Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov considered it necessary to explain about the situation around the fugitive ex-employee of the American special services of Edward Snowden, who arrived at the Sheremetyevo airport from Hong Kong on Sunday and soon disappeared from sight . The former US National Security Agency did not cross the Russian border, the head of the Foreign Ministry announced.

Representatives of the Guinness Book of Records recorded a new economy record for cars with an internal combustion engine: the serial Volkswagen Passat TDI drove more than 13 thousand km along the average diesel fuel consumption of 3.02 liters per 100 km. This indicator was recognized as the best among car cars, but at the same time it is even better than that of the hybrid “record holder” from 3.4 liters per 100 km, WorldCarfans notes.

To find out where and how the Russians live in general, you can now turn to the ninth of the census of the Russian population of 2010, dedicated to housing conditions. He was recently published by Rosstat . The Internet magazine Slon.ru chose some interesting numbers from the report. 2/3 Russians live in apartment buildings. 64,000 people are considered homeless throughout Russia. These are 0.04% of the country's population, or approximately one person out of 2,200.

In Perm, a woman, a visitor to the local entertainment park named after Gorky, who had fallen from the Twister Coaster attraction cabin (in the old way, “American slides”) last week. After the incident, an operation was done. However, the day before, the victim - Svetlana Domracheva - died in one of the regional hospitals from heart arrest, never recovering, reports Life News .

The Ukrainian army will become completely contract next year. The mandatory call will pass by until the end of 2013, after which citizens of Ukraine will voluntarily go to the service, the Minister of Defense Pavel Lebedev told the Ukrainian newspaper. "2013 is the latter, when there is an appeal for military service. Since 2014, a complete transition to the contract army will take place.

The Western press, commenting on the appointment of Elvira Nabiullina, the head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, notes that the first woman at the head of the Central Bank in the countries of the Big Eight replaces Sergey Ignatiev, a convinced monetarist, a distinctive feature of the 11-year-old leadership of which were, for example, high interest rates.

In anticipation of the anniversary of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who marks 50 on June 26, and against the backdrop of suspicions of the preparation of the soil for the third sentence to him, activity around the next Yukos case increased markedly. According to the Kommersant newspaper, two participants in the public examination on the second sentence Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev were invited to the Investigative Committee the other day.

The gang of natives of Georgia who performed auto -crackers in the suburbs was detained by the employees of the threat. In addition to stolen money and things, they found a video archive of feats. The detainees, which is not surprising, gave confession, reports the website of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . "One of the detainees found a purse in which there were cash in the amount of 100,000 rubles, previously stolen from an entrepreneur from his personal car.

A group of hackers who call themselves members of the Anonymous international group attacked on Tuesday morning the site of the President of the Republic of Korea Pak Kyn Hye and several other government institutions.

In the Northern Administrative District of Moscow, a street named after the actual legendary leader of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, who died on March 5, 2013, will appear. This was reported in the metropolitan committee of public relations following the results of the government, RIA Novosti reports. "A decision was made to rename the nine undergoing driveways and one nameless bridge.

“But the State Duma adopted a bill on never-before-seen propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships. And everyone is discussing it, trembling, exploding - articles, notes, publications, interviews, speeches, television shows, rallies, pickets, dispersal of demonstrations, prohibited marches, fights, prayers. Social life is in full swing. But no one has given a single example of this very propaganda. Where is at least one minor who became gay under the influence of propaganda?

The Moscow City Court overturned the acquittal of the former general director of the Trading House of the Film Directors Guild "Forum XXI Century" Vasily Alyushin and his deputy and son Pavel Alyushin, who were accused of stealing $22.2 million from the Kazakh Kazkommertsbank. Now this case will be considered for the third time by the Tverskoy District Court, which will become a kind of record for those accused in the field of entrepreneurial activity, writes Kommersant .

Maria Sharapova won a ticket to the second round of the UK Open Tennis Championship , which these days are held on the herbal lawns of the All-English Launnis Club. In the starting match, the Russian woman defeated French representative Kristina Mladenovich - 7: 6 (7: 5), 6: 3. The next rival of Maria will be the Portuguese tennis player Michelle Larsher de Britus. Ekaterina Makarova made his way into the second circle.

Russian climbers, located in the same area where the militants shot the international group of athletes last Sunday, got in touch and said that nothing threatens them. Earlier, all tourists were warned about the danger of being in the country, one team of Russians was even evacuated from mountainous areas. However, this group, with which from Monday there was no connection , decided to stay in an unsafe area.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril congratulated Hassan Rouhani on the election of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and expressed the hope that the relations of the Russian Orthodox Church with this country will only improve. "The Russian Orthodox Church highly appreciates the achieved level of interaction with the religious forces and authorities of Iran.