27.08.2010, 16:42:10 version Print | PDA/PDA Rally of defenders of the Khimki Forest. Photo by Lenta.Ru Medvedev ex machina The President stopped the logging of the Khimki forest Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stopped the logging of the Khimki forest.

2K Games has announced the release date for Minerva's Den, a new addition to the game BioShock 2, Gamespot reports. It will be available on August 31 for downloading from Xbox Live and PSN and will cost gamers $10. The release of Minerva's Den on personal computers will take place later; the developers have not yet announced the exact date. Minerva's Den will be the first full-fledged story addition for the single-player mode in BioShock 2.

A car driven by the US Ambassador to Malta was involved in an accident near the town of Calabasas in California. reported this on August 26 The Associated Press . The Hyundai Accent, which was carrying diplomat Douglas Kmiec, a clergyman and a nun, was moving along the Mulholland Highway when the driver suddenly lost control and the car fell into a drainage ditch. As a result, all three received injuries of varying severity.

Representatives of the CDU/CSU and FDP parties, after several months of intense discussion, agreed on a draft law on so-called preventive detention, which is subject to criminals who have served their sentences but are still considered dangerous to society, ZDF reports. Previously, the European Court of Human Rights declared the existing practice of preventive detention in Germany illegal.

Mosenergosbyt, the largest energy sales company in Russia, filed a claim with the Moscow Arbitration Court against Mezhprombank, demanding the return of 328 million rubles. As the Kommersant against the bank of Senator Sergei Pugachev . newspaper writes, for the first time a large company with state participation has made significant claims According to the publication, Mosenergosbyt has become the second largest creditor after Severstal, demanding money from Mezhprombank through the courts.

The city court of Petropavlovsk (the administrative center of the North Kazakhstan region) rejected the claim of pensioner Nikolai Kolbasinsky, who demanded that his neighbors be punished for disrespecting his party card. This was reported by the KTK TV channel . At the court hearing, as it turned out, the plaintiff could not remember which neighbor advised him to “go to the toilet with his party card.” As a result, the claim and compensation for moral damage to the pensioner were denied.

A bag with two pistols and cartridges was found in the storage room of the Leningradsky railway station in Moscow. Based on the discovery, a criminal case has been opened for illegal weapons trafficking, according to the website of the Moscow Department of Internal Affairs for railway transport. Station employees told the police officers who carried out the raid that there was a large sports bag in the storage room, which no one had come for for several days.

The head coach of the Russian national football team, Dick Advocaat, has named the squad for the first matches of the 2012 European Championship qualifying tournament. Advocaat called 21 players to the games with Andorra (September 3) and Slovakia (September 7), according to the official website of the Russian Football Union (RFU). Noteworthy is the invitation of national team newcomer Alan Kasaev from Rubin.

The Russian Ministry of Culture has allocated 10 million rubles for the restoration of the Church of the Annunciation in Novgorod, RIA Novosti reports , citing a statement from a representative of the Novgorod State Museum-Reserve. Four million rubles will be spent on developing a project to preserve the historical building, erected in 1343; another six million - directly for the work itself. It is planned that the procedure for carrying out the work will be approved by the end of 2010.

Valery Ivashchenko, the former acting Minister of Defense of Ukraine in the government of Yulia Tymoshenko , admitted to committing illegal actions, the Segodnya newspaper writes , citing a source in the Prosecutor General's Office. Ivashchenko, who is under arrest in one of the pre-trial detention centers in Kyiv on suspicion of abuse of official position, has completely repented and is willingly cooperating with the investigation, the department said.

27.08.2010, 15:14:52 version Print | PDA/PDA Lokomotiv captain Dmitry Sychev. Photo from the club's official website Downhill Lokomotiv's crisis worsened with relegation from the Europa League Lokomotiv Moscow failed to reach the group stage of the Europa League, losing in the fourth qualifying round to Swiss Lausanne. This team plays in the second division of the Swiss championship, and entered the Europa League as a finalist in the country's Cup last season.

Ukraine has sufficient reserves of buckwheat, grain and other goods to ensure the stability of the food market and prices. This statement was made by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, reports the Ukrainian News agency . According to Azarov, reserves will be able to compensate for a slight reduction in harvest due to abnormal drought. “There is no reason for a price jump, much less for a shortage of goods on store shelves,” the prime minister assured.

A suspicious box was discovered at the Barrikadnaya station of the Moscow metro, which is currently being examined by police. reports this RIA Novosti . As the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate on the Moscow Metro told the agency, an ownerless toolbox was found on the platform. The location of the discovery was cordoned off, after which a dog handler and a service dog began examining the box.

Astronomers working with data from the Kepler telescope have for the first time been able to estimate the masses of planets based only on the information transmitted by the telescope. The researchers' article appeared in the journal Science . New Scientist writes briefly about the work. Kepler, launched into space in May 2009, searches for extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, using the transit method.

Rosneft is close to purchasing a 50 percent stake in the German Ruhr Oel GmbH from the Venezuelan PDVSA. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing its sources. Upon completion of the transaction, the Russian company may receive Ruhr Oel's shares in four refineries in Germany. The transaction amount, which could be closed in September 2010, will be 1-2 billion dollars. PDVSA and British BP each control 50 percent of Ruhr Oel.