Information about the betrayal of the Chechen fighters of the North battalion, who shot the Russian special forces, may be reliable. Such a statement was made by the President of the Association of Veterans of Anti -Terrror's Anti -Terror, Sergey Goncharov, the RSN radio station reports.

The Turkish parliament on July 14 ratified the Russian-Turkish agreement on the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the country. The agreement was signed on May 12, 2010 in Ankara. In accordance with the document, Russia and Türkiye will cooperate in the construction and operation of nuclear power plants in Akku in the southern province of Mersin. After the agreement enters into force, the Russian side will launch the procedure for creating a project company.

President of Mongolia Tsakhiagian Elbegdorge began immersion in the waters of Lake Baikal on a deep-sea inhabited apparatus "MIR-1". Together with him, the head of the Metropol Group of Companies Mikhail Slipenchuk is located, and Anatoly Sagalevich is piloted by the apparatus, the head of the World Mirs in Lake Baikal, according to the official website of the Buryatia authorities.

45 years ago, on July 16, 1965, the first launch of the UR-500 missile took place in a two-stage version with the Proton-1 scientific space station weighing 12 tons, the name of which subsequently fixed the launch vehicle itself. The design assignment was received from the USSR government in 1962.

The Investigative Committee at the prosecutor’s office canceled the decision on the termination of the criminal case, initiated by the accident with the participation of an employee of the prosecutor's office of the Volgograd Region, Elena Ivanova, who shot down Sasha Kolokoltsev in 2009, the press service of the department reports .

In the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan as a result of a collision killed two members of illegal armed groups, RBC reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the republic. Today, at about 6:00, law enforcement officers during operational-search measures in house 5-A on the 5-A house on the street Bammaturtovskaya were blocked by members of illegal armed groups. The militants opened fire from automatic weapons to the demand to surrender and threw grenades.

The Commission of the Ministry of Culture conducted a preliminary inspection of the storage of the Grabar restoration center. The works of art that were in it were not badly affected, the Echo of Moscow reports. However, the Ministry of Culture on assessment of damage is still a lot of work. Experts could not conduct a more thorough inspection of the storage.

The State Duma approved a special bill on the Kurchatov Institute. It was adopted in the first reading on July 7, today it was supported both in the second reading (354 unanimously) and in the final third (385 for, 1 abstained), our correspondent Lev Finberg reports. The chairman of the Committee on Science and High Technology Valery Chereshnev announced the adoption of amendments on the equal status of departments in Gatchina and Protvino.

On the evening of July 15, the first channel of Belarusian television showed a short interview with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, whom the Russian leaders calls only an “outcast”. This step can be considered the “response of Minsk” to the campaign in the Russian media against Alexander Lukashenko ( “godfather ” on NTV, “unbearable Luke” on Russia Today, etc.) and the fact that Belarus was actually forced to join the Customs Union without any conditions.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office received from the Dubai authorities materials about the murder in March 2009 of the ex-commander of the special battalion "Vostok", Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadayev, Ekho Moskvy reports with reference to Interfax . As stated by a representative of the Prosecutor General's Office, relevant materials have indeed been received in which the Dubai authorities report that Sulim Yamadayev was killed on March 28, 2009 and buried in a local cemetery.

Rosstat proposed to consider the products of the domestic auto industry to be considered nanothens, the Vedomosti writes. The publication notes that in 2009 the volume of the Russian nanoproduction market amounted to 81 billion rubles, but by 2015 it should increase to 900 billion rubles. Such a goal is set by the government development program and the Rusnano State Corporation is currently working on this task.

The State Duma in the third reading adopted amendments to the Law on the FSB and the Administrative Code, expanding the powers of the FSB. In particular, disobedience to the legal requirements of the FSB officer and obstruction of the performance of his official duties, in accordance with the adopted amendments, are recognized as administrative offenses. The document was supported in the final third reading of 354 deputies, 96 was against, our correspondent Lev Finberg reports.

We publish a video and decryption of the lecture of the founder and director of the scientific center of Eastern Christian culture, the historian of art and Byzantinist Alexei Lidov, which took place on June 9, 2010 in Kyiv, in the House of Scientists as part of the Public Lectures Polit.ua. “Public Lectures Polit.ua” - a subsidiary “Public Lectures“ Polit.ru ”.

A bus overturned in the Vladimir region, 9 people were injured, including a child. 8 victims are hospitalized. This was stated in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the region, RBC reports. A message about the accident was received at 15:25 Moscow time.

" A new government is starting to work. It is appointed by me as the president and prime minister of the country in accordance with the Constitution, which was adopted at the referendum by the vast majority of our citizens," said the President of the transition period, Rosa Otunbaev, speaking today before the "technical government", reports Akipress . <...> "I have a special obligation and special responsibility for me and the new government.