After introducing a ban on visiting forest-park zones due to increased fire hazard, the inhabitants of Simferopol began to arrange picnics and burn bonfires within the city, said Simferopol mayor Gennady Babenko. The bonfires are extinguished, but they are very litter, “leave mattresses and underwear,” the mayor emphasized and attracted the police to this case - he ordered the posts.

Yesterday, August 17, due to the lack of a quorum, an extraordinary meeting of the City Duma of Barnaul fell, the Vedomosti writes. Deputies refuse to approve the mayor of the city of Igor Savintsev. It was on Savintsev that the governor of the Altai Territory Alexander Karlin entrusted the temporary powers to manage Barnaul. At yesterday, only 15 deputies out of 35 (less than 50%) came to yesterday.

Not meeting resistance in the North Caucasus, the Kremlin’s plan to rename regional presidents in the heads of republics stumbled upon opposition to Tatarstan, Vedomosti writes. The first deputy minister of justice of the republic, Sergei Stolyarov, said that this initiative is contrary to the Constitution of Tatarstan and in the republic do not intend to change the basic law in order to rename the position of president.

The Office of the Federal Migration Service of Russia in the Krasnodar Territory states that the emergence of data on registration of 80 thousand foreign and Russian citizens in one of the private houses of Krasnodar, in the absence of confirming documents, was a consequence of a malfunction of electronic equipment caused by abnormal heat. As the press service of the department explains , this led to damage to the database.

Under Bryansk, a pensioner was detained - the chairman of the local horticultural partnership, who tried to steal 24 sleepers on one of the railway distillations and build a fence from them. For the extraction of sleepers, he hired a crane, kamaz and movers. In the horticultural partnership, 32 more sleepers were discovered, with which the gardeners had already managed to protect the plots. A criminal case has been opened under the article "Theft".

Law enforcement officers investigating the terrorist attack committed the day before in Pyatigorsk consider one of the main versions of the incident of the North Caucasian militants, reports Lenta.ru with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. Among the main ones - the version of involvement in the terrorist attack of illegal armed groups. This is their handwriting, the security forces believe. The explosion in Pyatigorsk occurred on Tuesday, at about 16:15 Moscow time.

On a Gazagolder Street, at a concrete fence opposite the house No. 12, police found a grenade and cartridges in a package, reports Echo of Moscow . Dangerous finds were sent for examination. Law enforcement officers intend to find out the affiliation and origin of ammunition. Recall that after yesterday’s terrorist attack in Pyatigorsk, which suffered from 30 visitors to the Captown cafe, the Moscow police were transferred to an enhanced mode of operation.

The Princely Foundation, which unites descendants of a famous family, is preparing to compete for the Kazan Kremlin and ten ancient residences near Moscow, including the Moscow, Kazan, Volokolamsk, Mozhaisk and Kolomna Kremlins, they write in today’s issue of RBC-daily. Two days ago, the Moscow Arbitration Court accepted the claim of the Princely Foundation for the right to perpetual use of the Moscow Kremlin. The first hearing is scheduled for October 18.

The next review by the UN Security Council in early August of the situation in the Serbian province of Kosovo took place shortly after the International Court of Justice adopted a conclusion on the legality of the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo, which could not but affect the content of the discussion. Evidence of the great interest in this meeting of the UN Security Council was the desire expressed by representatives of more than 40 countries to attend the meeting.

The situation around the Russian tourists stuck on Corfu and the prospects from the fastest return to their homeland remains foggy - it is not clear which airline is going to and is going to, Rosbalt reports . According to the Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation on the ionic islands of Nicosa Kanovas, 18 tourists will fly home today, the flight of the Yamal airline. But according to the airline itself, at the Corfu in the evening, the plane of the Airlines "Obravary" will fly today.

As it became known to Kommersant , Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev to prepare a project on the transfer of the functions of Rososhran culture directly to the Ministry of Culture. Thus, the only executive authority opposing the construction of the 403-meter skyscraper of Okhta Center in St. Petersburg can be abolished, the newspaper notes.

Unable to enroll in the regional dispensary in time, the woman herself cut out a tumor from her chest, write the Far Eastern Vedomosti . "A bump appeared in the chest, very small, but tangible. Then I called the oncological dispensary to sign up for the primary reception. I was told that for this I needed a direction and a bunch of tests from a regular clinic: a blood test, ECG, fluorography ... I collected a little less than a month. I work, I have been feeding two children.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych said that there was no censorship in Ukraine and asked him to name the surnames of those who prevented reporters from telling the truth. During the visit by Yanukovych of the National Sorochinsky Fair, journalists asked him about the situation that developed in the state around freedom of speech, in particular, given the statements, including at the international level, about the introduction of censorship and curtailing democracy in Ukraine, UNIAN reports.

The Moscow authorities decided to limit the time of retail sale of strong alcohol products, the Air Force reports . According to the source in the Moscow City Administration, since September 1 of the current year, retail products with the content of ethyl alcohol are not allowed in retail outlets of the Russian capital from 22 hours to 10 in the morning.

A meeting on the implementation of the project “Quality of Life (Health)” is held in Moscow. The project "Quality of life (health)" is designed to ensure an increase in the duration and standard of living of Russians.