The Pope Francis during his visit to Bolivia will try the leaves of Coca, which local residents consider sacred, reports Reuters with reference to the Minister of Culture of the country Marco Machikao. According to him, the Bolivian authorities offered a pontiff to try koki tea, but Francis refused, expressing a desire to chew the leaves that are used to produce cocaine.

Former Yukos head, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, discussed on Twitter the resumption of the investigation of the murder in 1998 of the mayor of Nefteyugansk Vladimir Petukhov. On Tuesday, the Investigative Committee said that the customer of this crime could be Khodorkovsky.

Nizhny Novgorod University named after Lobachevsky fired the vice -rector for innovation of Kendrick White, who is a US citizen, after the plot dedicated to him on the Russia TV channel. It is reported by Kommersant.

Andrey Levkin Uberpop app: Foxnews.com In France, the heads of the European private taxi service Uber were detained . It can be assumed that the matter is narrow -profile and specifically competitive, but you can also feel that it is a precedent and the struggle of previous forms of management with new ones went into the final phase.

Lithuania described as a provocation the decision of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office to verify the legality of recognition of the independence of the Baltic Republics in 1991. This was reported by DELFI with reference to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkyavyuchis. According to him, the decision of the Russian department is "legal, moral and political absurdity." Vilnius expect official comments from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on liability for advertising loans without indicating their full value. The text of the law is published on the official Internet portal of legal information. According to the law, credit organizations bear administrative liability for advertising services related to the provision of a loan or loan containing at least one condition that affects its cost, if the advertisement does not indicate all other conditions affecting the cost of the loan.

Hollywood director Robert Zemeckis said in an interview with The Telegraph, which would not allow the creation of a remake of his “back to the future” trilogy. “Oh my god, no! While I am Bob (Gail, screenwriter and producer of three films and the animated series of the same name - approx. “Polit.ru”) are alive, this will never happen. It's just outrageous! Especially when it comes to a good film. It’s the same as offering to re -reset the film "Citizen Kane." Who will play Kane?

Scientists from the University of Bristol have created a digital voluminous model of the brain of ichthy. Data on the structure of the brain of these large sea reptiles has always been not enough, since their fossil remains fell into the hands of researchers flattened under the weight of marine deposits. However, Paleontologists Ryan Marek and Michael Benton managed to find a skull suitable for three -dimensional reconstruction. It was found in the 1800s in the Bay of the Bibli Gulf.

In the administrative building of the Moscow State Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky, a fire broke out at Bolshaya Nikitskaya, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies in Moscow. The fire brigade arrived at the conservatory. 22 people were evacuated from the building. The Ministry of Emergency Situations noted that all the evacuated workers who carried out repairs in the building were.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law according to which all the terms of governors have been counted since 2012. All previous terms are reset, the press service of the head of state reports . According to the document, the heads of the regions cannot occupy more than two terms, but the countdown begins in 2012. On September 13, 2015, the elections of governors will take place in two dozen Russian regions.

The new head of the board of directors of Russian Railways Department of Russian Railways Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich will limit the size of subsidies requested by the company to cover possible losses in 2016, Vedomosti reports this. According to the minutes of the meeting, which has at the disposal of the publication, subsidies will not exceed 75 billion rubles next year.

The construction of the tunnel between the islands of Lollan (Denmark) and Femarn (Germany) continues to present new interesting finds to archaeologists. We previously talked about the stone ax discovered there with a surviving handle and prison . Also there, thanks to clay soil, a large number of fragments of wooden objects have been preserved: copies, oars and others. Another interesting find was the footprints of the legs of 5 thousand years found on the edge of an ancient fishing trap.

Businessman Sergei Polonsky, whom the Russian authorities accuse of fraud on an especially large scale, announced a hunger strike, informs RIA Novosti with reference to lawyer A Slavik A Barsoyan a . According to the agency in the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, now the entrepreneur is located in the Kartser of the SIZO Sailor Silence , where he was sent for damage to the property of the insulator.

On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the bodies of 84 dead were recovered from the wreckage of a C-130 military transport aircraft that fell on residential buildings in the city of Medan, AFP reports . “The bodies of 84 people were found and taken to the morgue of a hospital in Medan. So far, 23 bodies have been identified,” local hospital officials said. It is noted that among the dead there are not only military personnel, but also civilians.

This year, the tourist industry of Tunisia may lose about $ 515 million in connection with the terrorist attack in Susa on June 26, Reuters reports . According to the Minister of Tourism of Tunisia Salma Loumi, the attack of militants on the beach of one of the hotels had a serious impact on the country's economy, which would lead to major financial losses. In 2014, the profit of Tunisia in the tourism sector amounted to $ 1.95 billion.