A deputy of the State Duma from the Omsk Region, whom the court ordered to pay monetary compensation for insulting the former head of Omskelectro, decided to do this in an unusual way. At the expense of part of the amount, he invited the bailiffs to arrest his unusual property, but the idea failed, the portal "1716.rf" reports.

The third festival of modern Russian cinema will be held from Wednesdays on Sunday in the city of Thessaloniki in the north of Greece, the program presents lauras and nominees for various international festivals, RIA Novosti reports with reference to one of the organizers of the event of Xenophon Lambrakis.

The famous Russian composer Petr Tchaikovsky, contrary to the common opinion, was not a homosexual - this was not in an interview with Interfax by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky. "There is no evidence that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Tchaikovsky was the greatest Russian composer - this is a fact.

Two months after his beginning, floods in the Far East approached his logical conclusion - his comb came up to the mouth of the Amur, and for several difficult days to survive the standing here Nikolaevsk and the surrounding villages. In Komsomolsk, where there was the most critical situation, the water subsides, and the Ministry of Emergencies reported that there are no more threats to break through the dams.

“The fears are connected with Syria, which, of course, is geographically far from the Far East, but, as they believe here, has a lot to do with its security. The situation in the country of Bashar al-Assad, in everyone’s opinion, is a dead end, and President Obama, like the Japanese, is clutching his head , did everything to aggravate it as much as possible.

"The boy was born like this. He fell on the table with a limp slap. Pale. And did not breathe while the doctor cut the umbilical cord and examined the baby to confirm the diagnosis. No muscle tone, a specific shape of the eyes, transverse folds on the palms - Down syndrome. He took it and carried it into the incubator, without even showing his mother. There, under oxygen, the baby breathed for the first time.

A resident of Zimbabwe was a lot of surprised one morning, finding a real crocodile under his bed. A huge reptile of about two meters long and weighing about 150 kilograms crawled to the 40-year-old owner of the Humani Lodge Huya Whitall and hid while he was sleeping, reports Daily Star . The crocodile imperceptibly made his way into the room and calmly lay a few centimeters from a sleeping man all night, without waking him up.

The State Duma on Wednesday will re -consider in the second reading the draft law on the reorganization of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The Communists tried to cancel the consideration of the issue. For the proposal to postpone the discussion expressed at the beginning of the plenary meeting of the lower house by a group of deputies from the Communist Party and reference to Valery Zubov, 100 parliamentarians voted, 178 opposed.

In the capital, a new strip for public transport is launched - the "Disstenka" will pass from a large clearing through Leninsky Prospekt to the Moscow Ring Road. According to the order signed by the deputy mayor for transport, Maxim Liksutov, a new strip for public transport will be commissioned on September 21, the M24 website reports.

The head of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Nikolaus Schneider, believes that democracy without a church is dangerous and plays for a politically active church. Divine laws require justice and peace for life in the human community, and are not limited only to the desire for inner harmony and the salvation of the soul of the believer, Schneider told Die Zeit. That is why the church that he leads is configured for political activity. The Gospel calls for this, he is convinced.

CSKA with a score of 6: 3 defeated the metropolitan “Dynamo” in the capital derby of the next round of the regular hockey league ( KHL ) continental championship, inflicting the first defeat at the start of the new season after five victories in a row . As part of the Army, Nikolai Prokhorkin was noted on his 20th birthday Het-trick. Two goals on the account of Ilya Zubov, and Oleg Saprykin abandoned another one.

The Ministry of Emergencies delivered to Moscow the chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia Vyacheslav Lebedev, who suffered in an accident in Gan. “The Il -76 plane, on board which Lebedev is located, landed at the Vnukovo airfield. During the flight, all the necessary assistance was provided by the doctors of the Centrospas detachment and the All -Russian Center for Medicine of Disaster’s Disaster,” RIA Novosti quoted the official representative of the Ministry of Emergencies Irina Russia.

In the Tambov region, a young man accused of robbery on his young relative is judged. The attacker took gold jewelry from the girl and disappeared. A criminal case has been opened against a 20-year-old resident of Tambov under Part 1 of Article 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (robbery), the official website of the RF IC reports. He faces up to eight years in prison.

Deputies Elena Mizulina and Olga Batalova prepared and submitted a bill to the State Duma on September 18, which provides for a lifelong term for sexual violence against minors. Thus, changes will be amended in Article 131 and 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provide for these actions the maximum punishment of 20 years.

For 53% of Russians who took part in the new survey of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion, the situation in the fields of housing and communal services and housing and communal services leads in the list of the main problems of the country. In second place in the rating of the main reasons for concern, 50% of respondents call inflation, the results of the study published on the VTsIOM website.