Society In Belarus, a priest is being tried for refusing to give fingerprints On Friday, a court hearing was held in the Belarusian Grodno in the case of the priest of the Church of the Cutting Off of John the Baptist Nikolai Gaiduk. He is accused of evading mandatory fingerprint registration (ODR). The Leninsky District Court of Grodno decided to send for revision the police materials, on the basis of which the priest was prosecuted for refusing to submit fingerprints.

June 22, 2012, 16:33 Business Norilsk Nickel goes for platinum in Zimbabwe Nornkiel may buy platinum deposits in South Africa and Zimbabwe Maria Malysheva close 100% Norilsk Nickel may buy platinum deposits in South Africa and Zimbabwe ITAR-TASS OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel can buy platinum deposits in South Africa and Zimbabwe in partnership with Renova Group of Companies, said Roman Panov , director of the company’s foreign assets development department .

The Paraguayan parliament has impeached President Fernando Lugo , reports Reuters . Now the Senate must vote for or against Lugo - its decision will determine whether the President of Paraguay resigns. “There are no reasons for my resignation: neither legal nor political,” Lugo commented on the news of impeachment. Last week , clashes between police and landless farmers in Paraguay killed 17 people and injured dozens more.

The facades of historical buildings in the center of the capital will be returned to the appearance they had during construction, said Sergei Kapkov, head of the Moscow Department of Culture, on the Rossiya-24 TV channel . “There is a program to restore the facades of the city center and bring them back to the period in which they were built,” he said. According to Kapkov, special attention is now paid to buildings of the constructivist era.

The Kirov District Court of Astrakhan found the leader of the Astrakhan "Socialist Revolutionaries" Oleg Shein guilty of participating in an unauthorized mass rally and fined him 20 thousand rubles, RIA Novosti reports . Shein became the first person to be fined under the new law on rallies, which came into force on June 8 . Now the maximum fine for violations at a rally is 300 thousand rubles.

The new head of the Ministry of Finance of the Greek government, Vassilis Rapanos, was hospitalized in one of the clinics in Athens a few hours ago, the BBC reports . Rapanos was taken to hospital feeling unwell, employees of the National Bank of Greece said. At the moment, the minister is in the hospital on a drip, doctors are conducting a comprehensive examination of Rapanos.

The Association for the Defense of Voters' Rights VOICE appealed to Strasbourg with a complaint about a violation of three articles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The complaint concerns decisions of Russian courts that found the NPO guilty of “violating the procedure for participating in information support of elections” and sentenced it to a fine of 30 thousand rubles .

Gazprom has found a new partner for its European energy program. As part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a cooperation agreement was signed with the French EDF on Friday. The agreement provides for the joint construction and acquisition of power plants in Europe. The companies' shares in these projects will be equal, gas will be supplied by Gazprom. Details are not provided. “It’s too early to talk about specific construction projects,” EDF told Gazeta.Ru.

June 22, 2012, 02:01 Sports Bilek: satisfied and pleased with our performance The head coach of the Czech national team, Michal Bilek, commented on the defeat of his players against the Portuguese national team ( 0:1 ) in the quarterfinals of the European Championship. “Portugal has an excellent attack,” a Gazeta.Ru correspondent quotes Bilek. “We tried to contain them, and for a long time we succeeded.” Cech helped us out several times.

June 22, 2012, 11:04 Culture Kill in Russian The NTV channel will show the film “Serving the Soviet Union!” Dmitry Cheremnov close 100% The NTV channel will show the film “Serving the Soviet Union”, despite the protests of bloggers and the request of the Minister of Culture: on the day of the 71st anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War, it was decided to tell who really won the war.

Images of the e-crossover, the design of which differs from the version of the model shown last fall, have appeared on the website of the e-auto company. The new car features different headlights, front bumper, trunk lid and LED taillights. E-crossover is a hybrid crossover model from the e-auto company, which will receive a dual-fuel system (gasoline/gas) and all-wheel drive. Assembly will begin at the plant in the Leningrad region by the end of 2012.

The Department of Culture plans to hold major events in Moscow on a weekly basis to attract tourists and make the city interesting for its residents, said the head of the capital’s Department of Culture, Sergei Kapkov , on the Rossiya-24 TV channel. “Since Moscow is a very large city and, in fact, a city without a center, our task is to create a series of continuous cultural events in it. So that there are some events every weekend. I would like to make Moscow a festival city,” he said.

Investigators brought a new charge in absentia against former State Duma deputy Ashot Yeghiazaryan , Interfax reports , citing the lawyer of the injured party, Ruben Markaryan. The ex-deputy was accused of fraud with shares of Invest Center OJSC. The value of the property stolen in this way is estimated at 6 billion rubles. “The criminal case was opened several months ago at the request of the victim Mikhail Ananyev ,” Markaryan said .

Russia's fiasco at the European Football Championship, especially in contrast to the triumph at the World Hockey Championship, should not be surprising. Russian football players play by the same rules as our government. Why, one might ask, should we, in this case, leave the unimaginably, uniquely weakest group of the tournament?

The government commission on the fuel and energy complex, led by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich , will continue to exist, despite the creation of the presidential commission on the fuel and energy complex, headed by Putin himself, Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.