13:58 // 07/25/2007 The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth is the second and her husband Duke Edinburgh Philip in November will celebrate a diamond wedding on the Mediterranean island of Malta, RIA Novosti reports. The choice of the place is not accidental - it was in Malta Elizabeth, then the princess, and Philip spent the first carefree days of life together. From 1949 to 1951, during the years of Philip’s service in the Navy, they periodically lived there.

The FMS promises newly consumer compatriots a preferential mortgage, the head of the department for compatriots of the Federal Migration Service (FMS), Yevgeny Manyatkin, told Gazeta yesterday that the authorities are creating a fund that provides banks for the issuance of mortgage loans to participants in the state program to relocate compatriots.

12:15 // 07/25/2007 Heavy rain that fell on Moscow complicated the situation on the roads. According to RIA Novosti correspondent, traffic jams arose in the eastern, northern and central districts of the capital. Due to heavy rainfall, visibility on the roads decreased significantly, and on some highways, the speed of vehicles fell to 30-40 kilometers per hour.

22:03 // 07/25/2007 The record holders of rising prices for food have become vegetables. According to Mosgorstat, the cost of fruit and vegetable products for the first half of 2007 increased 2.1 times, potatoes - 1.4 times. Over the same period of time, the prices for fruits and citrus fruits (12.4%) and salmon fish (12.9%) also showed significant growth. The cost of other main food products, including pasta and cereals, as well as cheeses, bread, meat and poultry, became higher by 2.5%-4.5%.

Lidia Smirnova died yesterday, People's Artist of the USSR Lidia Smirnova passed away yesterday. She lived a long and generally happy life. She was 92 years old. Born on February 13, 1915 in the small town of Menzelinsk near Kazan, she never knew her parents. The father was a Kolchakovo officer who disappeared in the civil war, the mother went crazy and ended his life in a psychiatric hospital. The little Lida was given to relatives who kept an orphan in a black body.

Svyatoslav Eshchenko suffered as a result of a car accident, the famous comedian Svyatoslav Eshchenko, who was resting in the country in the village of Baranovka near Dagomis, was seriously injured as a result of a car accident. The accident occurred on Saturday evening: Yshchenko went to Lazarevskoye, where he was supposed to speak at the concert, but never entered the stage.

18:55 // 07/25/2007 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced in the British parliament on the upcoming introduction of complex measures that form the basis of the new strategy of the British authorities to curb terrorism. Since March 2008, the British authorities will issue only such visas that will contain biometric data, ITAR-TASS reports. This norm will relate to everyone who wants to receive documents for stay in the United Kingdom.

The offender was already convicted of rape and was ahead of the Leningrad Region prematurely in the Leningrad Region, a rapist was detained yesterday, abused two teenagers and killed one of them. On July 22, two teenagers, 13 and 14 years old, stopped the car near the village of Kolbeki of the Boxygorsky district and asked them to bring them to the city. Without reaching Boxygorsk, the driver turned into the forest, where he beat and raped boys. One of them managed to escape.

On suspicion of raping two teenagers and murder, a premature recidivist was detained in the Leningrad Region, a suspect in the rape of two seven -graders and the murder of one of them was detained. "The suspect is previously convicted three times, and the last two times for rape minors. However, in all cases he was released ahead of schedule, the last time in 1997," a source in St. Petersburg law enforcement agencies told Interfax .

Tour de France is in terrible confusion. 2007 was declared by the organizers the year of the fight against doping, and Christian Pondum and his comrades very much hoped that the race would do without loud scandals. Still, after all, representatives of all teams beat themselves in the chest and solemnly promised to observe the principles of an honest game. However, by the middle of the tour, the T-Mobail team was caught at the doping, Patrick Sinkevich, and this week a total collapse happened.

20:41 // 07/25/2007 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Secretary General of the EU Council, a high representative on the general foreign policy and security policy of the EU Javier Solan discussed by telephone the prospects of Kosovo settlement, RIA Novosti reports.

On the cover of Eduard Bagirov’s book “Gastarbaiter”, a pure truth is written - it is read in one breath. Critics have already swaddled the novel in the epithet "Plutovskaya" and placed on the shelf of "noticeable authors". Still, Azer from Turkmenistan, fled from the bloody regime, went through the prison and did not read all the circles of the immigrant hell, Pushkin with Dostoevsky, but learned to write folds. Nugget.

The Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan found drugs for drunken drunken driving actress, it seems that Paris Hilton can surpass his friend in the offenses. Lohan was arrested for drunk driving. During a search in her pocket, the police found drugs. The 21-year-old star was arrested in Santa, Eniki for driving in a state of intoxication. Lindsay also turned out to be expired.

Stanislav Zhukovsky in the art gallery "Giving 33" The name of the place where the exhibition of the creative heritage of Stanislav Zhukovsky (1875-1944) was opened in the midst of summer, not the surname of the owner of the gallery and his age. This is just the name of the lane near the ponds and the house number, in general, the exact address, at which, wanting to see the next exhibition from the “Unknown” cycle, the audience should go.

The Moscow opposition unveiled a plan for the fight against point development in the Moscow City Duma decided to control the fulfillment of the promises of the mayor of Yuri Luzhkov on the ban on point development and cutting for the construction of parks. Yesterday, the head of the apple-united democrats faction, Sergei Mitrokhin, presented a list of conflicting point buildings in Moscow, that is, places where the confrontation between residents and authorities goes into the open phase.