Among all the inhabitants of the leading countries of the West, the most powerful fear of the possibility of default of their states is experienced by the French. 53% of the inhabitants of this country consider the default of France, writes The Financial Times , which conducted a poll together with Harris. 31% of the French are considered “possible” such an outcome, “very probable” - 22%.

The incident in the north of Moscow: the district policeman, who arrived at the call, could not cope with the raging rowdy and shot him. The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the area of ​​Butyrsky conducts a pre -investigation of the legality of the use of weapons.

In Turkey, an explosion underground occurred at the mine, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Minister of Labor of the country Omer Danger. Eight people were injured, 25 miners were blocked underground. There are no dead. Rescuers are trying to break through to people and bring them to the surface. The explosion occurred in the Northern Turkish province of Songuldak. The victims were taken to a hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning.

The European Court of Human Rights on Monday satisfied the appeal of Latvia, which challenged the verdict of the court about the illegal sentence against the veteran of the Great Patriotic War, partisan Vasily Kononov . According to RIA Novosti , the Great Chamber of the Court canceled the decision of the small chamber, which on July 24, 2008 recognized the verdict of Latvia against Kononov illegal on the basis of Article 7 of the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights.

The Government of the Russian Federation signed a decision on amendments to the rules of the road. In accordance with the document, which will enter into force in six months, drivers will be allowed to go on the oncoming lane in order to overtake crawling vehicles. In addition, according to the new rules, the driver will have to concede the pedestrian as soon as he appears on the zebra, as well as provide an advantage of cars when entering the ring road.

Several former government officials and parliamentarians suspected of a conspiracy to overthrow the Provisional Government were detained in Kyrgyzstan, Interfax reports. All of them intended to seize power in the south of the country, the authorities say.

In St. Petersburg, in the Alexander Hospital, last week, he died from a closed traumatic brain injury (severe brain bruise with squeezing the right hemisphere), a dark-skinned artist Tito Romalio, who has repeatedly starred in Soviet films in roles, writes the newspaper New Izvestia . On May 10, the 58-year-old artist was found unconscious by local residents of about one of the houses on the Bogatyrsky Prospekt and caused resuscitation, but the actor did not come to consciousness.

The Orthodox believers of Kuzbass came today, on the ninth day after the death of people at the Razdadskaya mine, to temples for the Panichids, the representative of the press service of the Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Yevgeny Kobyakov told RIA Novosti . "The memorial prayers for those killed on" Disoladskaya "will be performed every day until 40 days from the date of their death.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman criticized Moscow’s decision on new supply of Russian weapons to Syria, writes “Independent Gazeta” . According to Lieberman, this step does not help establish the atmosphere of the world in the Middle East. He emphasized that it was mistaken to think that Damascus is configured to normalize the situation in the region.

The helicopter fell to the residential quarter in the Philippine city of Lucen. The Governor of the Kesson province and five more people died, ITAR-TASS reports. The disaster occurred 110 kilometers southeast of the capital of Manila. According to official representatives of the police and the armed forces, the bodies of four people on board, including the province of Kesson Rafael Nantes, his two guards and a helicopter pilot, are already aimed at identification.

In the Far East, the 65th anniversary of Victory received apartments 1613 War veterans who were registered before March 1, 2005. On behalf of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Victor Ishaev’s selective check, which covered 713 apartments, She showed that veterans live only in 587 apartments. About this reports "Interfax" with reference to the apparatus of the embassy. As it turned out, 18 apartments were sold or exhibited at Sales, 6 - donated.

The scandal ended on the Sunday match of the Russian national teams and Denmark at the World Cup - 2010 in hockey: the players of the Russian team after the match, which they won with a score of 6: 1 , dodged communicating with the Russian and foreign press. While the defeated Danes almost the whole team answered the questions of journalists in the Micst Zone, the current world champions flashed past the press representatives into the locker room.

The Georgian private airline Georgian Airways received permission from the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation for direct charter flights from Tbilisi to Moscow and back from May 24 to November 1, 2010. About this, according to ITAR-TASS, said the head of the Department of Public Relations of the airline Nino Giorgobiani. According to her, direct charter flights will be performed at least 3-4 times a week, depending on the flow of passengers.

In the Vatican, in the audience hall named after Paul VI, on May 20, an Orthodox music concert will be held, at which the Russian National Orchestra (Karlo Ponti Conductor), the Moscow Synodal Choir under the direction of Alexei Puzakov and the corneal chapel of St. Petersburg will be performed by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, S.V. Rachmaninova, P.I. Tchaikovsky, M.P. Mussorgsky and other Russian composers.

Russian military sailors from the ship Marshal Shaposhnikov did not shoot Somali pirates who seized the Moscow University tanker, the Russian Navy said. The task of the sailors was to free the crew of the Russian ship, and not the destruction of the bandits, the commander of the ships of the Pacific Fleet, the first rank captain Ildar Akhmerov, emphasized. He recalled that 11 pirates were captured during the operation, several of them were injured, one died of injuries.