The Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis published in the newspaper The Financial Times an open letter to the Russian politician to the leader of the United Civil Front and the co-chair of the All-Russian Civil Congress, the ex-champion of the world of chess Harry Kasparov.

The bailiff, who arrived at the Konstantinovsky lighthouse for the presentation of the decision of the Civil Court of Sevastopol on the transfer of 77 hydrographic objects from the Black Sea Fleet of Russia, the Sevastopol branch of state hydrography, was not allowed to the facility. The command of the unit reported that it was subordinate only to the commander of the Black Sea Fleet and will only be executed by his orders, Interfax reports.

At the capacities of the AvtoVAZ plant, the French company Renault wants to produce its cheap cars. According to the newspaper Vedomosti, Russian and French automotivemen are already conducting appropriate negotiations. Cooperation can be designed as a joint venture, but Renault wants to get guarantees in the form of a block packet of the Russian plant. Such a transaction can be framed only with the approval of the Kremlin.

Yukos requires prohibiting the conduct of IPO (primary placement of shares) Rosneft in London, comparing it with the sale of stolen ones. According to The Financial Times , the company sent an appropriate letter to the British Department for Financial Regulation and Supervision (FSA) (full text of the article on the website Inopressa.ru ).

Representatives of the Moscow authorities for the first time responded to the repeated proposals of the chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber on Public Control over the activities of law enforcement agencies, law enforcement agencies and reforming the judicial system of the lawyer Anatoly Kucheyen to enter into a dialogue regarding the conflict in South Butovo .

Bosnian Serb Dragan Nikolich, sentenced by the Hague Tribunal in December 2003 by the 23rd year of imprisonment , was transferred to serve the specified period to Italy. This was announced on Friday by the representative of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (MTBU). Later, the MTBU appeal chamber reduced the prison term of 43-year-old Nikolich to 20 years.

In the south-east of Moscow, an explosion occurred at the slot machine hall on Friday evening. Previously reported a fire, but subsequently this information was not confirmed. The explosion thundered at 22:13 Moscow time Hall on the Myachkovsky Boulevard near the Bratislavskaya metro station. According to Interfax, a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, a dry closet exploded. The source clarified that the plastic booth of the dry closet exploded.

The new title sponsor of the Russian hockey club "Lada" (Togliatti) will be Vnesheconombank. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of HC "Lada" . “Today, the club’s leadership was informed that the chairman of Vnesheconombank Vladimir Dmitriev was appointed president of HC Lada,” the representative of the press service told the agency.

The age qualification for entering the service in the ranks of the US Armed Forces increased from 40 to 42 years old, the New York Times reports. The US Army command took such a step, wanting to expand the contingent of potential recruits. The publication notes that only six months ago the draft age has already risen from 35 to 40 years. Since that time, as the newspaper indicates, more than 1 thousand people who are in this age category have signed up in the army.

Most Russian schoolgirls - 70% - want to be like a nanny Vika from the television series "My Beautiful Nanny". And 60% of schoolchildren consider their idol the protagonist of the American militant "Terminator". Such results of the survey of children were received by Belgorod psychologists, Izvestia write. In nine Belgorod schools, children were offered to fill out a questionnaire compiled by psychologists. The students were interviewed from the 2nd to the 6th grades.

The terms for the rewinding of alcoholic beverages in accordance with the norms of the Unified State Automated Information System (EGAIS) are extended until December 29, 2006. This was told today by the head of the state regulation department in the economy Dmitry Shablinsky. Market participants say that even under this condition, the industry will incur huge losses, and the market cannot be avoided.

The Belarusian border guards detained at the Teruh customs clearance point on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border of a US citizen who tried to deliver a girl who had no documents through the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. As Interfax was told on Friday in law enforcement agencies of Belarus, the US citizen was detained during the border and customs inspection of the train, which was following from Belarus to Ukraine in the direction of Chernigov.

Russian woman Nadezhda Petrova starred from the Wimbledon tennis tournament. The press service of the All-English Launnis and Croquet Club organizing the Wimbledon tournament, RIA Novosti said that the 24-year-old Russian woman was forced to do this due to stretching of inguinal ligaments. Meanwhile, among the seeded women's tournament, eight Russians remain. The 2004 Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova was sown this year under the fourth number.

The mother of the black British schoolchman protested against the fact that two black students, her son and his friend, in the school theater production were offered the roles of monkeys, writes Daily Telegraph (full text on the website inopressa.ru ). 39-year-old Lorrain Rice said that the primary school of Ashley Down in Bristol showed "cultural callousness" against her seven-year-old son and another boy in the distribution of roles.

The Jubilee Art Festival "Slavic Bazaar" in Vitebsk will open on July 7. This was reported on Friday by the organizers of the festival at a press conference at ITAR-TASS. The festival will last until July 14, and Alla Pugacheva will open it. The prime donna of the Russian stage has not performed in the city in the Western Dvina for 5 years, and they are waiting for it there. The singer will take part in the opening ceremony of the festival and will give a solo concert.