Participants in a picket in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky were detained in Moscow . Interfax , citing representatives of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, reports that nine protesters were taken to the police station. The radio station "Echo of Moscow" , which contacted the organizers of the picket, reports that eight activists were in the police custody.

The Latvian Seimas rejected amendments to the constitution, according to which the people could initiate the early dissolution of the Latvian parliament, REGNUM news agency reports. 44 deputies voted for the amendments, 37 deputies were against, and another 17 parliamentarians abstained. This means that the bill did not receive a constitutional majority.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has called on countries around the world to spend $45 trillion on developing environmentally friendly technologies. This will halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, writes The Financial Times. IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said that such a result will only be possible if there is a revolution in technology that completely transforms the production and use of energy.

One police officer was killed and another police officer was shot while arresting tattoo artist Kermit Bryson. They tried to detain him for failure to comply with the rules of conduct established during the suspended sentence to which Bryson was sentenced for illegal possession of drugs, AP reports. Bryson hid from the police for 6-8 months, and was eventually found in the town of Monteagle in Tennessee. The tattooist opened fire on the police and fled the crime scene.

Between 1995 and 2008, more than 500 foreign citizens purchased real estate in Azerbaijan, 1 st News Azerbaijan reports , citing a statement by the head of the state real estate registry service, Arif Garashov, which he made at today’s press conference. According to him, the majority of purchases were made by citizens of foreign countries who do business in Azerbaijan. These are mainly businessmen associated with the oil and gas industry.

Three-dimensional models of Walt Disney Parks amusement parks have appeared on the Google Earth service, according to the official Google blog. You can take a stroll through virtual Disneyland starting on June 5th. There are currently four parks and 22 hotels and resorts available for viewing on Google Earth. In total, the Google mapping service presents more than one and a half thousand models of buildings and attractions located in the Walt Disney Parks amusement parks.

On Tuesday, June 3, Mark Mishiev, the only defendant in the case of the collapse of the Basmanny Market building, was finally able to breathe freely. The Investigative Committee at the capital's prosecutor's office dropped the criminal case against the former director of the State Unitary Enterprise "Basmanny Market", since Mark Mishiev's responsibility for the collapse of the market roof in February 2006 was not proven.

The cause of the fire in the Opel Corsa car, which burned down last night in Moscow near house number 6 on Yaroslavskoe Highway, was a technical malfunction in the engine compartment of the car, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the capital's police department. The Moscow pyromaniac was not involved in what happened. Note that initially the police considered arson as the main cause of the fire.

On Friday, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation filed a complaint with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in connection with the decision of the judge of this instance, Nikolai Tolcheev, to not fully accept the party’s claim to cancel the results of the State Duma elections.

European banks were hit harder by the mortgage crisis than American ones, writes The Financial Times , citing data from the American Institute of International Finance (IIF). Cumulative losses of banks worldwide since the beginning of 2007 amounted to $387 billion, with European financial institutions losing $200 billion. Losses of American banks associated with the mortgage crisis amount to $166 billion.

A leak of phosgene gas occurred in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, bordering Russia, RIA Novosti reports citing Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko. Earlier, the Ministry of Environment of the People's Republic of China reported that at one of the enterprises in the city of Qiqihar, a gas leak occurred when cutting a cylinder received for disposal. What substance we were talking about was not specified at that time.

Scientists at Harvard University have created a model of a primitive living cell - or protocell - that is capable of replicating its DNA. Scientists, whose work was published in the journal Nature , showed that the cell membrane of a protocell, consisting only of fatty acids, is able to pass molecules necessary for cell metabolism. The cells of modern living organisms are externally bounded by a membrane consisting of various fatty acids and proteins.

The Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate has denied information about the capture of a suspect in car arson. According to the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs of the South-Western Administrative District of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate, the capital's pyromaniac is still wanted, and no arrests have been made in the case of car arson over the past 24 hours, Interfax reports .

During the days of the 12th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the schedule for raising bridges in the city will be changed, Interfax reports with reference to the Committee for Improvement and Road Facilities of St. Petersburg. The new divorce schedule will affect Liteiny, Blagoveshchensky, Birzhevoy, Troitsky, Dvortsovoy and Tuchkov bridges. St. Petersburg bridges will return to normal operation on June 8.

06.06.2008, 10:40:20 version Print | PDA/PDA The Go! Team. Photo from winzavod.ru The Go! will perform at the Stereoleto festival in Moscow! Team On June 20, the Stereoleto music festival will take place in Moscow at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art. Over the six years of its existence, the festival has traditionally been held in St. Petersburg, but has now expanded its geography to Moscow and Yekaterinburg. The headliner of the Moscow concert will be the popular British group The Go!