This coming weekend the eighth round of the Formula 1 World Championship will take place in Valencia. The European Grand Prix is ​​traditionally quite boring, but this season the race should be enlivened by innovations, namely Pirelli tires and active wings, which should make the race more exciting. The track in Valencia, which runs through the streets of the city, will host the European Grand Prix for the fourth time. A distinctive feature of this circuit is the huge number of turns.

— 24.06.2011 08:27 — But for some reason, gasoline prices still do not fall, but only rise? Not only gasoline is made from crude oil at refineries. Or does Putin not know this? How Topic A comment

It became known on Friday that the cause of death of four Russian sailors in the Indonesian port of Banjarmasin was methyl alcohol. According to ITAR-TASS, three more crew members of the ship "Captain Kurbatsky" are in the hospital with poisoning. According to the news agency, a canister of methyl alcohol was found in the cabin of the sailor who died first. A ship with 25 sailors, registered at the port of Vanino, Khabarovsk Territory, arrived at the Indonesian port from Greece.

June 27, 2011, 10:30 Business “People need to think about what to do over the course of a year, not a week” Konstantin Korishchenko told Gazeta.Ru about the impact of elections on the economy Ekaterina Gerashchenko International business needs clarity in the political plans of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin - this is the main condition for long-term investment in Russia.

June 24, 2011, 16:35 Politics Expelling Chubais “Right Cause” will retain its name, but will lose its supreme council Svetlana Bocharova Radical changes await the Right Cause party on Saturday. At the congress, not only will a new party leader, Mikhail Prokhorov, be elected, but also the governing bodies will be updated as much as possible. None of them will include the founder of the Union of Right Forces, the head of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais.

June 24, 2011, 19:18 Business The sky will be cleared of corn crops Operation of Tu-134, An-24 and Yak-40 aircraft will be prohibited Anastasia Matveeva After the disaster in Petrozavodsk, the Ministry of Transport will ban the operation of aircraft without ground proximity warning systems - Tu-134, An-24 and Yak-40. There are 257 such aircraft in the fleets of Russian airlines, most of which have not been modernized.

June 24, 2011, 19:10 Politics “The authorities trust fans from the Caucasus more” Churov proposed recruiting members of election commissions from fans Anatoly Goldovsky , Ekaterina Vinokurova The head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, proposed conducting an experiment and appointing the leaders of football fans as the head of one or more precinct commissions. This proposal was received ambiguously by representatives of football fans.

Victoria Beckham and her husband, Los Angeles Galaxy football player David Beckham , are preparing with all their might for the birth of their daughter. Not long ago, the couple threw a party on the occasion of an upcoming significant event, at which they chose a godmother for their future daughter. She will be one of Victoria's best friends, Eva Longoria . In the meantime, David and the ex-soloist of the Spice Girls group are busy arranging the children's room.

, told Gazeta.Ru , head of the press service of the capital department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia On the Moscow River in the Brateevo area, security officers localized a fire on an ownerless barge that caught fire on Friday evening, Evgeniy Bobylev . “At 19.24 Moscow time the fire was localized. There were no injuries,” Bobylev said. According to him, the fire area was 30 square meters. It happened near the exit from the 18th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will leave Libya in a maximum of two to three weeks, Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham, former Libyan Foreign Minister and Tripoli's permanent representative to the UN who defected to the opposition, said in an interview with Corriere della Sera .

The plaintiffs accuse competitors of infringing several patents, a court official in Seoul said. According to the South Korean resource MoneyToday, the lawsuit states that Samsung copied the design of the Apple iPhone 3 smartphone. Thus, Steve Jobs' company began a new round of dispute over the rights to technologies used in smartphones and tablet computers. In April, Apple accused Samsung of “slavishly” and “brazenly” copying iPhone smartphones and the iPad tablet.

The group of militants, which was discovered and blocked in a forest in the Kizlyar region of Dagestan on June 20, most likely managed to escape from the encirclement, a source in the republic’s law enforcement agencies told Interfax. As the agency’s interlocutor said, “combing the forest area continues, but neither on Thursday nor today there were any fire or visual contacts with the militants.” On Wednesday , tanks arrived in the forest to attack the surrounded militants .

A race for the prize of the President of Russia took place in Kazan; a bay stallion named King, representing Tajikistan, won. The National Treasure prize, the second most important horse racing trophy in Kazan, was won by a bay stallion owned by Gazprom head Alexei Miller. The prize fund for the race for the Russian President's Prize was 10 million rubles.

Ensign of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Seredenko, a colleague of ex-Major Igor Matveev , told reporters on Friday that he complained about threats from commanders to the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society. At a press conference in Vladivostok, Seredenko said that they allegedly tried to force him to slander Matveev.

The story of the nearly banned “main adventure of the summer,” Russia’s largest rock festival “Invasion,” coincided with the birthday of Viktor Tsoi . Next year Tsoi, which can be understood intellectually but cannot be imagined, will turn 50.