The Ministry of Health has prepared and published amendments to the law "On the Protection of the Health of Citizens from the influence of the surrounding tobacco smoke and the consequences of tobacco consumption." If the document is accepted in a constant form of excise taxes on cigarettes in the next two years will be sharply increased. Now the manufacturer pays 800 rubles from a thousand cigarettes plus 8.5 percent of their maximum retail price.

On July 24, the Perm Regional Court recognized the decision on the refusal of the parole (UDO) to the Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhina, RIA Novosti reports. Thus, the court rejected the complaint to the convicted person to refuse to Udo, which was previously received in the Bereznikovsky city court. In May 2013, Maria Alekhina filed a motion for parole, but the Bereznikovsky city court refused an UDO activist, as a result, she decided to appeal this decision in the Perm Regional Court.

According to the research group “Digital Society Laboratory - DSL” (www.digsolab.com) in the period from July 16 to 23, 2013, the most comments received the following messages in the Russian Facebook social network: The post of administrator of the group "Do you know." Puzzle https://www.facebook.com/303013523055978/posts/626115897412404 2. The post of administrator of the group "Football Portal UA-football". Network competition https://www.facebook.com/14079375945399/posts/622422574449181 3.

A cadavre or zombie - such an association comes to mind when you read the next news about the life of what is called “public Russian television” or OTR. It seems that there was a presidential decree (though the President Medvedev, still leaving at that moment), was allocated funds, broadcasting was launched, an observation council was formed, and even a logo was ordered and developed. The activity around the OTR, thus, has been wow over the past year.

Former CIA employee Edward Snowden cannot go to Latin America, where several countries promised to provide him with asylum, as he is afraid that the United States will force the European authorities to land the plane. According to Guardian , Snowden will have several “dangerous watches” in the air, so he cannot leave the Moscow Sheremetyevo airport.

The Investigative Committee redistributed other criminal cases against the blogger Alexei Navalny between investigators, Izvestia reports. Ruslan Miniakhmetov, who previously leads all the things in which Navalny appears, now there was only a case of fraud with the money of the ATP party for 100 million rubles in production.

The Russian government established ten annual prizes the size of a million rubles for journalists writing in Russian, Interfax reports. Not only individual reporters, but also collectives of journalists, as well as media organization, can apply for prizes that will begin to be awarded this year. At the same time, the reward will be awarded to both Russian and foreign journalists and the media writing in Russian.

Alexey Muravyov Church shop photo: uspenskij.prihod.ru What is Orthodox marketing We have long wanted to talk about difficult things. Nowadays, when many thousands of lines to relics are built, masses of people go to multi-kilometer pilgrimages, Orthodox pilgrims grow like yeast, and the parishes and dioceses are affiliated with whole segments of the tourist industry, the words “marketing”, “market”, “consumers” are increasingly sounding due to the church sphere.

Public television of Russia Photo: News.mail.ru A cadavre or zombie - such an association comes to mind when you read the next news about the life of what is called “public Russian television” or OTR. It seems that there was a presidential decree (though the President Medvedev, still leaving at that moment), was allocated funds, broadcasting was launched, an observation council was formed, and even a logo was ordered and developed.

The CIA began to close the bases in Afghanistan in connection with the upcoming withdrawal of the military contingent from the country, reports The Washington Post . As the source of the newspaper explained in official structures, the United States will direct their forces to other problem points, for example, to Syria, Yemen and North Africa, where the representative of Al-Qaeda became intensified.

At the construction site of the Leningrad NPP-2, the construction of the reinforced concrete membrane of the tower evaporative gradilers No. 2 of the first power unit, begun in December 2011, was completed. The builders concreted the last, 96 tiers and reached the design height of the object of 150 m. The construction of the gradirny tower, the diameter of which reaches 124 m in the base, required 10541.6 m³ of concrete.

Bioluminescence-the ability of living organisms to glow-is widely used in medical and biological studies. The discovery of a new enzyme, which, as scientists write in the journal BioChemistry , is a transitional link in the evolution of bioluminescence, will allow in the future to create enzymes that will take the glow to a new level: it will become several orders of magnitude brighter and “multi -colored”.

The Supreme Court of Serbia on Tuesday recognized as unlawful the decision to extradite to Russia the founder of the right -winging movement “Russian Image” Ilya Goryachev. This was reported on Twitter by Goryachev himself. “Where there is an independent court, success is more than possible. This is not Kirovsky, and not Zamoskvoretsky ... ”, Russian lawyer Goryachev Mark Feigin later wrote on his twitter .

Vladimir Putin signed the law on the fight against illegal impact on the results of official sports competitions, the Kremlin press service reports. For the organization of contractual matches, up to seven years of imprisonment or a fine of up to 1 million rubles are provided. A ban on the participation of athletes, coaches and judges in the totalizers and bookmaker bets on the types of competitions that they represent is also introduced.

The United States demanded explanations from Russia about the status of the former employee of the American intelligence services of Edward Snowden, said the official representative of the White House Jay Carney on board the US president on Wednesday, July 24. His words quoted by Reuters . He emphasized that the United States will insist on the extradction of Snowden.