The captain of the Roman football club "Lazio" Stefano Mauri was disqualified for six months in the case of contractual matches, RIA Novosti reports. The midfielder was one of the eight people who were accused of organizing contractual matches with Genoa and Lech in May 2011. Initially, the prosecutor's office asked to punish Mauri for four and a half years, as well as remove six points from Lazio in the new season.

The Center for Wood Expertise "Healthy Forest" proved that the oldest tree of Astrakhan, which received the title of wildlife monument as "oak of Peter I", has nothing to do with the Russian emperor - oak older than him for 100 years, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the environmental management and environmental protection service of the Astrakhan region. "Among the Astrakhan, the opinion is that the oak was planted by Peter I.

By the discussion that began this week about whether there are signs of the upcoming credit default in Russia or not, Alfa-Bank experts joined, the Finmarket news agency reports. First, we recall that the analysts of the Bank of Svyaznoy studied the data of the two largest Russian bureaus of credit stories and said that the retail lending market is close to a critical point.

Volkswagen has distributed details about the Car-Net telematic system, which will appear on the models of Jetta, Passat, Tiguan, CC, Beetle, Beetle Convertible and EOS 2014 model year. This system of services, available both on the machine and via the Internet or through special applications on the smartphone, reports LiveCars.ru . The most important CAR-NET services include: - a warning system in the event of an accident automatically connecting the driver with a service center specialist.

The court fined 120 thousand rubles a branch of the Russian Post on Vernadsky Avenue, 18 in Moscow for the loss of parcels and other violations, the metropolitan prosecutor said . At the mentioned address is EMS Russian Post - a branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Post of Russia". "The arguments of citizens were confirmed: when providing postal services, there were facts of loss of postal items, their untimely presentation to the recipients," the press release said.

The jury in New York on August 1 recognized the former vice president of one of the largest American investment banks Goldman Sachs Factor Turrere guilty of fraud. The jury ruled that the 34-year-old Turra is guilty of six of the seven points of prosecution. Now he faces a fine, and also, perhaps, a ban on financial activities. A specific punishment will be determined at the next court session, the date of which has not yet been appointed.

On the Internet, the first two sketches of the following generation of the Mercedes-Benz Viano minibus were published, which will appear on sale in 2014, reports Carscope.ru with reference to black.mercedes-benz-passion.com . The source that provided these images claims that they are "official". The minibus on the sketches is made in a new sports style that recalls the recently modernized commercial models of Sprinter.

The regional prosecutor's office began checking information about the presence of an undeclared villa in Cannes in the Nizhny Novgorod Vice-Governor for the construction of Anton Averin. A criminal case has also been instituted against the Minister of State Property and Land resources of the region Alexander Makarov.

The English football club "Doncaster Rovers", acting in the second largest division of the country, replenished his ranks by a participant in the Anglo-Irish Band of One Direction Louis Tomlinson, the official website of the team reports. A native of Doncaster Tomlinson is a longtime fan of Rover. The singer chose the game number 28. “My childhood dream has come true in reality,” the newly -made football player admitted.

The Italian conductor Fabio Mastrajelo was appointed new head of the St. Petersburg Music Hall, reports Fontanka.ru . Fabio Mastrajelo is an Italian who received Russian citizenship in 2011, a very gifted conductor actively collaborating with the largest theaters and symphonic orchestras of the world and Russia, including Mariinka, the Academic Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and many others. For more than 10 years he has been living in St.

The Spanish newspaper El Mundo covers in detail the topic that is relevant in August - renting and buying housing in resorts. In Spain, apartments and houses theoretically enough "for the entire European Union", but the authorities are fighting "dumping". Andalusia tracks malicious non -payers for housing and communal services, quotes several articles from the newspaper Inopressa.ru .

The founders of the American company Ecovative Iben Bayer and Gavin Mcyntair believe that mushrooms can become an alternative to traditional building materials. The company's last experiment is the use of mushrooms in housing construction. Such houses can self -heal and amaze. In their project, the founders of Ecovative use mycelium (mycelium), which consists of millions of tiny fibers.

"The first battle of the First World War on the eastern front took place exactly three days after Germany and Austria-Hungary declared war on the Russian Empire. It happened on August 4, 1914, when the Austrian cavalry consisting of the 1st, 6th and 7th th regiments of the Honvedian Hussars approached Gorodok, a fortress in the territory of what is now the Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine. The Honvedian hussars seemed to be a vestige of the glorious, but, alas, past 19th century.

On Friday, the Executive Committee of the Russian Federation of Basketball (RFB) approved the mentor of the Lyubertsy Triumph Vasily Karasev as the head coach of the male team of the country, the press service of the RFB informs. Karasev leads the Russian national team after the departure of Greek Fotis Catsikaris. Earlier, he acted as the head coach of the national team and began preparations with it for the starting on September 4 in Slovenia to the European Championship.

The police of the Canadian town of Lak-Mezhantik (Quebec Province) stopped the search for the remains of the dead as a result of one of the worst railway disasters in the history of the country that lasted almost four weeks. On July sixth, in the lacquer, the lacquer came off the rails and exploded the composition of 72 oil tanks, which was in the United States. According to official figures, 47 residents of the town were killed, only 42 of them managed to find the remains, ITAR-TASS reports.