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.

In the village of Karpilovka, the Rivne region, a ninth grade student received a "deuce" in the exam, after which he committed suicide. On the eve of the young man, they assessed the “unsatisfactory” for the Ukrainian exam, told Dmitry Melnik, inspector of the Center for Propaganda of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Rivne region .

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 ).

The 87-year-old Catholic priest, who survived the destruction of Polish officers in 1940, supported the lawsuit against Russia, which the relatives of the victims of Katyn filed in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the Blagoverst-info agency reports.

“The current level of the real ruble course towards the currency basket is quite happy with us, we are unlikely to go to significant changes in the near future,” said the Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Sergey Ignatiev at the International Banking Congress in St. Petersburg on Thursday. Experts believe that the ruble will no longer be as cheap as before.

Berlin youth had a new hobby - to beat random victims and shoot an execution on the video. In particular, a similar series of incidents occurred in March: on the night of March 4 on the sidewalk in one of the areas of Berlin, a group of young people with glasses in their hands attacked two teenagers 16 and 17 years old. Two hours later, the same young people hit a 26-year-old woman in the face of a bicycle lock. Half an hour later, the bandits beat two passers -by 26 and 17 years old.

In the near future, a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad will enter the world market. According to its creators, he will, on the one hand, comply with high world quality standards, and on the other, sharia standards, reports Islam.ru with reference to the ICBirmingham website. The producer of the film is an Islamic television channel. This organization hopes that animation work will appeal to the audience, regardless of religious preferences.

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.

Former FSB Colonel Mikhail Trepashkin, who was serving his sentence on charges of disclosing GOSTaina, again began a hunger strike. According to the Echo of Moscow radio stations in motion for human rights, Trepashkin, along with two other prisoners, protests against repressions from the leadership of the colony. The starving requires a prosecutor’s audit against one of the colony employees. They argue that the major falsifies accusations against prisoners and illegally prevents their release.

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.

In 2005, the number of Russian billionaires, according to Forbes magazine, increased from 27 to 33. Russia, or rather its capital, bathe in money. A visual demonstration of such wealth is a boom in retail. It is most clearly visible on the example of the richest group, for the convenience of which the center of Moscow has turned into a brilliant gallery of elite shops, restaurants, beauty salons and automobile salons.