The State Duma deputy Nikolai Pankov intends to achieve the cancellation of the election results to the State Duma in the Balakovo district of the Saratov region, where the United Russia party gained fewer votes than in the region as a whole. This is stated in the press release received by Newsru.com. “According to the results of the elections to the State Duma of the VI convocation in the Balakovo district, United Russia gained only 42 percent of the vote.

Michael Bay, who provided Paramount's studios $ 2.7 billion for three parts of the Transformers franchise (Transformers), agreed to take on a fourth part, RIA Novosti reports with reference to collider.com . "Transformers" - the story of the war of two clans of rational and capable of transformation of robots - Autobots and Decepticons - into which humanity was involved.

In order to withstand oppositions in promotions against unjust elections in the center of Moscow, the authorities forced forced college students and universities to speak on the side of “ours” and “young guard”, eyewitnesses testify. However, there were many volunteers - basically these were very young provincials, who were seduced by "two unforgettable days" in Moscow.

The Greek police detained 38 people in Athens and arrested 11 for attacks on special forces and damage to property during unrest arranged by anarchists during manifestations on the occasion of the third anniversary of the murder of a 15-year-old teenager in 2008. According to law enforcement agencies, groups of demonstrators attacked police outfits in various places of the central square of Sintagma (Constitution), as well as on neighboring streets.

US President Barack Obama issued a directive announcing the struggle for the rights of sexual minorities abroad the priority of American foreign policy, the Voice of America reports. In his memorandum, Obama requires government departments to make everything in their power so that US diplomatic work and assistance provided by foreign countries contribute to the protection of the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people (LGBT).

The primate of the Cyprus Orthodox Church (CCC) Archbishop II and the chief rabbi of Israel Jona Metzger declared the need to abandon the prejudices and manifestations of mutual disrespect in relations between the Christian and Jewish communities.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine refutes the data of lawyers of the convicted ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on supposedly inhuman conditions of its maintenance in the Kiev pre-trial detention center. “This is a lie. Cynical and impudent,” said the first deputy head of the country Renat Kuzmin on Wednesday. He said that Tymoshenko is contained in a cell with an area of ​​22 square meters.

The European Commission, which is the main executive body of the EU, launched an investigation against five publishers suspected of a monopoly conspiracy with the American company Apple. The authorities intend to verify the transactions concluded between them and find out whether they led to an unfair restriction on the competition in the electronic books market in Europe, Vesti.ru reported with reference to Bloomberg.

The city commission for the development of tourism, Beijing, deprived the "star status" of 131 hotel of the Chinese capital, said the Sinhua agency with reference to the representative of the Zhou Shutsi commission. Since the beginning of the year, the commission has re -certified 729 metropolitan hotels for their compliance with modern standards for the quality of tourist service, the level of which is traditionally measured in the "stars".

The weighted medium of the US dollar to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of the Unified Trading Session of the Interbank currency exchange (ETC) as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which the dollar course has grown by 5.01 kopecks and amounted to 31,1527 rubles, the Finmarket reports. The weighted average of the euro with the period of calculations "tomorrow" by 11:30 grew by 30.29 kopecks - up to 41.8930 rubles (41.5901).

The head of the Presidential Protection of Peru Olinta Umala was dismissed following the investigation, which proved his involvement in the stealing of the fuel from the garage serving the presidential cars and his entourage, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the La Republica newspaper. Colonel Belermino Vasquez was found guilty that, together with his subordinates, he systematically stole gasoline from 38 cars in the presidential garage.

Bulgaria invites Russia to conclude an agreement on its withdrawal from the project by mutual agreement. If such an agreement is not reached, then Bulgaria will come out of it independently after the expiration of a 12 month. The release of Bulgaria from the project is due to the impossibility of its implementation under the terms and financial parameters laid down in the agreement of 2007, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Minister of Finance of Bulgaria Simeon Dyankov.

The oldest consulting center in Switzerland will be disbanded at the end of June 2012. Such a decision was made at an extraordinary general meeting of the "Inter -Christian Consulting Center for Non -traditional religious associations and sects", in which representatives of the cantonal churches of central Switzerland took part. Discussions about the future of the consulting center, founded in 1989 by the Reformed and Catholic churches of Central Switzerland, have been going on for a year.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the State Council - Khase of the Republic of Adygea, the candidacy of the current head of the republic Aslanceria Thakushinov, Interfax reports. The day before, Medvedev approved the list of candidates proposed by the United Russia party as the head of the Republic of Adygea.

Cottage in California, once belonging to the legendary Frank Sinatra, is put up for sale for $ 12 million, reports "Gazeta.ru" with reference to The Business Insider . The house with an area of ​​more than 10 thousand square feet was visited by Marilyn Monroe, Paul McCartney and other famous friends of the Sinatra, and Judy Garland and Vincent Minelli celebrated their wedding in it.