The star of the World Cinema Fanny Ardan on Friday, June 27, arrives in the Russian capital. At the XXV anniversary of the Moscow International Film Festival, the famous French actress will present the film directed by Franco Dzeffirelli "Kallas Forever", where Ardan starred in the title role - the opera primadonna. This picture will be shown on June 29 at the solemn closure of the film festival.

Eight people, including six children, were killed by militants of the Islamist group in the Algerian village of Tablat, 80 km south of the capital of the country. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to sources in the Algerian Security Service. Armed terrorists attacked a family who lived in a remote area tonight. The criminals took with them a 24-year-old hostage.

In the third, in the third day of the state visit to the UK, reception, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not come to a tailcoat, as in the previous two days, but in a regular strict costume. Lyudmila Putin was dressed in a dark dress with shawl. The Russian side gave a response in Spencer House in honor of the Queen of Great Britain. Elizabeth II appeared on a banquet in a light green dress and with many decorations with diamonds.

In Barcelona, ​​the first shelter for elderly homosexuals and lesbians will be opened in Europe. This was announced by the President of the Alainas Foundation Aladino Evaluated at the presentation of this project. He clarified that in the shelter for the elderly there will be 24 places, 480 thousand euros were allocated for its creation. Now in the suburbs of Barcelona or near it a suitable building is looking for.

On Friday, the annual general meeting of shareholders of Gazprom OJSC was held. The shareholders appointed dividends and elected the new board of directors. The meeting voted against expanding the composition of the board of directors to 15 people, 11 managers were included in it, as before. Members of the New Board of Directors again elected the chairman of the Council of the First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

In St. Petersburg, there was an explosion of domestic gas in an apartment on the second floor of a 9-storey residential building located on the Kotelnikov alley in the Primorsky district. The explosion thundered about 5:30 on Friday, Interfax reports. A fire broke out from behind the explosion in the apartment and the wall collapsed. Currently, the fire has been eliminated, there is a disassembly of the structures that fell apart during the explosion.

In Sochi, during a bathing at sea, a family of vacationers drowned. According to the press service of the city police department, the tragedy occurred on Tuesday evening. Four vacationers from Izhevsk - parents with two children - decided to swim on an unequipped beach at the mouth of the Mzymta River in the Adler district of Sochi. The random witnesses who were on the shore noticed that people began to sink, and reported this to the nearest rescue point.

The US Army soldier was shot dead in the head at the moment when he bought DVD in the Baghdad shop. So far, nothing is known about whether the American soldier died, since immediately after the shot he was taken away by two colleagues, reports Reuters. "When he took out the money from his pocket, I heard a loud cotton. And then, when he fell, two soldiers who took him away ran into the store immediately," the store owner said.

In the Mytishchi district of the Moscow region with a gunshot wound, a corpse of a citizen of China 22-year-old Luke Pui Man was found in the head. According to the source in the Main Directorate of the Moscow Region, the body was found the day before in the forest in the forest near the village of Pirovo. According to experts, death occurred about three days ago. It was established that on June 23, the Chinese woman flew to Moscow. A criminal case has been opened, reports Interfax.

The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, Vladimir (Sabodan), will be awarded the International Prize of the Foundation Andrei the First -Called (FAP) "For Faith and Fidelity". As RIA Novosti was informed in FAP, the award ceremony will begin at 9.00 in the assembly hall of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

Near the city of Ordun in the Basque country, a light plane of the Sokata model disappeared, on board which, in addition to the pilot, were 2 tourists from Germany. They flew from Madrid to the south of France, RIA Novosti reports. According to the national radio, rescuers and gendarmes, as well as the military who involved the aircraft and the Spanish Air Force helicopter, are looking for a disappeared plane.

The Russian Foreign Ministry "at the moment does not have confirmed data on the confiscation of apartments of citizens who have double Russian and Turkmen citizenship," said Alexander Yakovenko, official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on Friday.

In the capital of Finland on Friday, an exhibition of treasures of the St. Petersburg Zoological Museum opened. The central exhibit, of course, is the mummy of the mammoth of Dima, who died about 39 thousand years ago and found in Siberia in 1977. Visitors will also be shown to the 3-4-week “sister” Dima Masha, who was discovered in 1988 in permafrost in North-East Siberia. The opening of the Russian exhibition aroused the interest of the Finns in mammoths.

At the age of 100, the former Senator Strrom Tarmond died, only in January of this year he left his post. As his son said today, he died in the hospital of his hometown of Edzhfield (South Carolina) late in the evening on Thursday. Tarmond, whose political career lasted 70 years, left a noticeable mark in the history of the United States. For 48 years, he met in the Senate - a record achievement for the American congress. He also owns another record - the longest performance before colleagues.

The US Congress recognized Israel's right to respond to Palestinian attacks and stated that the Middle East settlement is possible only if the Palestinian terror is stopped. The resolution adopted by a majority vote (399 versus 5) condemns the terrorist attacks that occurred after the meeting of the US President with Israeli Prime Minister Sharon and the Palestinian leader Abu Mazen.