Over the past week, 23 residents of Japan died due to the effects of abnormally hot weather. Another 12751 people were hospitalized, the Kyodo news agency reports with reference to the country's main fire department. Statistics on the consequences of the heat are carried out from August 5. According to these data, residents of 20 Japanese prefectures died. Tokyo (1465 people) leads by the number of hospitalized.

The director of the Portuguese football club Porto on communication issues Franciska Moraes said that the broadcast of the retaliatory match of the third round of the Champions League with Krasnodar on the territory of the Russian Federation did not take place due to the fault of the Match TV channel, Interfax reports. According to Moraes, Porto set a price of 50 thousand euros for broadcasting, “Match TV” was ready to pay only 15 thousand euros, and therefore was refused.

On August 14, 1787, a writer, philologist and journalist Nikolai Greek was born Personal business Nikolai Ivanovich Greek (1787-1867) was born in St. Petersburg in the family of a helpless nobleman who served as an official. At the end of his career, his father was the chief secretary of the Senate Appeal Department and had the rank of an abuse of adviser. Primary education Nikolai Greek received at home.

Digest "Polit.ru" is a brief selection of the ten most noticeable news of the outgoing day. Today, Vladimir Putin announced a decrease in mortgage rates, the ex-president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev was charged with new charges, the Kremlin commented on the course of the investigation of the Golunov case. Putin pronounced a decrease in mortgage rates Vladimir Putin / Kremlin.ru President Vladimir Putin said that he expects a decrease in mortgage rates before the end of the year.

In Moscow, the Zyuzinsky District Court arrested the municipal deputy Konstantin Yankauskas for nine days, RBC reports. Recall that Yankauskas was detained on the evening of August 13 after he left the special reception from under the second consecutive administrative arrest. On July 27, Konstantin Yankauskas was detained by the police during an unauthorized rally in support of independent candidates in the Moscow City Duma, which was held in the Stoleshnikov Lane in the center of Moscow.

The Chairman of the CEC Ella Pamfilova applied to the regional election commissions with a request to prepare proposals to improve the mechanism for collecting signatures in support of candidates. It is reported by RIA Novosti. Earlier, Pamfilova has repeatedly noted that this system is outdated and requires modernization.

The Ministry of Education and Rosstat collected data on cases of cruel treatment of children in various regions of the Russian Federation. The largest number of such incidents (159) in 2018 was recorded in the Perm Territory, RBC reports. This is almost three times more than in the Arkhangelsk region and the Krasnodar Territory, which share the second and third places - there were 55 cases of cruel treatment of children over the past year.

In Crimea, hackers tried to block access to the Internet receiver of the republic, the Crimean government portal, as well as its email and other resources. According to RBC , DDOS attacks on public services were prevented. It is noted that users only had difficulty access to the portals of state authorities for a short time. It is known that the massive DDOS-Atak was made at the Crimean Republican Data Processing Center on August 13.

Three scientists from the University of Hiroshima invented a way to separate spermatozoa that carry the X-chromosome from spermatozoa with Y chromosome. So far, the new techno is tested only on laboratory mice, but the authors of the work believe that in the future it will make the choice of the child’s sex with fertilization in vitro. At the moment, there are already methods for separating sperm, for example, running citometry based on comparing the size of the chromosomes.

Australian Brenton Tarrant, who killed more than fifty people during terrorist attacks in the mosques of New Zealand, wrote a letter to Russia. It is reported by Associated Press. As specified, in his letter, the terrorist wrote to a certain Alan, saying “thank you” for the posted postage stamps. In the text, he also told about his trip to Russia.

The Central Bank’s economists based on the data of Rosstat came to the conclusion that the level of unemployment in Russia “continues to update historical minimums”. At the same time, as noted by Izvestia , the share of the economically active population of the country in January-March 2019 compared to the previous quarter decreased from almost 72.5 million people to 71.3 million people.

In the village of Ozernovsky, Kamchatka Territory, a resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky died, who came there to repair the ventilation system of the Ozernovsky fishing plant No. 55. The man was killed by a bear, whom he, apparently, accidentally met on an evening walk. “According to the employees, the last time he was seen the night before. The man said that he went for a walk in the coastal strip.

The Roskaskiy prepared a review of wines, listing for Russians the signs of the quality of this alcoholic beverage. It says that even saturated red wines should be transparent “in the lumen” and not have “extraneous inclusions”. The Russian GOST, as the authors of the review reminded, does not allow the presence of “flakes” in the wines, sediment or the so -called “wine stone” (saturated red crystals), which is considered quite acceptable and natural in Europe.

The State Duma Committee for Industry recommended prohibiting the use of vehicles that has reached the “maximum life of operation”, Kommersant writes with reference to a copy of the letter of the deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Industry of Alfia, who was sent to various departments. The document does not specify what age is considered the limit and what cars are in question.

UFS.Travel conducted a study in order to establish what items of expenses the maximum expenses of Russian tourists during the vacation period are. The results of this study are given by Lenta.ru . The lion's share of the vacation budget in 45% of respondents is “eating” the purchase of railway and air tickets. In second place in terms of expenses was accommodation - it was called the largest vacation cost of 28% of the survey participants.