At the end of last week, the State Duma of the VI convocation went on vacation. How deputies of the lower house spent the spring session - in the Kommersant photo gallery. Previous photo Chairman of the State Duma (State Duma) Committee on Budget and Taxes Andrei Makarov and member of the Russian State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs Alina Kabaeva. Thanks to Mr.

New equipment will be used to search for Malaysian Boeing One of the search ships will be equipped with echo sounders to study the seabed at great depths. The other ship will be equipped with towed deep-sea remote-controlled side-scan sonars. Find out more from Kommersant FM correspondent Daria Gorstkina. The new phase of the search for the missing plane will focus on a previously unexplored area in the southern Indian Ocean.

The doctor of the Brazilian national football team, Jose Luis Runco, denied rumors about the possible appearance of Pentacampeon forward Neymar on the field in the final match of the World Cup, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, Globoesporte reported that the injured forward, according to doctors, may take part in the final if the Brazilians get there. Neymar was expected to play on painkillers. This information came from the Santos club doctors who visited the player in the hospital.

Somnology 926 1 min. ... The division of people into owls and larks is much more serious than we imagine. Scientists from the University of Granada (Spain) conducted a study of the physiological functions of people belonging to different chronotypes. In particular, they tested the reactions of volunteers in a car simulator. One “trip” took place early in the morning, the other in the evening.

The natural phenomenon was named "Neoguri". According to meteorologists, the typhoon may cover some regions of the country as early as Monday evening. Special services are preparing for strong winds, heavy downpours and floods. Find out more from Kommersant FM correspondent Alexey Kiselev. Photo: Viktor Korotaev, Kommersant / buy photo Neoguri means "Raccoon" in Korean. The storm is now approaching Okinawa at a speed of 20 km/h. Wind gusts in its center reach 70 m/s.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has put on the wanted list judge Rodion Kireev, who sentenced former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the “gas case.” This is reported on the department's website. Earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine began a search for Mr. Kireev.

Following Mustafa Dzhemilev, entry into the Russian Federation was denied to Refat Chubarov The head of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatars, Refat Chubarov, was not allowed into Crimea by border guards after his trip to the Kherson region, where a visiting meeting of the Majlis was held. Law enforcement officers accuse Mr. Chubarov of “extremist actions.” The Majlis called the entry ban for their leader an “action of intimidation” and an attempt to “split the unity” of the Crimean Tatars.

The Moscow District Court of Kazan sentenced the general director of ArgoRechTur LLC, the subtenant of the sunken motor ship Bulgaria, Svetlana Inyakina to 11 years in a general regime colony.

PAYMENT FOR TRAVEL The starting price of the Audi A8 L 3.0 TFSI quattro is 4.225 million rubles, but you are unlikely to find such cars at official dealers. This is the price for the so-called basic equipment, which is too poor to correspond to the class of an executive car. Decent equipment, similar to what the test car had, will last about another million. The car we visited cost 5.052 million rubles.

Russia has successfully tested a long-range anti-missile missile, which will be part of the promising S-500 anti-aircraft missile system. “The tests were carried out in late June. All goals and objectives set within the framework of the event were fully fulfilled,” ITAR-TASS quotes a source in the military-industrial complex as saying.

The shootout took place on Maidan (Independence Square) in Kiev, RIA Novosti reported on July 7. “Today, around midnight, a conflict arose between persons who are on Independence Square and call themselves participants in self-defense, which escalated into a shootout,” the capital’s police headquarters told the agency. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, one person was hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

Former Georgian President dies in Tbilisi Eduard Shevardnadze, who also headed the USSR Foreign Ministry, was 86 years old. Georgian political scientist Solomon Lebanidze answered questions from host Pyotr Kosenko on Kommersant FM. Photo: Dmitry Azarov, Kommersant / buy photo — Despite the fact that everyone knew that Eduard Amvrosievich was already quite an old man, this came as a big surprise, including in Russia. How did they take the news of his death in Georgia?

Number 102 1 min. ... Kosovo club "Hayvaliya" is ready to pay Uruguay national team striker Luis Suarez every month if he agrees to play for the team during his four-month suspension. Let us recall that FIFA banned Suarez from engaging in any football activities during this time for biting Italian Giorgio Chiellini. However, sanctions do not apply to Kosovo: this country is not recognized by FIFA, and therefore can do whatever it wants on the football fields.

The REC's refusal to revise the tariff for private transportation will worsen the situation of the municipality In Omsk, a conflict is flaring up in the passenger transportation market. The Regional Energy Commission of the Omsk Region (REC) refused to increase private carriers' tariffs from 18 to 25 rubles, considering it economically unjustified. As a result, the cost of travel in private transport is equal to that of municipal transport.

A Mi-171 military helicopter crashed in the suburbs of the Vietnamese capital Hanoi. According to preliminary data, the helicopter crashed during a training flight into a busy area near the Hoa Lac market. The causes and circumstances of the incident are being established, ITAR-TASS reports. According to local media, between six and 10 people were injured.