The Komi Republic was sentenced to a killer pedophile who dealt with two daughters of his former civilian spouse. The victims turned more than four years old. The attacker drowned the victims in the bath, and then burned the corpses . By a court decision, a 25-year-old resident of the city of Vuktyl Igor Zhilenkov was punished by a life-long period of imprisonment, the official website of the RF IC reports.

The head of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia Nikita Mikhalkov believes that the legalization of same -sex marriages negatively affects the cinema, Interfax reports. "When unnatural things become the norm, what can be expected from cinema? I am against same -sex marriages. There can be no healthy and energetically charged cinema in the world, where same -sex marriages are legalized," Mikhalkov said at a master class in a summer film academy.

The statement of the patriarch, who associated the legalization of same -sex marriages with the upcoming Apocalypse, is designed to distract Russians from problems in the country. This point of view was expressed by the journalists of The New York Times.

Russia will be able to create miniature quantum computers in the foreseeable future, says Russian Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov. He stated this while speaking at the II International Conference on Quantum Technologies in Moscow. The minister's statement came shortly after Russian scientists recently reported that they had succeeded in creating the "heart" of a quantum computer - a superconducting qubit .

Law enforcement officers came close to two immigrants from Dagestan, who are suspected of beating a State Duma deputy from the LDPR Roman Khudyakov after it turned out that the offenders of the parliamentarian previously avoided responsibility for extortion . Now the case of beating from the shopping center "European" Kommersant, who refused to pay 30 million rubles, was reanimated, and Zakarya and Arthur Minbulatov was charged.

The European Central Bank published an index of residential real estate prices in the eurozone, reflecting the level of housing in the primary and secondary markets. According to the results of the first quarter of 2013, this indicator amounted to 96.33 points, falling to the minimum value since mid-2006, that is, falling to pre-crisis indicators, Kommersant-Online reports.

A light-engine aircraft registered in the United States crashed over the La-Channel Strait. There was one person on board, reports Sky News . A single -engine plane fell 24 km from Cape Dungeness (County Kent), at 14:30 local time (17:30 Moscow time) on Sunday, July 21. Rescue groups immediately went to the alleged crash area, including the French helicopter and the British coast guard.

More than seven thousand people came to the civilian panach of the soloist of the King and Jester group Mikhail Gorshenev, who was held on Monday at the Yubileiny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports. In three hours with the soloist of the famous rock band, several thousand people managed to say goodbye. The mourning ceremony passed without an official part. Friends and colleagues of Mikhail Gorshenev refused to comment.

“As I have said more than once, in all criminal cases of the Ministry of Defense, Mr. Serdyukov can be considered only in two guises. First: he could not NOT KNOW about all the billions that were withdrawn from the defense department by his close friend Vasilyeva, and then the ex-minister - accomplice in these crimes. Second: Serdyukov really did not know and did not understand what had been going on all these years in the Ministry of Defense, which he headed.

The famous violinist Gidon Kremer organizes in Berlin on October 7, the concert "To Russia with Love", which is the purpose of which is to draw attention to the political situation in Russia, Colta.ru reports with reference to English critic and musicologist Norman Lebrecht. According to the publication, Kremer collects unusual artists for a concert in support of Russian oppositionists who suffered from political persecution under Vladimir Putin.

The family of the detached president of Egypt Muhammad Mursi does not know where he is, and accuses the military of his abduction. Murcy children said that they intend to investigate the loss of the father, who was detained by the military as a result of the coup on July 3, RIA Novosti reports. "We will appeal to the International Criminal Court so that an investigation is being conducted for the abduction of my father, who is held already on July 3," said the youngest son Mursi Usama.

“For 2013, legislators doubled the insurance contribution to the Pension Fund for entrepreneurs, and the minimum wage increased to 5,205 rubles. And the contribution amount became equal to 35,665 rubles, that is, it more than doubled compared to last year. This caused massive indignation among entrepreneurs, discussions began, letters to the President, articles in the media, and appearances on TV.

As a result of the attacks of militants in two prisons in the vicinity of Baghdad, more than 40 people were killed, Interfax reports with reference to the local police and doctors. At least 20 employees of the Iraqi security forces and 21 prisoners were killed. About 40 wounded, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Arab media.

On Monday, the capital's department of culture on his page on the social network Facebook published an official response of the Deputy Directorate of Railway Stations - a branch of Russian Railways - Sergey Opalev, where he refuses to stop broadcasting Gazmanov’s song “Moscow” at stations.

For the first time in the history of cinema, Batman and Superman will appear in one film to the joy of millions of lovers of popular heroes of film comics. An unexpected statement about this was made by the director Zach Snyder, who shot the latter in a series of films about Superman - "Man of Steel", who was released in June, the BBC Russian service reports.