In the capital of Scotland, on Friday, the annual Edinburgh International Festival of Arts opens, in which the leading creative groups from many countries of the world will present their theater, musical, dance and performing skills, ITAR-TASS reports. From Russia, in this largest theatrical and musical show in Europe, in particular, the Russian National Orchestra will perform, which will be conducted by Andrei Boreiko.

The American April Meigolon sued Walt Disney: in the lawsuit of the 27-year-old mother of two children, it was said that in 2008 a man in Donald’s costume touched her chest and continued his hooligan tricks while she held the child in her arms, writes the foreign version of the British newspaper The Daily Mail .

The Russian Railways intends to appeal in court a decision of the FAS, which fined the company for 68 million rubles for the inclusion of linen fees in the price of tickets, the Russian Railways said. "Russian Railways intend to file a supervisory appeal to the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation against the decision of the Federal Arbitration Court of the Central District adopted in July of this year.

The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg first opened a criminal case against an official who illegally settled foreign foreigners into an emergency house, writes dprealty.ru . As part of the coordinated work of the city prosecutors, it was possible to document the fact of receipt by the head of the housing and communal services to the Central District of Cash for illegal Enlightenment in the resettled emergency house No. 110 g on Ligovsky Prospekt.

Libya handed over to Israel the previously arrested citizen of the Jewish state Rafi Hadada in exchange for the release of groups of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons. This was announced on Friday by The Jerusalem Post , citing a statement by the safe of al -Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The Governor of the Altai Territory Alexander Karlin removed from office the head of Barnaul Vladimir Kolganov. According to the regional administration, the head of the region took this decision as a “systematic failure to fulfill its duties,” the official appeal of Karllin said to the residents of the city posted on Friday on the website of the regional administration.

According to preliminary information of experts, the relics of St. Maximus Confessor were discovered in the Georgian Celler, the Pirveli agency reports. TsAgeri is a city in the north of Georgia, located on the banks of the tributary of the Rioni River. In the Middle Ages, a bishopric department was in Tsageri. Currently, the residence of the bishop of Tsareg and Laztehsky is located in Tsageri. During the repair work in the monastery, bearing the name of St.

The Irish football played Isen McGiDi from the Scottish Celtic to the Moscow Spartak. The midfielder of the Ireland national team signed a contract with the Moscow club - for a period of four years. Its salary in Russia will be about 1.5 million euros per year, and Spartak will pay about 10 million pounds for a football player, reports Sportbox.ru with reference to Bobsoccer. The 24-year-old McGidi, who safely passed a physical examination in Germany, will fly to Russia next week.

The Tbilisi City Court sentenced the eight activists of the radical Orthodox movement "The Union of Orthodox Parents of Georgia", detained in connection with the incident in the Caucasia television company. As Interfax was told in court, they were all convicted of 4.5 years in prison. The incident in the Caucasia television company occurred on May 7, when the debate on the program "Barrier" regarding the book "Saisy Syroba" overgrown with a fight.

On Friday, the Khamovnican Court of Moscow considered the extension of the arrest of the former head of the Yukos Tax Code Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the ex-head of the MF MELEATEP MFO Platon Lebedev. The court will announce the final decision on Monday, August 16. The previous decision in May, the arrest was extended for three months and expires on August 17. The ex-head of Yukos recently gave an interview to the German magazine Spiegel .

The dollar significantly decreased on Friday morning at the MICEX amid the corrective growth of world oil prices and an increase in the euro in the Forex market. The ruble strengthened to the bivalyut basket, Interfax reports. The dollar cost 30.43 rubles at 11:30 Moscow time on Friday at the MMEVB session "Tomorrow", this is 18.5 kopecks below the level of closure of the previous trade day.

Swiss Louis Palmer, inventor of the "solar taxi" - a car running exclusively on solar energy, plans to travel around the world in his “clean” car in 80 days. In this way, he hopes to attract the attention of the planet's inhabitants to the problem of global change climate, ITAR-TASS reports. The journey will start on August 16 this year in Geneva, and it should end in January next year. Palmer will not go around the world alone.

The trial of the Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, whom the US authorities suspect of the organization of illegal international transportation of drugs, formally begins in New York. In the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York on Manhattan, pre-trial hearings will take place today, during which the parties should exchange technical information, ITAR-TASS reports.

Rospotrebnadzor denied information about the ban on the import of wine from Moldova into Russia. "Information that appeared in the press about the prohibition of the import of Moldavian wine into the Russian Federation is not true. The import of wine -making products continues," the Rospotrebnadzor said in the official statement of Interfax . On the eve of August 12, the Federal Customs Service said that the ban on the import of wine from Moldova was introduced .

Unknown criminals fired at the aviary of birds at the Rostov-on-Don zoo, the Interfax reported on Friday in the press service of the city Internal Affairs Directorate. "It was established that the birds were shot at about 5:00 pneumatic weapons - six rare eagles were killed," the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, the attacker shot birds directly through the bars.