The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine rejected the bill providing for the restriction of benefits for people's deputies and additional grounds for early termination of the powers of people's chosen ones, Interfax reports. In support of this law, 192 out of 436 registered deputies voted in the first reading. At the same time, in full force, the BUT fraction (153 deputies) voted, and 39 people supported the document from the fraction of the document.

Microsoft has created an operating system for GPS navigators. It is called Windows Embeded Navread 2009, the corporation’s press release says. Of course, Microsoft's relevant services are built into the system: search Live Search and cartographic Microsoft Earth. In addition, it will be possible to find out about traffic jams through MSN Direct (this applies to Western countries).

Two paintings that Moldova was going to return to the Hermitage are not the works of Russian artists Vasily Polenov and Boris Johanson, RIA Novosti said by phone on Monday Tudor Zbyrnya, director of the Moldova National Art Museum, who conducted the examination. “It was not confirmed that these paintings belonged to the Hermitage,” added Zbyrnya. Moldova President Viktor Voronin during a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in early June in St.

Housing in the capital has already surpassed many countries in the world in terms of prices, and Russians have begun to seriously think about purchasing real estate abroad. Experts laugh at such hopes. From a price point of view, this is possible, but there are a number of other points, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda .

A Parisian court ordered the owners of a skyscraper in Paris to pay 30 thousand euros to the architects of the building as compensation for moral damages because, after renovation, the 31-story building took on the color of “goose droppings,” RIA Novosti reports, citing local media. The building, located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, underwent scheduled façade cleaning work in 2003.

{pic_1 c}At the London Motor Show, which opens next month, Toyota will present a concept sports version of the Aygo called Crazy. As the creators stated, this small-sized model is a real sports car intended for lovers of high speeds, and not just an exhibition exhibit. The website Drom.ru reports this. Under the hood of the “crazy” Toyota Aygo is a 1.8-liter engine. The engine of the same series was used in the sports Toyota Celica in the latest generation, as well as in the Toyota MR2.

During the filming of the film “Quantum of Consolation”, the new adventure of James Bond, there were so many incidents that the actors and the film crew began to rumor as if a curse was hanging over the picture, the British edition of The Independent writes. It all started on April 18 this year, when the Aston Martin DBS car went to the bottom of Lake Garda . The stuntman, which delivered the car to the place of filming, lost control and flew out of the road.

On Monday, at a meeting with journalists, the head of the road safety department (ROSA) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Viktor Kiryanov, said that employees of the State Traffic Inspectorate had identified about 1,800 places in Russia where car accidents most often occur. The corresponding analysis of Russian highways was carried out in cooperation with the Federal Road Agency, RIA Novosti reports.

The Russian military commissariats fulfilled the plan of the spring call for military service by 95%, said Major General Yevgeny Burdinsky, head of the General of the RF General Evgeny Burdinsky General, General of the RF General, RIA Novosti . It should be noted that the spring call from this year was extended from June 30 to July 15, thus the missing 5% can be “caught” just among former schoolchildren .

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugaba accused international humanitarian organizations of using food assistance to the Zimbabwe population as a tool for removing him from power. Speaking at the rally, he said that for this reason the work of these organizations in the country is suspended and their activities are being investigated, ITAR-TASS reports citing the local press.

The scandal around Savva Terentyev, the first blogger in Russia , who is accused under the criminal article “slander” for a commentary in the “Live Journal”, acquires incredible outlines. Now, in the footsteps of his son, his father, Sergey Terentyev, could follow, against whom the director of the Komi Republic, Anatoly Yalynna, filed a lawsuit.

The genetic laboratories in the USA and Austria completed the research of the so -called "royal remains", but a number of examinations continues in the Sverdlovsk Bureau of the Judge of Journal, Interfax reports. The head of the Sverdlovsk Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination, Nikolai Nevolin, said that a number of examinations are completed, and a number is not yet and, apparently, the studies will have some continuation.

The Parliament of Belarus adopted amendments to some laws on advertising issues prohibiting, in particular, advertising of psychics, fortunetellers, sorcerers and soothsayers. This was announced at a meeting of the parliament by the deputy head of the parliamentary commission on housing policy, construction, trade and privatization Anna Burova.

The film "Sex and the Bolshoi City" , whose Russian premiere will be held on Tuesday at the Pushkinsky cinema, will be released on June 19 in the amount of 500 copies in most large cities of Russia and the CIS countries, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of the PR Film Pavel Maslennikova PR Director.

The speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the "Orange Coalition" formally continues to exist, despite the way out of it, two deputies , which led to the loss of "orange" parliamentary majority. So he responded to the request of the opposition party of regions about whether the de jure coalition exists. The faction expects that in the near future the alignment of forces in parliament may change. And its leader Viktor Yanukovych predicts new early elections.