On Thursday, June 8, in the northern capital, the XIV International Musical Festival "Palaces of St. Petersburg" starts. According to RIA Novosti in the Organizing Committee, as part of the festival, the performances of Russian and foreign musicians will traditionally be held in palaces and mansions belonging to representatives of the Russian imperial family and the highest aristocracy.

At the largest European station worth 700 million euros in Berlin, only one toilet turned out to be 300 thousand passengers in Berlin. Visitors to the LEHRTER BAHNHOF station in Berlin, who urgently need to relieve need, will have to wait. The fact is for 300 thousand passengers who are expected to go through the station daily, the architects provided only one toilet. Women are especially difficult, because their "MZH" on the ground floor of the station has only 10 booths.

In Feodosia, during a rally against Ukraine’s entry into NATO on Thursday, there was a skirmish between supporters and opponents of the North Atlantic Alliance. The protest, in which about 100 people took part, organized the largest opposition Party of Regions under anti -NATO slogans. At the same time, several dozen members of the Civil Party "Time" tried to carry out counter -demonstration in support of NATO and against the breakdown of the summer holiday season in Crimea.

US President George Bush will make a working visit to St. Petersburg on the eve of the Big Eight summit. This was reported to reporters on Thursday by the head of the media unit of the organizing committee of the summit, Dmitry Peskov. According to him, Bush will stop in one of the cottages of the consular town. "Therefore, activity in the press center will begin the day before the summit," Peskov noted.

Two suspects were detained in the murder of two Moscow police officers on April 28 in the southeast of the capital. According to the ITAR-TASS on the eve of the Moscow prosecutor’s office, as a result of active investigative actions, a participant in the murder of police officers was detained by a citizen of Georgia David Zviadadze.

In Volgograd, in the framework of the investigated criminal case, initiated against the mayor of Yevgeny Ishchenko, the governor of the Pskov region Mikhail Kuznetsov was interrogated. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the regional prosecutor's office.

On the “eye” to determine the electric wires under voltage and telephone lines that are said to physically feel how the computer and other electrical appliances work - all these opportunities can be purchased by simply imperial a small magnet under the skin. The implant will respond to external electromagnetic radiation with barely noticeable trembling and vibration of different frequencies.

International terrorist Jordan Abu Musab Az-Zarkavi, "Emir" al-Qaeda "in Iraq, was killed in Baacuba in the province of Dihyal, which is 65 km to the northeast from Baghdad. One of the most wanted terrorists was destroyed on Wednesday evening as a result of the F-16 airstrike.

Researchers from the American University of Rochester created Drosophila, which is allegedly helped in the fight against diabetes. A fly created using genetic engineering, or rather the additive of a genetic marker, known as JNK, lives 40% longer than ordinary (85 days, instead of 60).

Russia does not intend to vote for the extension of the activities of the International Tribunal in the former Yugoslavia (MTBU), the constant representative of the Russian Federation at the UN Vitaliy Churkin said. Russia will seek the tribunal to complete its work on time, Churkin said at a meeting of the UN Security Council.

The employees of the infantry and artillery regiments of Great Britain, starting from this month, offer prizes to help compensate for the lack of recruits, which already led to the needs of the army in 2 thousand soldiers. The army leadership is in this way to overcome the negative consequences of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which form a negative attitude to military service among potential recruits, writes The Independent (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

American astronomers discovered large clusters of carbon around the beta Pictoris star, the evolution of which resembles the evolution of the solar system. According to the National Aeronautics and Research of Cosmic Space (NASA), the young star Beta Pictoris resembles the sun at the initial stage of development, writes the scientific journal Nature.

In the next season of the Russian Hockey Championship in the Premier League, the Spartak Club of the Spartak club, as he has to leave the elite division due to financial difficulties. This was announced on Thursday by RIA Novosti by the press attache of the Moscow team Dinar Kafiskin. She also confirmed the information that the new "Spartak" is not able to finance the team for performing in the Super League.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II on Thursday celebrates the 16th anniversary of intronization (the official beginning of the patriarchal ministry). The day of intronization of Alexy II is celebrated on June 10, but this year the Trinity Parents' Saturday came this year. Therefore, it was decided to transfer the celebrations two days earlier, Interfax reports. More than 3 thousand people took part in them.

Russian President Vladimir Putin demands to simplify the procedure for obtaining construction permits in the regions. “The plenipotentiary representatives in the federal districts will be given instructions to deal with this issue without fail, just as they dealt with the issues of bringing regional legislation in line with the federal legislation together with prosecutors,” Putin said at a meeting on the implementation of national projects.