In Japan, the elections to the upper house of the parliament ended. The victory was won by the ruling coalition, which includes the Liberal Democratic Party along with its allies, the Air Force reports. As a result, the winner received 135 out of 242 mandates. The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has already stated that the victory in the elections will allow him to form a stable government and continue economic reforms.

1. Suddenly actualized: " Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin proposed building special cities for Moscow pensioners in the territory of the Central Federal District (CFF) , well, and it rushed. Mass evictions, the desire to take possession of the secondary, etc. Meanwhile, these were not the words of Sobyanin - this is how the Tape Ru wrote. And for a long time, in 2010 . Sobyanin then said differently: “ Let's think about it.

Former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden sent a letter to the RESSIS union of employees and veterans of law enforcement and law enforcement agencies, RBC Daily reports. “The letter came the other day by e -mail to the address indicated on the website of our organization,” the leader of the trade union Alexei Lobarev told the newspaper. According to him, it said that Snowden wants to join the trade union and needs protection.

Biologists from the UK and the USA using molecular methods analyzed a group of bony fish called Acanthomorpha to find out how different evolutionary lines are close to each other. The results of the work, sometimes unexpected, are published in the journal Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Acantomorphs arose about 140 million years ago, this large group combines about 18,000 species - about a third of all types of vertebrates.

The activist of Solidarity Dmitry Monakhov, who was beaten during the detention after the rally dispersed in support of Alexei Navalny, filed an application with the police, the Rain TV channel reports. Monakhov claims that the police put his beatings in a car carrier. Now he is in a hospital with a concussion and hematomas The police promised that she would consider the statement of the Jolidarity activist in the prescribed manner, Interfax reports.

Vladimir Putin will visit the Seliger-2013 youth camp in the Tver region on August 2, Izvestia reports with reference to sources in the Kremlin and Rosmolodezh. The newspaper notes that this is the peak of the political shift, which takes place from July 28 to August 2 and is called the "Civil Forum". Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, did not announce a specific date of the visit.

In the Russian parliament, they thought about the return of Soviet practice of enforcement distribution of graduates after graduation. The initiative was originally proposed by the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia, but it was picked up by the head of the Duma Committee on Social Policy Andrei Isaev.

Hackers hacked the site for the developers of the Apple Developer.apple.com software applications, Bloomberg reports. The portal for developers stopped working on June 18. Only a few days later, Apple sent a letter to the developers, which said that the portal was subjected to a hacker attack. Now the site is working. The corporation apologized for “serious inconvenience” and assured that programmers are working around the clock to restore the site.

The stand for the USSR pavilion at the World Press World exhibition in Kölnna, 1929 (Lazar Lisitsky) and the interior of the Russian pavilion at EXPO-2010 in Shanghai (Boris Krasnov). Collage: Diana Machulina Exhibition "History of Soviet Pavilions. Part I ” in“ Workers and Collective Farm ” (until August 18) talks about what image of external use the Soviet Union created for itself, building pavilions at world exhibitions.

The wife of the British Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton gave birth to a boy. It is reported by Guardian . The weight of the "Royal Highness of the Prince of Cambridge" is 3.9 kg.

The former head of the Volgogradavtodor state-owned enterprise Vladimir Kolisnichenko, who caused the organization of 64 million rubles, was sentenced to five years of conditional detention, the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Volgograd Region reports. Familiar Kolisnichenko - entrepreneur Roman Tregulov - who was also found guilty in this case, received four years conditionally.

Investigators charged the four suspects of attacking the State Duma deputy Roman Khudyakov. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee . The accusation of Arthur Minbulatov, Khachubek Khadisov, Shamil and Transerier Gadzhiev was presented in the case of extortion of 30 million rubles from the entrepreneur .

Ilya Karpyuk The Investigative Committee and the metropolitan police decided to initiate a criminal case for vandalism, which protesters against the arrest of Alexei Navalny were made with the building of the State Duma. According to the investigators, the pasting of stickers on the building of the federal parliament and applying non -normative words on the walls of non -normative words.

According to the research group “DSL Laboratory - DSL” (www. Digsolab.com) in June 2013 in the Russian -speaking segment of the social network Facebook the largest number of “likes” (reports that users note as they like) on the same page collected the following posts: The post of the group "Fitness for the brain". Artobo -object http://www.facebook.com/170867832973833/posts/545281912199088 2. The post of the group "Fitness for the brain".

The Moscow City Court on Monday, July 22, recognized the decision to cancel only one of the two reprimands received by the former prime minister of the Bolshoi Theater by the People’s Artist of Russia Nikolai Tsiscaridze for communication with the press, Rapsei reports. The court rejected the complaint of Tsiscaridze, in which he asked to recognize both reprimands illegal.