The National Olympic Committee of New Zealand is going to sue the 23-year-old Taekwondist Logan Campbell, who opened a brothel house in Auckland in order to make money for a trip to the 2012 Olympics in London. “Based on the fact that the Olympic values are based on friendship and mutual respect, we must admit that your actions are completely incompatible with them,” RIA Novosti quoted the Campbell as saying to the New Zealand Olympic Committee.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow, at the request of the investigation, removed from the post of President of the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism Oleg Matytsin, suspected of abuse of authority (Article 285 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the official from 2001 to 2006 illegally leased a plot of federal land with an area of about 665 thousand square meters. m on Lilac Boulevard, on which the Cherkizovsky market arose.

He was charged with promoting tax evasion to the audience of the largest foreign investment fund in the Russian Hermitage Capital market. A similar accusation was brought in absentia to the head of the Fund himself William Brower, living in London. Hermitage Capital believes that investigative actions are aimed at discrediting the fund.

As Harashti said on the air of the Echo of Moscow , he sent a letter on this topic Lavrov three days ago and asked to start the persecution of people who threaten a scum. According to Harashti, people who turn to a journalist with threats request his personal data in Novaya Gazeta. Such data cannot be disclosed, since their provision would be inciting to further violence. Harashti noted that he had not yet received an answer to his letter from the Foreign Ministry.

FSB officers are currently conducting checks in Altyn stores, a law enforcement source said on Thursday. “Searches are held in all Altyn stores in Russia,” the source said. RIA Novosti correspondents confirm that on Thursday all Altyn stores in the Russian Federation were closed.

Once, apartment concerts were a pleasure for small groups of devoted people. They gathered spontaneously at the "apartment", they recognized the place of the meeting in a few hours, and they could change it at any time: the time for rock and roll was not the simplest. As for the Aquarium, it was in the apartments that the songs of their “golden” were first sounded, as many believe, periods and composition. The organization of this kind of concerts was dangerous: the authorities did not doze off.

"Black Hawks" diligently hid their faces from the lenses of photo and video cameras aimed at them. Photo: Gennady Gakhov The Dorogomilovsky court of Moscow on Thursday sentenced six participants in the group of the so -called “black hawks” - Caucasians who united for the revenge of skinheads and acting in the same methods. All of them are found guilty of a hooligan attack on two Muscovites.

Russian striker Sergei Shirokov, who was unable to score a single point in the first three matches, Vancouver Canax in the new season of the NHL, lost its place in the main composition of the Canadian club. “I think we gave Sergey a great chance to show ourselves, although everything did not work out as we would like,” Alena Vinya RIA Novosti quotes the words of Vancouver.

As it became known, a serious accident on a garden ring in Moscow provoked Mersedes, owned by the FSB of the Russian Federation in Moscow and the Moscow Region, which happened last night. This was announced by a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, without specifying what official this car is assigned to.

The policemen of the patrol service of the Moscow RUVD of St. Petersburg were detained last night for rape. However, only one of them can be charged. Last night, about 3-4 hours in the Moscow district of the city, on suspicion of rape of a minor, three PPSM employees were detained. According to preliminary data, according to Fontanka , they met a girl named Diana, then the girl was in the territory of the Victory Park, where she was raped.

In the Mercedes, which became a participant in a major accident on the garden ring, was the head of the Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Combat of the FSB of Russia, Colonel General Alexei Sedov. He and three other participants in the accident ended up in the hospital. With a flasher on the oncoming The accident occurred at about 19.00 on Wednesday on Bolshaya Sukharevskaya Square. 55-year-old General Sedov went to the Mercedes S-600 with his wife and acquaintance.

In the American documentary “Supersize Me”, which was shot by an amateur enthusiast who wants to expose the demonic activity of the McDonald's fast food restaurants, the following unpleasant moment was mentioned in the passage. When the client asks for potatoes and does not specify the size of the portion, the waiters do not ask him and immediately break through the largest. When I watched the film, it seemed unconvincing to me. And I decided to check. Do you know what? Everything is true.

The claims of the editors of the Yekaterinburg newspaper "D.S.P." and Vladivostok "Arsenyevsky News" are satisfied with the European Court of Human Rights. Russian courts found these publications guilty of slander for officials. The Strasbourg Court ordered Russia to pay 7 thousand euros for violation of freedom of speech.

The Ministry of Culture opposed the construction of the Okhta -Center skyscraper in St. Petersburg. The head of the department, Alexander Avdeev, said that he would take decisive measures in order to prevent the construction of this building. He stated that his opinion was shared by other employees of the ministry, and added that if the tower is built, this would ruin the historical appearance of St. Petersburg, reports Echo of Moscow.

The German Football Union chose the arena in which the national team will play a home butt match in the event of an unsuccessful outcome of the final group qualification fights. If the Germans lose to the Russians in Luzhniki on October 10, they will continue the struggle for a ticket to the 2010 World Cup at the 70,000th stadium in Dortmund. “We have chosen this stadium for three reasons,” quotes the representative of the German football union of Wolfgang Nirsba Live Sport .