Russia will try to maximize the recommendations of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), although I do not agree with many provisions of the report on the situation in the Russian Federation, which was presented at the spring session PACE. This was stated on Monday at a press conference at Interfax, the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Konstantin Kosachev. "We do not agree with many provisions of this report, but we are not going to dismiss from it.

When Nurpashi Kulaev, squinting, came into the world of the courtroom filled with people, a crowd of mothers who lost their children fell upon him, the last surviving militant from the gang of terrorists who captured school number 1 in Beslan, shouting: “Beast! Detaibuier!”, The newspaper The Observer writes (translation on the site Inopressa.ru ).

The head of the faculty of cultural studies and journalism of the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Colonel Stanislav Mikhailov was detained for extortion. According to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, on the eve of the police, Vladimir Chernetsov, deputy commander of the troops of the Western operational command in weapons, head of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Belarus.

The amendment to the law regulating the possibility of re -electing chapters of the regional executive branch has nothing to do with the elections of the President of the Russian Federation, said the chairman of the CEC, Alexander Veshnyakov.

The monument to the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp of Riga-Keiserwald will be opened on Wednesday in the Riga Mesaparta at the Sarkandaugavsky railway crossing, BNS was told by the German Embassy in Latvia, Interfax reports. The funds for the construction of the monument were allocated by the Riga City Duma, the German Embassy and the organization of PAX Christi from the German city of Munster.

At the Central House of Artists, an exhibition of the famous British sculptor Tony Cragg was opened under the name "Heaviness and Tenderness". Critics consider this sculptor the largest artist of our time, and his work is decorated with the best museums in the world. A series of expositions dedicated to the famous artists of our time began with this exhibition.

On this Monday, the Orthodox believers begins Petrov post, which will continue for 15 days. According to church canons, the summer post begins a week after the festival of the Holy Trinity, which this year fell on June 19. Thus, Petrov’s duration is different every year: the longest lasts six weeks, the shortest one is eight days, Interfax reports.

The current champion of the UK Open Tennis Championship Maria Sharapova took another confident step to protect her title, outplaying the Frenchwoman Natalie Desha with a score of 6: 4, 6: 2. On the main "herbal" tournament of the season, the best tennis player in Russia reached the quarter -finals, and so far has not lost a single set. Moreover, in each of the three fights, she gave to the rivals no more than six games.

American director Roland Joffe (Mission, Death Fields) according to Larry Koen ("Mobile", "Telephone booth") shoots the Psychological thriller "captured" at Mosfilm. It is assumed that shooting will be completed in July. In the main roles of the picture, Elisha Katbert ("House of wax", "neighbor", "American cake"), Daniel Gilles ("Bride and Predazeli", "Head in the Clouds") are shot.

For the first time since the end of the Cold War in the United States, the production of plutonium begins. The Bush administration decided to resume the production of Plutonium-238. The federal authorities said that in the next 30 years, 150 kilograms of this radioactive substance will be produced in the Aidaho National Laboratory. This project will expire $ 1.5 billion. The project managers refuse to inform why the American government needed Plutonium.

In the southeast of Moscow, a massive fight occurred on Monday morning. According to law enforcement agencies, the fight occurred on Andropov Avenue near the house 27. Three men turned to one of the capital's hospitals for medical help. The victims who arrived by the police reported that about 10 people attacked them from hooligan motives on the street, who began to beat them with batons and empty bottles. Having inflicted beatings to men, attackers disappeared, RIA Novosti reports.

State Duma deputies worked fruitfully this year: adopted the law on the cancellation of the elections of governors, introduced new rules for political parties, canceled the elections in single -mandate districts, adopted the Housing Code. Therefore, in the summer it is necessary to relax properly and gain strength, writes New Gazeta .

The Pope Benedict XVI called on motorists, many of whom in the summer go on vacation, not to lose vigilance, as this can lead to "tragic death." “Unfortunately, every day, especially on weekends, the lives of many people are interrupted during an accident on the road, half of them are young people,” dad said during a Sunday appeal to believers from the window of his residence, Interfax reports.

In the Moscow region, as a result of a hurricane on Sunday, one person died, about 1000 people are left without electricity. In Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, a 34-year-old man died due to the defeat of the electric shock, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies said. About 1000 people in 24 settlements remain without power supply: 15 - in the Taldomsky district, 5 - in Orekhovo -Zuevsky, 4 in Klinsky, the operational attendant of the Ministry of Emergencies added.

Three people were killed, 30 were injured in the explosion of a mined car in Iraq on Monday, AFP reports with reference to a source in the Iraq Ministry of Internal Affairs and medical sources. The explosion thundered at 18:30 local time in the quarter of the New Baghdad near the market, where there were many people. Earlier, the AP agency reported that the explosion occurred near the Sunni Mosque "As-Samarraya".