The California hard-rock group Motley Crue will begin its European tour dedicated to the release of the album "Saints of Los Angeles", June 2 at the Moscow Club "B1 Maximum", RIA Novosti reports. "At tomorrow, we play new material from the new album" Saints of Los Angeles "and, of course, many of our old hits and little -known things. All now you can’t remember," the drummer of the group Tommy Lee said at a meeting with journalists.

The Portuguese guardians of six -year -old Alexandra Cyclauri (the media is the most partly ascribing to her the name of the biological mother, the Russians Natalia Zarubina) do not leave an attempt to return the girl, for which they are even ready to provide her mother with a safe life in Portugal. The Yaroslavl edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda writes on Monday that the guardian Joau Pigneira is ready to open a cafe for her, where a woman could work. However, Natalia publicly refuses such help.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko advocated the tough reaction of the National Bank and Security Service of Ukraine in relation to banks that speculate in the foreign exchange market, the press service of the head of state said. "The actions of the National Bank and the SBU should have a lightning -fast reaction, you must show that the reaction will be merciless to such" scabs ".

At a meeting with the leadership of VTB, on the eve of the meeting of shareholders of the minority, planned at the end of June, not only traditionally expressed dissatisfaction with promotions, bonuses of top managers and required compensation. The "folk" shareholders first transferred their anger from the head of VTB Andrei Kostin to the Bank's Supervisory Board, who deprived them of hope for a return ransom at the price of placement, Kommersant writes on Monday.

In the west of Australia, rain from dead birds “spilled” - more than 200 ibis, ravens, ducks, seagulls and pelicans were discovered within a radius of one kilometer in the vicinity of the city of Perth. Most of the birds were dead, some fought in dying convulsions, writes The Times on Monday. The cause of the mass death of birds, apparently, was the fention - a pesticide extremely poisonous for insects and birds.

Rosobrnadzor set the minimum number of points for passing a single state exam in biology and computer science - 35 and 36 points, respectively, of 100 possible. The order published according to the results of the meeting of the scaling commission on Monday is posted on the website of the department. The participants should be informed about the personal results of the exam within two days.

The Constitutional Court (CC) of Russia decided to prohibit customs officers from confiscating cars with a “dark arrival history” unless customs clearly proves that the current owner knew that the car he bought was imported into the country illegally, Novye Izvestia writes. .

The Pope Benedict XVI expressed a desire for the construction of equal relations between the church and the state in Ukraine. As ITAR-TASS reports, this is stated in the commander of the Printing Service of the Holy See. Pontiff gave President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and his wife an audience in the personal library of the Apostolic Palace.

Producer Phil Spector sells his castle in Los Angeles to pay numerous appeals of the court decisions, which eventually sentenced him to 19 years in prison on charges of killing the Hollywood actress and model Lana Clarkson. The murder was committed just in this building. According to The Times , the 69-year-old spector asked his wife Rachel Short, who is engaged in sale, to leave only valuable objects that have already become the history of rock and roll.

China began an anti -dumping investigation into transformer steel imports from Russia and the United States, Bloomberg reported with reference to the message of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. The investigation was started on the complaint of Baosteel Group Corp. And Wuhan Iron & Steel Group. The only manufacturer of this type of steel in Russia is OJSC Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant and its subsidiary of VIZ-Stal LLC.

North Korea is preparing for new tests of a long -range missile. According to South Korean intelligence, the train with a rocket arrived at the Tonchkhanri training ground in the north-west of the DPRK, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to sources in the Government of South Korea. In their opinion, there, perhaps, there is now preparation for the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Which rocket was brought to the starting site is not reported.

In the city of Balahna, the Nizhny Novgorod region on Saturday night, unknown people set fire to the mosque building under construction, reports Interfax-religion with reference to the statement of the spiritual department of Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod region. Now the building is most likely not to be restored, although it was planned to complete construction work and open the mosque this year.

The Russian national team in the nearest match of the 2010 World Cup in football is waiting for a very difficult and super -modeling opponent - the Finnish team. This opinion was expressed by one of the coaches of the Russian team Igor Korneev. “For the Finns, this match is very important, because if they lose points, they lose absolutely every chance of leaving the group. Therefore, it will be, you can say, the last fight,” Korneev emphasized in an interview with RIA Novosti .

The defendants of the Loud Business "Arbat Prestige" - former owner of the network of perfume stores of the company Vladimir Nekrasov and entrepreneur Sergey Schneider (aka Semyon Mogilevich , who is considered the shadow owner of the network - approx. Ed.) - did not admit their guilt in court.

One of the most attractive European brands - Opel - General Motors is inferior to the Austro -Canadian Magna and the Russian Sberbank . This topic is vividly discussed by the foreign press. The participation of Sberbank in the Magna consortium is an expression of the economic policy of Moscow, which hopes to reanimate the domestic auto industry. The British press is worried about the participation of Oleg Deripaska's deal.