Moscow said goodbye on Tuesday with the actress of theater and cinema, People's Artist of Russia Inna Ulyanova. She died on June 9 at the 71st year of her life. Friends, colleagues and fans of the actress’s talent came to the civilian memorial service, which took place in the theater of the Taganka Actors Theater. “I was simply amazed at the news of her death,” the artist Leonid Broneva said in an interview with ITAR -TASS.

At a concert in Barcelona, ​​participants in the famous British group Destiny's Child announced the upcoming decay of the team. The official statement says that girls believe that it was time to do solo careers. Before the decay, Destiny's Child will arrange a tour of North America, which finishes September 10 in Vancouver. The history of the group will end with the same show, reports the Air Force .

According to recent surveys, 90% of Muscovites and 89% of Russians support the idea of ​​holding the 2012 Olympics in Moscow. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the director of the information department of the Black Sea Committee "Moscow 2012" Peter Vasiliev.

Vladimir Putin signed an order on the allocation of 5 million rubles of the administration of the Kamchatka region in the second quarter of the current year from the reserve fund of the President of the Russian Federation for the construction of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The press service of the head of state reported on the eve of ITAR-TASS.

The first attempt by Paul Allen in rocket science did not foresee anything good. “My cousin and I tried to build a rocket from the legs of an aluminum chair,” he recalls. The future billionaire, who was then 12 years old, got zinc and sulfur and pushed fuel into the phone. He calculated the composition correctly, but did not take into account the temperature of aluminum melting.

The captain of the Georgian national team and the defender of the Italian “Milan” Kakha Kaladze plans to meet in Moscow with the governor of Chukotka Roman Abramovich on the issue of his possible transition to the Chelsea London football club. According to ITAR-TASS, Kaladze said this in an interview with Sarbeli sports newspaper, published on Tuesday.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II expressed concern in the demographic situation in Russia. "Every year from drug addiction, alcoholism, trauma on the roads, technogenic disasters and artificial termination of pregnancy, the population of our country decreases by almost a million people," the patriarch’s appeal to participants of the II International Spiritual and Medical Conference "Church and Medicine", which has opened in St. Petersburg today.

The chairman of the Austria Parliament Andreas Kol promised to help in the restoration of the Russian St. Nicholas Cathedral in Vienna. On the eve of the Austrian speaker, this cathedral visited, where restoration work has been underway since September 2003, the day before, the Interfax agency was told in the Press Service of the Russian Orthodox Church at European International Organizations.

In Yakutia, police officers had to use weapons to neutralize a drunk man who captured two minor hostages and wounded a local operative.

The chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Army General Yuri Baluevsky said on Tuesday that only real estate, which is located at the 142nd plant, would be transferred to the Georgian side. "The transfer of the Georgian side of the 142nd plant is actually completed, but as they say, the appetite comes during eating, and the Georgian side has a desire to receive the movable property that belongs to the Armed Forces of Russia when transferring the plant.

The explosion of the Grozny-Moscow train, for which a three-kilogram charge of TNT was used, raises many questions from the investigation and the press. Fortunately, there were no casualties, but only due to the fact that the powerful bomb exploded before the locomotive, and not under one of the wagons filled with passengers at 100%. The second strangeness is the choice of a terrorist place.

Germany will not send a contingent of Bundeswehr to Iraq. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Yoshka Fisher. According to him, "the adamant position on this issue of the federal government has not changed." "We strongly doubt that the strengthening of international peacekeeping forces in Iraq will help stabilize the situation in this Middle Eastern country," Fisher said.

The Federal Service for Supervision of Nature Management (Rosprirodnadzor) discovered violations in the organization of engineering work to prepare the construction of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (VSU) in Buryatia. "During the audit, illegal deforestation was discovered near Lake Baikal, as well as other serious violations of environmental legislation," said Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor.

A special tribunal, which will judge Saddam Hussein, on Monday released a video of interrogations of a former dictator and four of his associates. The message, which accompanies the video, says that Saddam interrogate about crimes related to the execution of at least 50 Iraqis in 1982 in the Shiite city of Dujail, 50 miles north of Baghdad, in revenge for an unsuccessful attempt to attempt, reports Ar.

On Monday, late in Treviso, the General Director of the PBC CSKA Sergey Kushchenko and Ettore Messin put signatures under the document according to which the Italian specialist for three years will be the head coach of the army club. The last details of the negotiations were devoted to the settlement of formalities between CSKA and Benetton clubs, the Army press service said.