In the Chelyabinsk region, a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of the explosion in the workshop of the Ashin Metallurgical Plant. As a result of the operation of a home -made explosive device with a radio -controlled detonator, the head of the leaf -rental workshop was seriously injured. The victim born in 1981 was hospitalized in the intensive care unit, the official website of the Investigative Department of the Chelyabinsk Region reports.

The former head of the MEL MENATEP Platon Lebedev , convicted of theft of oil and laundering of revenue, is currently in the investigative insulator (pre -trial detention center) of Arkhangelsk, where he will stay at least until Friday, June 24th. This was announced by RAPSI's agency, his lawyer Elena Lipzer.

In the Sverdlovsk region, a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of a massacre. According to investigators, during a family quarrel with drunken households, the railwayman shot his wife, son, his friend and his neighbor. At the moment, a 51-year-old suspect resident of Lower Tura Alexander Z. is hospitalized because he was trying to commit suicide.

In the United States, a rating of the most funny in the history of commercials for television has been compiled. The rating is subjective, as, in fact, a sense of humor in principle. The ADWeek publication, which specializes in the news of the media sphere, suggested evaluating their taste. A dozen of the most funny, according to the weekly, advertising videos is posted in the thematic blog of Adfreak on the weekly website.

The complex of urban planning and construction of Moscow created a “hot line” on June 20, 2011 for builders, which they can apply to the issues of wages, the construction complex of the capital said. “The order on the start of the“ hot line ”was given on June 17 by the deputy mayor of Moscow in the Moscow government on urban planning and construction Marat Khusnullin,” the report says.

Free tickets for the 2012 Olympics in London will be received by all participants in the previous Games-1948 in the British capital. According to the official representative of the London Organizational Committee of the Olympic Games, a couple of tickets will be awarded to all the living post -war Olympians - if possible, for competitions in the sports in which they performed under the British flag.

800 million dollars of Belarusian loan from the EU anti-crisis Fund on June 21 were sent from Alma-Ata to Minsk, said Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. Earlier, the EU ORECES anti -crisis fund approved the allocation of a loan for Belarus in the amount of $ 3 billion. In the first year, $ 1.2 billion from the EU reserve fund will be allocated, in the second year - $ 800 million and in the third year - another billion.

Immediately after the Tu-134 crash near Petrozavodsky, several men appeared at the scene of the events who rushed to save the surviving people and managed to take part of the wounded from a burning aircraft. Discussing the plane crash in Karelia, the bloggers drew attention to an unknown man from the television portage, who told how he pulled people out of the fallen on the highway and immediately sunbathing aircraft.

Russian tennis player Nadezhda Petrova outplayed 6: 3, 6: 4 her compatriot Spring Dolonz and issued a ticket to the second round of the Wimbledon tournament. In total, tennis players spent 1 hour 11 minutes on the court. The winner completed five Aits, and Dolonz failed to make a single filing right through. The next rival of hope will be another representative of Russia Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who replayed the Ukrainian Lesya Tsurenko - 6: 4, 7: 6.

The NATO command on Tuesday recognized the loss of an unmanned helicopter in the sky over Libya and at the same time rejected the information that a combat aircraft was shot down, Interfax reports with reference to the Alliance press service. The NATO statement was extended after the plot of Al -Jamakhiriya, which demonstrated the wreckage of the downed helicopter, claiming that this is an apache - a US Army helicopter.

In the collapse of the passenger Tu-134 in Karelia late in the evening of June 20, apparently, they can accuse the pilots. More and more opinions appear in favor of this version. The fact that the crew decided to sit at his own peril and risk, despite the warnings about complex weather and poor visibility, was confirmed by the dispatcher of the airfield of the village of Besovets, near which the plane crashed.

The American TV presenter and actor Ryan Dunn, who gained fame thanks to the Extremal TV show "Jackass" on the MTV channel, died in a car accident, reports Associated Press. The incident happened in the state of Pennsylvania. The 34-year-old showman in his car Porsche 911 GT3 flew at a speed of 180 kilometers per hour for the fencing of the highway, after which the car caught fire. In the car, the 30-year-old Zakhari Hartwell rode with this. Both men died on the spot.

The Russian women's basketball team won the Turkish team with a score of 80:65 in the last match of the first group stage of the European Championship, which takes place these days in Poland. Olga Artoshina, Elena Danilochkina and Maria Stepanova, who scored 13 points each, became the most effective in our team. “ The defeat from the Slovak national team was angry,” Russian woman Elena Danilochkina admitted after the final siren. “We had to gather sooner or later and rehabilitate for that match.

On June 22, Russia and the former Soviet republics will celebrate the tragic date - 70 years of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. For many years there was a myth that Hitler’s attack was sudden for the USSR (treacherous, as he was called in all textbooks), later they began to say that Stalin missed this strategic moment.

The notorious "Dancing Bridge" in Volgograd, on the construction of which 15 million rubles were stolen, again turned out to be the object of close attention - and again due to corruption. More than 5.56 million rubles took to landscaping the territory adjacent to the bridge, but the Christmas trees planted there suspiciously quickly dried up. When they began to find out the reason, it turned out that they planted trees without roots there, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda .