On June 20-21, Karmapa XVII Trinla Thaye Dorje visited the Republic of Buryatia. Getting acquainted with the traditional Buddhist Republic, a high guest was visited by the Ivolginsky datsan and met with the head of the Buddhist traditional Sangha of Russia Hambo-Lama Lambo Ayusheev . The meeting was held in a warm friendly atmosphere.

The final of Eurovision-2009 in Moscow cost about $ 40 million. This, according to Interfax , in an interview with the magazine, said the General Director of the First Channel Konstantin Ernst, noting that the share of Channel One accounts for about a third of the total amount. At the same time, Ernst noted, "everything included in this amount - from the VIP hall for arriving guests and excursions in Moscow to renting projection screens and purchases of" Beijing "TCP.

Congressman Roger Wizker introduced a resolution to the Committee on International Relations of the US Senate, demanding to withdraw new accusations from Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, the press center of Mikhail Khodorkovsky reports.

In the Italian city of Peruja, a loud process continues over the former American student Amanda Knox and its Italian ex-lover who are accused of brutal reprisal against British Meredith Kerder. After an independent investigation, a private detective challenged the guilt of a couple in a brutal murder of a student.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia intends to strengthen control in the country's pharmaceutical market. It will draw up lists of pharmacies occupying a dominant position in regional markets, and will quarterly check in them prices for 100 most popular drugs.

For violation of antimonopoly legislation, it is necessary to punish with high fines and disqualification of the leaders of companies and officials. This was stated by Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation. In addition, the prime minister considers it necessary to “introduce responsibility for manipulating prices in the electricity market,” ITAR-TASS reports.

Moscow, in order to become a global financial center, will introduce about 45 new hotels annually, since the hotel function is one of the important status to give the capital, said Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. "We have developed a city program to increase hotel spaces in Moscow from 148 thousand to 250 thousand seats.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General wants to interrogate the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the case of the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko in 2004, when he was still presidential candidate. Galina Klimovich, the senior investigator for particularly important cases, is going to interrogate Putin, who leads the group to investigate this case, Kommersant writes. Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General’s Office refutes this information.

Dinosaurs were most likely much easier and slimmer than previously expected. Researchers think that the formulas that were used to calculate their weight were erroneous, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to The Times . New research can make researchers revise many of the views, in particular, about gigantic herbivores, such as apatosaurs, which, as previously thought, weighed up to 37 tons. According to new data, the true weight of these creatures was closer to 18 tons.

The Russian stock market collapsed on Monday, overtaking all the world stock platforms in the pace of the fall in the indexes. According to Interfax , this happened due to massive sales in all sectors against a negative external background. According to the results of the day, the MICEX index fell by 7.8% to 937.98 points (end of the end of April), the RTS index - by 5%, to 961.04 points (end of the second decade of May); Most of the "blue chips" fell in price by 4-13%.

The leadership of the Madrid Real Madrid and the agent of the Portuguese football player Manchester United Cristiano Ronaldu Horhe Mendes continue to discuss the details of the contract, which will be calculated until 2015. According to Sovetsky Sport with reference to AS publication, the president of the Royal Club Florentino Perez is going to include a separate item in the agreement, which provides for compensation in case Ronaldo leaves the club until the expiration of the contract.

In the Nazran district of Ingushetia, a regime of a counter-terrorist operation (KO) has been introduced, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to a source in the FSB. On Monday , an attempt on the President of the Republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov was committed . As a result of undermining the presidential court of Yevkurov, he was injured. His condition is evaluated as stable.

Every tenth adopted child has already returned back to the orphanage. Such data at the end of last week presented the Ministry of Education, write New Izvestia . Officials urge to return the patronage abolished in September last year. Psychologists say that many adoptive parents are simply not ready to educate adoptive children.

After a divorce from his wife, the London banker decided to change his lifestyle, getting rid of his movement and immovable property belonging to him, writes Prian.ru . The 38-year-old businessman Andrew Paul decided to organize a kind of lottery, the winner of which could win a house with five bedrooms worth 1.3 million euros, the Sealine 35 Sport yacht for 240 thousand euros and the Aston Martin DBS car costs 190 thousand euros.

During the mine clearance operation, experts of the Ministry of Emergencies found 123 air bombs of the Great Patriotic War in the Khabarovsk Territory in the Khabarovsk Territory, a representative of the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Monday. The residents of the village of Sofiysky periodically find unexploded air bombs in this area. Until 1953, military units were based here, which later disbanded.