June 18, 2009, 16:58 Sports Seedorf acquired a club from the Italian third division Milan midfielder Clarence Seedorf has bought a controlling stake in the Italian club Monza, which plays in the third division, Goal reports. The Dutchman acquired 51 percent of the shares through his controlled company ON International. The remaining 49 percent will go to Reply SpA

18 June 2009, 09:08 Sports A parade was held in Los Angeles in honor of the Lakers' victory in the NBA. On Thursday night, a parade was held in Los Angeles in honor of the Lakers' victory in the NBA championship. Tens of thousands of people cheered the 15-time NBA champions on the road from Staples Center to the Coliseum. 1,700 police officers were assigned to ensure the security of the procession. During the parade, 15 people were detained for various types of petty hooliganism.

Nikolai Baskov will give a concert on June 30 in front of teachers of Moscow schools. The program will also feature opera singer Montserrat Caballe. The concert was organized by the Perekrestok supermarket chain, which is part of the largest retail company in the Russian Federation, X5 Retail Group, for eight thousand Moscow education workers as part of the Perekrestok-to-schools charity program, conducted by the company since 2005 with the assistance of the Moscow government .

June 18, 2009, 10:42 News Nurgaliev called for more active implementation of the new uniform in the police The head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs , Rashid Nurgaliev , called for more active implementation of a new uniform for police officers, taking into account climatic conditions. The minister stated this during a review of the personnel of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the city of Sochi, which takes place on the Teatralnaya Square of the city.

Glukhov on the contrary — 18.06.09 20:07 — TEXT: "Gazeta.Ru" PHOTO: REUTERS Russia now has its own junior sergeant, Alexander Glukhov, who in January 2009 deserted from the Russian army to Georgia and asked for political asylum there. Lieutenant of the Georgian army Alik Bzhania asked for political asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation. He himself stated this on Thursday on Echo of Moscow. “I am a simple person, I am not a politician.

18 June 2009, 13:08 Business Controller Obama Barack Obama intends to impose total control on financial companies Suzanne Camara , Konstantin Pukemov The US President intends to establish total control over all systemically important companies. This follows from the plan he presented to reform the financial system - the most ambitious since the 1930s. Barack Obama has unveiled the most ambitious plan to reorganize the US financial system since the Great Depression.

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill sent a letter to the Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko with a reminder of the need to comply with agreements between the state and the Russian Church regarding the conditions for teaching “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” in the new school standard, which should come into effect in primary schools from the next school year .

18 June 2009, 23:37 News Ukraine asks Nigeria to find out the fate of the plane seized with weapons The Ukrainian Embassy in Nigeria has appealed to the country's Foreign Ministry with a request to clarify the circumstances of the detention of a Ukrainian plane with a cargo of weapons on board, the head of the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said today. According to him, the diplomatic mission sent its employee to the city of Kano, where the Ukrainian plane was detained.

June 18, 2009, 20:57 Society Students were late for deportation Maskhud Abdullayev, raids, Al-Azhar, Egypt Polina Nikolskaya The second batch of Al-Azhar Islamic University students deported from Egypt has flown to Russia. The son of the leader of one of the Chechen armed groups, Maskhud Abdullayev, who was detained during raids in student dormitories in May, missed his flight and will fly to Moscow on Friday.

June 18, 2009, 10:15 Sports Beschastnykh: I’ve been thinking about becoming a coach for a long time Former forward of Spartak Moscow and the Russian national team Vladimir Beschastnykh told how his training at the Higher School of Coaches is going. “I had been thinking about becoming a coach for a long time, and when I finished my playing career, the question of what to do next was not before me. Any study is useful. Although I don’t learn much new, the nuances are important.

18 June 2009, 13:58 Culture Singing wardrobes and sadistic cupids Exhibition “Free Imperial City of Augsburg. Centuries of Greatness" Velimir Moist Bronze cupids tormenting swans, an ivory beer mug, a “tulip clock”, “sounding furniture” and other miracles in the Baroque style are presented at the exhibition “The Free Imperial City of Augsburg. Centuries of Greatness”, opened at the Kremlin Museums.

June 18, 2009, 13:53 News On June 23 in Moscow, police officers will take graduates home In Moscow, on the night of graduation balls, police officers will take former schoolchildren who have gone on a spree to their homes, said Antonina Ryabova, head of the juvenile affairs unit of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate . Graduation balls will take place in Moscow from June 23 to 24. During this time, security control will be strengthened in the city.

Yesterday's scandal was successfully resolved. Tatyana Samoilova, People's Artist of the USSR, is in the pulmology department of the Moscow City Clinical Hospital No. 83. Doctors assess her condition as satisfactory, ITAR-TASS reports . Earlier, Tatyana Evgenievna’s brother contacted the Presnensky police department with a statement that she was missing.

June 18, 2009, 01:21 Business Kommersant: SUIHolding is excluded from the reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theater The SUIHolding company, owned by former vice-president of Sistema-Hals Azary Lapidus , is being removed from the Bolshoi Theater reconstruction project, which it has been involved in since 2005, Kommersant reports .

The AvtoVAZ company plans to launch production of four new models on Renault platforms by 2013 , while the production of cars of the Lada Samara family may be discontinued, writes the Vedomosti newspaper with reference to the presentation of the automaker to the anti-crisis commission chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov . AvtoVAZ President Boris Aleshin told the newspaper that by 2013 the total capacity of the auto concern will reach 1 million cars per year.