The court in the case of the Costa Concordia shipwreck has decided to conduct a new examination, Corriere dela Sera reports. Thus, the request of the defense - the lawyers of the accused ship captain Francesco Schettino - was granted. An examination of the ship's mechanisms will be carried out when the wreckage of the ship is securely fixed. Last week, Italian engineers completed the operation to raise the sunken liner. Based on materials from Gazeta.Ru

Preparations for negotiations with Iran led to a decrease in prices for black gold At today's trading, the price of North Sea Brent oil came very close to $110 per barrel. Iran's readiness to begin negotiations with Western countries on its nuclear program, as well as the growing supply of oil from Nigeria and Libya, have led to a decline in oil prices.

Australian dollar** 754.3453 British pound** 1283.5932 Belarusian ruble* 0.0088 Hungarian forint*** 36.1041 Danish krone** 144.7777 U.S. dollar** 799.3 Euro** 1079.6944 Icelandic krona** 6.6575 Kazakh tenge** 5.2235 Canadian dollar** 776.256 Norwegian krone** 135.4528 Polish zloty** 255.4583 Russian ruble* 2.5048 Turkish Lira** 401,672 Czech crown** 41.6468 Swedish krona** 125.5356 Swiss frank** 876.162 Japanese yen** 80.8215 *For 10. **For 100. ***For 1000. According to the NBU

Saratov realtor's arrest extended In Saratov, the detention period of Olga Bestuzheva, accused of fraud, has been extended. According to the regional prosecutor's office, the 49-year-old defendant, posing as a realtor, made imaginary transactions for the purchase and sale of apartments.

Festival continues in San Sebastian Festival / Cinema Photo: Reuters The highlight of the first weekend of the San Sebastian Festival was the premiere of the film "The Witches of Sugarramurdi" by Alex de la Iglesia, a native of the Basque Country. ANDREY PLAKHOV had the opportunity to verify that the work of this director is surrounded in his homeland with a halo of a real cult.

Theater festival program announced The organizing committee of the international festival "Baltic House" announced the program and concept for the most famous St. Petersburg theater forum. This year it is held under the motto “Russians!” With details ELENA GERUSOVA. This year the Baltic House festival will be held for the 23rd time, during which time it has become one of the most recognizable and respected theater forums not only in Russia, but also in Europe.

Ukraine's GDP in the second quarter of 2013 decreased by 1.3% compared to the same period in 2012, reports the State Statistics Service (Gosstat) of Ukraine, citing the publication of the CIS Statistical Committee "The socio-economic situation of the CIS countries in January-July 2013".

The government allocated three times less than planned for it Yesterday, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved the main document defining the state strategy to combat accidents and deaths on the roads until 2020. The White House allocated 32.4 billion rubles for the Federal Target Program for road safety—three times less than the Ministry of Internal Affairs planned.

Columnist Dmitry Butkevich talks about the Filatov family foundation, which collects works of art created by domestic artists in the early and mid-twentieth centuries. The Art Fund has released a monograph about the artist Viktor Popkov and plans to support an exhibition of Nikolai Feshin’s works in Paris. Photo: Gennady Gulyaev, Kommersant / buy photo Recently, more and more often we have to talk about contemporary contemporary art, about what is called contemporary art in English.

Regulators around the world are tightening their control over financial markets. A series of scandals involving the largest multinational companies mired in tax optimization schemes forced the authorities to launch a widespread offensive against popular tax havens.

The Ministry of Economy is hastily finalizing the rules of competitions for the contract system The Ministry of Economy has sent for approval draft rules that customers should follow when evaluating proposals submitted by public procurement participants in the competition. The document establishes the relationship between the importance of price and non-price parameters when determining the winner and is one of 36 regulations that are necessary to launch the contract system starting next year.

The Greenpeace International Arctic Sunrise vessel entered the Kola Bay. The ship is being towed. “They will arrive at the roadstead by daylight, as they are moving slowly, in tow,” Interfax quotes the duty officer of the vessel traffic service of the Murmansk port administration. About why the “greens” ship has caused complaints from the Russian border services, and what threatens the activists, read the Kommersant article “A criminal case may be opened against Greenpeace activists.”

Today the Yekaterinburg City Duma at its first meeting elected a vice-speaker. Viktor Testov, general director of Tagansky Ryad, became the deputy of the new chairman of the City Duma, Evgeniy Roizman. The news agency “Political Council” writes about this. Two candidates were nominated for the post of vice speaker: United Russia member Viktor Testov and Civic Platform representative Konstantin Kiselev. As a result of open voting, Mr. Testov won the majority of votes.

Co-owner of MKB buys out almost the entire share from the founders of "36.6" The founders of one of the largest Russian pharmacy chains "36.6" Artem Bektemirov and Sergey Krivosheev will remain only its minority shareholders. As Kommersant learned, about 30% of their shares are being acquired by the main owner of the Moscow Credit Bank (MCB), Roman Avdeev, who recently paid “36.6” 5 billion rubles. for 52% of the drug manufacturer Veropharm. Thus, Mr.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine does not consider the upcoming signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union as a means to end the free trade regime with the CIS. “Today, Ukraine is a party to the Agreement on the CIS Free Trade Zone, and this Agreement continues to be in effect. Obviously, when talking about preferences for Ukraine, it is most likely this agreement that was meant.