On Monday, June 6, UN chief Ban Ki-moon, whose mandate expires in 2011, announced his intention to seek a second term. His successful re-election will most likely be helped by the position of the five permanent members of the organization's Security Council, whose support he enjoys. Meanwhile, the effectiveness of the work of the UN Secretary General has been raising questions for several years now.

Kazakhstan's BTA Bank received for debt a project of a shopping center in Odintsovo, previously owned by the development company RTM. newspaper writes about this The Vedomosti . According to the publication, the Moscow arbitration court satisfied the claim of BTA Bank for the recovery of two land plots with a total area of ​​5.4 hectares in March of this year.

All the jokes for the host of the “ProjectorParisHilton” program are created by the screenwriter - about this on his Facebook wrote journalist Sergei Dorenko . According to Dorenko, only Alexander Tsekalo improvises on stage. The rest of the presenters - Ivan Urgant , Garik Martirosyan and Sergey Svetlakov - read the text prepared by the screenwriter for 3 hours. The half-hour episode of the program is compiled from this recording.

The rector of the Institute of Theology and International Relations and his son were killed in the Dagestan capital of Makhachkala, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday evening, citing a representative of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan. The incident occurred on Chernyshevsky Street. According to preliminary data, an attempt was made on the rector's life - unknown persons fired at the car in which he, as well as his son and a security guard, were located.

Saudi Arabia has banned the import of vegetables from the EU due to the E. coli epidemic . This was announced by the country's Minister of Agriculture Fahd Balghunaim, the Arab News newspaper writes . The temporary ban will come into force on June 8. According to Balgunaim, the decision to limit imports was made based on information from the websites of the EU, the World Health Association (WHO) and the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC).

The President of the Moldavian Tennis Federation, Igor Turcan, who was injured in a car explosion in Chisinau, died in hospital. reported this RIA Novosti at the medical institution. The explosion of a Lada car with Russian license plates occurred around noon in a parking lot near an office center on Sergeya Lazo Street, not far from the presidential residence and government building. The press reported two versions of what happened.

In the center of Moscow, a residential building at 9 Sadovnicheskaya Street caught fire. According to RIA Novosti , the second, third and fourth floors of the five-story building were engulfed in fire. At the same time, according to Interfax , a fire occurred in house number 10 on the same street. The fire was assigned the second category of complexity on a five-point scale. No casualties were reported. Fire crews arrived at the scene. According to the agency, the house is half occupied.

One of the leaders of the Latvian opposition party Harmony Center, Sergei Dolgopolov, said that the Central Council could consider including outgoing President Valdis Zatlers in its ranks. reports this DELFI . “Let him make a statement, we will consider it,” the politician said. He expressed the opinion that it is too early to talk about the ideological compatibility of the Central Council with Zatlers (for example, in matters relating to the Russian language).

The friendly match between the national teams of Russia and Cameroon, which took place on June 7 in Salzburg, ended with a score of 0:0. Lenta.ru conducted an online broadcast of the game. Previously, in a friendly match with Iran in February 2011, the Russians lost 1:0. The game with Qatar, which took place at the end of March in Doha, ended with a score of 1:1. The next friendly match of the Russian national team will take place in August 2011 with the Serbian team.

Over the next five years, more than 187 billion rubles will be allocated for the development of culture in Moscow. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the capital’s Department of Culture. As stated in the draft program "Moscow Culture for 2012-2016", a total of 187.224 billion rubles will be allocated for cultural needs. The Department of Culture will receive most of this money (154.5 billion). Another 17.4 billion will be transferred to the Department of Cultural Heritage.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Energy and the Federal Antimonopoly Service to deal with the fuel shortage that arose in the Altai Territory at the end of April. There, most independent gas stations closed last weekend due to a fuel shortage. The remaining gas stations were forced to increase prices by 20 percent, while queues of many kilometers appeared at the gas stations of large chain companies.

Yemen's Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of 30 al-Qaeda militants in the southern province of Abyan. reports this Agence France-Presse . According to the Associated Press , a statement from officials who spoke on condition of anonymity indicated that the operation to eliminate the militants began on the evening of June 6 and continued on June 7. No details of what happened are provided.

Member of the executive committee of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF), Alexander Steblin, advised Zinetula Bilyaletdinov to combine the post of head coach of the national team with work at Ak Bars, so as not to become a “walking corpse.” According to Steblin, if Bilyaletdinov leaves Ak Bars, he will bury both himself and the national team, reports the online publication Sportbox.ru . was fired from the post of head coach of the Russian national team On May 26, Vyacheslav Bykov .

The VI trend group of companies and the IMHO VI agency, subsidiaries of the Video International (VI) company, will sell media (banner) Internet advertising in the regions. newspaper writes about this The Vedomosti with reference to a representative of VI Trend. Companies have already begun selling advertising in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, cities with a developed Internet market. Previously, Yandex and Mail.ru were federal companies operating in the regional advertising market.

In the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, police detained two French residents of Turkish origin who kidnapped a young girl. As L'essentiel reports , the victim of the kidnappers was their compatriot, also living in France, whom the attackers were going to force into marriage. According to Agence France-Presse , the girl was kidnapped in the capital of the federal state of Saarland - Saarbrücken, where she and her companion came from French Lorraine.