According to the results of the spring session of the State Duma, the traditional banquet of deputies was decided to cancel, the Vedomosti newspaper writes with reference to parliamentarians and employees of the State Duma apparatus. The banquet was scheduled for Friday, July 3. According to the head of the parliamentary apparatus Alexei Sigutkin, the event was not scheduled.

The former participant in the international competition for the "best work in the world" by Russian Julia Yalovitzovan, who was close to victory, but at the final stage turned out to be excluded from among the applicants due to the porn scandal , made the appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev. The Karelian media was extended to the text version on Wednesday, and Julia herself posted the video of the appeal on her blog on the Internet.

Law enforcement agencies canceled the decision to institute criminal proceedings against the vice-governor of Primorye Pavel Popov , who was previously accused of abuse of authority, the source of RIA Novosti said in power structures. The criminal case against Popov was opened on June 23. It was alleged that the official caused the budget of the Primorsky Territory damage to 3 million rubles.

The People's Artist of the USSR, singer Lyudmila Zykina, died. Only on June 10, a popularly beloved singer celebrated her 80th anniversary and received congratulations. A few days ago she suffered a heart attack, and today her heart stopped, reports Channel One . On June 12, she was supposed to start her last grandiose touring tour throughout Russia - a two -month tour.

British artist Michael Dikinson, who lived in Turkey for 23 years, was forced to escape from this country and in a hurry to return to his homeland because of the cartoon prime minister of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The collage is called "Good Boy" and depicts a policy in the form of a dog on a star striped leash with a nuclear rocket instead of a tail.

Trade on the territory of the Cherkizovsky market may resume at the end of this week, said Vladimir Malyshkov, head of the department of consumer market and services of Moscow. "Now active cleaning is being carried out on the territory of the market, the territory is carefully cleaned and cleaned," he said. On Thursday, employees of the Moscow Department of Rospotrebnadzor will come to the market territory with the next check, Interfax reports.

One of the so-called on-board recorders of the Airbus A-310-300 Yemen Airlines (flight IY 626), which suffered a catastrophe near the Comor Islands, was discovered. This was announced on Wednesday by the State Secretary of the French government on cooperation by Alain Zhuyande. According to the minister, the "black box" was discovered on Tuesday afternoon. An attempt to extract it will be undertaken during the environment.

Exactly a year ago, a system of video recording of violations of traffic rules began in Russia. According to the Moscow traffic police department, in June 2009, 6,000 drivers who exceeded speed received letters with notification of a fine at home addresses, “New Izvestia” write. In Moscow, two photo and video recording of violations have been installed at the moment.

The incident with the participation of the former tennis player Anna Kurnikova occurred last weekend in one of the nightclubs of Las Vegas, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the American New York Post. Information about the incident leaked to the press only this week, although, as noted in the publication, the skirmish between the Russian and one of the visitors to the Lavo club occurred on the night of Saturday to Sunday.

Over the past three months, the representation of the Russians about the bias of the Jud for the Jukos - Khodorkovsky and Lebedev has been strengthened, sociologists believe. In March, the number of those who suspected power in pressure on the court was 28%, in April it increased to 32%.

In Russia, the number of crimes committed by foreign citizens and in relation to them is growing. Over the past five months of 2009, foreign citizens committed 27.8 thousand crimes, which is 16% more than during the same period of 2008, today the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliev at a meeting of the Government Commission on the prevention of offenses.

The Tbilisi Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the city court, according to which the right to execute the will of billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili is granted to his consolidated cousin, businessman, US citizen Joseph Kay (Joseph Kakalashvili). Thus, on the process on Wednesday, the Court of Appeal refused the lawsuit of the widow of Patarkatsishvili Inna Gudavadze.

British designers James Auger and Jimmy Loiso developed a watch that catch flying insects and use them as biofuel. Flies stick to the adhesive tape attracting them and, thanks to a mini-conveier, drag them into the device case. There they fall into a microbial fuel element that produces energy from their fermented remains.

Iraq became the battlefield between the largest oil corporations - after an almost forty -year break, Western companies return to the country, writes Inopressa.ru with reference to the British The Independent . Since June 30, contracting contracts are concluded in Baghdad. The process is broadcast live on national television to avoid accusations of corruption.

According to preliminary data, 20 people died as a result of a collision of two ships on the river in the Peruvian Department of Udyyali. According to the local radio station "Programm Del Peru", the catastrophe occurred in the village of Selva, in the west of the country. After the collision, both vessels sank. Among the dead there are children, ITAR-TASS reports. To date, there have been no official data on the number of people on both sides.