July 13 Odessa, Palais Royal garden. Grand opening of the Odessa International Film Festival (IFF). The band Oi Va Voi will perform for guests. The opening film is “Reality” directed by Matteo Garrone. the 14 th of July "Mystetskyi Arsenal". The French Embassy will celebrate Bastille Day. The program includes a tasting of local cuisine and an introduction to new products from the industry, including the automotive industry. The guests are greeted by Ambassador Alain Remy.

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Yesterday it became known that Syrian diplomacy has lost another representative. As the Belarusian opposition online resource Charter'97 reported, Syrian Ambassador to Minsk Farouk Taha left the Belarusian capital a few weeks ago and went to Europe. According to Charter'97, this information was carefully kept silent - the Syrian and Belarusian authorities tried not to advertise the diplomat's escape. The Syrian Embassy in Minsk declined to comment yesterday.

Employees of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Rostov region stopped the illegal activities of an organized group that created a large-scale scheme for the sale of cut natural diamonds to participants in the jewelry market in the Rostov region, the department’s press service reported.

The Arbitration Court of Chuvashia issued a ruling on the recovery from the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Republic in favor of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise "Gradostroitelstvo" of legal expenses spent on proving the illegality of the actions of the antimonopoly service department.

According to the decision of the State Duma, Russian customs will begin collecting taxes on imported cars from September 1. In the remaining time, the government must have time to approve the parameters of the fee for imported equipment. The preliminary criteria are already known: the base rate for a new passenger car can be 20–45 thousand rubles, for a truck - depending on the category, from 150 thousand to 400 thousand rubles.

July, 12 at closing price ISSUER UAH CHANGE % Komsomolets mine of Donbass 1,460 4.29 Dneproenergo 529,000 1.73 Luganskteplovoz 1,850 1.65 Avdeevsky Koksokhim 3,850 1.05 Azovstal 1,050 0.96 Donbasenergo 22,750 -1.09 Yasinovsky Koksohim 1,050 -1.42 Ukrnafta 171,000 -1.72 Zapadenergo 110,000 -4.35 Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after.

The amounts of financial guarantees remain the same Tightening tourism legislation may turn out to be an empty formality. The amendments to the law “On the Fundamentals of Tourism Activities in the Russian Federation” that came into force obligated large outbound tourism operators to increase the size of their financial guarantee from the current 100 million rubles by July 5. up to 12% of annual revenue. But only a few companies reissued guarantees in an amount exceeding 100 million rubles.

The bus driver, who was transporting Russian pilgrims to the Pochaev Lavra and was involved in a traffic accident in the Chernihiv region on July 7, has been charged. This was reported by the Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, noting that the Main Investigation Department of the ministry is investigating the case. July 7 near the village.

The Russian Ministry of Economic Development believes that the country's GDP growth in the second quarter of 2012 compared to the same period last year amounted to 3.9%-4%, the head of the ministry Andrei Belousov told reporters on July 13. “We can say, based on the current assessment, that capital outflow is slowing down. In May, macroeconomic indicators were better than expected and 4% GDP growth appears to be a positive result in the second quarter.

An audit by Deloitte, commissioned by the Voronezh Chamber of Utilities (VKP, unites 14 management organizations serving 65% of the city’s population), showed that in Voronezh, utility companies that have debts “actually even overpaid suppliers of water, energy and heat.” The money received by management companies from the population for the entire period of their work until April was transferred in full to suppliers, the VKP statement noted.

Leonid Chernovetsky was dismissed Yesterday, the Kiev City Council accepted the resignation of Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky with 110 votes. However, the opposition does not want to let the mayor go in peace - deputies suggested turning to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to investigate the activities of Mr. Chernovetsky as mayor in the period from 2006 to 2012. Kommersant correspondent IRINA LOPATINA observed what was happening in the session hall.

Assistant to the President of Russia Evgeny Shkolov headed the Kremlin commission on personnel policy in law enforcement agencies. In addition to him, the commission included 14 people, including the head of the presidential personnel department, Vladimir Kikot, with the rank of deputy chairman of the commission.

Daria Tsivina about the Bizon steakhouse The new Bison Steakhouse is owned by the same owners as both Beef & Reef Steakhouses. Moreover, the chef of “Bison” is Frank Sarria, who was previously responsible for the kitchen of “Bif & Reef” on Profsoyuznaya, and the brand chef of all three restaurants is Konstantin Zhbakov, already well known to our readers. The question immediately arises: why did the creators of Beef & Reef need “Bison”?

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv began interrogating defendants in a criminal case on charges of former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko of abuse of office when extending surveillance in a criminal case regarding the poisoning of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko. Judge Anna Medushevskaya announced the completion of the stage of studying the case materials and the transition to interrogation of the defendants at the meeting.