The current mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, promised to help the chief oppositionist of Russia Alexei Navalny to collect signatures of the capital's municipal deputies. The statement of the metropolitan mayor, a member of the governing body of the ruling party and just an experienced apparatchik, however, few people were struck, and some even angry. The head of the Navalny election headquarters, for example, even accused Sobyanin of cowardice and hypocrisy.

What does a young scientist thinks already about 30 scientific articles in high -rating world magazines, about the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Russia? We talked with Alexander Pechene , a graduate of the Mehmat Moscow State University, a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, an employee of the Mathematics Institute named after V.A. Steklov RAS, who worked for a lot of time at the Weizmann Institute (Israel).

In Moscow, contacts between Russia and the United States in the field of international legal cooperation were intensified, while the situation with the ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden faded into the background. This was reported to " Interfax " by sources close to the negotiation process.

What exactly is prohibited by new "sexual" laws to say and do? About this-in an article by the Researcher of the Institute of Law Problems at the European University in St. Petersburg, the Master of Law of the University of Hamburg (LL.M. Universität Hamburg) written following the discussion with colleagues for IPP and journalist Alexandra Dobryanskaya. The text is not intended for reading by persons who have not reached the age of 18.

President Vladimir Putin met with scientists and proposed amendments to the Law on the Reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that the amendments will not affect the timing of consideration of the document in the State Duma.

Min Istr Education Dmitry Livanov sent a letter to scientists who oppose the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The letter test, in particular, was published on his blog by one of the addressees - deputy director of the Institute of Problems of Information of Information RAS Mikhail Gelfand. As it turned out, the letter was sent on June 29. On July 2, he was read out at a meeting of the Department of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Russian authorities continue the struggle for the "harmonization of interethnic relations." In the last couple of years, many proposals have been expressed: the possibility of establishing the position of the Commissioner for Nationalities or the formation of various permanent commissions on this problem has been considered. Last year, the Presidential Administration created a special department for national politics, headed by the ex-head of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov.

Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A.A. Borisyak organized a protest rally against the RAS reform in the Paleontological Museum, which is perceived by the team as the liquidation of the Academy: information is posted at the entrance to the museum, in the exhibition halls, as well as on the institute’s website (photographs are attached).

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fall of the Proton-M launch vehicle, RIA Novosti reports. The case was opened under Part 1 of Art. 216 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Violation of safety rules." Proton started from the Baikonur cosmodrome on July 2 at 06:38 MSC and was supposed to bring three navigation satellites of the GLONASS system into orbit.

Journalists of the French newspaper Equipe prepared a list of excuses that athletes speak after detecting doping in their analyzes. The presence of cocaine, the Italian bike lover Gilberto Simoni explained to a guests of aunt with candy. A relative also interrupted the Lithuanian cyclist Raymondas Rumshas. The forbidden drugs found in the car allegedly intended mother -in -law. In 2006, the American cyclist Floyd Landis said that the level of testosterone increased due to love for whiskey.

On July 2, 2013, the Committee of Civil Initiatives summed up the results of the application competition under the Open Police project.

President Vladimir Putin signed developed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, prohibiting the indication of discriminatory requirements in the vacancies. According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta , employers from now on do not have the right to indicate in the ads on the search for employees of restrictions on the floor, age, family position and nationality.

State "natives" offer them a monopoly right to disseminate all Russian lotteries, Kommersant reports with reference to a letter from the general director of Russian lottery OJSC ("Benefiches") Sergey Strelnikov in the name of the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. We are talking about the creation of a single information system for sales and the administration of lottery on the basis of the "natives".

The plans for the creation of an independent Academy of Sciences, if the Russian Academy of Sciences is liquidated, said Polit.ru Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Zakharov. He believes that the composition of such a public organization, which will adequately continue the traditions of the Academy of Sciences of Peter I, can be formed from those scientists (and there are already more than 60 of them), which have declared a reluctance to enter the new “RAS”.

Against the backdrop of a flared scandal with the “anti -people reform” of our Academy, scientists have simple everyday needs. Sometimes, due to such everyday needs, scientists turn to banks for loans, for example, to repair the home and at the same time places of periodic scientific creativity. Having decided to take such a loan, I turned to one well-known bank, where an employee with the eyes of the Malvina doll advised me to bring a certificate of personal income and some other documents.