The President of the Association of Spanish football players Luis Rubles announced on Thursday about the strike of the players of clubs of the first and second league of Spanish football during the first two rounds of the Spanish championship. As the Rubyles said at a press conference held today, the Championship of Spain will not begin until a new collective agreement of players with the Spanish professional football league is signed.

The Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) announced that she was checking the data of a lawyer of the former head of the MFI MEFITEP Platon Lebedev that his client and ex-head of the Tax Code of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky had seized actions in the amount of 404 billion rubles, which repeatedly exceeds the volume of all financial claims for them.

The average cost of apartments in the elite new buildings of the capital increased in July 2011 by 33% and amounted to $ 3.2 million. This is stated in the materials of the consulting company Knight Frank. According to RIA Novosti , the average cost of the apartment sold in June amounted to $ 2.4 million.

The United States on Thursday will experience in real flight the fastest aircraft in the world that can develop speed 20 times higher than the speed of sound. The path from New York to Los Angeles, usually occupying for more than five hours, will take only 12 minutes on such an apparatus, and from London to Sydney-no more than an hour.

The An-12 aircraft, the crashed on August 9 in the Magadan region, exploded right in the air, investigators say. This may be evidenced by the large scatter of fragments, admits the head of the Far Eastern Investigation Department by transport of the Investigative Committee of Alexei Ustinov. These arguments clearly illustrate the video that was made at the place of the plane crash.

European stock indices completed the auction on Wednesday with a significant decrease, having minimized for 2 years, due to the growing fears of investors regarding the growth of the debt crisis in the region, Bloomberg reports. The consolidated index of the largest enterprises in the Stoxx Europe 600 region dropped at 3.8% of the trading results to 223.5 points. From the February maximum of this year, the index has already traveled by 23%.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the Altai Republic canceled the acquittal of the hunting of senior officials on the animals brought into the Red Book, which ended with the collapse of the helicopter. The case was sent for a new consideration to the district court. According to ITAR-TASS, thus, the cassation submission of the prosecutor's office was satisfied, asking for the excuses for three defendants in the case.

The Russian stock market on Thursday was able to grow on indexes thanks to the correctional rebound in the United States. As Interfax reports, the volatility of the oscillations during the day was increased due to the preserved fears of deepening the debt crisis in the eurozone; The MMECB index fell below 1360 points in the afternoon, and bounced to the closure to 1440 points.

British police did not immediately understand the danger of riots that began in the country last weekend. They incorrectly appreciated the scale of what was happening, which admitted to the Prime Minister of Great Britain David Cameron, Interfax reports. Cameron, in turn, reported this to the deputies of the parliament, where he performed on Wednesday. Cameron emphasized that subsequently the police carried out work on mistakes and allocated more employees for night patrolling the streets.

On Wednesday, representatives of the Orthodox action corporation, which includes famous Orthodox Christians, distributed a statement in which they ask the Orthodox living in St. Petersburg, to prevent homosexuals and lesbians in this city forum. The fact that in St. Petersburg on September 16-18 there will be an annual LGBT Christian forum (LGBTI deciphens as “lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender”) eastern Europe and Central Asia, it became known on Monday.

The American Mark Railway Opportunity reached the final point of the route of its expedition. He entered the edge of the crater of an indoor, the study of which promises to lead to unprecedented scientific discoveries about the possible existence of life on the Red Planet. This was announced by NASA. “We continue to enter wonderful chapters in the history of the study of Mars and travels into hard -to -reach points,” said Charles Bolden's cosmic department, head of the US space department.

The 67-year-old "private detective of stars" Anthony Pellikano gave the first interview since in 2008 he began to serve imprisonment. According to his own statement, since the beginning of the 1990s, he solved the problems of world celebrities and magnates - "problems when tremendous money and even more tremendous pride were delivered at the end." Among his customers were Tom Cruise , Michael Jackson , Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Costner, Courtney Love, writes Newsweek magazine.

In the building of the Ministry of Defense of Estonia, shooting was heard this afternoon, then conflicting reports of the capture of hostages and about the appearance of special forces at the place of events were received. According to the latest data, at about 18:00 an explosion thundered in the building and a shootout ensued, ITAR-TASS reports. There was no official information for a long time - officials refrained from commentary.

After the victory of the Petersburgers over the odious project of the Okhta Center skyscraper , promoted by Gazprom, the public was calmed down, but the new Lakhta-Center monster arose, the height of which exceeded all city standards and became almost 200 meters higher than the abolished Okhta Center. As a result, the tower threatens to spoil all the main types of the city even more.

A scandal with "ghost applicants" at the Russian National Research University named after Pirogov (RNEMU), known as the "second honey", will lead to a change in the rules for admission to universities, the Kommersant newspaper writes. The head of the Ministry of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko told the publication that the agency intends to submit a draft of these changes for public discussion by the end of August.