Day: August 20, 2017

Youth comprise about one-third of candidates running for the regional elections of all levels, which will be held in a single voting day. On Friday, August 18, the head of the Central election Commission of Russia, Ella Pamfilova during the master-class “Youth of Russia for free elections”. Her words TASS reports. “About 30 percent of all candidates are less than 35 years” — said Pamfilova. She recalled that on 10 September to end at about 5.8 thousand election campaigns. Will vote for the heads of 16 regions, deputies of the six local legislatures, many municipal deputies. In addition, in the Bryansk and Leningrad regions, the planned elections to the state Duma in single-mandate constituencies.

The researchers found at the bottom of the Pacific ocean, the wreckage was destroyed in 1945 by a Japanese submarine USS “Indianapolis”. About it reports CNN TV channel. The team, headed by co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen was able to detect heavy cruiser at a depth of 18 thousand feet (5.5 thousand feet). The USS Indianapolis was the last major American ship sunk during the Second world war, 30 June 1945. The cruiser sank within 12 minutes. On Board were killed in 883, 316 sailors survived. A few days before death ship brought to the base, the U.S. air force on Tinian island components for the nuclear bomb “Little boy” which was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. In December 2016 research underwater robot has taken a picture of the remains of the U.S. battleship Arizona, destroyed in an attack by Japanese aircraft at the main base of the

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to provide funding for the modernization of the Baikal-Amur and TRANS-Siberian mainlines. This was reported on the Kremlin website. Following the meeting on the implementation of major investment projects in the far East, the head of state ordered to allocate for these purposes from the funds of the national welfare Fund 100 billion rubles in 2017, and to 50 billion in 2018. The report on this assignment should be submitted before November 1, 2017, after which the responsible person will be required to report every six months. On July 13, the Deputy head of the Department of rail transport research, Institute of natural monopolies research (IPEM) Alexander Polikarpov said that the financing of projects of reconstruction of BAM and Transsib set at 562,2 billion rubles, of which 260.2 billion roubles allocates the state budget, and 302 billion rubles, Russian Railways. On 7 August,