Residents of Sakhalin talk about problems associated with oil production. Video of ecologists. 2008.

An-12. Photo from the site www.globalsecurity.org The reason for the disaster of the An-12 transport aircraft near Chelyabinsk could be a short circuit in the wiring and the followed by this fire. According to RIA Novosti, the head of the Federal Air Navigation Service, Alexander Neodyko, nominated such a version. "At the moment, you can’t call the reason for sure. Most likely, a short circuit occurred on board, after which a fire began.

Maxim Bernier and Julie Kuyar. Photo by ar Canadian Foreign Minister Maxim Bernier filed on Monday. This was stated by the country's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, according to the website of the CBC television and radio company. The prime minister accepted the resignation of Bernier after he, by mistake, left secret documents in an unsafe place. “It's all about this mistake. This is a very serious miscalculation for any minister.

Valentina Matvienko. Photo from the site www.ex.ru The Eurovision Contest in 2009 needs to be held in St. Petersburg. According to Interfax, the city governor Valentina Matvienko stated this. “Where else to conduct Eurovision, if not in the capital of European culture - in St. Petersburg,” said Matvienko. “I am super -positive about this idea.” Matvienko emphasized that if Petersburg gets the right to hold the final, the city will make every effort to its impeccable organization.

Salmon is spawning. Photo from the website russiautdoors.ru The action "Farewell to salmon" will be held on Tuesday on Pushkinskaya Square. According to Echo of Moscow, it is organized by Russian environmental organizations that offer a moratorium on projects for the development of Rosneft by the West-Kamchatka Shelf. The action will begin at 13.00 and last 2 hours. A theatrical procession will be held, after which there will be a collection of signatures against oil production in Kamchatka.

The image obtained by the phoenix cameras on the first Martian Day (Zol) at 17:15:35 local time. Photo NASA/JPL-CALTECH/University of Arizona from the site http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/ The Automatic Interplanetary Station NASA " Phoenix Mars Lander ), which made a successful landing on Mars near its North Pole on May 25 at 16.38 in the Pacific time (May 26 at 3.38 Moscow time), handed over the first photos showing that the landing occurred in a flat terrain, and the device itself feels great.

Pool. Photo from the site: injavino.xndr.ru Over 350 human skeletons, whose age is about 2.5 thousand years, were discovered on the island of GUAM during the demolition of the pool of one of the hotels, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the words of the representative of Paul H. Rosendahl, archaeologist David Defant.

Leonid Nevzlin. Photo '' Independent Gazeta '' The victim in the case of the former shareholder of Yukos Leonid Nevzlin, accused of organizing murders and attempts on murders, the lawsuit in the amount of more than 8 million rubles said to the defendant, RIA Novosti reports. Alexey Ivanov, a former security guard of the entrepreneur Evgeny Rybin, who was committed by two assassination attempts, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday about compensating him for moral and material damage.

Advertising in the tram. Cheap. Rational. Poster D. Bulanova from the site hi-edu.ru The governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko ordered the elimination of advertising on the city ground passenger transport. According to Kommersant on Tuesday, she announced this at a meeting under the program for the development of urban electric vehicles. The city will not resume contracts with agencies after the expiration of their terms. The current agreements will not be terminated.

Gazprom logo. Photo from Newsru.com Gazprom will strive to become the number one in the world. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexei Miller. "The Board of Directors has set in recent years a very high bar of work efficiency," he told the presidential meeting with the company's management.

Yulia Malysheva, leader of the People's Democratic Youth Union, and Roman Dobrokhotov, leader of the "We" movement, are arguing about the prospects for changing the political course and tactics of the opposition. See also: Politicians: appeal to Medvedev (video) What to expect from Medvedev: the opinions of Grani-TV participants (video)

Communist Party logo. Grani.ru collage The State Duma deputies from the Communist Party faction on Tuesday handed over to the Supreme Court a lawsuit to cancel the results of the parliamentary elections that took place on December 2. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the head of the party’s legal service, Vadim Solovyov. In the form, the lawsuit is a statement on the cancellation of the decision of the Central Election Commission on the election results.

Manana Aslamazyan. Photo from the site "Internyus" The Constitutional Court of Russia on Tuesday must announce a decision on the complaint of the ex-head of the Media Media Foundation Manana Aslamazyan, RIA Novosti reports. She demanded to check the provision of Article 188 of the Criminal Code that defines the concept of smuggling.

Foreign Ministry of Georgia. Photo from the site www.kharkov.vlasty.net The Georgian Foreign Ministry demanded from Russia an official apology and compensation for damage for a unmanned aircraft shot down on April 20. According to the deputy head of the ministry, Grigol Vashadze, the note with such requirements was transferred to Vyacheslav Kovalenko to Tbilisi on Tuesday in Tbilisi, RIA Novosti reports.

Putin and Lukashenko. Photo from 3dway.org Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was appointed chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Belarus and Russia. According to ITAR-TASS, the corresponding decision was signed on Tuesday by the chairman of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. According to the Secretary of State of the Union State Pavel Borodin, this decision was agreed with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.