Subaru is ready to offer two updates to WRX STi buyers. The first concerns the A-Line Type S sports package, which includes a powerful rear wing, leather buckets (can be optionally replaced with Recaro seats) and seventeen-inch brakes with four-piston calipers at the front and two-piston at the rear. The second premiere is the Spec C sedan modification, which is a racing version. Here the designers abandoned the air conditioning, rear wing, rear window wiper and fog lamp.

06 July 2012, 20:06 Culture "It's a scam" Alexander Sokurov and other directors left the meeting with Ivan Demidov about Lenfilm Nikita Zeya (St. Petersburg) close 100% Director Alexander Sokurov left the meeting on the fate of Lenfilm ITAR-TASS Deputy Minister of Culture Ivan Demidov’s visit to Lenfilm ended in a scandal: Alexander Sokurov and several other directors left the meeting with the official’s participation. According to Demidov, the fate of the studio will be decided in September.

News Mexico's Central Election Commission declares Enrique Nieto president-elect In Mexico, the Central Election Commission officially declared Enrique Nieto , representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party, as the elected President of Mexico. Associated Press reports. After all the votes were counted, Nieto received 38.21% of the votes. His closest rival, Lopez Obrador, who heads the Revolutionary Democratic Party, received 31.59%.

06 July 2012, 14:18 Culture Gained by brotherly labor Exhibition “Treasures of the Order of Malta. Nine centuries of service to faith and charity" in the Kremlin Velimir Moist close 100% The exhibition “Treasures of the Order of Malta. Nine centuries of service to faith and charity.” The history of the ancient knightly brotherhood, which almost linked its fate with Russia, is presented here in regalia, standards, armor, portraits, and archival documents.

Alla But, the wife of Russian businessman Viktor But , sentenced in the United States to 25 years, handed over documents to the Russian Ministry of Justice , on the basis of which the department will be able to send a request for the extradition of her husband to his homeland. reports this RAPSI .

Sergei Polonskoy became the sole owner of the development company Potok (formerly Mirax Group), buying shares from minority shareholders, the company said in a statement received by Gazeta.Ru. “On July 6, 2012, Sergey Yuryevich Polonsky , on the basis of a shareholder agreement, bought shares from the minority shareholders of the Potok company and became the owner of 100% of the shares of the Potok company,” the company reports.

On July 3, 1996, Boris Yeltsin won the first and last Russian presidential elections in history, which were held in two rounds. In the second round, he received, according to official data, 53.82% of the votes. It is curious that exactly 53% of the votes were given to Putin by independent observers from the League of Voters in the elections of March 4, 2012. Putin scored the same 53% (to be mathematically precise - 52.99%) in his first presidential elections 12 years ago.

The real effective exchange rate of the ruble (to the currencies of Russia's main trading partners, taking into account inflation) decreased by 0.4% in January-June 2012, while in June it fell by 4.3%, according to Central Bank data. The real exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar in January-June decreased by 3%, and against the euro it increased by 2.5%. The Central Bank also revised data on the dynamics of the real effective exchange rate of the ruble in May.

Japanese parliamentarians called the accident at Fukushima “the work of human hands.” Moreover, it was Japanese hands, and not some enemy ones, who provoked an earthquake and tsunami off the coast of the Land of the Rising Sun, in spite of nuclear energy and economic development.

The Romanian Parliament by a majority vote removed the country's President Traiana Basescu from office, reports Reuters . Basescu was suspended from the presidency for 30 days. On July 29, a national referendum on the impeachment of Traian Basescu will take place. Reportedly, the decision was made by 258 votes of parliamentarians, with 217 required. 114 deputies voted against. In particular, the Social Liberal Union party voted for the removal.

Arsenal intend to file a complaint with the Football Association of England against Manchester City. According to The Sun , the Gunners believe that the Citizens are illegally negotiating with London club striker Robin van Persie. On Wednesday, the Dutchman announced that he did not want to renew his agreement with the Gunners and was going to leave the team.

06 July 2012, 12:57 Culture Red and blue anarchist "The Amazing Spider-Man" was released Polina Ryzhova close You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot of the famous film adaptation of Marvel comics, directed by Marc Webb, was released. Performed by the author of the youth melodrama “500 Days of Summer,” the story of Peter Parker, unfortunately, no longer looks old-fashioned.

The partisan court of Minsk decided to confiscate the office of the human rights center “Viasna”, which provides assistance to political prisoners, the Belarusian service of Radio Liberty reports, citing the wife of the center’s founder, Natalya Pinchuk. According to Pinchuk, the court confiscated the apartment where Viasna worked and part of the property of the center’s director, Ales Byalyatsky, who was sentenced in November 2011 to 4.5 years in prison on charges of tax evasion.

Journalists have a sign. Once a high-profile event occurs, expect a reaction from officials with statements about tightening legislation. In the world of automotive journalism, against the backdrop of scandalous road accidents, this happens regularly. A couple of weeks ago we wrote a note about another accident that caused a stir in Kaluga . There, 22-year-old Manuk Margaryan was driving a Jeep Wrangler along the embankment, where driving is generally prohibited.

Revenues of the Russian federal budget in 2013 could amount to 12.3 trillion rubles, expenses - 13.4 trillion rubles, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday at a government meeting where the main directions of budget policy and the main characteristics of the budget for 2013 and planning period 2014 and 2015. “It is expected that in 2013 budget revenues will amount to 12.3 trillion rubles, and expenses will amount to almost 13.4 trillion rubles.