The political career of one of the most influential politicians in Europe - Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker - is over. It was destroyed by one of the most obscure intelligence agencies in the world.

1K 7 min. ... Last week there was a holiday - Russian Post Day. For Russia, postal service has always been a strategic industry: given our vast expanses, it could not be otherwise. There are 42 thousand post offices in the country, and 350 thousand people work in the postal service.

Investigators are going to bring charges against the KamAZ driver, the alleged culprit of an accident with 18 deaths near Podolsk, RIA Novosti reports. “He will be charged today. In addition, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs appeals to all eyewitnesses of the accident who have not yet appeared at the police department with a request to come to the Main Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police at 45 Novoslobodskaya Street,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

291 1 min. ... Last Tuesday, EU leaders clearly showed that they are ready to divide EU member states into “big” ones, which are allowed a lot, and “small” ones, which are allowed much less. Two pieces of news arrived from Brussels within a few hours of each other. The first concerned Malta: the European Court of Human Rights prohibited the authorities of this country from deporting several dozen illegal Libyan migrants to their homeland.

The State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service has lifted the ban on the import of pork from Brazil for several enterprises, said First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Ivan Bisyuk. “Today, five or six Brazilian enterprises have permission to import pork to Ukraine,” Mr. Bisyuk said. According to him, permission was received by companies that do not use hormonal drugs when raising pigs.

The Main Directorate (GU) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Dnepropetrovsk region opened a criminal case into the murder of two collectors, reports the press service of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “The investigative department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region has opened criminal proceedings on this fact under Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code (“premeditated murder”),” the message notes.

17 people died during a stampede after a boxing match in eastern Indonesia, 12 of them women, AFP reports. Supporters of the losing athlete began rioting. “Another 38 people were injured and were hospitalized,” a local police spokesman told the agency. Based on materials from kommersant.ru

Attributes 62 1 min. ... The Euro fashion for souvenirs has reached Russia: at the Universiade in Kazan they are now also selling air. A tin can with the inscription “Air of Kazan” costs 250 rubles, and to justify the price, the authors of the project provide the composition of the breathing mixture.

The former head of Promtractor-Vagon was charged with two charges In Chuvashia, a criminal case has been sent to court against the former chairman of the board of directors of Promtractor-Vagon CJSC, Semyon Mlodik. He is accused of fraudulent theft of 273 million rubles from Promtractor-Vagon CJSC, which, according to investigators, he committed together with the former general director of RZDS-Region LLC Svetlana Romanova. The accused, who is free on bail of 20 million rubles, denies his guilt.

254 1 min. ... Enrique Loyola, WHO expert — Russians, according to WHO statistics, drink less alcohol than, for example, Germans... — The accumulating effect plays a role when drinking alcohol is accompanied, for example, by smoking. This leads to a sharp increase in the number of cardiovascular diseases. The second aspect is the age at which alcohol consumption begins. Finally, the most important thing is how it is consumed.

The Russian men's team won the team competition in shooting competitions in the monastery in Kazan. Roman Sentsov, Nikolai Teply, Alexander Zemlin won gold with a result of 360 downed targets. Italian athletes took second place (358 targets), Czechs took third place (351). Later, medals will be played out in a personal tournament in the monastery, reports R-Sport .

Conjuncture 341 1 min. ... The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on Saturday published a decision on the claim of Smolny against Oleg Deripaska's Glavstroy-SPb. The authorities lost an arbitration dispute over the termination of a lease agreement concluded with an investor for more than 400 hectares for the construction of the Yuntolovo residential area, which the company won in 2007 for 1 billion rubles.

Dossier 1K 1 min. ... The Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy) was created on March 9, 2004 on the basis of a federal service that had operated under different names since 1951. It is an executive body that organizes work in the field of special and road construction in the interests of defense and security of the state. Subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. The agency's structure includes the central office and 16 federal state unitary enterprises.

The Cabinet of Ministers approved a plan for the overhaul of the M-05 Kyiv-Odessa highway on the section from 17 to 87 km within the Kyiv region with a total estimated cost of UAH 1.93 billion, according to a Cabinet order dated July 11, published on the government website.

Russians Alexander Alifirenko, Dmitry Braiko and Leonid Ekimov won Universiade gold medals in the 25m small-bore pistol speed shooting in the team event. The athletes' result was 1734 points. Silver in this discipline went to the South Korean team (1,721 points), bronze to French athletes (1,701 points), Interfax reports.