16:06 // 01.07.2008 The Spanish national football team will celebrate the victory at the Euro-2008 championship along with members of the royal family. According to the Associated Press , the head coach of the Luis Aragones and 23 players, as well as the deputies of the coach, received appropriate invitations from the royal house. As a result of the victory over the German national team in the Euro Final final, Spain became the European champion for the first time since 1964.

A fugitive businessman was returned and accused of a major scam, the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office (UKP) charged the entrepreneur Yuri Privalov of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars of OJSC Skomflot.

Laureates of the Crystal Turandot Prize were announced by the awarding theater award "Crystal Turandot" on the night of Monday on Tuesday became the State Tretyakov Gallery. The figures of the capital's scene for a long time and slowly walked around the museum halls, examining the canvases of Shishkin, Kiprensky, Borovikovsky and rejoicing at the meeting with each other, and then moved to the hall to find out the names of the laureates of this year.

10:50 // 01.07.2008 The company Microsoft on the eve stopped the sales of the Windows XP operating system that had begun seven years ago to support the sale of its new Windows Vista product, the company's website says. The existing copies of Windows XP, which experts consider one of the most stable Windows family systems for personal computers, sellers and computers will only be able to implement the existing copies of the Windows.

The former chief electrician will be responsible for the agreement between Russia and the EU, the head of the liquidated RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais, yesterday, officially became unemployed. He carefully hides the new place of service, jokes that he is quite satisfied with the status of a pensioner. However, it can be assumed that the former high-ranking official and top manager of the state monopoly can still go into private business.

Elena Dementyeva for the first time in her career went to Wimbledon’s semifinals on Tuesday on Wimbledon, quarter -final matches in a female single -single category took place. In the Russian derby, success was accompanied by the fifth racket of the tournament Elena Dementyeva, who, despite the somewhat obvious decline in the game, managed to break the resistance of Nadezhda Petrova. The Match of Dementiev - Petrova turned out to be exciting, although not the most cool.

21:47 // 01.07.2008 By 9 years in prison with a sentence in a maximum security colony, the former deputy head of the administration of the Zasviyazhsky district of Ulyanovsk Sergey Shchevlev was sentenced today. This was reported to ITAR-TASS by the senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Ulyanovsk region Vasily Winter.

Guy Richie's mother denies rumors about the singer’s divorce her son, Gai Richie, denies rumors that her son and Madonna plan to divorce, and says that reports about the meetings of a couple with high -ranking lawyers in marriage affairs are “completely fictitious”. “There is no conversation about divorce, because there is no divorce either,” said Lady Ember Leighton.

10:32 // 01.07.2008 A special "tobacco passport" is now needed in Japan to buy cigarettes in machine guns intended for their sale. This is what ITAR-TASS reports. In all 47 prefectures of the country from today, machines should be equipped with a special device for reading data about a buyer with a name identification card. Thus, the authorities intend to block access to cigarettes to minor citizens.

09:44 // 01.07.2008 The natural reserve of the Geisers Valley in Kamchatka, which suffered from the muddy flow in early June 2007, will open for tourists today, a representative of the Kronotsky Reserve Directorate told RIA Novosti, part of which is the valley.

Dmitry Medvedev met Terry Davis President Dmitry Medvedev accepted yesterday the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis. The issue of the final abolition of the death penalty in Russia and the ratification of the 14th protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, without which it is impossible to begin the reform of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) was discussed. The President and Secretary General met for the first time.

The Sejm adopted the new edition of the Law "On Citizenship" by the Union of Lithuanian communities of Russia yesterday with protests due to the fact that the Seim of Lithuania on Monday adopted a new edition of the Law "On Citizenship", according to which only the Lithuanians who are citizens of the European Union or NATO countries will have the right to preserve Lithuanian citizenship.

Doctors acquitted bans on smoking in cafes and other public places of the Netherlands yesterday, the next European country, which introduced a ban on smoking tobacco in public places. A day earlier, experts of the International Cancer Studying Agency for the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized this measure of the struggle against nicotine dependence of effective.

The UN warns: the global economy is in threat of financial crises, natural disasters and civil conflicts, rampant growth in food prices and energy produces greatly shaken the world economy. This is the main conclusion of the report “Overview of the global economic and social situation in 2008: overcoming economic insecurity” prepared by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UN) secretariat.

It is time for tourists - customers of "de Tour" to seek compensation for the scandal with the bankrupt Turkish -Austrian company Vasco (see the newspaper of June 30 and July 1) is far from completion. Apparently, her “daughter” was followed by the largest Russian tour operator for Turkey de Tour. Yesterday, the company finally stopped showing signs of life.