In an accident on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow involving the official car of Lukoil vice-president Anatoly Barkov, 35-year-old Olga Alexandrina, who drove the Citroen, is to blame. The investigation came to this conclusion, which means that the criminal case will be closed, since the perpetrator died in the accident, Interfax reports. The term of the investigation in the case ends on August 25. All necessary examinations, including technical ones, have been carried out.

During the All-Russian population census, Russians will be able to answer the question about their nationality as they want or not answer it at all, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Alexander Surinov, head of Rosstat. He refers to the 26th chapter of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which prohibits coercion to determine one's nationality. Census takers also should not suggest what to write in the “nationality” column.

Deputy Head of the Department for the Protection of Public Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Major General of Militia Yevgeny Novikov was charged with hooliganism with the use of firearms. The Investigation Department for Moscow of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office has already confirmed this fact. The incident occurred seven months ago, but 54-year-old Novikov, citing illness, evaded the investigation. He had to be brought to the UPC by force.

The player of the Russian national hockey team Alexander Semin, world champion in 2008, had an accident on Friday morning in Krasnoyarsk, according to RIA Novosti. His Mercedes collided with the sixth model Zhiguli at the intersection of Shakhtyorov and Berezina streets. The drivers and passengers of the vehicles were not injured. The cars received minor damage. Alexander Valeryevich Semin was born on March 3, 1984 in Krasnoyarsk. Acts as a winger.

Serbian national team player Nenad Krstić was arrested after a fight that stopped the friendly match Greece-Serbia, RIA Novosti reports citing local media. The arrest warrant was issued by the Greek prosecutor, who is the violence in the stadiums. Now he is being interrogated by the police, the question of his further arrest will be decided one of these days.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs wants to send provocateurs with money to officials. But officials do not always take cash bribes and I know many ways not to get caught. Recently, the head of the internal security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri Draguntsov, proposed a non-trivial way to fight corruption. He believes that civil servants should be tested for honesty, provoking them with bribes.

International mediators for a Middle East settlement intend to hold a new round of talks between representatives of Israel and Palestine on September 2 in Washington, Reuters reports. Diplomats from Russia, the US, the EU and the UN will act as mediators. The question of the start date of negotiations was agreed on last Thursday. Diplomats told reporters that an official statement would be released today.

Scientists and officials are looking for an answer to a non-trivial question: what to do with those who call themselves asexual? The precious document that May-Welby has been seeking for years is called a "certificate of corrected data" - such papers are issued to immigrants who want to record a sex change. The May-Welby family moved from Scotland to Australia when Norrie was still a young boy. At 23, he began taking female hormones and then underwent sex reassignment surgery.

A painted dog with two tails stirred up the political life of Hungary. “Free beer! Immortal life! Let's cut taxes! Money just like that!” - with such slogans in the municipal elections the Party of the Dog-Two-Tails is running. This is the project of 30-year-old Georgy Kovacs, who is the chairman of the party. PSD was founded in 2004 as a social street art project to make fun of Hungarian politics.

Gazprom wants to fill cars with gas. The state comes to the rescue Not everyone remembers this, but in the 80s, gas fuel in the Soviet Union was quite popular: in 1981, a program for the development of gas-balloon transport was even adopted. These cars are now rare. Now about 3% of Russian vehicles move on gas. And these are mostly not ready-made cars released from the assembly line, but ordinary cars with gas cylinders installed on them.

The expansion of the Universe, which continues at an accelerating pace, will never stop, RIA Novosti reports, citing a publication in the journal Science. Scientists managed to clarify the parameters of the mysterious cosmic matter, the so-called dark energy, after which they came to this conclusion. However, until now, no one has an accurate idea of ​​​​dark energy, although the concept of dark energy has been discussed by scientists for more than a decade.