The manager of the Bank-Banking Brond Bernd Bente said that his wards did not include a fight with the Olympic champion from Russia Alexander Povetkin. According to him, the Russian boxer was previously afraid to fight Ukrainians. “We already had to beat Povetkin twice,” said Bente in an interview with Sportbox.ru . “And we wanted to fight with him. But he did not come to a press conference because he was scared.

A ship with illegal migrants crashed off the coast of Sudan, heading to Saudi Arabia. As ITAR-TASS reports, 197 people died as a result of shipwreck. Only three passengers managed to escape. According to preliminary data, the cause of the crash was a fire on the ship. The citizens of which countries were on board the sunken vessel are currently not reported. Many of the dead refugees could be the inhabitants of Somalia.

The Investigative Committee of Russia initiated the transfer of materials about a mass fight in Sagre of the Sverdlovsk Region from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the regional department of the Investigative Committee, said the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin on Wednesday.

The aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies arrived in the Libyan city of Benghazi, which is under the control of the rebels, with a humanitarian cargo on board, RIA Novosti reported and on Wednesday in the department of the department. "At 13.40 Moscow time, the IL -76 EMERCOM of the Russian Federation landed at Benghazi Airport. The board delivered 36 tons of humanitarian aid to Libya," the agency’s interlocutor said.

All nine members of the crew of the Azerbaijani IL-76 cargo aircraft, which broke up last night in Afghanistan, died, reports the Trend news agency with reference to Abulkhalim Mujaddadi, the head of the Afghan province of Siya Uyezda Parvand, where the disaster occurred. He also denied the statement of representatives of the Taliban movement that the plane was shot down by militants.

Timur Bekmambetov decided to remove the remake of the classics of Soviet cinema comedy "Gentlemen of Good Luck". The initial "gentlemen of good luck" was shot by Alexander Gray according to the script of George Danelia. The film was released in 1972 and became the box office of the USSR - 65 million people watched it.

The instigator of the "worm scandal" in the Kremlin Dmitry Zelenin, early dismissed by the president from the post of governor of the Tver region, gave an interview to the Rain TV channel. Believing that as a retired official, he would be more free in statements, the presenters tried to get revelations from him on a number of sensitive topics. But he did not justify hopes: Julil, denied, issued general phrases.

The US authorities brought to the country of the militant of the Somali group "Ash Shabab" Ahmed Abdulkadir Varsame, who was responsible for the connection with Al-Qaeda. According to the official representatives of the American administration, he already appeared before the federal court in New York, where he was charged with terrorism. Barsame is suspected of providing both groups of financial resources and weapons, as well as assistance in the training of militants.

In the Ural village of Sagra, after the bloody battle of local residents with dozens of armed Caucasian raiders, an atmosphere of indignation and fear reigns. Women, whose husbands had to go out with hunting guns against the crowd of invaders with axes, bats, traumatic pistols and crops, fear the return of the gang of "punishers". This time they will no longer come in order to arrange a “intimidation action” by ordering the residents of the drug dealer-tsigan.

The Portuguese Fabiu Coentrau moved to the Madrid “Real” and became the second most important defender in the history of football, losing only to the Englishman Rio Ferdinand. The Royal Club paid Benfica for a 23-year-old defense player of 30 million euros. On Tuesday evening, Coentrau successfully underwent a medical examination in the new team, with which he signed a contract for six years, the press service of Creamy reports.

The Supreme Administrative Court of Egypt issued a decree according to which Christians who adopted Islam and decided to return back to Christianity allowed to get an entry in a passport or birth certificate of belonging to Christianity. The court ruled on July 3 that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is obliged to fulfill a petition for such an entry in the passport automatically, without applying to the court to resolve each individual case.

The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov ordered to give the bodies of killed members of illegal armed groups to their relatives. "I personally allowed to give out the corpses of the dead bandits. Give it up, let them bury, so as not to embitter the remaining, so that people understand," Yevkurov said on Tuesday at a meeting with the participants of the Mashuk -2011 camp. The head of Ingushetia is reported by RIA Novosti about this order.

The pensioner with the help of natural gas and gasoline blew up a private house in the Kaliningrad region, in which he lived with a stepdaughter and her family, the regional prosecutor's office reports on Wednesday. The incident occurred last Saturday, but is reported only now, RIA Novosti writes.

Law enforcement agencies searched the office of the founder of the founder of OJSC Maxi-Group Nikolai Maksimov, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of Maximov. "At the moment, in the office of CJSC" Maxi-Invest "of the founder of Maxi-Group, Nikolai Maksimov is searches," an employee of the Kommersant press service told Interfax on Wednesday. As reported, Maksimov was charged under Article 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of authority).

The Novosibirsk District Court decided on the date of the first trial in the case of the organizer of the religious sect "Ashram Shambala" Konstantin Rudnev, accused of creating a sect that attracted young people by occultism, drugs and sexual orgies. "The court session is scheduled for July 19, it will be held closed," Interfax was told today in the district court. K. Rudnev is charged under Art. 131 of the Criminal Code (rape), Art.