Today, July 2, Israeli diplomats around the world went on strike to demand higher wages. “The strike is that Israeli Foreign Ministry employees and diplomats in foreign missions go to work, but refuse to carry out preparations, including protocol, for both foreign visits of Israeli officials and visits of foreign officials to Israel,” the representative said Israeli Embassy in Moscow.

Shakhtar and Vorskla will play for the first trophy Football / Ukrainian Super Cup On Sunday in Zaporozhye the new football season will open with a match for the Super Cup in Ukraine. The national champion, Donetsk Shakhtar, will play against the winner of the national cup, Simferopol Tavriya. The new football season in Ukraine will open with the Super Cup match for the seventh time. The trophy, for which the national champion and the national cup winner compete, was first played in 2004.

Direct speech 724 2 minutes. ... Andrey Nechaev, President of the Russian Financial Corporation Bank, former Minister of Economy of the Russian Federation: - Power. It was she who, through her inaction in the favorable 2000s, drove herself into a dead end. And they have no other way than raising the age, unless, of course, oil tomorrow costs $150, or better yet $200. Isaev is engaged in populism and is trying to make Kudrin extreme.

In the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow on July 2, the prosecutor asked to sentence one of the most influential crime bosses in the post-Soviet space, Tariel Oniani (Mulukhov), to 15 years in a maximum security colony. According to the prosecutor, there is no reason to doubt the testimony of the victims; the guilt of the person involved in the case has been fully proven. Oniani's defense continues to insist on inconsistencies in the victims' testimony.

Prize 592 1 min. ... In the cycle of the few domestic literary awards, the same books are nominated with amazing frequency: each sister should get some kind of earring. But the Booker longlist announced yesterday almost entirely consists of those sisters who have not yet received earrings, if you don’t count Miriam Petrosyan’s “The House in Which,” which received the Russian Prize.

Yesterday, July 1, AFP reported that the world's largest spirits maker Diageo, known for its Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker brands, will transfer more than 2 million barrels (about 327 million liters) of whiskey to its pension fund in order to cover its current deficit. £862 million. The company was able to reach an agreement with pension fund trustees on a 10-year deficit reduction plan. Diageo will pay £197 million in cash and form a partnership that will hold the aged whiskey as an asset.

Having bought out its debt for 18.7 billion rubles AFK Sistema no longer owes VTB for shares in Bashkir fuel and energy companies, which it bought with the bank's money in 2005. Bashneft helped Sistema repay the debt in the amount of 18.7 billion rubles, the payment of which was due in October. In the future, the oil company will be able to exchange Sistema’s debt for part of the shares of Bashkir refineries, which now belong to AFK.

The bank pays for rehabilitation with non-core assets The main stage of the Soyuz Bank reorganization will be completed by mid-July. The bank will completely transfer problem loans worth about 20 billion rubles to the DIA. and assets of structures associated with Oleg Deripaska, for a similar amount. However, an improvement in the bank’s financial performance will result in an increase in the volume of non-core assets of the DIA, which already amounts to more than 130 billion rubles.

The court ordered Agora to pay tax on grants The Arbitration Court of Tatarstan found that the fiscal authorities of the republic legally taxed 2.8 million rubles received by the interregional human rights organization Agora from foreign grantors. The court sided with the tax authorities, who noted that donors are not included in the list of organizations whose grants are exempt from taxes by the Russian government.

Today, July 2, the General Statistical Office of the People's Republic of China reports a revision of the estimate of GDP growth in 2009 by 0.4 percentage points - to 9.1%. At the same time, Goldman Sachs Group analysts downgraded their forecast for China's real GDP growth in 2010 to 10.1% from previously expected 11.4%, citing government restrictions on lending and real estate.

Tatyana Markina about Old Masters Week in London Old Masters Week in London (July 3-9) promises to be luxurious. The success of last year's Week and the growing interest in works by old masters throughout the season (which was noticeable both in the results of specialized auctions and in the success of fairs focused on old art, such as TEFAF) - all this has spurred antiquarians.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee are investigating a conflict involving their employees The Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for Bashkiria (SKP) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Bashkiria are investigating the circumstances of the incident, in which their employees became participants - the investigator of the investigative department of the SKP at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the

On the railway in Dagestan, unknown persons blew up a freight train heading towards Derbent on the morning of July 2. 10 carriages derailed, no injuries were reported. “The emergency occurred at 05:10 Moscow time at 2321 km of the Manas-Achi railway section,” reported the Linear Department of Internal Affairs for Transport of the Makhachkala branch of the North Caucasus Railway. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties as a result of the sabotage, PRIME-TASS reports.

Dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze (left) and general director of the Mikhailovsky Theater Vladimir Kekhman at a party of the Central Partnership film company and Hello! magazine. within the framework of the MIFF Photo: Valery Levitin, Kommersant

On July 1 in Riga, in honor of the 69th anniversary of the entry of Nazi Germany into the city, a group of nationalists tried to hold a procession from the Museum of Occupation to the Freedom Monument. The police detained several protesters.