On July 4, the State Duma adopted in the first reading the norms allowing to issue diplomatic passports to the heads of Russian state corporations, and ITAR -TASS said to their employees. The new norms, according to the plan of deputies, should facilitate the employees and management of state corporations on regular trips to business trips.

Representatives of the Democratic Party in the American District of the Durham (North Carolina) were shocked by the news that local party bosses participated in satanic rituals, during which the occultists picked their victims to beds, put them in cells and deprived food and water, reports Crimezone.ru with reference to the Sun Tim .

Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said that the state intends to influence the growth of domestic gasoline prices, abolishing import duties for high -octane gasoline. As Schmatko told Interfax , "the government is seriously concerned about the increase in gas prices." "We are taking measures so that the oil refining market has normal competition. At the same time, we intend to stimulate the processing within the country as much as possible, including through tax incentives," the minister said.

The retired GRU Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, recently acquitted in the assassination case for the now ex-head of the RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais, announced on Friday about the beginning of his "military-public activity". "From the first of July, I was appointed to the acting chairman of this union by order of the Military Power Union of Russia ," Kvachkov said on Friday Interfax .

For the first time in 60 years, a regular air message was opened between China and Taiwan - on Friday the first flight aircraft flew to Taibay through the Taiwani Strait from the city of Guangzhou (Yuzhnokitskaya province of Guangdun), the Xinhua agency said. The charter flight was completed by the Airbus of the Chinese Southern airline. On board there were 258 passengers, more than 100 of them were tourists from continental China. The flight lasted 1 hour 40 minutes.

{pic_1 c}Two designers from Romania presented a concept sports car called the BMW Z0. Andrey Avarvariy designed the body of the model, and his colleague Adrian Vasiliu? salon. This project points to further development of sports cars over the next 10 years, reports TopSpeed . For many years, automakers cared only about the power of the engines installed under the hood of their new products, and did not think at all about reducing the weight of their cars.

State Duma deputies intend to rewrite a third of articles of the current Customs Code. The former head of the customs deputy Valery Draganov promises to significantly simplify the procedures for the design of goods for bona fide market participants, Kommersant reports. The Customs Code introduced since 2004 has been considered a progressive law of direct action.

The Pentagon extended for another month the term of stay in Afghanistan is 2.2 thousand American marine infantrymen. Earlier, the return of marines was planned for October, and in the Pentagon it was more than once stated that they would not postpone the date, reports Ar.

The striker of the Czech “Banik” Vaclav Sverkosh is negotiating with the Ramensky “Saturn” regarding his transition of the Russian club. This 24-year-old striker last season became the best scorer of the Czech championship and scored the first ball at Euro 2008. “If Vaclav agrees with Saturn, then we expect to get a final proposal from the Russian club on the transference of a football player,” Tomash Truchi quotes the President of the President of the President of the President.

The billionaire Roman Abramovich, who retired the day before from the post of Governor of Chukotka, systematically prepared Roman Kopin for the role of the successor and his candidacy was already agreed with the Kremlin. However, coordination with the Kremlin has been conducted for several years . In February 2007, then President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin asked Abramovich to remain at his post until the expiration of Putin’s presidential powers, writes Kommersant .

In Myanmar in the Iravadi River Delta, he sank steam. It is reported about 38 dead. Meanwhile, 44 passengers of the vessel managed to escape, the agency of AR reports. According to Interfax , 82 passengers remained unharmed. The government Burmese newspaper Myanmar Alin reports that the crash occurred due to the fact that the water flooded the stern of the ferry.

The Bush administration agreed to pay Pyongyang $ 19.5 million for efforts to decide the nuclear complex. This was announced by the head of the press service of the State Department, Sean McCormak. According to him, the US Congress allocated a total of $ 20 million for these purposes for these purposes. "If we still need money, we will again turn to lawmakers," McCormak said.

An unknown attacker tried to send seven combat grenades and fuse to them by aviation mail from Moscow to Norilsk. Fortunately, the vigilance of the employees of the Moscow Domodedovo airport helped to prevent the appearance on board the aircraft.

In Italy, scientists received a new evidence that the neurotransmitter and hormone serotonin, mainly known for his function in regulating mood, plays a role in the mysterious death of healthy people from the age of a month to a year - as a result of the so -called sudden children's death (SVDS) or "death in a cradle." These studies are published in the new number of Science magazine, reports Ar.

According to the results of Russian-Turkmen negotiations at the highest level, a joint statement was adopted. The document says that the presidents of the two countries note the strategic nature of relations between Russia and Turkmenia and emphasize that their progressive development is carried out in a wide range of directions, Interfax reports.