China has made a successful launch of the world's world's first quantum satellite. The device, the mass of which is over 600 kilograms, was launched from the Zyutsuan cosmodrome located in the Gobi desert, on Tuesday night, Xinhua reports. The satellite received the name "Mo-Tzu" in honor of the Chinese philosopher and the scientist who lived in the 5th century BC. It is believed that Mo-Tzu was the first in history to conduct optical experiments.

Record precipitation , which fell on Moscow the day before, became a real headache for utilities and motorists, but individual Muscovites were able to benefit from flooded streets. So, a video appeared on the Web in which a young man cuts down the puddles on a wakeboard, holding onto the rope tied to the driving car ahead. Journalists managed to communicate with an unusual extremal.

Russian aviation allowed the use of airbase in Iran. Information that the Air Forces of the Russian Air Force landed at the Iranian airfield appeared on social networks, as well as on the Arab portal Al-Masdar News . This information was later confirmed in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. On August 14, six distant Tu-22M3 bombers took off from the airfield in Russia and struck the objects of the Islamic State terrorist group banned in Russia in Syria.

In the Crimea on the highway in the turn of the turn to the village of Rusakovka, the Belogorsky district, a passenger flight bus caught fire, which was following the Sochi -Sevastopol route. At the time of a fire, there were 41 people on the bus. All of them left the salon on their own, no one was injured as a result of the incident, according to the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry on the peninsula. "The message was received by the rescue service at 12:40.

A resident of lawless Latvia, a student at the Moscow university, was detained at night on August 15 at Domodedovo Airport for the lack of a Russian visa. It turned out that the detained Oksana Karai did not know about the new rules for passing the non -citizens of Latvia born after the collapse of the USSR. According to the portal of Mixnews , Karaya, born in 1992, flew from Montenegro to Moscow, where she studies in the third year of the Moscow Institute of Culture.

The Russians Konstantin Semenov and Vyacheslav Krasilnikov for the first time made their way to the semifinals of the Olympic Tournament in Beach Volleyball. At the 1/4 final stage, they defeated the Cuban duet as part of Sergio Gonzalez and Nivallo Diaz Gomez with a score of 2-1 (22:20, 22:24, 18:16).

The ballerina of the Omsk State Musical Theater Nina Malyarenko saved the schoolgirl drowning in the Irtysh. First, a man tried to save the girl 12-14 years old, and then a woman, but they didn’t succeed. Then Malyarenko jumped into the water after the child. “We have a rescue vest, an old -style battered one. I grabbed him and rushed to the girl, whose head was already going deep. I literally grabbed her hair and pulled her to the surface.

The police of the capital of Finland, from now on, when detaining a driver working on Uber without a taxi driver’s city license, will draw up a protocol on a crime he perfectly and send under a preliminary investigation in a criminal case. Previously, unregistered service drivers were finished with only fines. "We are talking about violation of the law.

Unknown people defeated the memorial plaque to Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov on the wall of the house on the wall of the house along the noble street in Odessa, where the military leader lived, the Dumskaya reports. According to the publication, the remaining Odessa monuments to Zhukov are intact. They should be dismantled by order of the governor as part of the decommunization of Ukraine. Dozens of monuments to other Soviet leaders will also be demolished.

In the international children's camp "Artek" on the eve of August 15, the results of the Russian national selection "Children's Eurovision - 2016" were announced. The jury, chaired by the composer and producer Igor Krutoy, appreciated the performances of 16 finalists. “The victory was won by Sofia Fisenko, who scored the maximum number of points - 36. Now Sofia will go to represent Russia at the Children's Eurovision Song Contest,” RIA Novosti quotes the organizers of the competition.

In the first half of 2016, the number of new facilities approved for the construction of new facilities in London increased, however, their sales for the same period decreased significantly, should be from the report of the British state statistics in the field of real estate Land Registry. According to Kommersant , 106,208 pieces were issued permits for the construction of new residential facilities, which is 20% more than a year earlier.

A group of researchers from the Swiss Higher Technical School Zurich introduced a multicopter with an unusual location of the rotors, thanks to which the drone is able to move in any direction and has outstanding maneuverability. According to N+1 , an aircraft called Omnicopter is an octocopter of an unusual layout. The multi -ortor drone is built on a frame frame in the form of a cube with faces of 45 cm long.

The Public Council of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, led by actor and director Yegor Konchalovsky, presented a list of films that can give young people an idea of ​​the classics of world cinema. "Together with colleagues from the sphere of cinema, film scales, we prepared a list of 200 films that it makes sense to see young people. It included a very wide range of works, starting from the work of the Lyumier brothers and ending with Sokurov, Tarantino and Bodrov.

The recent arrests of senior employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) coincided with a large -scale reform in the department conducted by its chairman Alexander Bastrykin, the newspaper Kommersant writes with reference to sources.

Dedicated to the removal of the Russian team from the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro drawing , published by the DW German television and radio company, against which the “Young Guard of United Russia” organized the next picket on August 16, was actually created in mocking, but in support of the Russian Paralympicians, the author, caricaturers Sergey Elkin, explained it, explained it. Radio station "Says Moscow" .