President Vladimir Putin promised to think about the introduction of the Institute of the Commissioner for the Development of Civil Society and public organizations in Russia. According to RIA Novosti , a member of the Seliger-2012 youth forum addressed the president with such an offer.

State Duma deputy, reference, Gennady Gudkov, says that the police closed another security company belonging to his family - this time in St. Petersburg. According to him, the police came on Tuesday with an audit in the security company "Freakford", and the inspection scheme was the same as earlier in Moscow, where similar enterprises belonging to his family business were closed .

The area of ​​forest fires in Siberia, thanks to the mobilization of people and equipment, was reduced by 1.3 times over the past day. Now in the Siberian Federal District there are 124 forest fires on an area of ​​17 thousand 793 hectares, Rosselkhoz reports. Despite significant successes, they are preparing to introduce an emergency regime. Greenpeace is completely alarming: according to the organization, officials underestimated data on forest fires 37 times.

In anticipation of the next rally in defense of the 31st articles of the Constitution, the police strengthened security measures in the Triumphal Square area: drivers are forbidden to park on the square itself and adjacent streets, and the DPS detachments are on duty in the region.

At the Olympic cavalry tournament on Tuesday, command and individual competitions in the triathlon took place, as a result of which riders from Germany went to gold medals from both sets. - Diary of games-2012. Schedule and results of competitions In the team tournament, the Germans Peter Tystsen, Dirk Shrad, Sandra Offart, Michael Jung and Ingrid Klimke received in the amount of exit, field trials and competitions the least of all penalty points - 133.70.

101-year-old American Edward Heine presented his 85-year-old wife Hybrid Chevrolet Volt, exchanging him for his Jaguar with a surcharge. The fact is that Heine has already stopped for three years, by virtue of his age, to drive his Jaguar, but his wife is still driving a car. According to the spouses, they decided to keep up with technical progress and decided to buy the most environmentally friendly car, and Chevrolet Volt is the most popular hybrid car in the USA, writes Caroll County Times .

The opposition tried in Moscow and St. Petersburg to hold unauthorized protest actions in the framework of Strategy-31. In both cities, everything turned out to be detentions, Kasparov.ru reports from the scene. In Moscow, on the Triumphal Square, the participants in the action arranged a sedentary strike. About 10 people were detained. In St. Petersburg, the action also takes place in the format of a sedentary strike near the Gostiny Dvor.

The Twitter microblogging service has presented a new function intended for investors and traders, Vesti.ru reports. To do this, a new hashtag has been introduced, starting with the sign $ in front of the ticer, under which the company is trading on the exchange. It will allow you to track tweets with the mention of any particular company or quotations of its shares. Other Twitter hashtags are special marks consisting of a word or phrase on the Latin, in front of which is a symbol # ("grille").

Around the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) scandal is flared up. The Federal Antimonopoly Service conducted an unscheduled audit and established that the department violated the law on public procurement. We are talking about a multimillion -dollar state contract concluded by Rosmolodezh in preparation for the annual forum "Seliger 2012". It concerned the purchase and installation of tents in which all the forum events are held.

The TEPCO company, the operator of the Japanese Japanese NPP Fukushima-1, has passed under state control after it received 1 trillion yen ($ 12.8 billion) of state investments, the Minister of Economics and Industry Yukio Edan said on July 31 at a press conference in Tokyo. “Today, the State Compensation Fund has allocated investments to TEPCO, which actually means its transition to state control,” RIA Novosti quoted the Minister of RIA .

The US Bureau for registration of patents and trademarks has published an Apple's application accepted for consideration for a patent called "Increased display permission by mechanical shift," reports cnews.ru . The application describes a technology that allows reducing the creation of tiny high resolution displays used in virtual reality helmets and other similar devices that very much resemble the Google Corporation Project Glass project.

bloha-v-svitere “When the door closed, they chose 2 more victims among the passengers - me and my neighbor on the left. The choice turned out to be not accidental. They accused us of being pickpockets, introduced themselves as police officers (one of them had some kind of crust, which he casually waved), they said that we were detained. My neighbor on the left was immediately silenced when he tried to object with a powerful blow to the face.

In the USA, on Monday, a sentence was sentenced to a woman who is found guilty of kidnapping a child 25 years ago. The attacker has become a mother for her victim, but now she will have to spend 12 years behind bars. Before crediting the sentence in the New York court, 50-year-old Ann Pettway apologized to the parents of the victim Karlina White, whom she had abducted by a baby.

Russian businessman and co -owner of Mail.ru Group Yuri Milner established a Physics Award with a size of $ 3 million. The prize will be awarded annually and surpasses the Nobel Prize in terms of reward, which is now $ 1.1 million, writes the British edition of The Guardian . The publication reports that nine scientists have already received the prize, they entered the commission, which in the future will decide on the award of the award.

Russian Konstantin Semenov, paired with Sergey Prokopyev in the second match of the group stage of the Olympic volleyball tournament Swiss Sasha Hoyer and Chevalier, said that rude judicial mistakes at the decisive moments of the game affected the result. - Diary of games-2012. Schedule and results of competitions Prokopyev and Semenov lost to Hoyer and Chevalier with a score of 26:28, 21:18, 13:15.