explanations to the law enforcement agencies and said that it actually happened on the evening of July 5 at the Lotte Plaza Zaffferano restaurant on the novinsky Bulvar, where the wedding of the TV presenter Yana Churikova and the Yana's wedding Denis Lazarev. Meladze in the Arbat police department wrote an explanatory, now they will consider the case.

The leaders of the gang groups really intend to penetrate the territory of the Russian North Caucasus through Georgia, but have not yet implemented their ominous plans, said the director of the FSB of the Russian Federation Alexander Bortnikov. So he commented on the reports that appeared earlier in the media that recently, dozens of militants have leaked to Russian territory through the Pankisian gorge of Georgia.

Two participants in the DPRK team came across doping during the World Cup among women who are taking place these days. Dopong tests were taken from athletes after the first two matches of the team lost by the US team and Sweden. Both football players were not allowed for the last game of the group round against Colombia, ending with a zero draw. The North Korean team in this match scored the only point in the tournament and dropped out of further struggle.

The Chinese authorities do not confirm the reports that appeared on Thursday in some foreign media about the difficult state of health or even the death of the former head of the party and the state of Jiang Zemin, ITAR-TASS reports. "The Xinhua agency has already spread the corresponding message," the official representative of the Chinese foreign ministry, Hong Lei, answered on Thursday at a briefing, answering numerous questions from journalists on this topic.

The earnings of the ex-president of the Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin did not allow him to buy 11% of the bank shares that he owned personally, said the deputy head of the Board of Moscow Bank, head of the VTB 24 Bank, Mikhail Zadornov. In his opinion, judging by Borodin’s tax returns, he did not earn enough funds to buy such a stake in the Bank of Moscow legally. This means that the shares were bought at the expense of the Moscow Bank itself through dummy companies.

After the mayor of Sergei Sobyanin, to complete all the starting construction sites in the city center for three years, his subordinates revealed many ownerless buildings within the garden ring. The Department of Property, the Department of Housing Policy and the Prefecture of the Central Administrative District discovered 179 objects among resettled houses, on which no construction work is underway. For them at auctions, you can help out more than 0.5 billion dollars, write Vedomosti .

In Moscow, a temple may appear in honor of the patrons of marriage, the holy of the noble Peter and the Fevronia of the Murom. A separate hall for registering marriages will be opened at the temple. This was told to journalists by a member of the Higher Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) Archpriest Dimitri Smirnov.