The romantic comedy “The Break-Up,” starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, grossed $38.1 million in its first weekend. Even the filmmakers did not count on such success: according to preliminary estimates, the film was supposed to gain up to 30 million and leave the first line in the ratings to “X-Men: The Last Stand”. But, as Reuters reports, the next sequel to the comic book about mutants scored only 34.4 million in its second weekend.

The Japanese aerospace agency JAXA has confirmed that the Hayabusa probe will be able to return to Earth after traveling to the Itokawa asteroid. Previously, scientists suspected that the ion engines of the spacecraft were losing xenon and would therefore soon fail, but recent tests have confirmed the serviceability of the ship. New Scientist writes about this.

The creation of an “orange” coalition (Our Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Socialist Party) in the Verkhovna Rada, previously announced for June 7, may be postponed indefinitely due to a number of controversial issues, the main ones being Ukraine’s accession to NATO and the extension of the moratorium for land privatization.

Levon Chakhmakhchyan, who represents Kalmykia in the Federation Council and is the president of the Association of Russian-Armenian Business Cooperation, according to the Kommersant newspaper , said that his detention by FSB officers on Friday on suspicion of taking a bribe was a provocation organized by the chairman of the board of directors of Transaero airline. Alexander Pleshakov.

A group of young people who staged a protest at a meeting of the World Newspaper Congress today were taken to the police station, the Ekho Moskvy radio station reports, citing sources in law enforcement agencies. According to them, the detainees are representatives of the National Bolshevik Party. All of them are under 18 years old.

The prosecutor's office of Ingushetia opened a criminal case into the shelling of a car with employees of the republican FSB, as a result of which two people were killed and one was injured. According to the deputy prosecutor of the republic, Dmitry Gurulev, the case was opened under articles of “attack on the life of a law enforcement officer” and “illegal storage, carrying and transportation of weapons and ammunition,” RIA Novosti reports .

In connection with complaints about the difficulties of regulating the credit history market, the Federal Financial Markets Service will introduce regulatory regulation of the activities of credit history banks by the end of the year, Kommersant reports . An efficiency standard will be established, determined by the value of the hit rate indicator, demonstrating the likelihood of finding information at the bank’s request. In Europe, a hit rate of 60-70 percent is considered a good result.

Indonesian authorities have revised down the number of victims of the devastating earthquake that occurred on the island of Java on Saturday, May 27, CNN reports. According to the final calculations, the disaster claimed the lives of not 6,234 people, as previously reported, but 5,782. The official list of the wounded includes 36,299 names.

The threat of an international financial blockade facing Iran due to the ineffectiveness of recent international negotiations on the national nuclear program is forcing Iranians to transfer their personal savings abroad or convert them into gold. According to The Washington Times, since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office last August, about $200 billion has been taken out of the country.

Viktor Yushchenko proposed establishing a new “consultation mechanism” within the Community of Democratic Choice called “Energy Dialogue of the Three Seas.” The President of Ukraine announced this in Bucharest during a speech at the summit “For Dialogue and Partnership,” Yushchenko’s press service reports . He stressed that Ukraine intends to intensify cooperation in the energy sector.

The Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO) will host the 2010 Chess Olympiad. reports this Interfax with reference to the press service of the district governor. Another candidate for hosting the Chess Olympiad was Montenegro. In the elections, the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug defeated its rivals by a margin of seven votes. Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Alexander Filipenko is confident that the tournament will be held at a high level.

At the end of May, the All-Russian Internet Marathon was held in St. Petersburg, where preliminary results of Internet development in the Northwestern Federal District were summed up. The northern capital lags behind Moscow in Internet development by 3 years, according to a press release from ROCIT. According to the technical director of the TRINET company, Alexey Dovzhikov, currently 75 percent of St.

Dutch coach Guus Hiddink, who will take over as coach of the Russian national football team on August 1, named the names of his future assistants. According to the publication "Soviet Sport" , they will be Johan Neeskens, Igor Korneev, Alexander Borodyuk and Jan Roelfs.

On June 1, 2006, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty signed a law requiring fines for all minors who purchased games containing violence and cruelty, Gamespy reports . Under this law, any underage gamer who purchases a game rated M (Mature) or AO (Adults Only) by the ESRB will have to pay a $25 fine and will not receive their purchase.

At a meeting on Monday, the Bureau of the Georgian Parliament postponed consideration of the issue of including on the agenda of the plenary session a resolution outlawing the contingents of Russian peacekeeping forces in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. this . As reported by Interfax , the leader of the parliamentary majority, Maya Nadiradze, announced According to her, on the eve of the expected meeting of the leaders of the two countries, Mikheil Saakashvili and Vladimir Putin in St.