July 25, 2012, 20:31 Business Putin got expensive tickets to Kemerovo Aman Tuleyev asks Putin to reduce prices for Siberia and Aeroflot tickets Alina Chernovanova close 100% TASS Governor Aman Tuleyev asked Vladimir Putin to sort out the pricing policy of S7 and Aeroflot. The head of the Kemerovo region has been demanding that Siberia Airlines reduce ticket prices to the region from Moscow for several months now.

July 25, 2012, 19:14 Society The child was found under the slate The body of a nine-year-old girl who disappeared in Pyatigorsk on Monday has been found Daria Zagvozdina , Alexandra Koshkina close 100% Anya Prokopenko ITAR-TASS In Pyatigorsk they are looking for a criminal who raped and killed a nine-year-old girl. Anna Prokopenko was found on Mount Mashuk two days after she went missing.

A friend called and remembered that the anniversary of my mother’s death was approaching. He is a believer, Orthodox. We talked. He complained that he would not be able to go to the cemetery. I said, “Light a candle in the church and pray for her.” Pause. And then: “Something doesn’t suit me at church lately. Just don't ask questions. I don't want to discuss. And I’ll pray, of course. You know, I’ve been to the Catholic Church a couple of times lately...

The prosecutor on Wednesday demanded a sentence of between two years of suspended imprisonment and three years in a penal colony for the defendants in the second case of the riots on Manezhnaya Square in December 2010, RAPSI was told in the capital's Tverskoy Court, where the parties' arguments in the case are taking place.

July 25, 2012, 12:25 Business Apple stops spoiling At the end of the third quarter, Apple did not meet analysts' expectations for revenue, net profit and smartphone sales. Anastasia Matveeva close 100% Apple did not meet analysts' expectations for the third quarter in terms of revenue, net profit and smartphone sales. The company's shares fell in price by 5.5%.

July 25, 2012, 17:31 Business China awaits a soft landing China's economy will make a "soft landing" this year, IMF predicts Rustem Falyakhov close 100% China's economic growth has been slowing for the past year and a half Reuters China's economy will make a “soft landing” this year, the IMF predicts. Its growth will slow to 8%, the weakest since 1999.

The famous Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon will lead the defense team of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for more than a month. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to Ecuadorian media. According to a report distributed by Wikileaks, Garzon has already met with his future client at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Garzon is known for the many high-profile trials over which he presided.

More than 8,000 same-sex marriages performed in New York in the year after the ban was lifted brought the city's economy $256 million, its authorities told Reuters . These marriages accounted for 10% of the total number of registrations. The legislative changes brought in $16 million in direct revenue and boosted the overall economy. Thus, newlyweds booked a total of 235 thousand nights in hotels with an average price of $275 per day.

Minister Foreign Russian Sergei Lavrov said that Russia and the European Union will need no more than a year and a half to switch to a visa-free regime. “We hope that this is a task that should not take one and a half, say, a year,” Lavrov told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday after talks with Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozako-Marcouli. Cyprus currently holds the EU presidency. “The speedy abolition of the visa regime remains our priority,” Lavrov said.

July 25, 2012, 10:11 pm Society The cook did not kill due to incompetence The ship's cook who carried out the massacre at the River Station was arrested in St. Petersburg. Nikita Zeya (St. Petersburg) close 100% In St. Petersburg, former cook Evgeny Egorov, who carried out a massacre at the River Station, was arrested after he was written off from the ship for unsuitability. The ship's cook faces up to seven years in prison if psychiatrists find him sane.

A court in Kazan refused to arrest four detainees on suspicion of assassination attempts on muftis in Tatarstan, Interfax reports . The investigation's requests to arrest Eduard Nizamov, Artem Kalashov, Ilgiz Zagidullin and Timur Akhmedgaleev were rejected. Relatives greeted the court's decision with applause.

TNK-BP is investigating the activities of former employee Igor Lazurenko, who accused the company's executive director and its co-owner German Khan of corruption, a source close to the company's management said. “Currently, the company is conducting an internal investigation into a number of fraudulent actions, the initiator of which could be Mr. Lazurenko,” he said. “It is obvious that his filing of a claim in a London court is one of the methods of his defense,” the source said.

July 25, 2012, 17:15 Society "He died before my eyes" The parents of Ivan Agafonov, for whose death Rasul Mirzaev is accused, spoke in the Zamoskvoretsky court Alexandra Koshkina close 100% Consideration on the merits of the case of Rasul Mirzaev ITAR-TASS The Zamoskvoretsky court began considering the case against the world champion in mixed martial arts Rasul Mirzaev.

Scientists in Venezuela have created a 3D reconstruction of the face of the country's national hero Simon Bolivar , the BBC reports . President Hugo Chavez presented this reconstruction to the public, work on which lasted two years. The 3D Bolivar was unveiled at the Miraflores presidential palace in the capital, Caracas. “He was, is and will be one of the greatest men, a true giant of the human cause,” Chavez said.

The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino is insufficiently financed, Mikhail Lermontov , a member of the presidium of the public council for the assistance of the state commission for preparing the celebration of Russia's victory in the Patriotic War of 1812, told Interfax .