Anatoly Chubais. Collage from the site www.sparkling.ru The head of the RAO UES Anatoly Chubais promises to commission 1129 MW of new and modernized power plants in Sochi until 2011, Kommersant writes on Friday. "The total cost of work is estimated at 83.6 billion rubles, of which 49.9 billion will be aimed at investing in an electric grid economy," Chubais said.

Eduard Limonov. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru Eduard Limonov creates a new party instead of the prohibited National Bolshevik, Kommersant writes on Friday. Explaining his decision, Limonov said that he needed the party to continue the political struggle and that the National Bolshes remain "in the legal field." At the same time, Limonov has no doubt that the Federal Registration Service will not register the new organization.

The traffic cop fines the car owner. Photo from the site www.autogazeta.com The State Duma adopted in the third reading the Law "On Amendments to the Code of Russia on Administrative Offenses". As Prime-Tass reports, the law is aimed at strengthening administrative responsibility for violation of traffic rules. For driving a vehicle not registered in the prescribed manner, a fine of 100 rubles is provided that have not passed the state inspection - 200 rubles.

At least 17 people have died in an explosion in Baghdad. The explosion occurred at the entrance to the photo studio, where guests of the wedding ceremony were photographed. 25 people, including the bride and groom, were injured. A car filled with explosives took off into the air in the Abu Dshir area in the south of the Iraqi capital. The area is a Shia enclave in the predominantly Sunni Baghdad suburb of Dora.

Exam. Photo from the site www.newsprom.ru The State Duma adopted in the third reading amendments to the legislation in connection with the introduction of an obligatory 11-year secondary general education. As ITAR -TASS reports, amendments are made to three federal laws and in three codes, establishing the obligation to receive all three steps of general education by citizens - primary, basic general and secondary complete general.

Loop In Alaska in the Denali National Park, the body of a Russian citizen was discovered, RIA Novosti reports. As the representative of the park Chris Fister, the body of the previously missing citizen of Russia from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, 21-year-old Alexei Ignatov, was discovered on Monday to reporters, but his personality managed to establish only now. The young man worked as a seasonal worker at the Denali Blaffs hotel near the park.

Shakhters. Photo from the OG.ru website In an abandoned mine in the Khabarovsk Territory, two metal hunters died. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced on Friday by the head of the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the region Galina Orlova. According to her, two male residents of the village of Ust-Urgalat made their way into the mine, presumably, in order to steal non-ferrous metal and, according to preliminary data, died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Shakhters. Frame NTV The miner died, who suffered on June 25 during an explosion at a mine in Vorkuta. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the company "Vorkutangol". "Shakhtar Yuri Kulikovsky, who suffered heavily during the accident, died in the intensive care unit on the eve," said the press service employee. Thus, the number of those killed in the explosion at the mine reached 11 people.

Ticket for "Invasion". Image from the site nashestvie.info The music festival "Invasion-2007" will not take place, reports IA REGNUM. As stated in the press release of the organizers of the event, the organizers do not fit in the intended dates due to the "forced change of the site." "Due to the reduced period of training, we cannot guarantee our visitors that all the organizational problems they had to face in Ryazan last year will be resolved," the report said.

Valentina Matvienko. Photo from the site www.ex.ru The governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko is not going to run for the presidency. “Russia is not ready to choose a woman,” she said on the air of Echo of Moscow. “We have a different culture, other traditions. We do not live so much in a free democratic country,” Matvienko explained. “We have male chauvinism in the country. There should be a state policy in creating equal conditions and opportunities,” she said.

Dmitry Alenichev. Photo from the site www.rusteam.permian.ru The Federation Council confirmed the powers of football player Dmitry Alenichev as a representative of the Legislative Assembly of the Omsk Region in the upper house, Prime-Tass reports. Omsk deputies elected Alenichev their representative on June 14.

Mikhail Kasyanov and activists of the "Our" movement. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The movement "Ours" intends to sue the protection of the leader of the RNDS Mikhail Kasyanov. According to Kommersant on Friday, the press secretary of the movement Anastasia Suslova said that the "nurses" are going to bring the case to court. “Our guys held a purely peaceful action, and Kasyanov’s guards, apparently, simply could not stand the nerves,” Suslova said. “They attacked activists and beat them.

Cigarettes. Photo from the site www.product.ru The European Commission has been offering since 2009 to make a ban on the sale of traditional cigarettes and oblige tobacco companies to produce safe self-adjusting cigarettes, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Internet portal Euroobserver. The "fireproof" cigarettes will be made of special cigarette paper with small breaks. If you do not drag on, such a cigarette will fade.

Dagestan police. NTV frame (archive) In Dagestan, police were blown up on an explosive device. As RIA Novosti reports, one of the died, one was wounded. "The incident occurred on the eve of the forest near the village of Pokrovskoye Khasavyurt district. A group of police officers investigated the circumstances of the attack on the policeman and the explosion that occurred earlier.

One of the most unusual satellites of Saturn and the entire solar system Hyperion is a kind of giant sea sponge. Its exceptional porosity allows him to absorb small and large cosmic garbage without much harm: meteorites simply fall deep into the satellite, leaving new deep holes. According to the latest estimates, this moon is 42% vacuum, but the remaining interest is mainly water ice ...