Alena Arshinova, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education, criticized the initiative of the assistant to the President of Russia Igor Levitin, who proposed to transfer the beginning of the school year to increase the tourist flow, the Radio Speak Moscow reports. “In my opinion, if it concerns the extension of the tourist season, domestic tourism, then this is not the most important reason why domestic tourism is not developed.

Due to the reduction in world oil prices, production at old Kazakhstani deposits becomes unprofitable, and the development of new ones does not keep up with needs, writes 365info.kz . According to the publication, there are practically no prerequisites for the growth of oil production in Kazakhstan. “Analysis of past statistics shows that domestic oil production has long entered the period of stagnation,” the resource reports.

This year, Russian customs promises to transfer 4.4 trillion rubles to the budget, but could be one and a half times more, RAS scientists have calculated. The methodology they developed for independent control over the Federal Customs Service was presented to Vladimir Putin. reports this RBC .

Beijing was chosen by the capital of the Winter Olympic Games of 2022. It is reported by Associated Press. Such a decision was made following the vote of members of the International Olympic Committee, which took place in Kuala Lumpur. Thus, Beijing went around his only rival - Alma -Ata. It should be noted that in 2008, Beijing had already accepted the summer Olympic Games.

Police and the Investigative Committee employees are searched in the apartment of the co -chair of the St. Petersburg branch of Parnas Andrei Pivovarov in connection with the case of illegal access to personal data. This was reported by TASS with reference to the co -chair of the regional department of the party Natalya Gryaznevich. “At about 14:00 Moscow time, law enforcement officers began a search in the apartment of Andrei Pivovarov, where he lives with his mother.

NASA scientists have discovered another alleged double of the Earth. The HD 219134B exoplanet found is located at a distance of 21 light year from the Sun. This is the planet closest to the Earth with the characteristics similar to earthly, according to the NASA website. The planet was discovered in the constellation Cassiopei using the Spitzer telescope. On July 22, NASA announced the opening of another planet similar to the Earth with the help of the Kepler telescope. It is called Kepler 452 .

In Dagestan, a scandal around the attack on two noticeable political figures of a republican scale is flared up - the head of the Kizlyar district Andrei Vinogradov and the ex -head of the district, the candidate for mayors of Makhachkala, the deputy of the People’s Assembly of the Republic from United Russia, the Olympic champion of Sagid Murtazaliev. What is happening is associated with the upcoming elections in September.

Maria Blokhina Development of deposits photo: kru.ru On Thursday, it became known that the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia prepared and introduced a bill to the government , which guarantees a foreign company to receive a federal deposit if this company opened it . This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to a letter to the government of the head of the department Sergei Donskoy .

The Omsk Military Prosecutor's Office revealed work on the construction of a storage for weapons and military equipment without permits. This is written by Omsk News with reference to their sources.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in the expedition of the Russian Geographical Society, which will be held in Crimea, Izvestia write. The purpose of the expedition will be to study the attractions, namely, places related to the route of the Great Silk Road, as well as ancient vessels at the bottom of the Black Sea. Experts are sure that Crimea was not chosen for the expedition - after the peninsula again became part of Russia, the region became a priority for the whole country.

The Ukrainian side will spend the second tranche from the International Monetary Fund in the amount of 1.7 billion dollars to pay for gas debts, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Gennady Zubko made on the air of the Fifth Canal . “Firstly, the tranche of the International Monetary Fund, it goes as macro-financial assistance. Part will go to support and financial stabilization of the financial system of Ukraine.

The former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense Yevgeny Vasiliev, sentenced to five years in the colony for fraud with the assets of the department, was transferred to the women's colony of the Vladimir region, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission Anton Tsvetkova.

A large group of scientists, led by Klaus-Peter Koepfli, from the Smithsonian Institute of Nature Protection Biology and John Pollinger from the University of California at Los Anjelos conducted a large-scale study of the genomes of wolves, dogs and jackals. Among the authors of the work there are Russian scientists: Andrey Yurchenko, Pavel Dobrynin and Alexei Makunin from the Center for Genomonnaya Bioinformatics named after the Feodosia of Dobrzhansky St. Petersburg State University.

The former construction contractor of the Vostochny Cosmodrome - the Pacific Mostostroite Company (TMK) - has not yet paid with the workers. The salary debt exceeds 85 million rubles about this by this was announced at an expanded meeting of the board of the Primorsky Territory Prosecutor of the region, Sergei Unliven, TASS reports. He noted that the debts of the company are more than half of the total wage arrears in Primorye.

International creditors are ready to write off a small part of the debt to Ukraine, according to The Wall Street Journal with reference to their own sources.