DIPLOMACY Ambassador from the 90s Britain changes its representative in Russia — 2.08.11 17:55 — TEXT: Alexander Artemyev PHOTO: ITAR-TASS Great Britain is changing its ambassador to Russia. Ann Pringle, who presented her credentials to Dmitry Medvedev in January 2009, will be replaced by Tim Barrow, who was the second secretary of the embassy in the early 1990s, in Moscow in November.

Worldwide popular video games World of Warcraft and Call of Duty - Modern Warfare have been withdrawn from sale in Norway following the double terrorist attack on July 22. The victims of the explosion in the government quarter of Oslo and the bloody massacre at the youth camp on the island of Utøya were 77 people. According to investigators, both attacks were carried out by 32-year-old Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, who openly declared his nationalist views.

Activist of the opposition movement “Solidarity” Alexey Davydov, whose arm was broken by police during the dispersal of the “Strategy-31” rally on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow on July 31, will file a civil lawsuit against the Ministry of Internal Affairs . The victim himself stated this on Tuesday to Gazeta.Ru. “I will sue. Lawyers from AGORA have already come to me and we will try to do everything so that everyone responsible is punished,” the political activist said.

02 August 2011, 15:09 Business Twitter has grown to $8.4 billion A pool of investors led by DST Yuri Milner invested $800 million in the Twitter Internet resource, the entire company is valued at $8.4 billion Anastasia Matveeva , Vladislav A new pool of investors led by DST Yuri Milner invested $800 million in the Internet resource Twitter, the entire company is valued at $8.4 billion. In eight months, the microblogging service has more than doubled in price.

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Investigative authorities in the Kirov region opened a criminal case against police major Konstantin Perminov, suspected of beating a six-year-old boy in the locker room of a kindergarten in Kirov. A criminal case has been opened under the article “Beatings,” reports the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Kirov Region.

Lars von Trier regrets that his film “Dogville” was among Anders Breivik’s favorite films. Well, it’s the same as regretting after the fact the end of the world, if it does happen, in accordance with the script of Trier’s disaster film “Melancholia”. If anyone has any regrets. It was impossible to escape from Breivik’s island of Utøya, where his personal bloody “Utopia” was realized, as well as from Trier’s planet Earth. So the roll call continues.

LUKoil has recognized the fact of establishing a monopolistically high price for fuel and intends to eliminate violations, said Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service ( FAS ) Anatoly Golomolzin . “Today we received a written appeal to the FAS on this issue, where there is the company’s desire to eliminate the violation and its consequences and to recognize, say, the fact of setting a monopolistically high price,” Golomolzin said on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

Policy Port of ambition With the coming to power of Viktor Yanukovych, the position of the Black Sea Fleet has not fundamentally improved Sergey Smirnov (Sevastopol) The improvement of relations between Russia and Ukraine after Viktor Yanukovych came to power did little to change the position of the Black Sea Fleet.

After a rally in defense of freedom of assembly on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow on Sunday, Solidarity movement activist Alexey Davydov was hospitalized with a compound fracture of his arm; he claims that the injury was caused by police officers during arrest, Kommersant writes . According to Davydov , he was detained after the end of the opposition rally in the metro, where he was waiting for the resulting crush to end. “Then we just sat on the steps, and that’s when they tied us up,” he said.

02 August 2011, 11:14 Opinions Island without a boss At the “Pilorama” forum, people of different views, nationalities and orientations calmly discussed the most pressing problems Olga Romanova Propaganda and the vertical end where there is a lively and honest exchange of opinions. So you go to Chusovoy and ask whether it happened or not.

The Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine upheld the decision of the Donetsk Administrative Court, which declared illegal the decree of ex-President Viktor Yushchenko conferring the title of Hero of Ukraine on Stepan Bandera. Earlier on Tuesday, a panel of judges did not satisfy cassation appeals against the decision of the same court to declare illegal the decree conferring the title of hero to Roman Shukhevych.

Business VEB has surpassed inflation The profitability of investing pension savings of “silent people” in the first half of 2011 turned out to be higher than inflation Suzanne Camara In the first half of 2011, the VEB State Corporation earned future retirees an income of 5.91%, surpassing inflation. But in annual terms, the return on pension savings was again lower than inflation, as was the case last year.

02 August 2011, 17:54 Style “Life is like a school for the soul” Another Life with David Arthur Brown David Arthur Brown (recorded and translated by Tamara Ivakhnenko and Anna Volodina) Singer and founder of the Brazzaville group David Arthur Brown, at the request of Gazeta.Ru, spoke about his childhood, the meaning of life and how he became a musician. I try not to think too much about myself and what I am. Childhood is the time that most strongly influences the formation of a person.

Forward Keith Tkachak, as well as defensemen Gary Suter and Chris Chelios, will be inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. According to the AP, the official ceremony will take place in the fall of 2011. Chelios played 26 seasons in the NHL, playing for Montreal, Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta. He retired at the end of the 2009–10 season and became the league's record holder among defensemen with 1,651 regular-season appearances. He also won the Stanley Cup three times.