TNK-BP logo Member of the Board of Directors of TNK-BP Jean-LUK VERMULE, representing Russian shareholders, left his post. According to Kommersant on Monday, he explained his decision by the fact that he could not help in resolving the conflict that continuing inside the company. "The consultations that I spent with a number of advisers pushed me to the conclusion that I was wrong, believing that I could still help in resolving the conflict between TNK-BP shareholders," vermulen said.

Moscow, Bolshaya Nikitskaya street, June 1, 2008. While riot police and Orthodox activists were waiting for the gay parade at the mayor's office on Tverskaya, about 30 gays and lesbians held a rally in front of the Conservatory building. Photographed by Dmitry Zykov aka dmitryhorse. Police detain opponents of gay parade Gays held a rally at the monument to Tchaikovsky Gay Pride on Nikitskaya and Sidorov Parade on Tverskaya from dmitryhorse on Vimeo .

Money. The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow satisfied the claim for damage in the amount of 1.065 million rubles to the backward general general of the tax police, Alexander Bakanov, who was arrested in the summer of 2006 at the request of the deputy head of the Office for the investigation of especially important cases of the Prosecutor General Igor Myasnikov.

Joseph Kobzon. Photo from the site www.musicplanet.ru People's Artist of the USSR, State Duma deputy Joseph Kobzon fell into intensive care. As REGNUM reports, the singer has a severe form of angina and complaints about heart pain. Now Kobzon is in the intensive care unit of one of the medical centers on the Kashirskoye highway in Moscow.

Nizhny Novgorod. Photo from the site www.admgor.nnov.ru In the cemetery, Red Etna in Nizhny Novgorod defiled thirteen Jewish graves. According to RIA Novosti, the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Leninsky district opened a criminal case. “The attackers knocked over to the ground and split the tombstones installed on the graves,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

SIZO camera. Photo from RIA '' News' In the Trans-Baikal Territory, a group of prisoners suspected of murders escaped from a temporary detention center, ITAR-TASS reports. As reported on Monday in the law enforcement agencies of the region, at 09.30 local time "during a melting withdrawal of suspects and accused" in the temporary detention center of the ATS in the Khiloko district, it was established that six prisoners, breaking the window grille, escaped.

Elections in Abkhazia. Frame NTV The Russian Ambassador to Georgia Vyacheslav Kovalenko denied the information that Russia is going to recognize the independence of Abkhazia in the fall, RIA Novosti reports. “We will leave this on the conscience of that government (the so -called Abkhaz legitimate government in exile),” the ambassador said.

Mikhail Kasyanov. Frame of the faces-TV Mikhail Kasyanov gives the current “deaf and blind power” the deadline until the end of the year: if the Kremlin does not see the Kremlin during this time, the time will come of decisive action. RDS leader answers questions from the editor -in -chief of the "faces" of Vladimir Korsunsky ( VIDEO ). VK: After the RDS elections, it disappeared from the political scene - is this surrender or regrouping of forces?

Riot of prisoners in the colony. Frame NTV In the Arkhangelsk region, a hunger strike of the prisoners of the medical institution began. As RIA Novosti reports, According to the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the application for the announcement of the hunger strike on June 1 wrote more than 50 convicts who are in medical institution 8 in the village of Emza. The next morning, ten convicts refused to continue the hunger strike.

Ingushetia. Photo from the website ingushetiya.ru In the Malgobek district of Ingushetia, unknown people fired at the Volga-12 checkpoint near the village of Zyazikov-Yurt. As a result of the shelling, a police officer was wounded, who was on duty at the post, he was hospitalized, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia.

Burning car. Photo from the site www.lciservices.com In Moscow, three cars were burned on Saturday on Saturday at the night of Saturday, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. Unknowns set fire to the Hyundai Terrakan car belonging to the financial director of the commercial company and which is the property of the unemployed citizen VAZ-2112, as well as the VAZ-2107, which is owned by the pensioner.

Victor Sadovnichy. Photo from the site www.newart.ru The President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Osipov, re-elected for a new term, proposed to elect the rector of the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov Viktor Sadovnichy, vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to RIA Novosti, the posts of vice presidents are also proposed to be preserved for Alexander Nekipelov, Gennady month, Valery Kozlov and Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov.

Fire on Universal. Photo by ar Firefighters were extinguished for more than 12 hours in the entertainment park at the Universal Studios film studio in Los Angeles. According to the Air Force, more than 300 firefighters took part in the operation. Helicopters dropped a ton of water to the scene. As a result of the fire, the King Kong layout and the scenery of the film "Back to the Future" completely burned out.

Prisoners in the colony. NTV frame (archive) In the city of Kopeysk, the Chelyabinsk Region, the convoys scored four convicts in the city of Kopeysk. According to the regional prosecutor's office, before that the prisoners rebelled and attacked the convoy.

Boris Gryzlov. Photo from the site www.azerros.info Political parties should give obligations to participate in television debates. Such a proposal is made by United Russia, said Andrei Vorobyov, head of the Central Executive Committee of United Russia on Monday. It is quoted by ITAR-TASS. "United Russia" invited political parties to sign a pact in the interests of maintaining the stability of the political system.