The idyllic town of Ples in the Ivanovo region is rapidly turning into a Russian analogue of the American resort Hamptons, writes The Financial Times , referring to several villages on Long Island-a place where the villas of many wealthy and famous New York residents are located.

A small Taxi aircraft crashed in Alaska, the AR agency reported on Monday with reference to the National Security Council for US Transport. All ten people on board were killed. The single-engine aircraft De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter fell during a take-off at the eve of 11:20 in the morning local time (23:20 in Moscow) at the airport of the city of Soldonna, located about 75 kilometers to the southwest of the anchoriga.

Roman Petrenko, General Director of TNT-Telezet OJSC, who held this position for 11 years, leaves the post. Instead, Igor Goykhberg was appointed, NEWSRU.com was reported in the TNT press service. “Since July 7, I leave the post of general director of the TNT channel,” Petrenko himself said. He emphasized that there is no hidden background in his departure - the reason for the termination of activity as general director is the transition to the post of chairman of the board of directors of OJSC.

Exactly a month, the GREAT America thematic park in the California city of Santa Clara worked open 1 to June 1 Wooden Hills opened on June 1. Since July 1, a popular attraction temporarily ceased to function due to too loud screams of its visitors. The noise from the park exceeding the permissible indicators flew into nearby residential complexes. The owners of the park were required to equip the attraction with additional soundproofing shields.

In the Canadian Province of Quebec, the number of a commodity train with oil and the followed fire died as a result of the accident and, most likely, will grow. This was stated by the official representative of the police, Lieutenant Michel Brunet. “We believe that there will be still dead,” he said. According to Brunet, rescue work at the emergency site continues, and about 40 people are in the list of missing people, ITAR-TASS reports. Previously reported a hundred missing .

The Ministry of Finance laid in the draft federal budget for 2014-2016 135 billion rubles to increase the salaries of federal state civil servants. The salaries of civil servants should become competitive in the labor market, President Vladimir Putin demanded in the inaugural decree "On the improvement of the government system." As the Vedomosti resembles, by 2018, the salary in the civil service will increase 2.6 times and will exceed the average economy by 1.7 times.

The dates of the Eurovision 2014 contest, which will be held in Denmark, finally decided in Geneva on Monday-the semifinals will be held on May 6 and 8, and the final will be held on May 10, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the European Broadcasting Union organizing the competition. Previous dates of the competition were previously announced - May 13, 15 and 17, respectively.

The problems of Alexei Navalny, a candidate for mayors of Moscow, with the overcoming of the municipal filter were resolved: the secretary of the political council of the Moscow City Branch of United Russia, Irina Belykh, said that her party, as promised , collected 110 of the necessary signatures of municipal deputies. Navalny only needs to come to the Moscow Munobraz Council and pick them up. “We are waiting for Alexei Navalny to transmit signatures today.

In the Chelyabinsk region, an unusual incident that occurred in one of the parks of the city of Magnitogorsk is investigated. On June 26, a 24-year-old man was detained there who threatened visitors with a pneumatic gun, the website of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reports. "The man quarreled with an attraction administrator who did not let him on a children's trampoline, and began to threaten him with a pistol.

Alexey Aschekin "An ordinary German does the same thing in one visit to a notary. I did this several times myself. And no one goes anywhere anymore. And he doesn’t choke in queues at the BTI. And he doesn’t pay money to have the certificate done a couple of days earlier. The most interesting thing is that it takes a total of a little more than a month, although all documents are sent by mail. And there is no such office as BTI in Germany. And no one orders or receives such certificates.

The administration of the social network Facebook entered the head of the Association of Orthodox Experts and the Orthodox Action Corporation Kirill Frolov on the Black List. Access to his page is open, but he cannot fully use it. "Last night, Facebook forbade me to use my account. I now can’t write anything to my friends, participate in polemics, insert texts.

New large frauds with the lands of the Ministry of Defense were identified. The main military prosecutor’s office (GVP) began a check on the fact of the illegal sale of 140 hectares of forest land in the area of ​​the village of Nakhabino Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow Region. The forest, which was previously a landfill, the military had to return to Rosleskhoz.

In Chechnya, on Monday, the leader of a group of militants, operating in the Achkhoy-Martan district of the republic, was destroyed, Rustam Saliev, known nicknamed Abu Muslim, said the head of the region Ramzan Kadyrov. "In the Shata region, during a special operation, the so -called emir of bandits who committed crimes in the Achkhoy -Martan district Rustam Saliev was destroyed," RIA Novosti quotes Kadyrov. Details of the special operation are not reported.

Former promoter Denis Lebedev, Vladimir Khryunov, confirmed that the fighting doctor between the Russian and Panaman of Guillermo Jones was forbidden to stop the duel. However, he did not specify who exactly forbade stopping the battle. Recall that the battle between Lebedev and Jones took place on May 17 in Moscow, and the Russian lost in the 11th round by knockout. During the fight, the Russian received a dissection, which was due to which a large hematoma was formed around the right eye.

Bolivia intends to purchase two Russian Mi-17 helicopters to combat drug trafficking. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of the South American Republic Ruben Saadra. According to him, “in the next 30 days, the Russian government commission will arrive in the country to discuss the purchase issues of these two helicopters that will be used to combat drug trafficking,” as ITAR-TASS reports.