Out of the game Dutch national team player Arjen Robben admitted that at the end of the first half of the match against Mexico, he dived into the opponent's penalty area in order to provoke the referee to award a penalty. “I want to apologize. At the end of the first half I dived. Sometimes you are already expecting a kick to the legs in the opponent’s penalty area, but I should not have feigned. An incredibly stupid act,” Robben said.

Cultural heritage sites will be framed By the end of this year, the parliament of St. Petersburg must specify the procedure for deviating from the regimes of zones of protection of cultural heritage objects (CHAs) during the construction of objects of “special importance” for the region. Now, under the pretext of the social, economic or cultural significance of a project, it is possible not only to exceed the maximum height or density of buildings, but even to destroy historical buildings.

The Snezhinsk court took into account the cooperation of the accused with the investigation The city court of Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk region) sentenced the former director of the local handball club "Sungul" Alexander Kondratyev to four years of suspended imprisonment. He was found guilty of embezzling about 5.3 million rubles, which were allocated from the regional budget to the club for the purchase of vitamins and training camps.

The foreign ministers of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine agreed on a quadripartite declaration; the document welcomes the Russian initiative to station representatives of the Ukrainian border service and OSCE observers at three checkpoints on the territory of the Russian Federation. The telephone conversation between the heads of foreign policy departments took place late in the evening of June 30, but the Russian Foreign Ministry informed about its results today.

The French bank BNP Paribas, which the US Department of Justice accused of carrying out international transactions that violated US sanctions, admitted its guilt on Monday, Prime reported on July 1. As representatives of the New York State Attorney's Office said, the financial institution will pay $8.83 billion to the US authorities. Representatives of the prosecutor's office indicated that we are talking about transactions with structures in Iran, Sudan and Cuba.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine revealed the theft of military property. In particular, multiple cases of loss of weapons and military equipment were discovered at state-owned enterprises transferred in 2011 from the subordination of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to the state concern Ukroboronprom.

On Tuesday, the State Duma will consider in the first reading a bill on fines for unjustified public use of foreign words, said the first deputy head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Alexey Didenko. “We will consider the bill banning foreign words on July 1,” Mr. Didenko told reporters on June 30 after a meeting of the Duma Council.

During the meeting of the Board of Directors of OJSC Rusnano, a new composition of the Board was elected. There was one change in it: the general director of the Rostec state corporation, Sergei Chemezov, left the company, whose place was taken by the director of the Russian Fund for Technological Development, Mikhail Rogachev.

At a staff meeting, the acting mayor of Kramatorsk, secretary of the city council Andrei Borsuk, resigned as mayor; the city will be headed by former deputy mayor for economic affairs Andrey Pankov. Mr. Borsuk explained his step by the impossibility of leading the city in an environment of economic collapse, when all treasury accounts were blocked, Kramatorsk.info reports. Read more about the situation in Ukraine in the Kommersant article “Kiev goes on the offensive.”

What Alexander Mamut discovered at Rambler&Co The Rambler company, which was once ahead of Yandex in terms of audience size and revenue, is in a deep crisis: its audience and revenue are falling, and losses are growing. Now the main owner, Alexander Mamut, has personally taken charge of saving the Runet pioneer. What are his chances of success?

After the defeat of the British Prime Minister at the EU summit, the number of Eurosceptics in the country grew The nomination of former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker to the post of head of the European Commission led to a sharp increase in Euroscepticism in Britain. The main opponent of Mr.

In the state it will be possible to pay with virtual currencies for goods and services California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation granting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies legal tender status in the state. Now users will be able to legally pay for goods and services with them. According to the authors of the law, it is not at all revolutionary and only legalizes payment methods that are already widespread.

The regional Duma election campaign has started in the Volgograd region At the end of last week, regional party conferences of all leading political parties took place in Volgograd. United Russia, as promised, formed lists based on primaries, with minor adjustments, but no surprises.

During a telephone conversation between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Italian counterpart Federica Mogherini, the parties exchanged views on the situation in south-eastern Ukraine. “The crisis in Ukraine was discussed.

Background 637 1 min. ... On January 14, 2010, Andrei Grivtsov, an investigator for particularly important cases of the Investigative Committee, was detained in Moscow. He was suspected of extorting $15 million from the president of the Rosenergomash concern, Vladimir Palikhata, for failure to prosecute him in a case of raider takeover. While attempting to obtain $8 million from a safe deposit box, the alleged intermediary, unemployed Sergei Kirimov, was detained.