“Yesterday there was a working group of the Central Election Commission, where the Kaluga commission, to put it mildly, was dragged face down on the table, and not by us, but by members of the working group. Questions to them were mainly in the format of “in what law did you even find this?!” After examining some of our objections, the working group decided to recommend canceling the decision of the Kaluga Commission in its entirety and returning everything to them for revision.

On Thursday, August 13, in the Chinese city of Dunguan, the province of Guangdun went underground underwent metro station the day before the start of work, reports The Shanghaiist . The cause of the incident was a karst failure under the construction site. In the morning on Thursday, workers were engaged in strengthening the pit, partially collapsing the day before.

Mali’s law enforcement agencies have already detained ten people suspected of involvement in an attack on a hotel in the city of Sevar. On Thursday night, three were detained 200 kilometers south of the hotel. The country's security forces claim that one of the detainees found Sevara’s map, on which the hotel was attacked, the BBC Russian Service reports. Earlier, the Mali authorities reported that during the special operation they detained seven alleged participants in the attack.

The Blogsuchi.Ru regulars are discussing the photo report of one of the local bloggers, made on the street under the promising name Olympic on the outskirts of the city. But, apparently, the Olympics bypassed its inhabitants. "Probably, find out the foreigners and guests of the resort that there is a street with a loud name Olympic in Sochi, the imagination would draw landscapes worthy of the Winter Olympic capital.

The world champion and prize -winner of the Olympic Games in swimming Julia Efimova said that her teams in the national team are afraid to voice problems in the team, as they are afraid to lose funding. Meanwhile, these same partners called the criticism of Efimova to the federation, doubting her patriotism. Earlier, Efimova criticized the leadership of the VFP and advocated his resignation at the end of the World Sports Water Championship, which ended in Kazan.

In the first half of 2015, the Russian advertising market fell by 16% compared to last year's indicator up to 138 billion rubles. According to the Association of Communication Agencies of Russia, AKAR, the largest segment - the television market - was reduced by 22%, to 61.1-61.6 billion rubles. The volume of advertising on the air channels fell by 21%, to 60.2-60.7 billion rubles, on non -ethereal - by 52%, to 0.92 billion rubles.

In the village of Lermontovo, Tuapsinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, police opened a robbery, to which a history teacher from Kalmykia was involved. The tourist abducted female cervical decoration to make a gift to his mother. The detained 33-year-old resort is charged with part 1 of Art. 161 ("robbery"). He faces up to four years in prison, according to the official website of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The author of the epic "Song of Ice and Fire" George Martin organized a charity baseball match in which the teams of the lower league were temporarily renamed into Lutovolkov Starkov and Lviv Lannisters. Fans of the series of the series “Game of Thrones” filmed based on the novel by the novel were lined up in huge queues to take part in a significant event. The author of the cycle signed the books to the first four hundred fans, the rest received hats with the logo of a particular team.

“In my opinion, everyone is very wrong to evaluate him by Surkov’s standards - as a hired manager working for an “uncle.” While back in the 90s, Volodin’s then boss, the Saratov governor Ayatskov, proclaimed VVV “a politician of the 21st century.” And I think he knew what he was talking about. Volodin’s real ambitions are much broader than banal control over domestic politics under President Putin. And he perceives his current work as only one of the steps on the way to the top.

The Disciplinary Committee (KDK) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) fined the Moscow Spartak for 200 thousand rubles for demonstrating the banner team with the image of Nazi runes during the fourth round of the Russian Championship with Samara “Wings of Councils” (2: 0). This was informed by the press service of the RFU .

The Cadillac model line should be completely updated before 2020. The company is already working on nine cars, including five crossovers, a compact sedan and restyling of several more cars, reports 110km.ru . For crossovers and SUVs, Cadillac has registered designations from XT2 to XT8. In addition, two sports models are expected in the brand's lineup, as well as a successor to the ELR hybrid coupe. One of the new products (ST6) will be the brand’s flagship sedan.

The investigating authorities of the Nizhny Novgorod region opened a criminal case on the violation of the rights of the sister of the famous Russian model Natalia Vodyanova.

On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, August 12, an abnormal situation arose at the International Space Station (ISS) - there was a failure in the power supply system, vital systems switched to a reserve scheme, the NASA website reports. None of the six inhabitants of the station were injured. As TASS explains with reference to the NASA representative office in Russia, the ISS crew was raised by alarm due to an abnormal situation with the power supply system of the American station segment.

The Lithuanian consulate again faced a “typo” in the Russian passport, due to which the Russian citizen was denied consular services. This time in the document in the column "place of birth" was the "Odessa region/Russia". Lithuanian diplomats expressed the hope that the Russian authorities would explain this misunderstanding, reports the Delfi portal. "Now it is difficult to interpret what this can mean, let's call it many magical coincidences, and all of them are connected with Ukraine.

The social block of the government continues to insist on indexing pensions on the size of the level of real inflation. The final decision on this topic has not yet been made, they assure Olga Golodets in the apparatus of the Deputy Prime Minister on social issues. The government did not make decisions on how pensions will be indexed in 2016, RBC said assistant deputy prime minister Olga Golodets Alexei Levchenko.