The election commission of the RFU approved seven people as candidates for the post of president of the organization. This was announced at a special press conference by the head of the union’s election commission, Denis Rogachev.

The Italian automaker Fiat, which refused to cooperate with Sollers and planned to develop independently in the Russian market, encountered difficulties in approving and constructing a plant in St. Petersburg. According to the Kommersant newspaper, the company has not yet managed to agree on a loan with Sberbank, submit a plant project to the Ministry of Industry and Trade and select a production site.

Relatives of 25-year-old Latino Manuel Angel Diaz, who was killed by Anaheim (California) police on July 21, have filed a lawsuit against the city and its police department demanding $50 million, Fox News reports. Almost simultaneously, the city council voted unanimously to ask the US Department of Justice to conduct a full investigation into the man's death.

26.07.2012, 22:19:10 version Print | PDA/PDA Still from Google video Google launched a gigabit Internet network in the United States Google has launched an experimental high-speed Internet access network in the American city of Kansas City, writes Engadget. Its theoretical throughput is gigabit per second. During tests conducted by Google engineers, download speeds on the new network reached 973 megabits per second, BGR reports.

The lead singer of the American rock band Lamb of God, Randy Blythe, who was arrested in Prague for murder, paid an increased bail on July 25. According to The Guardian, its amount was eight million crowns ($384 thousand). However, the local prosecutor's office asked the court not to release the musician. As The Virginian-Pilot notes, the judge has five days to make a decision. time Blythe has posted bail This is not the first .

Citigroup bank estimated Greece's chances of leaving the eurozone within the next year and a half at 90 percent, Bloomberg reports. Credit institution analysts updated their previous forecast, where the probability was considered in the range of 50-75 percent. Now the so-called "troika" of Greece's creditors - the European Commission, the IMF and the ECB - are negotiating to provide the country with the next tranche, without which it will have to default.

A militant, who was previously considered killed and burned, is suspected of murdering an investigator in Khasavyurt. agency reported this on July 26 The Interfax . According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the police investigator was killed by a member of the illegal armed group, Elbrus Butaev. “Butaev was preliminary identified as one of the three militants who resisted on July 17 along the Khasavyurt-Mutsalaul road.

A third criminal case was opened against the former general director of the Siberian Chemical Plant Vladimir Korotkevich and his deputy for supply Leonid Romanenko. Like the first two, it was initiated under the article “commercial bribery,” reports the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

The families of Anders Breivik's victims have appealed to the court to demand that the audio recording of his final speech at the hearing be removed from YouTube, Agence France-Presse reports , citing lawyers for the relatives of the victims. Previously, the court banned the distribution of audio and video recordings of this terrorist’s speech and only allowed the publication of his speech. The audio recording was posted in four parts by a German user under the nickname opluchting.

Former Barclays chief operating officer Jerry del Missier has agreed to resign amid the LIBOR rate manipulation scandal in exchange for an £8.75 million bonus. This was reported by Sky News, citing unnamed sources. Del Missier resigned on July 3. On the same day, Barclays CEO Bob Diamond resigned, and a day earlier, Chairman of the Board of Directors Mark Agius resigned.

Didn't return from interrogation New suspects appeared in the Bolotnaya case On the evening of July 25 in Moscow, law enforcement officers detained two more suspects in connection with the riots on Bolotnaya Square. Nikolai Kavkazsky, a lawyer for the human rights organization “Committee for Civil Rights”, and Alexey Polikhovich, a part-time student from the Russian State University of Social Sciences, were taken for interrogation. The young people were not released from interrogation.

Russian Technologies will receive stakes in 16 state-owned enterprises, including those working in the field of electronics development and fire fighting. The Kommersant newspaper writes about this with reference to a letter from the Ministry of Industry and Trade to the Ministry of Economic Development. In the document, the department asks to approve the draft of the corresponding presidential decree, which has already been approved by the Ministry of Finance, as soon as possible.

Argentine President Cristina Kirchner announced that a portrait of the wife of former President Juan Peron, Eva, will appear on the new 100-peso bill, The Daily Telegraph reports. She will be the first woman to appear on an Argentine banknote. The 100-peso bill currently features the image of 19th-century politician Julio Argentino Roca. According to Kirchner, initially the Eva Peron banknotes will be released in a limited edition, which is tied to the 60th anniversary of her death.

A significant part of the capital outflow from Russia recorded in 2011 occurred in the banking sector. stated this in an interview with The Financial Times The head of the Russian Central Bank, Sergei Ignatiev, . According to his calculations, of the total outflow of $80 billion, $23 billion came from the financial sector. Of these 23 billion, almost half - $11 billion - were withdrawn by subsidiaries of foreign banks.

In Krasnodar, an unknown attacker beat up a federal judge. This was reported on July 26 on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. A masked criminal attacked the judge in the morning when he drove out of the yard of his house and got out of the car to close the gate. The offender began beating the judge with a baseball bat, causing numerous injuries, including a laceration to the head. The victim's neighbor noticed what was happening.