Former chief specialist in the Land Control Department of the Department of Architecture and Construction of the Samara Administration Nina Golovanova for receiving a bribe in the amount of 800 euros sentenced by the Samara Regional Court to 4 years in prison. The elderly woman did not expect her to be sent to the colony, hoping for a conditional term. After the announced sentence, the official was taken into custody right in the courtroom, they write "New Izvestia" .

This month, within the framework of the Moscow Auto Showalon, the Japanese company Subaru will tell two sedans - Impreza and Impreza WRX, intended for the Russian market. The presentations will be held by the head of the Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) concern Mori Ikuo and the president of the European unit of Subaru Kuramoti Hideki, will grow Drom.ru. For our country, both cars will become new products, since before that in Russia, as in Europe, only the Subaru Impreza hatchbacks were available.

A resident of the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea chopped off his roommate and wounded four more local residents. According to Greek state television, the tragedy broke out on Sunday evening a few kilometers from the capital of the island. As the investigation established, the 35-year-old man quarreled with his girlfriend and killed her. Having chopped off the woman’s head, he ran down the street with his head in one hand and a knife in the other.

The Sports Arbitration Court in Lausanne softened sanctions against the star of Soviet rhythmic gymnastics Irina Deryugina, a few days before the Olympics, allowing her to go to Beijing as a coach of the Ukrainian team. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the press service of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). The court, however, granted the lawsuit of the Ukrainian coach only partially, leaving FIG in force on its exclusion from the technical committee.

The German Rainer Shuttler won the case against the International Tennis Federation ( ITF ), through the court, having achieved the right to speak at the Olympic Tennis tournament in Beijing. The sports arbitration court ( SAS ) in Lausanne issued an unprecedented decision according to which the athlete will be able to take part in games-2008, despite the fact that the indicators of the 32-year-old Rainer at the time of selection did not meet the ITF criteria.

In Germany, the most unusual copy of the work of Vasily Kandinsky "Valchaim Marienplatz" appeared. The picture of the famous Russian avant -garde was redrawn directly to the paving stones of the main square of Valchaim, where the artist lived for a while, NTV reports. The painting "Walhaim Marienplatz", which Kandinsky painted 100 years ago on the Square of the Little Bavarian town, was sold at Sotheby’s for almost 5 million euros last year.

In the Yaroslavl region, a competition was held for the titles of "Miss Sheep", "Baran Manufacturer" and "Metal with a Cossack", Interfax reports. According to the results of the Festival "Romanov Sheep - the Golden Fleece of Russia" Miss Sheep Title ", the crown and gold medal received the sheep of the Rodina SEC" Uglich district of the Yaroslavl region, and the economy received a prize, the administration of the Tutaevsky district said.

In the eternal fire installed on Victory Square in Pskov, a man died. This was announced by PLN by the deputy head of the investigation department for the city of Pskov, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Pskov Region, Georgy Stepanov. On Monday morning, a corresponding message was received at the post of duty central police department.

Thousands of Catholics took today to the streets of the city of Zamboang on the South Filipino Island of Mindanao, protesting against the planned expansion of the Autonomous region for Muslims there. The agreement on this is supposed to be signed on the nearest Tuesday between representatives of the government of the country and the Islamic Front of the Liberation of Moro, which had previously fought a armed struggle for self -government for several decades.

The Campus Party, a global gathering of Internet users, which was held for the 12th time, ended over the weekend in Valencia (Spain). RIA Novosti reports this. In 2008, Campus Party was organized for the first time in other countries: in Brazil (in February, 3 thousand participants) and Colombia (2.43 thousand participants).

British tuners Jast Camers and Andy Sonders designed a very unusual version of the Volkswagen Transporter cargo car. They considered that this model is too large in height, and decided to literally "shorten it", reports Drive.ru . Did you get the lowest Volkswagen in the world? In height, it occupies no more than a meter. At the same time, the machine can still legally move on public roads. The creation of an unusual Transporter Camers and Saunders spent only three days.

The most famous American film actor Morgan Freeman fell into an accident and received serious injuries, CBS reports. No details of the accident are given, it is only known that the car, which was controlled by the 71-year-old Freeman, flew out of the highway, turned over several times and fell into a ditch. The accident occurred in the state of Mississippi, and the doctors who arrived at the scene of the incident transferred the actor by a helicopter to the Memphis (Tennessee state) hospital.

The outstanding Russian writer, the Nobel Prize winner, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died at the 90th year of his life, on the night of Monday in Moscow. As it became known to Interfax from sources in the literary circles of the capital, according to preliminary data, the writer struck a stroke. As ITAR-TASS specifies with reference to the son of the deceased, Stepan, Alexander Isaevich died at home.

The Belarusian law enforcement agencies finally appeared by a man who was wanted as the main witness in the case of an explosion in Minsk on the night of July 4. It is reported that the man appeared in the police himself.

Participants in the Olympic team of Great Britain: Bicycle Retecca Romero, Philip Idov, who showed the best result of the season in a triple jump, as well as the swimmer Gregor Tate posed for the famous British photographer Nadav Kander. The artist conceived to create a portfolio of naked athletes playing with their muscles, the facts reports with reference to the Daily Mail publication.