On Wednesday in Moscow, a visiting meeting of the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg was held in the case of criminal authority Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), accused of multimillion-dollar extortion. The leader of the Tambov criminal group described his current state in “cosmic” expressions, after which he was called a urological “ambulance”. The defense of the accused requested the transfer of hearings, referring to the deplorable state of health of Vladimir Barsukov.

The general director of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI), the creation of which Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced in May, was appointed Andrei Nikitin, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the statement of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. "Nikitin Andrei Sergeyevich was elected general director of the agency of strategic initiatives," Putin said.

In order to repair all apartment buildings in 15 years, you need to spend 1.5 trillion rubles. Part of the expenses will have to take on the owners of the apartments, said Vladimir Talalykin, First Deputy Director General of the Housing and Public Utilities Fund. The government is already preparing a bill on major repairs, he recalls: apartment owners will be obliged to pay monthly funds to regional funds for future repairs.

In the administrative center of the Chelyabinsk region, the police detained a man who is suspected of killing a Taxist girl. The motive for reprisals was the passenger’s reluctance to pay for the trip. At the moment, the 26-year-old Chelyabinets Vadim Hasanov is taken into custody. The issue of charges is being decided, the official website of the regional investigative department reports.

The member of the support group of the Omsk Hockey Club "Avangard" Alexander Palgova sued the team 500 thousand rubles as material damage and compensation for non -pecuniary damage for the injury, which she received from a puck in the face at the home match of the team. This was reported by the Omsk city portal with reference to the press service of the Kirovsky District Court of Omsk.

In the Zavodoukovsky district of the Tyumen region, a criminal case was opened against a local resident who lives in a civil marriage with a minor girl. In the near future, the "lecher" and his victim intend to get married, but for the early pregnancy of his lover, a four -year period of imprisonment threatens.

One of the largest film forums of North America - the International Film Festival in Toronto - for the first time in a 36 -year history will be opened by a documentary film, ITAR -TASS reports. As the director of the festival, Cameron Bailey, said on Tuesday, the tape "from heaven to earth" (from the Sky Down) was selected for the first show. This tape of the American director David Guggenheim tells of the world famous rock band U2.

Russian companies have expanded their presence in the prestigious list of the 500 largest corporations in the world, compiled by Fortune . In the first ten of the new Global 500 list, three US companies are Wal -Mart, Exxon Mobile and Chevron. Three of China - Sinopec, China National Petroleum and State Grid. Japanese - Toyota and Japan Post. From conditionally European - BP and Royal Dutch Shell. There are seven representatives of Russia in the current list.

The metropolitan police detained a man on Wednesday night in the west of Moscow, who blinded the laser installation of the pilots of the aircraft sitting at the Moscow Domodedovo airport, the representative of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow told reporters.

The White House announced his readiness to impose a presidential veto on a bill on the public debt proposed by the Republicans. As indicated in the statement that he has widespread, "the administration decisively opposes the" bill, presented on the eve of the speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress John Beiner, ITAR-TASS reports. "If this document is sent to the president, then his advisers will recommend imposing a veto on him," the statement said.

In Russia, the time of vacation for the first persons of the state comes. According to the already established unspoken tradition, both Russian leaders will go on vacation at the same time, but will conduct it differently. President Dmitry Medvedev his next vacation, starting next week, will traditionally spend the Bochars stream in Sochi in Sochi. In August, in August, according to plans, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will come there, but already in his residence, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda .

The Russian Water Polo women's team with a score of 12:13 lost to the Chinese women in the semifinals of the World Sports Water Championship, which takes place these days in Shanghai, and now can only claim bronze medals of the championship. The most effective among the losers were Ekaterina Tankeev and Nadezhda Fedorova, who abandoned three goals into the gates of rivals.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, unknown persons shot the deputy head of the Urvan Ministry of Internal Affairs of the 40-year-old police colonel Amurbek Bitokhov, when he was on his car from Nalchik to the city of Nartkal, ITAR-TASS, with reference to the Unified Information Center (ECS) of the Republic of Republic. The incident occurred at about 08:30 Moscow time on the road "Nalchik - Nartkal" near the glass factory.

The digital artist, who depicted Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the form of a movie hero - captain of America , gave an interview to the BusinessFM radio station, in which he spoke about the reasons forced him to take up Photoshop. It turned out that the author of the posters is the creator of the site monolog.tv .

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, the permanent collegial supreme body of church authorities in the Russian Orthodox Church, at the exit meeting held on Wednesday in Kyiv, established new dioceses. In particular, a decision was made on the formation of the Central Asian Metropolitan District. As part of it, Bishkek, Dushanbin, Tashkent diocese were created.