Investment funds under the control of Nordea will sell the shares of the oil company BP. The decision affects about 20 funds running Nordea, the Finmarket reports. Such a decision was made by the Committee of the Responsible Investment Group by analyzing the situation with the accident in the Gulf of Mexico, the Nordea said in a statement.

The press service of the Moscow Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) has spread a statement about events in the gas sector. "Moscow Quakers express their extreme concern in connection with the incident caused by the attempt of Freedom Freedom Freedom to break through the blockade of the gas sector in a difficult humanitarian situation and an attack on the Flotilla of the Israeli special forces," the document says.

The Russian Union of Christians of the Vera of the Evangelical (Pentecostal) made a statement about unauthorized gay parades in Moscow. His text was distributed today by the press service of Roshwe. Below is the text of the document: "The clergy of the Russian United Union of Christians of the Gospel faith expressed concern that on May 29 an unauthorized gay parade was held in Moscow.

The French auto giant Renault SA officially confirmed its participation in the struggle for the purchase of the South Korean automaker Ssangyong Motor, which is undergoing bankruptcy proceedings since February last year, AFP agency reports with reference to a representative of the French automaker.

Dushanbe protested in connection with the statements of the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko about polio in Tajikistan. The head of the Tajik Foreign Ministry Hamrokhon Zarifi called them "tendentious" and last weekend he handed the note of the Russian Assembly in Dushanbe Yuri Popov.

The Czech club "Leo" from Gradets Kralov can soon join the continental hockey league. He successfully passed the verification in the KHL and is recommended for included in the championship participants in the 2010-2011 season.

The family of Anastasia Belkina, who, out of jealousy, shot the Omsk policeman Alexander Metz in October last year, who finished with him, filed a lawsuit to compensate for non -pecuniary damage to the Department of Internal Affairs in the Omsk region. "The lawsuit was received by the court, his consideration was scheduled for June 15," Interfax told on Monday in the Central District Court of Omsk.

On Sunday, the head of the Central Bank of Iran, Mahmoud Bakhmani, denied rumors about the country's intention to exchange 45 billion euros from the country's foreign exchange reserves for US dollars and gold, the Finmarket agency reports with reference to the Iranian media.

Despite the loud scandal that erupted in connection with mass absenteeism in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the deputies are in no hurry to return to their direct duties. Even after the President Dmitry Medvedev was ashamed of the parliamentarians, there are usually about 70 out of 450 deputies at the meetings.

In the west of Scotland, a train came off the rails, which was traveling from Edinburgh to the resort city of OBAN. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the British television channel Sky News. According to the British transport police, all passengers from the train are evacuated, there are no injured as a result of the accident. Two wagons of the composition hung over a 15-meter cliff. Firefighters work on the spot.

The Sochi authorities are considering the possibility of holding the Russian stage in this city of the most prestigious series of Formula-1 car races already in the fall of 2014. The proposal to organize races after the Olympics came from the owner of the commercial rights of the championship Bernie Ecclestone. The Ministry of Regional Development proposes to build a route for "royal races" in Sochi. The experts estimate the project at 200 million dollars.

Materials of a high-profile criminal case , on which neo-Nazis-tnenovers pass, were transferred to the Moscow City Court. The Slavic separatists headed by the student and football fan of the Slavic Murders, explosions and sabotage on railways in order to destabilize the situation in the country. The natives of Volgograd, 18-year-old David Bashelutkov and 19-year-old Stanislav Lukhmyrin, sit on a bench of the defendants, the newspaper Kommersant writes.

The compilers of the Guinness Book of Records awarded the titles of the most “inclined” tower in the world multifunctional Capital Gate project, which is implemented in Abu Dhabi. Its construction should be completed at the end of this year, writes Prian.ru with reference to Arabian Business. The angle of inclination of the building is 18 degrees - four times more than that of the famous Pisan tower in Italy.

Another VIP audience occurred in Moscow on Monday: on the Kaluga highway Cadillac Escalade from the motorcade of the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Mikhail Sukhodolsky rammed the Mitsubishi Lancer car with a woman driving, freeing the way to the boss. As a result of the accident, the young woman received serious injuries and is in the hospital. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the traffic police, the fact of an accident was first refuted.

On Sunday, the police of the Swiss Zurich caught an elephant that escaped from the Knie circus on the tour, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AP. The elephant nicknamed Saba on Sunday afternoon escaped into the wild when she was transferred to a trailer. The animal walked around the business center of Zurich and even managed to swim in the lake. During an unplanned walk, elephant was accompanied by local police officers.