Sting at the Olimpiyskiy Rock concert Sting performed at the Moscow Olympic sports complex. That evening he managed to separate politics, music and the traditionally controversial acoustics of the venue. Kirill SHAMSUTDINOV observed the elegance of solving these issues. Few people expect intrigue from concerts by artists of Sting's level.

United Russia does not want to overload polling stations with observers The Public Chamber (PC) proposes to give NGO representatives the status of official election observers. Thus, the OP believes, election commissions will know who they are dealing with and will not violate the rights of public observers. United Russia states that in this case the number of observers will have to be limited depending on the area of ​​the election commissions.

The Big Three mobile operators - MTS, VimpelCom and Megafon - covered the Far Eastern Federal District with communication networks by 51.7%, according to Roskomnadzor materials. “The Amur region (76.3%), the Jewish Autonomous Okrug (69.3%) and the Primorsky Territory (65.3%) have the best coverage with cellular communications in the region; the least is the Magadan region (30.6%),” says in the message.

Their joint venture may again obtain a license for the Trebs and Titov fields Bashneft and LUKOIL may be able to regain the rights to jointly develop the Trebs and Titov fields. Now the clause according to which all extracted oil can be processed only at the facilities of its owners has already been removed from the licenses. And the Ministry of Natural Resources has already supported the next stage - the return of development rights to the joint venture of Bashneft and LUKOIL.

The regional branch of United Russia has not yet decided whether it will nominate candidates to the party’s governing body Marina Aleshina’s candidacy will not be announced for the post of head of the central executive committee of United Russia. So far, the regional office has not made a decision even on the possibility of nominating a representative from the Saratov region for the competition.

Russia begins the fight for Olympic medals The XXX Summer Olympic Games open today in London. For Russian sport, they represent a chance to convince that the trajectory along which it has been moving in recent years has at least ceased to be a trajectory of constant decline. The London Olympics will take place two and a half years after the Vancouver Olympics, which brought the Russian team only three gold medals and a shameful 11th place in the medal standings.

In Dzerzhinsk, Donetsk region, at the Severnaya mine of the Dzerzhinskugol state enterprise, smoke was detected at a horizon of 1050 meters at 10.17, 162 miners were brought to the surface, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports. At the time the smoke was discovered, 162 people were working in the mine, 4 of them in the emergency area. All of them were brought to the surface. Mine operations have been temporarily suspended.

Baker Botts partner Jay Alexander, representing the interests of Russia, told Kommersant that previously, in a similar case related to Yukos, the Swedish state courts had already ruled in favor of Russia on the lack of jurisdiction of arbitration, and now the Russian side will seek the same result . He noted that the arbitration court only partially satisfied the demands of Russia’s opponents, refusing to reimburse them for legal expenses in the amount of $14.5 million. Anna Pushkarskaya

The verdict of the Moskovsky District Court of Cheboksary in the criminal case against the former chief accountant of the Republican Psychiatric Hospital, Natalya Ivanova, has entered into legal force. She was accused under Part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (theft of someone else's property on an especially large scale using her official position).

Ekaterina Istomina about the new Dear Dior collection Victoire de Castellan, the famous socialite of Paris, heiress of the de Castellan family, once the muse of Karl Lagerfeld and jewelry designer of the house of Dior, presented a new precious line in a mansion on Avenue Montaigne. The collection received the Anglomaniac name - Dear Dior; it included rings, bracelets and earrings of high jewelry class.

ROC President Alexander Zhukov about the prospects of Russian Olympians interview The President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), First Vice-Speaker of the State Duma ALEXANDER ZHUKOV, on the eve of the start of the Olympic Games in London, in an interview with Kommersant correspondent VALERIYA MIRONOVA, explained under what conditions the Russian team will be able to realize its full potential and become third in the unofficial team competition.

As expected, United Russia has decided on its candidate for the mayoral elections in Nizhny Tagil. Based on the results of three stages of the primaries, the absolute majority of votes was won by Sverdlovsk Vice-Governor Sergei Nosov, who previously headed the Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Works (NTMK).

German luxury car manufacturer Porsche AG increased its operating profit in the first half of 2012 by 21%, Bloomberg reports. Porsche's operating profit in the January-June period rose to 1.26 billion euros, compared with 1.05 billion euros in the same period last year. The company's revenue jumped 29% compared to the first half of last year, to 6.76 billion euros.

The head of the Russian Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, will fly to the Seliger-2012 forum on July 27 in a hot air balloon, a source in the Central Election Commission told RIA Novosti. “Seliger” has been held in the summer near the lake of the same name near the city of Ostashkov, Tver Region, since 2005. Members of the Russian government, representatives of the Russian intelligentsia, and popular musicians traditionally meet with the forum participants.

349 1 min. ... Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in favor of establishing common rules in domestic football and hockey regarding the purchase of players and their salaries. At yesterday's meeting in Sochi with representatives of North Ossetia, the head of the republic, Taimuraz Mamsurov, touched upon the topic of purchases of expensive foreign players by Russian clubs. “One Eto’o in Anzhi costs as much as all the players of Alania and Volga,” said Mr. Mamsurov.