The All-Russian State Television and Radio Company (VGTRK) will not show matches of the 2010 Russian Football Championship. The rights to broadcast Premier League matches are owned by the NTV-Plus channel. VGTRK negotiated the purchase of a sublicense, but the parties did not agree on the price, and the negotiations were curtailed, Sovetsky Sport reports .

Germany loses about 30 billion euros in taxes every year due to the fact that the fiscal authorities do not have enough staff, Tagesschau reports, citing calculations carried out by the state tax authorities. According to experts, the fiscal authorities lack about 15 thousand employees to carry out all the necessary inspections of enterprises and individuals regarding the payment of taxes.

In Talas (the administrative center of the Talas region of Kyrgyzstan), where unrest involving opposition supporters began on April 6, police used tear gas to disperse the protesters. This was reported by Fergana.Ru news agency . The police used gas to drive the opposition away from the building of the regional police department. According to the agency, the protesters were scattered, but later gathered again in the vicinity of the building.

Chain reaction A series of terrorist attacks in Russia continued with explosions in Dagestan and Ingushetia In recent days, new links have appeared in the chain of the Moscow and Kizlyar terrorist attacks.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on the media to carry out “subtle and reasonable” work to create an atmosphere of intolerance towards corruption in the country. reports this ITAR-TASS with reference to the statement of the head of state made at a meeting of the anti-corruption council. “It (the work) should not be primitive or stupid,” the president said. Medvedev also proposed using the Internet in the fight against corruption.

General parliamentary elections in Great Britain will be held on May 6. reports this BBC News . Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the official date for the election after a meeting with Elizabeth II , during which the Queen gave formal consent to the dissolution of Parliament. The setting of an official election date marks the start of the election race in the UK. The upcoming elections will be the first in his career for the current prime minister.

The head coach of Inter Milan, Jose Mourinho, was presented with an overcoat before the return match of the 1/4 finals of the Champions League with CSKA , which will take place on April 6 in Moscow at the Luzhniki Stadium. made an unusual gift to the Milan coach A correspondent for the newspaper “Soviet Sport” after a press conference held on April 5. Journalists from a Russian publication have made a gift to Mourinho for the third time.

Former President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko called cynical the decision of the court, which declared illegal his decree conferring the title of Hero of Ukraine on the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) Stepan Bandera. “Such provocative technologies are especially cynical and dangerous precisely on the eve of the celebration of the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War,” Yushchenko said in a statement published on the website of the Our Ukraine party.

Official Seoul refused to take responsibility for the publication of cartoons in connection with the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro. This was reported by the Russian News Service , citing a source at the South Korean Embassy in Moscow. According to the radio station’s interlocutor, The Korea Times, which published the cartoons, is a separate newspaper with its own opinion and its own bosses. It has nothing to do with the government of the country.

06.04.2010, 17:27:00 version Print | PDA/PDA Gas storage facility in Poland. Photo from the PGNiG press service Who will warm Europe? Shale gas is now being sought in Poland. However, for now the EU makes do with traditional The gas fever that has gripped the United States over the past couple of years has also reached Eastern Europe. One of the largest importers of fuel in the region - Poland - may find itself the owner of gigantic reserves of shale gas.

The representative of the German Green Party, Claudia Hemmerling, proposed that the unemployed, instead of sitting on the Hartz-IV social benefit, should get a job as inspectors cleaning Berlin streets from dog excrement, TAZ reports. In this way, according to the animal rights expert, who has sat in the Berlin parliament since 1995, people will get jobs and the streets will become cleaner. “What is happening now on the sidewalks and in the streets is simply disgusting,” said Hemmerling.

The British electronic project Unkle, led by musician and DJ James Lavelle, will be the first band to perform at the new Moscow club ARENA MOSCOW. As reported to Lenta.Ru by the Melnitsa concert agency, Unkle's performance at the nightclub located at Leningradsky Prospekt, building 31, building 4, will take place on May 21. The Moscow band Everything is made in China will perform as the opening act for Unkle. The club itself will open to visitors the day before.

Moscow CSKA lost to Inter Milan in the return match of the 1/4 finals of the Champions League and stopped fighting in this tournament. On April 6, the army team lost to the Italian team in Moscow at the Luzhniki Stadium with a score of 0:1. Inter reached the semi-finals, where they will play against London's Arsenal or Spain's Barcelona .

Inter's leading midfielder Wesley Sneijder has healed from an ankle injury and will be able to take the field in the Champions League match against CSKA , which will take place on the evening of April 6 in Moscow, reports the online publication Goal.com. Sneijder injured his ankle on April 5 during pre-match training at the Luzhniki Grand Sports Arena.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov agreed to become a candidate for the post of president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). reports this RIA Novosti . According to Zhukov, if his candidacy is nominated, it will be “very honorable” for him. The Deputy Prime Minister said that several sports federations were negotiating with him about the possible nomination of his candidacy.