The court sent to the GPU his demand to initiate proceedings against those involved in his arrest Yesterday, the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv began studying the materials of the criminal case of former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko, accused of illegally extending surveillance of Valentin Davydenko, one of the defendants in the case of the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko.

The tax scandal may become the main topic of the US elections US President Barack Obama lost the first stage of the election campaign: his headquarters managed to collect one and a half times less donations in June than Mitt Romney's supporters. Experts attribute the unexpected advantage of the Republican candidate to increased support from large corporations.

The social network will soon open an online message board for employers and job seekers, journalists have found out. The service will be popular among users, but Facebook’s desire to embrace the immensity will not lead to anything good, experts say. The company will launch a platform for posting vacancies. The Wall Street Journal reported this on July 11. On the social network's online bulletin board, companies will be able to post vacancies and search for employees among 900 million users.

Mass protests by miners take place in the Spanish capital Protest demonstrations by Spanish miners, who have been rallying against cuts in government subsidies for coal production for almost two months, have reached their climax. In three weeks, the miners living in the north of the country marched more than 400 km and arrived in Madrid the night before. On Wednesday, a mass protest is taking place in the Spanish capital, in which a total of at least 25 thousand people are expected to take part.

Bankruptcy amendments to legislation have undergone rehabilitation The package of amendments to the legislation on bank bankruptcy, adopted yesterday in the second reading, turned out to be somewhat thinner than expected. The reorganization of banks will not be indefinite and free for the state; the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) will not be able to challenge all transactions for the withdrawal of assets.

In the first half of 2012, the FAS department for the Nizhny Novgorod region opened 25 administrative cases regarding violations of advertising legislation, the total amount of fines for violators exceeded 1 million rubles. The head of the department, Mikhail Teodorovich, announced this yesterday at a press conference of the Federal Antimonopoly Service.

The company raised the issue of the problem area on the Russian-Ukrainian border to the intergovernmental level. We are talking about a 30 km line that crosses the border of two countries several times. Experts call the idea absurd. Russian Railways proposes to move the Russian-Ukrainian border. In this way, the company plans to resolve the issue of control over a section of the railway line 30 km long, RBC daily reports.

24 employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the North Caucasus Federal District were punished for concealing income, the department’s press service reports. These employees provided false information about their income, property and property-related liabilities for 2011. In particular, the certificates did not fully reflect information about the ownership of real estate objects and the profit received from the sale of cars owned by them.

The Arbitration Court of the Altai Territory recognized OJSC Novoaltaisky Plant of Reinforced Concrete Products named after. Ivanova G.S.” (NZZHBI) bankrupt and opened bankruptcy proceedings against him, according to the court materials. At the end of 2009, an observation procedure was introduced at the enterprise, and a financial recovery procedure was introduced in 2010, which did not give a positive result.

Australian dollar** 817.2618 British pound** 1239.6668 Belarusian ruble* 0.0095 Hungarian forint*** 34.0809 Danish krone** 132.0167 U.S. dollar** 799.3 Euro** 981.9401 Icelandic krona** 6.2436 Kazakh tenge** 5.3336 Canadian dollar** 784.9241 Norwegian krone** 131.1614 Polish zloty** 233.8955 Russian ruble* 2.4239 Turkish Lira** 439.2878 Czech crown** 38.6119 Swedish krona** 114.5333 Swiss frank** 817.602 Japanese yen** 100.5674 *For 10. **For 100. ***For 1000. According to the NBU

Deputies of the Republican Legislative Assembly found no violations at the Vurnarsky meat processing plant The working group of the State Council Committee of Chuvashia found no violations during the inspection of the Vurnarsky meat processing plant, which allowed the waste of the pig farm to be discharged into the Malaya Sanarka River. The press service of the Legislative Assembly reports that the deputies allegedly managed to catch a fry in the river.

Alexey Slashchev asked First Deputy Editor-in-Chief Andrey Rodionov to figure out the secret of the popularity of the Mazda 6 in Russia. Alexey Slashchev: The predecessor of this model is the Mazda 626, but Mazda 6 still considers 2002 to be its year of birth. By the beginning of 2006, more than 1 million copies were produced worldwide. In 2007, the second generation premiered, and in 2010, a restyling of the model was shown at the Geneva Motor Show.

During clashes between demonstrators and police near the Ministry of Industry in Madrid, 76 people were injured, including 33 police officers, writes El Pais. The unrest began during a demonstration by miners who came to the Spanish capital from different parts of the country to protest against the reduction of government subsidies for the mining industry.

On July 11, the Moscow City Court rejected cassation appeals against the arrest of four more detainees in the case of mass riots on May 6 on Bolotnaya Square in the capital, RAPSI was told in court. Thus, the court recognized as legal and upheld the decisions of the capital's Basmanny Court to select a preventive measure in the form of detention for Artem Savelov - until August 11, Oleg Arkhipenkov and Vladimir Akimenkov - until August 10.

Authorities are sending the ferroalloy plant outside Krasnoyarsk A visiting meeting of the working group of the Russian government was held in Krasnoyarsk, which should decide the fate of the construction project of the Yenisei Ferroalloy Plant (EFZ) of the Kemerovo CJSC Chek-Su.VK. Earlier, the EFZ project caused dissatisfaction among Krasnoyarsk residents, and the head of the region, Lev Kuznetsov, announced the termination of cooperation with Chek-SU.VK.