The prices of the global market for oil on June 29 again approached the maximum since the beginning of the fall of 2007. On NymEx, futures have grown to the mark of $ 69.6 per barrel, Brent grade price for $ 72 per barrel, according to Bloomberg. The price of oil - in any case, in separate varieties - fluctuates around the sign of $ 70, but it cannot yet overcome it yet.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, having arrived on Friday to Rostov-on-Don in order to attend a meeting of the State Council of the Russian Federation, unexpectedly became a witness to two crimes at once: fights in a city park and a motorist in a federal wanted list. The fact is that the current meeting of the State Council is devoted to the problems of prevention of offenses and ensuring public security.

The State Duma at a meeting on June 29 adopted in the second reading a draft federal budget for 2008-2010. 320 deputies voted for the budget, against 40, there were no abstained. In 2008, 9.3 billion rubles will be distributed in 2008, 2009 - 33.1 billion rubles, 2010 - 45.9 billion. Compared to the first reading, the costs of the section "Social-state issues" were reduced.

In the metropolitan region, a warm and quite comfortable weather for most residents is expected. According to ITAR -TASS in Roshydromet, in the morning in Moscow there will be about 13 degrees of heat, in the district near Moscow - from 10 to 15 degrees. During the day, the air in the metropolis warms up to 23-25 ​​degrees, in the region-up to 22-27 degrees. Perelic clouds are predicted, mainly without precipitation. The southwest wind will intensify to 3-8 meters per second.

The Christian shrine is the head of the Evangelist Luke today brought to Krasnoyarsk. The stay of the relics of the saint in the city on the Yenisei began with a prayer service in the temple of the Holy Apostle and the Evangelist Luke at the road clinical hospital. The Krasnoyarsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church of ITAR-TASS reported that the shrine has already visited Moscow, St. Petersburg, in Kyiv and Zaporozhye.

In the Moscow Patriarchate, the concern of individual deputies of the State Duma is divided by excessive general access to the majority of the population of an erotic nature and maintain the need to restrict it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday at about 21:00 accepted in his suburban residence "Novo-Ogravo" by the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez. The last time the leaders of the two countries met in July 2006 during the working visit of Chavez to Moscow.

In the coming months, scientists will artificially create a new form of life. The key to this discovery was the successful experiment of American microbiologists to turn one bacteria into another, writes the British newspaper The Telegraph with reference to Science magazine. From the publication it follows that scientists took a full set of genes (genome) of the bacterial cell and transplanted its bacteria of a closely related species.

Plans for the construction of the skyscraper "Okhta Center" In St. Petersburg they turned into a new scandal. Petersburg architects accused Gazprom Neft of the dissemination of incorrect information, according to which the skyscraper project was approved by the Urban Planning Council, the Gzt.ru newspaper writes. On Thursday, members of the Urban Planning Council of St.

The composition of the Board of Directors of Gazprom 4 years in a row remains unchanged.

The famous American singer and actress Barbra Streisand gave her first concert in France and received the highest award of this country - the Order of the Legion of Honor, AP reports. Streisand is awarded the degree of officer of the order - she is the second "knight" after the initial step.

Israeli President Moshe Katsav, accused of rape, resigned today. The day before, he concluded a deal with justice : he found himself guilty of sexual harassment, thereby avoiding severe punishment. It is sentenced to a conditional time, the payment of compensation to injured women and paying legal costs. This deal caused a wave of indignation in Israel, writes Newsru Israel . The main witness of the prosecution against Katsawa decided to speak at a press conference in Tel Aviv.

In the Irkutsk hospital, on Thursday night, the sailor Alexei Patkin died, drafted into the Russian army in the Pacific Fleet in the fall of 2005. In 2006, for unclear reasons, he tried to hang himself. But he remained alive and lay in a coma for six months. He has lost more than 50 kilograms in weight, the website of the Novosibirsk GRK reports. Recently, Alexei gained a little in weight, began to move, smile. But at the same time, doctors noted that his brain was affected.

The investigation in the case of the death of the military correspondent of the Kommersant newspaper Ivan Safronov did not find the criminal circumstances of his death. “No crime was found in this case. During the investigation, the“ criminal ”version was completely worked out. There was no evidence of this version,” the official representative of the Moscow prosecutor’s office on Friday told Interfax.

The DPRK nuclear reactor with a capacity of 5 megawatts in Yonben continues to operate. This was stated to reporters by the Deputy General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Olla Hinone. He heads a group of experts of the agency, which completed a two-day inspection of the nuclear center Yonben and returned to Pyongyang on Friday, ITAR-TASS reports.