This year, 113.5 thousand parking spaces will be installed in Moscow courtyards, Andrei Tsybin, head of the department of housing, communal services and capital improvement, told reporters on Thursday. “Currently, 69.5 thousand parking spaces have already been equipped, which is 61.3 percent of the plan,” he specified. In addition, according to Tsybin , this year it is planned to repair more than 6.6 thousand courtyards and put in order about 10.5 thousand entrances.

By decision of the Tbilisi City Court, all accounts of the former player of the Georgian national team and Milan Kakha Kaladze , who is a member of the Georgian Dream coalition founded by Bidzina Ivanishvili , were frozen, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to Ivanivshili’s press secretary Maya Panjikidze.

Toyota became the leader in the global automobile industry in the first half of 2012, reports Automotive News. For January-June Toyota Motor Corp. regained its status as the best-selling car manufacturer, surpassing its direct competitors General Motors (GM) and Volkswagen Group (VW). Toyota was able to sell 4,970,000 vehicles in the first six months, thus increasing its sales by 36%. This was stated by the concern's representative Javier Moreno.

The Olympics have not yet officially opened, but on the very first day of the official competitions, a very unpleasant scandal for the organizers occurred. While the Games are being held far from the British capital, women's football teams were the first to join the fight.

The day before the opening of the Olympic Games in London, the publishers of the French L'Equipe decided to delight readers with incredible sizes. Each copy of the July 26 newspaper is 56 centimeters wide and 80 centimeters long. A regular copy of L'Equipe is half the size, so these dimensions made the newspaper the largest in the history of sports publishing, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records sign placed on the editorial page of the publication.

Competitions at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi will begin the day before the official opening ceremony, the AP reports, citing IOC sports director Christophe Duby. The figure skating qualifying competition is scheduled to begin on February 6, while the opening ceremony will take place on February 7. In addition, early qualification is provided for women's moguls and slopestyle in men's snowboarding.

Spain's largest bank, Banco Santander SA, announced a 93% decline in profits due to the write-off of bad loans and the worsening financial crisis in the eurozone, writes The Wall Street Journal . The net profit of the largest bank in the eurozone by capitalization in the second quarter decreased 14 times - to €100 million from €1.39 billion for the same period last year. This was significantly lower than estimates by Dow Jones Newswires analysts, who had forecast net income of €1.4 billion.

Activist of the FEMEN women's movement Yana Zhdanova was arrested for 15 days for an attack against the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, at Boryspil airport on Thursday morning. As the Interfax agency was told at the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Kiev region, the Boryspil court reviewed the protocol on the administrative violation and issued a decision on administrative arrest for 15 days.

In the Perm region, police discovered a five-year-old girl living in one of the cowsheds in the Solikamsk region, Interfax reports . “The child did not attend kindergarten and did not even go outside in winter, because the girl had practically no clothes. Instead of toys, there were cigarette butts... All day long she was on the farm among the cows, and if the girl disturbed her parents, she was simply locked in a closet,” police officers say.

Italian authorities plan to exhume national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi to check rumors about the substitution of his remains, the BBC reports . Garibaldi's grave, which is located near Sardinia, is scheduled to be opened in September. This decision was made by the Italian Ministry of Culture. The remains will be tested to see if they match DNA samples from Garibaldi's descendants, who believe his grave was opened and his remains switched in 1882.

26 July 2012, 14:16 Style The tradition of donation in Seliger LG Electronics took part in the change of the youth forum "Seliger-2012" Ivan Zakharov , especially for LG Electronics close 100% Donated blood is required daily. Regular donors are an important source of saving the lives of sick and injured people.

July 26, 2012, 11:01 Culture Bass in rib Sting performed at the Olympic Stadium Yaroslav Zabaluev close You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos Sting performed at the Olimpiyskiy as part of the “Back To Bass” tour and demonstrated that in his seventies he had not lost either his performing form or his experimental spirit. Sting's current summer tour is part of a tour dedicated to his 60th anniversary.

The Stockholm arbitration court ordered the authorities to compensate a number of Spanish investors of Yukos Oil Company for $2.7 million in losses they suffered as a result of the company's bankruptcy, Marnie Chick, a partner at the law firm Covington & Burling, which represented the interests of the plaintiffs, told RAPSI . The decision was made on July 25, the law firm said.

The draft law on volunteers will not be submitted to the State Duma. Instead, Socialist Revolutionary deputy Ilya Ponomarev will propose that parliamentarians discuss amendments to certain laws that regulate the work of volunteers. The deputy reported this on his blog. “We agreed on a joint position. The law on volunteers will not be introduced.

Historians, during an unscheduled archaeological expedition, discovered in the ground on the territory of the Astrakhan Kremlin a group of buildings with well-preserved utensils; the artifacts are tentatively dated to the second half of the 16th century - the time of the founding of Astrakhan, reports RIA Novosti with reference to a message from the head of the archaeological laboratory of Astrakhan State University Dmitry Vasiliev .