Police in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic) prevented a possible terrorist attack in the city center on Russia Day, the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on June 13. “On the morning of June 12 at 06.44, service “02” received a telephone message that on Abkhazia Square on the lawn 30 meters from the roadway there was a suspicious object wrapped in adhesive tape and with wires sticking out,” the release says. Dog handlers and explosives experts arrived at the scene.

The App Store online store will officially launch in Ukraine Ukrainian users of Apple gadgets will be able to legally download applications - the company announced the opening of the App Store online store in the country. Now Ukrainian owners of iPhone and iPad are forced to register in a Russian or American store, however, the company’s mobile devices are selling well in the country, retailers note. The appearance of the App Store in Ukraine will also entail the localization of many services.

The National Opera hosted a benefit performance of Elena Filipieva Benefit performance\Ballet The National Opera hosted a benefit performance by Elena Filipieva with the participation of Denis Matvienko and Farukh Ruzimatov. Throughout the evening, the theater's prima ballerina appeared to the audience in six different images, including two premieres and four absolute hits in the program - the roles of Carmen, the Dying Swan, Zobeida and - as an apotheosis - Kitri from Don Quixote.

Russian fans guilty of hooliganism at Euro 2012 will be deported. This was stated by the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs. Timur Zhuravel, commentator for NTV Plus and special correspondent for Kommersant FM at the European Championship, told presenter Alexey Korneev the details. –– As I understand it, a press conference was specially convened by representatives of the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs?

The 6th arrondissement of the French capital Paris intends on June 15, a few hours before the European Football Championship match between the national teams of Ukraine and France, to place on the façade of the city hall a photograph of the former Prime Minister, leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna" party Yulia Tymoshenko as a sign of solidarity with her.

83 1 min. ... The negative balance of foreign trade in goods in April amounted to $1.46 billion, the State Statistics Service reported yesterday. According to him, the growth rate of imports of goods to Ukraine - 4.8% (up to $7.26 billion) - again turned out to be higher than the growth rate of exports of Ukrainian products - 1.3% ($5.79 billion). Compared to March, the foreign trade deficit increased by one and a half times (in March it was $1.05 billion).

23K 1 min. ... The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case into the disappearance of the An-2 aircraft in the Sverdlovsk region. After a drinking session, a group of traffic cops and their guests flew off on it and presumably crashed. On June 11, at about 11 p.m. local time, an An-2 aircraft with passengers, whose whereabouts have not yet been established, took off from a landing site in the city of Serov.

Russia demands that the Libyan authorities release all detained employees of the International Criminal Court (ICC), RIA Novosti reported on June 13, citing the Russian Foreign Ministry. Four ICC employees, including former Russian Ambassador to the Netherlands Alexander Khodakov, were detained in Libya on June 7. A source in the Libyan Prosecutor General's Office said they were placed in pre-trial detention for 45 days as part of the investigation.

The next “March of Millions” in Moscow took place peacefully and calmly, just like the December rallies on Sakharov Avenue and Bolotnaya Square. Special correspondent of Kommersant Publishing House Oleg Kashin believes that this is only an external similarity, but in fact a lot has changed. Moscow protest sentiments have two aggregate states.

"Maxidrom" took place in Moscow festival rock The 15th international rock festival turned out to be rich in big names. BORIS BARABANOV appreciated the performance of the main stars of the forum - the group The Cure, which gathered on the field in Tushino all the cream of the domestic music industry. The Cure is one of those musicians whose arrival in Russia can be called long-awaited without any exaggeration.

In one of the Catholic churches in Vyshgorod, the priest organized for parishioners to watch matches of the European Football Championship. Each parish has the right to establish its own rules, representatives of the clergy note, but this practice will not take root in Orthodox communities. Fan zone in the church. In the Ukrainian regional center of Vyshgorod, a priest invited parishioners to watch the Euro 2012 matches.

The company abandoned Google Maps and began closer cooperation with Facebook The confrontation between irreconcilable competitors in the mobile advertising and smartphone market - Apple and Google - has sharply escalated. Apple announced that it will stop using Google Maps in new versions of mobile devices in favor of its own mapping service. In addition, Apple could undermine Google's position in social networking.

The government of Bashkortostan, within the framework of the investment forum "Trans-Urals-2012", held last weekend, together with the leadership of municipalities and investors signed 11 trilateral agreements totaling more than 7.66 billion rubles. Three agreements relate to the development of the agro-industrial complex. Thus, Bashkir Agrarian Financing LLC plans to invest 186 million rubles.

In May, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sold on the interbank foreign exchange market $45 million more than it bought, while in April and March the situation was the opposite: the volume of currency purchases exceeded the volume of its sales by $303.5 million and $152.5 million, respectively. “During May, the NBU carried out interventions both in the purchase and sale of foreign currency. Their negative balance for the month amounted to $45 million,” the National Bank said in a statement.

The Bashkortostan Prosecutor's Office approved an indictment against the former general director of Bashkiravtodor OJSC, 57-year-old Marat Gilimyanov, who now heads the largest contracting organization in the region, Dortransstroy LLC.