Andrey Levkin According to the Levada Center , 52% of all respondents are now ready to vote for Putin (in January - 29%), or 82% of those who have decided on the choice. The survey was conducted on July 18-21. There is no special news in this, on July 6, Levada Center reported that Putin's approval rating reached 87% (at the end of this spring, the approval rating was 83%). The reason for the increase in the approval rating in the Levada Center is called the Crimean Effect.

What is the meaning of life? It seemed to me that the laureate of the Dirac medal, Academician Zakharov should definitely know this. At the age of 75, the question of the meaning of Genesis probably ceases to be open to a person who has devoted many years to mathematics, physics and poetry.

On August 13, 1829, Ivan Sechenov was born, an outstanding Russian physiologist. Personal business Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov (1829-1905) was born in the village of Teply Stan of the Simbirsk province (now Sechenovo Nizhny Novgorod Region) in the family of the landowner. Primary education received at home.

Sudden and unexpected bankruptcy of several travel companies at once was caused, as it is easy to guess, quite understandable the reason. This reason lies on the surface, or, more precisely, shines on all information displays hung in the cities of our country. And one can only be surprised that the leaders of travel agencies did not pay any attention to her, and did not rebuild their policy, although they had more time for this.

Lauren Bacoll Polit.ru offers your attention the five news of the day. The selection included the three most read news, one news selected by the editorial office, and the most unusual, in our opinion, news today. 1. The famous Hollywood actress Lauren Bacoll died American actress Lauren Bacoll, one of the most beautiful women of Hollywood, who was famous in the 40-50s of the last century, died in her house at the age of 89.

In the journal Nature Communications published an article by a large team of scientists who studied the genome of the mosquito Belgica Antarctica , living in Antarctica. Scientists consider the unusually small size of its genome an adaptation to life in extreme conditions. This species refers to the family of mosquitoes ( Chironomidae ) and lives on the Antarctic continent and the adjacent islands up to 65 ° 27΄ southern latitude.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included the book of the American William Powell, “The Anarchist Cookbook,” into the list of extremist materials. press service reported this on August 13 The department's . According to the Ministry of Justice, the publication was recognized as extremist by the Predgorny District Court of Stavropol on April 21 of this year.

The authors of Polit.ru continue to go to daily duty on the Twitter microblogs network. On Wednesday, August 13, Andrei Levkin will be on duty on Twitter. By the end of the day, you can read the comments of our author, argue with him, leave your comments and make links to his notes. Recall that on August 12, Ilya Karpyuk was on duty on Twitter.

Denmark authorities report 12 people as a result of an outbreak of a disease caused by infected meat used in the preparation of sausages, writes the Air Force . The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Denmark ordered to close a small meat factory in the suburbs of Copenhagen and remove all its products after the detection of dangerous bacteria in meat - Lister.

On August 12, at least 2 people claimed lives, another 18 were injured, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier it was reported that the magnitude of the earthquakes amounted to 5.1 and 4.1, respectively, the epicenter was not far from Kito at a depth of 5-7 km. Mobile communications were violated in a number of areas. According to the authorities, people died and were injured as a result of a collapse in one of the quarries near the capital.

The inefficiency of the Federal Road Agency of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation (Rosavtodor) is largely the result of the fact that criminal structures that deliberately disorganize its work are trying to come to power in the department, writes “ Top Secret ”.

Gazprom did not exclude that in the future non -monetary forms will appear when calculating with Ukraine for gas, reports Interfax . The company noted that the political and economic crisis in Ukraine led to an increase in gas debt, which has not yet been repaid. In these conditions, Gazprom translated Naftogaz Ukraine to the prepayment of gas supplies.

The Minister of Defense of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Igor Strelkov is seriously wounded. This was reported by the Novorossia agency. “Igor Strelkov is seriously wounded. This was announced to us by a source in the leadership of Novorossia. The state of the Minister of Defense of the DPR is difficult, ”the agency said in a statement. So far, there is no official confirmation of this information.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold an operational meeting with members of the Security Council on Wednesday in Sevastopol, the Kremlin press service said. The working trip of the head of state to the Crimean Federal District will last August 13 and 14. On Thursday, Putin is expected to meet with members of the fractions of political parties in the State Duma. In Crimea, Putin will meet with State Duma deputies.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered to create the Crimean Federal University named after Vernadsky. The corresponding document is posted on the website of the Government of Russia. Federal University is created on the basis of seven educational organizations of higher education and seven scientific organizations. The Ministry of Education and Science of Russia is instructed to submit to the government a program of development of the Federal University for a six -month period.