In the conditions of diametrically opposite assessments, the 59th Theater Festival ended in Avignon. Over the past three decades, he has become the most original in his program and scandalous in the atmosphere. So, if the Figaro newspaper, after part of the public and criticism, called it a “cultural disaster”, then no less numerous specialists and spectators note the revolutionary and avant-garde character of the ended festival.

Gazprom collaborates with a person who is looking for the FBI on suspicion of fraud, said the head of the SBU of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov. In an interview with The Financial Times, Alexander Turchinov announced that he had indirect evidence that Rosukrenergo, a 50% of which belongs to Gazprombank, is indirectly controlled by criminal authority Semen Mogilevich .

The Georgian border guards of the Akhaltsikh regional department in Ninotsmind on the border with Armenia stopped a column with Russian military equipment. According to RIA Novosti on Thursday in the Department of Security of the State Border of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the column moved with planned passes, but when checking the equipment, border guards discovered unaccounted weapons. The column consisted of four trucks and four units of armored vehicles.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak proposed convening an Extraordinary summit of Arab states in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm-Esh-Sheikh on August 3, where terrorist attacks occurred on the weekend. This appeal sounded in the president’s speech in the Province of Manuhia to representatives of the local leadership, ITAR-TASS reports.

A storm warning was announced on Thursday in the Primorsky Territory, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Primorsky Territory reported. Its reason is a powerful cyclone that came from China and brought strong rains accompanied by a storm wind. As reported in the Primorsky Hydrometeorological Center, the cyclone will determine the weather in the region for three days.

The cassation collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the refusal of the CEC of the Russian Federation to conduct the all -Russian referendum initiated by the Communists. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the cassation appeal of the Communist Party against the decision of the Supreme Court, which on June 2 also recognized the refusal of the Central Election Commission on June 2.

A resident of Ethiopia, who had 77 children from 11 wives, regrets this and says that he is in complete despair. The 56-year-old Aiyatt Nure says that his whole condition melted due to the growing needs of a huge family. “I would like my children to be farmers, but I have no land. I would like them to go to school, but I have no money,” he says.

In the center of Moscow on Thursday evening there was a fire in an administrative building located next to GUM. The fire service reported that the signal of the fire in the five -story building 4/5 on Nikolskaya Street was received on the remote control "01" at 20:40 Moscow time. There are several stores in this building, as well as offices of various commercial companies. Arriving firefighters quickly shot down open burning, after which the fire went into inter -story floors.

On September 5, the new studio album of Rolling Stones will be released, the first over the past eight years. The previous studio album of the group, Bridges to Babylon, was released in 1997. The new plate is called "A Bigger Bang". As stated in a statement by the veteran rockers, this headline (“greater explosion”) reflects the “fascination of the musicians by the scientific theory about the origin of the Universe,” the BBC reports.

The number of victims of the strongest floods in the Indian state of Maharastra in the west of India increased to 786 people on Thursday. Of these, 273 died in the economic capital of India, the administrative center of the state, the city of Mumbai. This was reported in the state emergency unit. Life in Mumbai continues to be paralyzed - schools, financial institutions do not work, the airport is closed. The loss of such strong precipitation has not been observed in this area since 1910.

In Makhachkala in the evening on Thursday, another explosion thundered. According to the law enforcement agencies of Dagestan, the explosive device of an unidentified type worked on the side of the Makhachkala-1 airport on the sidelines on the northwestern outskirts of the city when the police UAZ passed by. The incident occurred around 23:00 Moscow time. The windshield was knocked out by the explosive wave, the car received slight damage. Five policemen received light concussions.

In Moscow, the robber surrendered to the police, offended by accomplices who did not share the revenue with him. A 22-year-old resident of Adygea came to the police with a guilty day before, almost immediately after a committed robbery. "The young man said that he and his two accomplices attacked a warehouse on Electrodnaya Street owned by a non -ferrous metal company," the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate said.

The Church is open to all people, including unsettled ones, so its ministers are constant in constant danger, they note in the Moscow Patriarchate.

The British government intends to abandon the terms "unmarried" and "bachelor" (Bachelor) and conduct a reform of marriage laws, which will coincide with the legalization of same -sex marriages. Traditional terms for marriage of men and women will disappear according to the new rules that will be introduced this year. Len Cook, the head of the registration service of acts of civil status in England and Wales, decided that these words should not be used in marriage evidence and other documents.

The famous Canadian rap singer, Baba Brinkman, transformed some of the famous works of Jeffrey Choser into hip-hop, thus turning to schoolchildren. The tasks of Brinkman were primarily to arrange modern young people in the “Canterbury stories”, written by the English poet of the Middle Ages in the XIV century, BBC reports. "Canterbury stories" is a book of twenty -two poetic and two prose short stories and interlodes connecting them.