The victims of the unprecedented heat established in Hungary, about 500 people became, according to the authorities, according to the assessment of the authorities. According to local medical services, in the period from July 15 to 22, the average temperature in most of the country exceeded 30 degrees. During this time, mortality in the central regions of Hungary increased by 30% compared to the average indicators for the summer period.

British Petroleum considers Russia an attractive investment platform and expects to strengthen cooperation with Gazprom and other companies in Russia. This was announced today by the newspaper Financial Times . BP is ready to provide their current and potential partners in Russia in conducting exploration of deposits at large depths and oil and gas production, as well as in promoting Russian companies in new Western and Asian markets.

The holding company "Basic Element" and the shareholders of the Oil Priority Company "Rusneft" do not negotiate for sale. So, Rusneft in the application widespread on July 24 officially denied information about the negotiations of the company's management on the sale of the holding. “Russneft” officially states that he was not going to talk any negotiations on the sale of shares of the holding and is not going to conduct. OJSC NC "Russneft" is not for sale, "the statement said.

Brazilian Internet users translated the seventh novel by the British writer Joan Rowling Harry Potter and fatal power into Portuguese, just three days after his official release. On the portal called "Three Bridges", uniting lovers of history about a young wizard, the work appeared on Monday almost completely translated, ITAR-TASS reports. So far, only the final, 36th chapter is not enough.

The British Department of National Statistics published on the eve of an annual report, from which it follows that all financial and non -financial assets of Great Britain increased by 5% (by 326 billion pounds) and amount to 6.5 trillion pounds. Moreover, 60% of the country's value falls on real estate, writes The Guardian newspaper. It follows that all British real estate costs about 4.3 trillion pounds.

NATO Secretary General said that Russia needs to abandon the verbal “confrontation” and join forces with its Western allies in the fight against general threats - terrorism and the lag of underdeveloped countries. Jaap de Joop Scheffer, the former Foreign Minister of Holland, who headed the Alliance in 2004, told The Daily Telegraph that "no one is striving for a new Cold War: neither Russians nor NATO" (full text on the website inopressa.ru ).

About two thousand liters of radioactive water leaked from the Kasivadzaki-Cariva NPP reservoir (located in the Niigat Prefecture about 260 km north-west of Tokyo) to the dashed basin, ITAR-TASS reports. This happened as a result of the earthquake that occurred in Japan on July 16. The administration of the largest nuclear power plant in Japan confirmed that water was hit in the hall under the sixth reactor, which leaked from the protected area.

Right-wheel drive companies from Japan to Russia raised an average of 10% in connection with the restriction of Russian railways (Russian Railways) for transporting cars in mail and gagge wagons such as missile carriers. This was reported to Interfax on Tuesday at once several sources in supplier companies. "At the end of June, Russian Railways finally banned car transportation in postal and gagge wagons such as missile carriers.

According to the results of the first quarter, the Norilsk Nickel GMC received 1.82 billion dollars of net profit and IFRS with $ 3.43 billion and profitability at 73%, and turned out to be the most profitable company of the country after Gazprom, the Vedomosti writes. The newspaper analyzes the non -assembled internal report "Norilsk Nickel" for the first quarter of this year.

The Chernovsky District Court of the city of Chita sentenced the local resident Alexander Suturin, accused of applying violence against a police officer. The defendant was sentenced to two years four months in prison with serving in a maximum security colony. According to the investigation, in March 2007, Suturin, who was intoxicated, was taken to the police officer in a public place to the duty part of the police department.

The Laureate of the Nobel Prize, writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn believes that the churches in modern Russia for an amazingly short time managed to occupy an independent and independent position from the authorities. “We must be surprised at how in the short years that have passed since the total subordination of the Church a communist state, she managed to find a fairly independent position,” A.

The license of the Sports TV channel is canceled. The frequency in which the broadcasting of sporting events will be exhibited for the competition in September. According to the Eurosport channel, said the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with the Legislation in the field of mass communications and the protection of cultural heritage Boris Boyarskov.

The British holding Barclays made a new offer to buy the Dutch bank ABN Amro, 4.3% higher than the previous one. The price is increased to 67.5 billion euros, of which 37% are money. To buy ABN Ambro, Barclays Bank is trying to raise money around the world. The governments of China and Singapore can help in this British bank. China Development Bank, one of the state Chinese banks, acquired a 3.1%stake in the British Bank Barclays.

Sakhalin investigate the circumstances of the death of a child from dog bites, an employee of the press service of the regional prosecutor's office said. The incident occurred last Sunday. "During the audit, it was found that the victim is a boy (2 years 4 months), while visiting his grandmother in a private house, played next to a dog sitting on a chain. Suddenly the dog attacked the child and bit him," the representative of the press service said.

In the center of St. Petersburg, residents of the 28/29 emergency house on the Street of the Pechatnikov Union are trying to evict without providing housing. The eviction was supposed to take place on Tuesday, but the bailiffs did not approach the house surrounded by tenants, activists of AKM and NBP. In addition, near the house were four deputies of the Legislative Assembly from the Communist Party and city Commissioner for Human Rights Igor Mikhailov.