Russian woman Elena Dementyeva became the first quarter -finalist of the Wimbledon tennis tournament in a female single category. On Monday, in the match of the fourth circle of London competitions of the Grand Slam series, the 27-year-old Muscovite outplayed her compatriot Elena Vesnina.

Believers of different faiths in Belarus will make prayers on July 3 of the Fatherland. According to BelTA agency, the responsible Belarusian exarchate for communications with television and radio companies Archimandrite Alexy (Shinkevich), a prayer for the well-being of the Fatherland will begin on the Day of Independence in the Holy Delois Cathedral at 8.30.

Russian tourists who want to visit Argentina now do not need a visa - on Monday, an agreement on the abolition of this document, signed by the governments of both countries in March, comes into force, RIA Novosti reports. Previously, the visa -free regime applied to owners of official and diplomatic passports.

In the Kemerovo region, police caught a robber who mistakenly showed civil consciousness, reporting his own crime. The boot of the thief was a keychain with an emergency call button, which the offender took to the remote control of the car alarm. Employees of the private security of Kemerovo detained a robber who stole a video camera, a laptop and other values ​​from a kindergarten in Kuzbass.

In Germany, a law has been adopted that allows you to voluntarily die. At the end of last week, the Bundestag by a majority vote (317 versus 233) supported the bill granting citizens the right to dispose of their own life. According to statistics, by this point, every nine resident of Germany compiled a written order in case, as a result of an accident or illness, he would depend on artificial measures to maintain life and will lose the opportunity to personally decide his future fate.

The Moscow State traffic inspectorate sent a letter to the city government, in which it demanded to remove part of the advertising shields from the Special Trades - Kutuzovsky and Leningradsky Prospekt, Rublevka and the Mozhaisk highway, Vedomosti write. The letter says that about 300 advertising structures do not meet the requirements of the state standard.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the preparation of the federal budget for 2010 and for the planning period of 2011-2012. He believes that social expenses should remain in the government’s priorities in the formation of the budget. And Sberbank, VTB, VEBU, Gazprombank, Rosselkhozbank the Prime Minister ordered to reduce the cost of loans and allocate money to priority industries.

On the ICIEND (large estate), 150 km from San Paulo found bricks with a swastika, as well as photographs and documents that testify: in the 1930s and 1940s, nazism adherents in Brazil used slave labor. It is reported by Inopressa.ru with reference to The Daily Mail . Since 1933, boys and men, among whom had many pupils of orphaned shelters, were sent to large estates such as this asends Kruseir-do-gus, 150 miles from San Paulo, the newspaper writes. A Nazi flag was re -rayed above the buildings.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation may change the oil price forecast in 2010 from 50 to $ 52, but does not exclude the collapse of world prices due to the second round of the crisis. This was announced to reporters by Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin following the meeting of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on budget planning for the next year and the nearest three -year -old.

The Pope Benedict XVI has signed his third encyclic today - the district message to all Catholics. The pontiff himself reported this to believers gathered in St. Peter Square in the Vatican. According to the Catholic tradition of the encyclic, it is named after the first words of its Latin text - Caritas in Veritate ("Mercy in Truth"). Dad said that this document will be published in the near future, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, the conflict between law enforcement officers from neighboring regions led to the wound of a woman. One of the opponents in uniform, who arrived from Ingushetia, shot, and the bullet fell into a random witness. The other side of the conflict was represented by the Chechen policeman. Currently, a resident of Mozdok is hospitalized, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has infuriated the behavior of the owner of the Cherkizov market, Azerbaijani tylalman Ismailov, who invests large investments abroad and tries to boast of his wealth, writes Inopressa with reference to The Sunday Times . As previously reported, two blows have hit Ismailov recently: firstly, a criminal case was opened on the fact of smuggling of children's goods received by the Cherkizov market, recognized as unsuitable for operation and dangerous for health.

The weighted medium of the US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate of the dollar the next day, increased by 17.20 kopecks compared to the state of the previous trade day and amounted to 31.2904 rubles, the finmarket reports.

On Monday, a cruise ship of Emerald Princess arrived in St. Petersburg, on board of which there are six people with symptoms of acute respiratory infection - possibly pork flu. According to the local edition of the newspaper My District with reference to the press service of Rospotrebnadzor in the city, all the sick are now on board the liner, their diagnosis is clarified. On Friday evening, epidemiologists of the Office of Rospotrebnadzor of the Russian Federation in St.

At least 9 people were killed in the Southern Afghan Province of Kandahar, as a result of a clash with the police of security agency employees to ensure the security of their military. Including in the shootout the head of the police Kandahar and the head of the criminal police, as well as at least another 7 police officers, were killed. The shootout began after the guards broke into the prosecutor’s office - presumably, in order to free his colleague detained by local authorities.