The Russian women's team lost 53:57 to the France team in the final of the European Championship, which ended in Latvia. Thus, our girls failed to defend the title of the strongest team of the continent.

Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko announced his readiness to fight with the Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin until the end of this year, the Sports TV channel reports. On the eve of the Klitschko Jr. Knowed in Gelsenkirchen Ruslan Chagaev and retained the IBF and WBO championship belts. Now the Ukrainian plans to protect the title according to IBF in battle with the official contender of Povetkin, which did not take place in 2008 due to a Russian injury.

The chairman of the Georgian Parliament, David Bakradze, told reporters on Sunday about the detention of an attacker who threw a bottle with an incendiary mixture at the parliament building last night. “We must find out, and, I hope, law enforcement agencies will be able to do this, whether it was a loner, or someone is behind such actions,” said Bakradze. At the same time, he turned to the leaders of all political parties to condemn this incident.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited today during a trip to St. Petersburg the State Museum-Reserve Pavlovsk, which often visited in childhood, ITAR-TASS reports. The director of the museum Nikolai Tretyakov conducted a small tour of the palace for him: not only in the front halls, but also in office premises, including in the office where Dmitry Medvedev’s mother worked so that the president can compare his children's impressions with the current.

To conduct his two nuclear tests, Pyongyang spent 4 to 16 kg of plutonium. This assessment was made by experts of the Washington Association for Control over weapons, ITAR-TASS reports. As they note in the last issue of ARMS Control Today , the DPRK recognized in June 2008, which has 31 kg of weapons plutonium and that for an underground explosion of a nuclear device produced in October 2006, "used only 2 kg of plutonia." The second nuclear test of Pyongyang conducted on May 25.

The police detained the daughter of former President Iran Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an opponent of the current President Mahmad Ahmadi Nezhad, who participated in the protest of the presidential election dissatisfied with the results, Reuters said. Faeshekh Rafsanjani and her relatives were detained for the sake of "protecting against the terrorist actions of rebels," the representative of the Iranian Security Service told the agency.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus, known for his skeptical attitude to the idea of ​​a pan -European agreement, made a sharp criticism of guarantees promised by the European Union for Ireland under the Lisbon Agreement. According to Claus, these guarantees make changes to the pan -European contract itself, and therefore, the process of ratification of the agreement of the EU countries should be started again.

Five people received burns of varying degrees as a result of the fire of high pressure arising on the gas pipeline in Nizhny Novgorod. This was reported by ITAR-TASS in the Ministry of Emergencies of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The incident occurred today at about 10:15 Moscow time. The excavator, conducting excavation work, damaged the pipe of the high -pressure gas pipeline with a diameter of 700 mm. Ture burning arose. Five workers of the construction team received burns of varying degrees.

One of the most powerful programs of the 31st Moscow International Film Festival - "New Russian Cinema" - opened on Saturday in the capital's film, RIA Novosti reports. The program was opened by the President of the MMKF Nikita Mikhalkov and the artistic director of Russian programs Irina Pavlova.

In Volgograd, investigators of the Main Investigation Department at the regional police department searched the office of the Rotor football club. The club management is suspected of paying taxes on a particularly large scale, Kommersant reports. State Duma deputy Oleg Mikheev, who headed the Rotor since March, said that searches in his public reception were carried out without sanctions. According to the deputy, investigators did not ask him questions and did not make any complaints.

The speaker of the British House of Commons Michael Martin leaves his post on Sunday after, at the end of May, due to the scandal with non-targeted spending by deputies of state funds, he was forced to declare his resignation. Martin, who organized the work of the lower house of the British parliament for nine years, was the first speaker in 300 years, forced to leave his post ahead of schedule, RIA Novosti reports.

Several people died in a fire in the mosque in Tehran, which were arranged on Saturday, who disagree on Saturday with the results of the presidential election, the opposition supporters said Iranian state television on Sunday. The exact number of dead in the fire is not specified. In total, the victims of the police and supporters of the opposition on Saturday in the capital of Iran were at least 20 people, CNN reports with reference to Iranian doctors.

The journalist of the newspapers leading in the United States - New York Times - was able to free himself from captivity, where he was captured by the militants operating in the Afghan -Pakistani border. David Es. The clan was stolen on November 10 last year with the Afghan reporter. At this time, media employees carried out the task in the province of Logar, where the clan was going to interview from one of the commanders of the Taliban divisions, but before that he was captured.

A few pickets in support of honest elections in Iran held Russian youth organizations at the Republic of the Republic of the Republic in Moscow. “The purpose of our action is to support the democratic forces of Iran, which are now opposed to falsification of the presidential elections in this country,” Roman Dobrokhotov told Interfax , the leader of the Movement, the leader of the Movement of Movement.

The English club "Manchester United" decided to reward his key defender with a significant vision for loyalty to the club, raising the player a salary for about one million pounds a year. “Mu” was afraid that the other large club could take from Old Trafford one of the key players, because “Barcelona” and “Milan” showed interest in Vidich, and the football player’s wife admitted that she was not very comfortable in England.