Svetlana Kuznetsova will not play for the Russian national team at the Tennis Cup this year. She stated this on Tuesday after the victory in Wimbledon’s starting match over Italian Romina Oprandi (6: 3, 6: 2). Kuznetsova, who was 21 years old on June 27, said that she was forced to refuse the relevant proposal of the President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev.

In the Tula garrison military court, the consideration began on the merits of the criminal case of the former chief of the Special Department of 106 of the Airborne Forces of the FSB Colonel Sergey Stolba, who at the end of 2005 shot the ordinary Denis Zharyrikov in his office . The court announced the indictment, which the column colonel partially recognized. According to him, the soldier was a victim of careless handling of weapons, reports Ann .

In Chechnya, the burial place of nine people killed in 1996-1997 was found. This was reported on Tuesday in the group of public relations of the FSB of the Russian Federation in Chechnya.

In Moscow, high -rise buildings will not be built in the city center, as well as in historical places. So the mayor Yuri Luzhkov ordered. “The high -rise buildings that we will build according to this program should not be located in the city center, as well as in places of historical development.

The White House in the person President Bush attacked influential American newspapers and, first of all, on The New York Times, which published an article that told that the American intelligence agencies secretly monitor all the payments passing through the SWIFT International Interbank System, which was considered completely confidential.

The Chisinau court issued on Tuesday the arrest warrant Igor Velchev, accused by the Russian prosecutor’s office of the murder of the NTV correspondent, Ilya Zimin . "The decision to take Velchev to the battle for 18 days was made on the basis of the investigation received by the Prosecutor General of Moldova from the Moscow prosecutor's office," the court said.

The famous singer Dima Bilan, who recently took second place at the Eurovision Song Contest , has a voice with a voice. The singer was forced to seek help from doctors. As it became known to the Life newspaper after concerts at which Dima is completely laid out every time, he can hardly speak. The artist is tormented by a perose cough, the voice becomes sipper.

The State Duma has prepared a bill regarding the transfer of one of the Russian television channels into a paid viewing regime. This was announced at a press conference on Tuesday, Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism Vladimir Medinsky.

The famous American actor Brad Pitt was called Newsweek weekly, "who makes America great." In the issue published on Monday, it is noted that such an honor Pitt was awarded that he uses his star popular to attract attention to Africa's problems. The actor himself in an interview with the magazine admitted that he does not seek to hide from the paparazzi pursuing him and Angelina Jolie to "captivate them where the attention of the international community is needed," ITAR-TASS reports.

The number of Christians in individual Indian states continues to grow, despite the laws that prevent the change of religion, Interfax reports. According to John Thomas Kattrukudyil, the Catholic bishop of the North-Eastern Indian diocese of Itanagar, Arunahal Pradesh was the first in the country, which in 1978 adopted the law against the transition from Hinduism to another faith. In particular, baptism is still prohibited in this state.

In Rome, on Tuesday night, attackers burned ten cars, representatives of law enforcement agencies said. At first, two cars were set on fire in the Tuscolan area, where police and fire teams immediately arrived. But after a few minutes it became known that in the other two metropolitan areas - Appa and Torovtar - eight more cars were burning, RIA Novosti reports.

Negotiations with the United States will not have any benefit to Iran. This statement was made on the air of Iranian television, the spiritual leader and the head of the Islamic Republic of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “Negotiations with the United States will not have any benefit to Iran, and we do not need such contacts,” the Iranian leader emphasized.

The leadership of the Moscow football team Spartak in the person of its head coach Vladimir Fedotov and CEO Sergei Shavlo expressed the opinion that there are too many legionnaires in the club. Nevertheless, according to ITAR-TASS, the red-white are looking for two or three newcomers in the World Cup in the World Cup in Germany. “Even in the current state,“ Spartak ”is able to achieve serious results,” believes Fedotov, who replaced the Latvian Alexander Starkov in the spring.

Almost all Russian tourists who suffered through the fault of the tour operator "Luke-Tour" flew out of Antalya to their homeland. This was announced on Monday by the Consul of the Russian Federation in the Turkish resort province Sergey Alifanov. "The bulk of the tourists have already left. There were only one or two people who will return to their homeland on June 28," RIA Novosti quotes the diplomat.

In Latvia, even more stringent smoking restrictions are introduced from Tuesday. According to the new rules introduced by the Ministry of Health of the Republic, smoking in public places - cafes, bars, restaurants, casinos - now it will be possible only in strictly designated rooms, which should be specifically provided for this purpose. Places for smoking will be indicated by a special symbol.