The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning the “participation of foreign combatants” in hostilities in Syria on the side of the Syrian authorities, RIA Novosti reports following urgent debates in Paris. “The Human Rights Council condemns the intervention of foreign combatants in the fight on behalf of the Syrian regime in Quseir and expresses deep concern that their participation poses a serious threat to stability in the region,” the document says.

PJSC Crimean Titan, part of Dmitry Firtash’s Group DF, has signed a contract with Zeppelin Gmbh for the supply of Caterpillar mining equipment with a total value of $14.3 million, the group’s press service reported. “The purpose of acquiring the equipment is to update the fixed assets of the Volnogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant, a branch of PJSC Crimean Titan, for the extraction and enrichment of titanium-containing ores,” the statement says.

The Federation Council on Wednesday approved the law on drug testing of students, RIA Novosti reports. The document proposes to subject schoolchildren, technical school students and students of higher educational institutions to special testing in order to early detect illegal drug use. Testing consists of two stages. The first stage is a socio-psychological one, during which students will be asked to answer questions in a special questionnaire.

28 1 min. ... Rafael Benitez takes charge of Napoli Yesterday, the Italian football club Napoli announced the appointment of Spaniard Rafael Benitez as the team's new head coach. The terms of the contract with the 53-year-old specialist, as well as its duration, were not disclosed.

with state guarantees was studied by Svetlana Mentyukova, correspondent of the consumer market department Photo: Sergey Mikheev, Kommersant / buy photo The Supreme Arbitration Court (SAC) may have to create another precedent in the area of ​​liability for issued loans. Banks, which over the past year have been actively suing not only debtor companies, but also guarantors for problem loans to individuals and legal entities, have reached the main guarantor of loan obligations - the state.

Conjuncture The key client of the Video International (VI) group is Channel One, the contract with which expires in December this year. According to the Law “On Advertising,” a federal channel with state participation can only enter into an agreement on the basis of bidding. Thus, Channel One OJSC, 38.9% of which is directly owned by the Federal Property Management Agency, will have to name a new advertising partner based on the results of a competition or auction.

The Khabarovsk football club SKA-Energia, which this season took fourth place in the FNL championship and won the right to play in the play-offs for the right to compete in the Premier League next season, may be deprived of ten points. “SKA-Energia” wants to punish the fact that midfielder Shota Grigalashvili entered the field for three different clubs in one season, which is a direct violation of FIFA regulations.

Which is not in the declaration for 2011 The wife of the mayor of Kaliningrad, Alexander Yaroshuk, owns a villa in Cannes. According to Kommersant, a non-profit organization Societe Civile Immobiliere (SCI) Montfleury was established to purchase it. Neither the share in a foreign organization nor the villa itself is reflected in Ms. Yaroshuk’s income statement for 2011.

The possible resignation and departure of the rector of the Russian School of Economics, Sergei Guriev, is in no way connected with political events in the country, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Kommersant FM. Earlier, the Investigative Committee confirmed that Guriev was summoned for questioning in the Yukos case. Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant discussed the situation with presenter Anna Kazakova.

The National Association of Sugar Producers "Ukrsakhar" predicts losses of sugar producers at the level of about 3 billion UAH in the 2012/2013 marketing year (September 2012 - August 2013), director of "Ukrsakhar" Nikolai Yarchuk said at a press conference.

The capital's mayor's office is discussing the idea of ​​making paid calls to a team of doctors on "03" for people who want to relieve a hangover with the help of an ambulance, the Izvestia newspaper writes. Deputy Mayor for Social Affairs Leonid Pechatnikov said that according to the independent trade union of ambulance workers, which supports the idea, each substation sends teams about twice a day to drinkers who call doctors “because they feel bad.” According to Mr.

Seven constituent entities of the Russian Federation still remain without human rights ombudsmen, Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said during a speech at the Federation Council, RIA Novosti reports. “I think this is wrong. In our country, the rights of citizens should be protected in more or less the same way,” said Mr. Lukin. According to him, ombudsmen do not work in the Republic of Tuva, the Novosibirsk region, the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the Vladimir region, Kurgan and the Magadan region.

OJSC Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Plant (AECC, Irkutsk region) plans to liquidate two unused production buildings in order to ensure the technical, radiation and environmental safety of the city of Angarsk, the press service of the Angarsk district administration reported. The project for the liquidation of buildings was approved at a public hearing in Angarsk, organized on May 24 by the municipality together with AECC. Now it must undergo state examination by Rosprirodnadzor, the report says.

The first gay marriage took place in the city hall of the French city of Montpellier. The ceremony, which was personally hosted by Mayor Hélène Mandrus, was broadcast live on French television. 40-year-old LGBT rights activist Vincent Autin met his husband, 30-year-old Bruno Boileau, in 2006, BBC reports. Let's remember that French President Francois Hollande signed a law legalizing gay marriage just last week.

The admissions campaign to Sverdlovsk universities in 2013 promises to be lively. For the second year in a row, higher education institutions will not face a demographic gap, which means that competition for budget-funded places will be high. It will be most difficult for applicants in the humanities and economics, since the number of budget places in them is decreasing every year.