The mufti of Tatarstan Ildus Fayzov, on whom an attempt was made in Kazan, will be discharged from the hospital in the coming days. This was announced by the representative of the spiritual department of Muslims of the Republic Richat Khamidullin, Interfax reports. According to him, Fayzov is recovering, he is already trying to get up and move on crutches.

Gazprom - almost the latter in the industry decided to adopt the Code of Corporate Ethics, writes the newspaper Vedomosti (No. 136, of July 24). The largest oil companies (with the exception of Surgutneftegaz) already have corporate ethics codes. The toughest of Lukoil and TNK-BP, the newspaper notes. The document will be mandatory for all Gazprom controlled companies and “recommended” by the one where the monopoly has a share in capital.

Following the results of the elections held on Sunday, Kasimov (Ryazan Region), the opposition intends to sue, demanding to cancel the results of voting due to massive violations. Kommersant writes that, despite the declared numerous violations, not one of the parties is going to challenge the election results in court.

Anton Osipova, wounded in the explosion at the Rock Festival "Wings" in Tushin, was drafted into the army. The 14-year-old Anton, with a terrorist attack, survived only by accident: explosives did not damage the vital organs. According to the Moscow Komsomolets , until the draft age came up, the next nine years the state was practically not interested in the fate of the young man. The character of the teenager after the tragedy changed: his parents died before his eyes.

The Moscow government will not pay bonuses to police officers who made violations during the opposition campaign on May 6. About this, according to RIA Novosti , said Vasily Oleinik, First Deputy Head of the Capital Department of Regional Security. Earlier, the Moscow authorities allocated 300 million rubles to support police officers who were involved in the protection of shares that took place in the capital on May 6-9.

Patriarch Kirill called for abortion against the background of the news of the detection of barrels with embryos in the Urals. This was announced in an interview with Orthodoxy and Mir to the Chairman of the Synodal Information Department of the Moscow Patriarchate Vladimir Legoyda.

The Federation Council rejected the law only because of a single voting day, meanwhile, it proposes new rules for the formation of precinct election commissions. We are talking about the construction of the vertical of the election commission, which will work on an ongoing basis until April 2018 - that is, until the end of the next parliamentary and presidential election campaigns, Kommersant writes. Now the boundaries of the sites are determined after the elections have already been scheduled.

Fifteen transport units (TPUs) will be organized in Moscow until the end of November, the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, said on Tuesday, during a visit to the construction site of TPU near the Voikovskaya metro station, MosDay.ru reports. According to Speech, all TPU will be built next to the metro stations and stops of ground public transport and will include parking lots for personal vehicles.

Applications of the representative of the Foreign Ministry of Syria Jihad McDisi about chemical weapons were torn out of the media, the ministry said on Tuesday. The day before, during the television conference, McDisi said that his country would use chemical weapons in the event of military intervention in Syria. This was the first statement of the country's authorities about the presence of such ammunition.

The Minister of the Russian Federation on the Development of the Far East, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District, Viktor Ishaev today held a meeting on the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome, his site reports. Today, 1800 people are involved in the construction of the cosmodrome, and by September the number of workers and engineers will increase to 3 thousand.

Nikolai Dyatlov Sea sponge. Source: http: //arstechnica.com Simultaneously with the development of modern materials, scientists do not cease to explore the materials given to us by nature itself. Often the solution to modern problems was invented by evolution millions of years ago. Among the last “muses”, who brought scientists to important discoveries, there are many representatives of the water element. Sponges for electronics Scientists have applied genetic engineering methods.

The representative of the Syrian National Council George Sabra on Tuesday said that the opposition would approve the temporary transfer of power to any associate of Assad, if he himself resigned. It is reported by AFP . In response to the question of who could become such a figure, Sabra said that there are patriots among the close Assad and in the leadership of the army.

The Governor of the Primorsky Territory Vladimir Miklushevsky promised to figure out the driver of the car, who traveled the cork along the oncoming lane. Attention to this occasion was drawn due to the fact that the car had an art series that used the region’s administration. “I instructed to conduct an audit on this situation. The driver will be punished, ”Miklushevsky wrote on his Twitter. The governor admitted that the car is assigned to his deputy - Vladimir Balan.

The mother of Sergei Magnitsky appealed to the Simonovsky court of Moscow with a demand to reveal the names of 12 prosecutors investigating the case of her son, the RIA Novosti website reports. In his complaint, Natalya Magnitskaya notes that for a year he cannot receive information from the Prosecutor General about who is part of the prosecutors group.

Sally Ride, the first American who visited space, died on July 23 in the USA of 61 years, the NASA website reports. After two flights on the shuttles, she continued to participate in American space programs until her death, simultaneously engaged in a scientific career at the University of California in San Diego (University of California, San Diego).