In the court of Praetory in South Africa, on Tuesday, the process began over the world -famous paralympic Oscar Pistorius accused of killing a friend. He did not last long and was postponed to August 19, since the prosecutor's office did not manage to complete the investigation, reports Reuters. The prosecution and defense had previously agreed on the transfer of the process, but the court had to determine the new date, ITAR-TASS said.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev introduced a bill on the contract system of creative employees to the State Duma, according to which, within a year after its adoption, all artists who are at unlimited contracts will have to be held, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Cabinet. The bill was considered and approved at a meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation on May 30.

Military cooperation of the United States and Israel turned into embarrassment. The US Department of Defense published on its website the details of the construction of a secret Israeli facility, which was planned to be placed between Jerusalem and Ashdod. The name of the object and its purpose were not indicated.

In the Novosibirsk zoo on Tuesday morning, the tigers torn a woman who entered the aviary of predators, reports the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Novosibirsk region. According to the director of the zoo, not tigers, but a female of the Black Leopard, are not to blame with what happened. Later, another version appeared: it was a female of black jaguar. A message about an attack on an employee of the zoo was received by the police remote at 11:40 local time.

The total result of the first day of the “Russian trading” of the Christie's auction house amounted to 12 million 400 thousand 950 pounds (almost 19 million dollars) - this is 49% more than the proceeds from the CHRISTIE's similar trading in May 2012, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the auction house. 74% of lots left the hammer, including works of painting and decorative art, which surpassed the expectations of the organizers of the auction.

The popularity of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, celebrating his 37th birthday on June 4, is growing every year. If in 2011 only 6% of citizens were familiar with his name, then in the Levada Center survey , at the end of March, 37% of respondents already announced his awareness of his awareness.

Against the backdrop of the mocking discussions of “Superdachi Yakunin”, the head of the Russian Railways himself indicatively refrains from all comments on this topic. The day before, he gave a great interview to Interfax , in which he did not mention the shaking blogosphere of the scandal in a word. But he noted on a different reason: "Who shouts the louder:" Hold the thief!

Apple is struggling to make its mobile devices running the Apple iOS platform as protected as possible. However, while its achievements in this area are far from ideal. A group of scientists from the University of Technology of Georgia said that she managed to create a device that can hack any gadget on iOS for about a minute, even if it has the latest software, Geek.com reports on it The “scientific hacking” by the scientist helped a portable device, which is a modernized “charging”.

On Monday, the American state of California fined one of the Facebook and the Napster file, Sean Parker. The recovery of $ 2.5 million was imposed on a 33-year-old billionaire for organizing a wedding in the Big Sur National Reserve without the permission of the relevant authorities, the AP agency reports. The wedding ceremony of Parker and his longtime friend, singer Alexandra Lenas, was held last Saturday, June 1.

On the first of June, the term allotted to Russian tour operators ended to join the industry association "Tour Overall". After all kinds of deferrals, everyone who wanted to join the unification - these are about 1.8 thousand companies from 2001, that is, 90% of tour operators who work in the exit tourism market. The figure "Russian newspaper" was named by the Executive Director of the industry association "Tour Labor" Vyacheslav Basov.

London gave Moscow the second line in the ranking of the most expensive European cities in the field of office lease. The world leadership in this indicator has been retaining Hong Kong for five years. According to analysts, the rates of business of business index in European capitals and Moscow will not grow.

The implementation of the construction program in the sleeping areas of Moscow two hundred Orthodox churches pass without violating the rights of local residents. This was stated by the curator of "Program-200", State Duma deputy Vladimir Resin, the on the eve of the ITAR-TASS agency in the press service of the "Support for the Construction of Temples of the City".

The European Court of Human Rights rejected the lawsuit of three British Christians who complained about discrimination by employers. The 57-year-old nurse Shirley Chaplin from the Extra was transferred to administrative work, after she refused to remove the crucifixion from the neck. The court took the side of the hospital, agreeing that the decision of the leadership was dictated by concern for the safety of patients and personnel.

“Potential opponents of S. Sobyanin are not so unprepared for a “blitzkrieg”. Let me remind you that M. Prokhorov does not need to concentrate funds or recruit a team - he already has all this, and there is also an electoral reserve left over from the presidential elections. A. Navalny is at the peak of his Internet popularity, he is known in Moscow as a vocal opponent of the authorities and can also pretty much ruin S.

“That is why it is necessary to spin this information into a massive snowball, not leaving the “state regs” (religious sovereigns) the slightest chance to divert public fire from the “hero.” Yakunin will not receive any sympathy from the public. Passengers of Russian Railways are forced to overpay for travel tickets, employees do not receive the salary they deserve. The quality of railways, trains and electric trains in general leaves much to be desired.