Musician Andrei Makarevich sent an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin for kickbacks and corrupt ships in the country, because “accumulated”, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the words of the leader of the “Time Machine”.

The proposal to oblige the state corporation to place its R&D units in existing technoparks and national research universities was nominated by the general director of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok Technopark Dmitry Verkhovod at a meeting of the expert community on universities and research centers, which was held by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the press service of the government said the press service of the government .

“Arguments of the Week” publish the article by Dmitry Grunyushkin “Naked King”, or the end of magic 08.08.08 "Glory to Medvedev - Ossetian defender turned out to be a blunt The other day it will be 4 years of famous events on August 8, 2008 in South Ossetia. The fleeting and, according to the official version, the “victorious” war with Georgia was the first significant step of the recently elected President Dmitry Medvedev in the international arena.

The columns of the Turkish troops with the support of several helicopters entered the Syrian city of Jarablos in the Kurdish district, reports on Tuesday Press TV . Recall that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned at the end of July that Ankara could hit armed Kurds in Syria in case of threat on their part. The head of the Turkish government also then also emphasized that in case of danger, a blow to the north of Syria is not the subject for discussion, but for granted.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Krasnodar Territory announced an emergency warning in the region in connection with strong thunderstorms, which will be held on Tuesday, August 7, the official website of the department reports. According to the regional hydrometeorological center, in the next 3-6 hours and up to the end of the day, strong thunderclines, hail and squalid winds up to 22 m/s are expected.

The American Curiosity apparatus transmitted the first color image of the Martian landscape using the main camera Mars Hand Lens Imager (Mahli) on the first day of research, the NASA website said. The picture shows the northern part of the Gale crater, in which the Marshod landed the day earlier.

The American pop singer Madonna, who will give a concert in Moscow on August 7, expressed the hope that the Pussy Riot punk group participants will be released soon, the Air Force reports. “I believe in freedom of speech, and I am against censorship. I hope that the judge will show condescension to them, and the girls will soon be released, ”the singer said. Thus, Madonna replenished the ranks of the world celebrities who spoke in the defense of Pussy Riot.

Syrian President Bashar al-Asad spoke on television for the first time in two weeks. On Tuesday, he appeared on the air during a meeting with the secretary of the National Security Council of Iran Said Jalili in Damascus, Reuters reports. The last time Assad fell under the screens of cameras on July 22, while bringing the new Minister of Defense to the oath, who was appointed instead of Davud Raikh, who died during an explosion in the Syrian capital.

Russia rose to fifth place in the general medal standings after the victory of the Russian duet Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, who took first place in synchronous swimming at the Olympics in London, the official website of the Olympic Games reports. The Russians scored in the amount of 197,100 points. The second place was taken by the Spanks, she Karbonel Balesto and Andrea Fuentes Fache with a result of 192,900, and the third - Chinese woman Juan Xuecheen and Liu OU.

The Proton-M launch vehicle was unable to bring to a given orbit of communications “Express-MD2 and TECHCOM-3”, which are stuck in emergency transition orbit and are considered dangerous space garbage, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the words of a specialist in the space industry.

On August 7, in Nigeria, the armed militants broke into the church during the service and began to shoot at the parishioners, reports AFP . The incident occurred on the night of Monday on Tuesday in the city of Otite, in the central part of Nigeria. As the RIA Novosti website clarifies, as a result, at least 19 people were killed, the exact number of victims is still unknown. So far, no terrorist group has taken responsibility for the incident.

Andrey Levkin Dear Ignacio, such a story: here now all the time they remember someone. Either Mahatma G., then Schmidt-Baduh-Lenin, adapting them to his actual thoughts. And the fiction writer Z. Prilepin just wrote a letter to I. Stalin . From here it is clear: a certain business is at a dead end and everyone needs to somehow correlate with the experience of colleagues. So I write to you now.

The Ryazan District Court parole the former deputy deputy manager of Yukos Alexei Kurtsin, reports Echo of Moscow with reference to the lawyer Roman Golovtsev. Curcin spent almost 8 years in the colony. He was sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security colony on charges of kidnapping 74 million rubles. The court found that Kurtsin in 2004 transferred Yukos's money to the accounts of specially established charitable foundations, and then laundered it using fictitious financial transactions.

The publication " Century " writes today that the press service of the Moscow Domodedovo airport states that all the problems around the failure of the work of the transport luggage tape that occurred on Sunday have been eliminated, and most passengers received their own luggage. However, according to the publication, some Russians who are abroad have not yet seen their luggage.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, officially agreed to become the main keeper of the sacred relics of the Prophet Muhammad, the official portal of the republic reports. Member of the Council of the Federation of Russia Ziyad Sabsabi handed over to Kadyrov a letter from the keeper of the Islamic shrines from the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Ahmad Bin Muhammad al-Khazraji with a corresponding request.