The Global Witness International organization, whose activities are aimed at combating corruption, announced the possible connection of the company that owns the "Sherlock Holmes" apartment in London, with the former son -in -law of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev Rakhat Aliyev, who died in the Austrian prison. This was written by the British newspaper The Independent on Wednesday.

On July 27, at 11.30, the fourth Jewish ethnographic expedition of Mitsva -Tankovs - mobile synagogues, organized by the Federation of Jewish Commons of Russia (Feor) starts from the building of the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance.

Members of the Evil Medica community on the VKontakte social network raised the topic of treating the personnel of maternity hospitals with women in labor, who abandon their children. Doctors admit that they do not experience good feelings for such women, and try to do procedures for them as uncomfortable as possible.

The metropolitan police detained three of their colleagues from the road-patrol service suspected of bribery. The law enforcement officers demanded hundreds of thousands of rubles from a road traffic participant who violated the rules. Criminal punishment threatens three employees of the third battalion of the first special regiment of the traffic police of the traffic police on a special trace, who wear the titles of captains and senior lieutenant.

A fragment of the oldest manuscript Qur'an was found in Birmingham The University of Birmingham discovered fragments in his library, possibly the oldest manuscript Qur'an, who is at least 1370 years old. This is stated in a press release from the university. The manuscript contains sura from the 18th to the 20th. The text was stored in the library among other books and documents for almost one century. Fragments of the text are written on sheep or goat skin.

“We live in an era of schizophrenic pluralism. The Orthodox Church demands that everything connected with the name of the murderer, terrorist, and also, apparently, drug addict and pervert Peter Voikov be removed from the city map. For once, the liberal public is in solidarity with the church. True, the communists will probably object. Communists have their own pride.

The retired colonel of the Main Intelligence Directorate Vladimir Kvachkov, who was convicted of trying to rebel and served his sentence in the colony in Mordovia, was transferred from a correctional institution in an unknown direction. The wife of the convict accidentally learned about this. “Kvachkov’s wife was informed in IK -5, where Kvachkov was in force from the moment he had left that he had left.

The Russian authorities do not see the problem in leaving highly qualified employees abroad. According to the Federal Migration Service, 18.6 thousand people left for Europe last year. “I don’t see the problem of brain leaks from Russia as such,” Konstantin Romodanovsky, head of the department, said on Wednesday at a press conference. The audio recording of his performance was published on the official website of the FMS.

In Norway, four years after the attacks in the center of Oslo and on the island of Utoya, an exhibition dedicated to the events on July 22, 2011 opened. The Norwegian authorities believe that this will help the young generation learn more about the tragedy, the victims of which were 77 people. In addition, a mourning ceremony was held in the capital, which was visited by the head of Government Erna Sulberg and former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, reports The Local .

The rabbis of Israel supported the initiative to raise funds to restore the Benedictine monastery and the Catholic Church of Multiplication of Bread in Tabha on the shores of the Galilee Lake, which were set on fire on the night of June 18, presumably radically set up by Jews. This is stated in the information of the Kai agency.

Greece did not turn to Russia for financial assistance in case of returning to its own national currency. About this, as reports TASS, said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. So he commented on the information of the Greek media who said earlier that Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras asked Vladimir Putin about $ 10 billion to print Drachma, since this country needs reserves in solid currency.

On July 23, at a meeting, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will discuss the issue of creating a “mail bank”, Kommersant said. The head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov, the leadership of the Russian Post, the Central Bank and the VTB group, which will perform a partner in the project, were invited to the meeting. The postal bank will be created on the basis of the Summer Bank, claims a source of the publication close to VTB.

Arkady Babchenko “In Kosovo, I heard such a legend. When Pavle was not yet the Patriarch of Serbia, but was still the Bishop of Kosovo, in Muslim enclaves from time to time - and he walked exclusively even then - they tied tin cans to his cassock for laughter. What did he do? answered: “I will pray for you, people.” When Pavle died, I was just in Belgrade. The farewell line stretched for a kilometer.

The American writer, author of the Ragtaym and Billy Batheat novels, Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, died on Tuesday in Manhattan at the 85th year of his life, the Russian BBC service reports. According to the son of a writer, the cause of death was the complications of lung cancer. Edgar Lawrence Doctorou was born on January 6, 1931 in Bronx (New York), in a second-generation family of Americans of Jewish origin from Russia.

Russian businessman German Sterligov, who left Russia in Nagornoi Karabakh, despite the accusations of slander, now became a defendant in a criminal case in Azerbaijan. The Prosecutor General’s Office of the country suspects him of violating two articles of the Criminal Code of the Republic at once. Information about this is contained in a joint message from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan, which is posted on the website of both the department.