The board of shareholders removed Igor Melekhov from the post of general director of the Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka company, which owned the sunken floating drilling platform Kola, Interfax reports, citing the company’s press service. In addition, the chief engineer of the enterprise, Leonid Bordzilovsky, resigned. became the general director of Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka Instead of Melekhov, Viktor Shevchuk .

The draw for the calendar of the English Premier League 2012/13 season has taken place, the league's press service reports. In the first round, which will take place on August 18, Manchester United , which finished last season in second place in the standings, will host Everton, Arsenal will play with Sunderland, and Manchester City will host Southampton at their stadium.

18 June 2012, 03:58 Sports Titov: it’s very disappointing, but life goes on Former Russian national team midfielder Yegor Titov commented on the failure of the national team at Euro 2012. “For our fans, there is only one step from love to hate,” SE reports his words . — I won’t say that people in Russia are evil, but, having received hope after the first game, they, as it happens, lost it very quickly. Although nothing seemed to foreshadow such an ending.

June 18, 2012, 02:34 Sports Khedira: we only took the first step by reaching the quarterfinals Midfielder of the Danish national team Sami Khedira commented on the victory over the Danish team (2:1) at Euro 2012. “I am very happy and satisfied,” Kicker reports his words . — The Danes played a very good match, it was difficult for us. We only took the first step by reaching the quarterfinals. Now the Greeks are ahead."

Over the past day, two police officers were involved in major road accidents in Siberia. In Barnaul, a senior police sergeant was responsible for an accident involving five cars, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Altai Territory . In Omsk, the culprit of the accident was an employee of the city Department of Internal Affairs : as a result of a collision of four cars, five people were injured.

In St. Petersburg, a policeman in an official car hit a girl on a scooter after driving into the oncoming lane, reports Fontanka.Ru . The accident occurred on Sunday night at the intersection of Moskovsky Avenue and the Obvodny Canal embankment. A policeman in a car with the flashing lights turned off was making a left turn and crashed into a girl born in 1991 driving towards him at the intersection. After the accident, the girl required hospitalization.

I was surprised to recently discover on one of the central Moscow streets, where I parked quite often, that the signs permitting stopping on even or odd dates had been changed to “Stopping is prohibited.” Despite the fact that this street, unlike other Moscow-central ones, is wide, cars parked on the sides do not interfere with traffic in any way, even during rush hour.

18 June 2012, 22:32 Politics Sobchak notifies TV presenter and oppositionist threatens Izvestia with a lawsuit for material accusing her of tax evasion Svetlana Bocharova , Olga Kuzmenkova close 100% Ksenia Sobchak goes on the offensive and plans to file a lawsuit against the Izvestia newspaper ITAR-TASS TV presenter and oppositionist Ksenia Sobchak will sue the Izvestia newspaper, which reported on the threat of charges of 10-fold underreporting of income.

A citizen of Tajikistan was detained in Primorye for storing drugs in a vacuum cleaner, reports the information and public relations group of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia for the Primorye Territory. “The violator was detained while trying to sell drugs. Subsequently, during an inspection at the place of residence, in his apartment on the street. Chernyakhovsky in Vladivostok, five more bundles of heroin were found.

Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Ural Federal District Igor Kholmanskikh called on young people to abandon higher education and continue working dynasties. This is how he commented on the statement of the Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Dmitry Kobylkin, that the region in the near future will need workers in certain specialties, and not university graduates, Interfax reports .

Several Christian churches were bombed in Nigeria on Sunday. The crimes were committed by suicide bombers who drove cars into buildings. According to AFP , five churches were attacked, but details of only three incidents are known - two in the city of Zaria and one in the city of Kalom, the capital of the state of the same name. Christian churches in Nigeria look like large brick hangars with metal roofs. On Sunday, parishioners went to morning prayers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin created the Russian Presidential Administration for Public Relations and Communications, headed by Alexander Smirnov reports , the official Kremlin website . Smirnov has headed the government's press service and information department since May 2008. Before that, for five and a half years he served as deputy head of the press service and information department of the President of Russia.

The press service of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party states that the federal leadership of the party has deprived it of access to the local website and mailings to the media. Interfax reports this with reference to the head of the press service of the city party cell, Alexander Shurshev. “Yesterday I received a letter from Moscow stating that the access passwords to the St. Petersburg Yabloko website and the email newsletter for journalists have been changed.

18 June 2012, 02:38 Sports Lam: we proved once again that we have a very strong team Germany national team defender Philipp Lahm commented on the victory over the Danish team (2:1) at Euro 2012. “All three of our games were difficult,” he was quoted as saying by Kicker . “We won three victories and marched through our group. This success confirms everything we have achieved in recent years. Before the tournament we said that we have a very strong team. Now we have proven it once again.”

The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch said that the Ethiopian government is forcibly resettling thousands of local residents in order to give their lands to sugar cane plantations, the BBC Russian service reports . report According to the HRW , more than half a million people were affected by the government's actions both in Ethiopia itself and in neighboring Kenya.