In June 2007, the positive balance of the foreign trade balance of the Russian Federation amounted to $ 8.645 billion. This indicator was 32.0% less than May - $ 12.714 billion. According to the information posted on the website of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the June balance of the foreign trade balance is minimal over the past two and a half years. In February 2005, it was 7.744 billion.

The company "Russneft" filed a cassation appeal against the decision on the arrest of a hundred percent of its shares, Interfax said. The complaint will be considered in the Moscow City Court. On July 31, the Lefortovo Court of the capital arrested one hundred percent of Rusneft shares, satisfying the request of the Investigative Committee at the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The leadership of the Administration of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will visit Sochi to discuss the master plan of preparation for the Olympic and Paralympic winter games of 2014. According to the press service of the Sochi-2014 application committee , a two-day visit will last from August 27 to 28, 2007.

On Friday, the French authorities began an investigation into the circumstances of the drama that occurred the day before in Amiena, when the police outfit arrived behind the family of immigrants. During the attempt by family members, 12-year-old Ivan fell down from the fifth floor to quietly leave the apartment. Currently, he is in a state of coma in the intensive care unit.

The authorities of the American city of San Francisco decided to bring to the referendum the issue of building a free Wi-Fi network, which will cover the entire territory of the city. It is reported by AP . The mayor of San Francisco Gevin Nysse has been working on the Wi-Fi network project for several years, however, his implementation is postponed due to fears in the safety of personal data. The deployment in San Francisco Wi-Fi will cost $ 14-17 million.

Ten people were injured, of which nine are in the hospital, including a mother and a 4-year-old daughter in serious condition, as a result of the collision of Monster Truck) on a crowd of local residents during the show, which took place on Thursday in the American town of Decalb, about 100 km to the west of Chicago, Illinois.

The suspect in the murder of the eight -year -old Masha Zhukoreva in Kemerovo was charged. This was announced on Friday by the representative of the prosecutor's office of the Kemerovo region. "The prosecution was brought under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which provides for imprisonment from six to 15 years, the accused is arrested," he said.

In the coming week, you should wait for the unexpected list of governors who may lose their position, the press claims. "United Russia" was in advance and did not include "sentenced" governors in its lists for intra -party primaries. In the list of potential candidates for the State Duma, other regional leaders whose career hangs in the balance does not mean. The EP believes that the changes in the ranks of governors on the eve of the elections will only benefit.

In the restaurant of St. Petersburg "Dacha Lindstrem" deployed a project - a virtual room with Russian President Vladimir Putin. With the help of a special mirrors system, a moving image of the president is created in the room: the president walks, the president reads, the president plays with the dog Horses. The president’s museum is also there. The owner of the project is called one of Putin's personal friends. Rents "Dachu Lindstrem" at the Office of the President of Konstantinovsky LLC.

Opposition politician Mikhail Kasyanov creates a new party. After a break with “other Russia” he needs a new platform from which he could nominate a presidential candidate. The new party will not be able to participate in the parliamentary elections, but the former prime minister of the Russian government conceived it as the basis of the new opposition coalition. Experts to the prospects of the new structure are skeptical, the newspaper RBC Daily writes.

In the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a deputy from Bashkiria is accused of robbery of a hostel neighbor. The accusation claims that the people's deputy stole a short fur coat with money and documents of the victim. The prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Okrug completed a preliminary investigation of the crime and transferred the case materials to the Court of Noyabrsk, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Several dozen police officers and bailiffs on Friday night began eviction from the Samshoblo Publishing House, located in the Tbilisi Center of more than a dozen editions of newspapers and opposition television, Caucasus.

The deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor, Oleg Mitvol, said that the environmental department would not allow the development of the territory of the Central Bank of Gorky in Moscow. He emphasized that almost the entire territory of the park belongs to the category of specially protected territories, which are 149 in Moscow, and all attempts to build it up will be associated with violation of the law.

Lukoil has no legal rights to the Iraqi Oil Field of the West Kurna-2, said on Thursday the Minister of Oil Iraq Hussein al-Shakrastani after negotiations in Moscow with the leadership of Lukoil. The contract for him was concluded with the regime of Saddam Hussein, however, all such agreements were canceled, so Lukoil will have to participate in the tender again. Russian oil companies will not receive preferences when working in Iraq, but will receive the right to equal participation.

The incident in the old city of Jerusalem: in the morning in the area of ​​the Jaffa Gate, the Palestinian grabbed a weapon at one of the police officers and shot him twice, reports Newsru Israel . The guardian of order is wounded in the stomach and in the leg. Another policeman stood up for him, he opened fire on the attacked Arab and killed him. This information was confirmed by the commander of the Jerusalem Police District. Whether Arab was firing, it is still unclear.