Why are the spiders securely packs gifts, why usually the males usually give wedding gifts to females and, in what cases, the on the contrary, says Evgenia Timonov, the author of the popular video blog “everything is like animals”. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the expensive watch, which was previously paid by Alexei Navalny, was presented to him by his wife, the famous figure skater Tatyana Navka.

A new type of armed forces was created in Russia-aerospace forces (VKS). This was reported on August 3 by TASS with reference to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu. Under the unified leadership, aircraft, troops of anti -air and missile defense, space forces and funds of the armed forces were united.

The United States has decided to protect the camps used to prepare the Syrian rebels with air strikes. It is reported by Reuters with reference to high -ranking American officials. In accordance with the decree signed by US President Barack Obama, American aircraft can apply air strikes on the positions of the Islamic State (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation), as well as the government army of Syria, if the military threaten the camps for the preparation of rebels.

The Ministry of Labor of Russia has developed a draft presidential decree on the Ethics Code of officials. The text of the document is available for public discussion on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts. The basic principles of the civil servant in the document are humanism and patriotism, honesty and social responsibility, conscientiousness, impartiality and objectivity.

A comprehensive forensic construction examination, appointed by the Investigative Committee, discovered a direct relationship between the collapse of the barracks in Omsk and carried out in it in 2013 by overhaul. About this writes "Kommersant". As the source close to the investigation told the publication, due to the lack of a reconstruction project, the repairmen put too heavy overlapping on the dilapidated walls of the building, which is why the entire structure could not withstand the load.

In the VKontakte social network, links to records or accounts on Instagram became inactive when updating the page. When publishing a record to a microblog for a link, you can’t click. It is reported by the online publication TJournal. When copying the link to the dialog box or in the window of creating a record on the personal page, the Parser began to convert them into the image, but not to open them. At the same time, links to other sites remained active.

The court arrested 227 million rubles in the accounts of the former head of Rosnotkh Leonid Melamed. This is stated in the statement of his lawyer Ruslan Kozois, who entered the Slon. The document emphasizes that Melamed declares his innocence.

In Moscow, the Committee for Salvation of Ukraine was created, Interfax reports. Ukrainian politicians who went to Russia after a change of power in their homeland announced his formation. The committee members demanded the change of power in Ukraine and called its inhabitants to mass protests against the “criminal regime”. “The people must take power into their own hands.

The new novel by Viktor Pelevin will be released in September, the Eksmo publishing house reported . The work will be published in two volumes, in the fall, the first volume will go on sale. As RIA Novosti clarifies with reference to the Eksmo press service, the novel received the name “Careriner”. There is no exact release date of the book yet, but it should appear at the opening of the Moscow International Book Exhibition-Fair.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during a selector meeting in Sochi announced damage from a drought, which is previously estimated at 7 billion rubles, TASS reports . He clarified that this primarily concerns the Volgograd, Saratov, Samara, Orenburg and Irkutsk regions, Transbaikalia, Tuva, Buryatia and Kalmykia. The Prime Minister also confirmed previously announced forecasts of this year’s crop of 100 million tons.

Alfa-Bank will refuse consumer lending in 15 cities of Russia with a population of up to 300 thousand people, said Mikhail Povaliy, head of the retail business, told Bloomberg. “This business is no longer as interesting as in 2013-2014. The profit from retail lending has become significantly less, the risks have grown, ”said Povaliy, explaining the decision of Alfa Bank.

The volume of mortgage loans for individuals in the first half of 2015 amounted to 460 billion rubles, which is 40% less than for the same period of last year, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation reports . The number of mortgage loans in currency decreased to 55 from 414 in the first half of 2014. The amount of loans in ruble equivalent decreased to 1.7 billion rubles (by 43%). The volume of ruble mortgage loans increased by 2% and amounted to 3.4 trillion rubles.

More than half (58%) of Russians using the Internet, consider the temporary complete disconnection of the network the country's government. This was written by Kommersant with reference to the report of the Center for the Study of Global Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, made on the basis of VTsIOM data. The main argument for the Internet disconnection is to ensure national security.

The founder of the Corruption Fund Alexei Navalny said that the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov is the owner of a number of models of expensive hours. Navalny published the corresponding investigation on his blog. Navalny, in particular, laid out photos of Peskov with the clocks of brands Richard Mille , Rolex , Hublot and Omega . The total market value of such hours, Navalny indicates, is $ 154,000 (9.5 million rubles).

The governor of the Arkhangelsk region Igor Orlov did not include the current representative of the region in the Federation Council of Konstantin Dobrynin among the candidates for senators, Slon confirmed the assistant Orlov for media interaction Elena Demchenko. At the same time, Assistant Dobrynina Ksenia Kolosova said that he first hears that the senator was not included in the list of candidates.