Director Roman Polanski wrote a preface to the book about his wife, actress and model Sharon Tate, Sharon Tate: Recollection (Sharon Tate: Memories) written by her sister Debra Tate, reports The New York Post . Sharon was brutally killed by the members of the sect of the serial killer Charles Manson in 1969. “Even 40 years later, it is difficult to write about Sharon.

The carcasses of the dead whales carried out of the ocean back in April and poisoned the air in two coastal settlements finally found their last refuge. One of them went to the Royal Museum of Ontario in Toronto, and the second to the Newfoundland Memorial University, Canadian media reported.

The main temple of the largest Buddhist Agin monastery in Russia in Transbaikalia was almost completely burned down on May 27. The fire, the cause of which, according to the preliminary version, was a careless handling of fire, happened at about 21:00 local time (at about 15:00 in Moscow). The fire began on the second floor of the temple, and the fire quickly spread to wooden floors, covering the upper floor and roof.

The words of the former chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko that the anti -tobacco law will "save millions of lives" were partially confirmed in the Russian Ministry of Health. The department said that after the introduction of the law against smokers, a positive dynamics were recorded: Russians began to smoke 16-17% less.

NATO again confirmed the withdrawal of Russian troops from the border of Ukraine. Currently, the Russian Federation has already brought out thousands of its soldiers from the border areas, an anonymous source in the Alliance said on Wednesday. At the same time, he noted that most of the previously deployed at the border of Russian forces remains in the immediate vicinity of it.

The FSB police and employees detained a foreigner in the Moscow region, who was the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan terrorist organization. In Russia, he led an armed gang, which took robberies. The 27-year-old leader of the group was captured in Noginsk, the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reports.

In the first quarter of 2014, VTB earned only 400 million rubles, follows from the reporting bank in IFRS. Compared to last year, the State Bank reduced net profit by 40 times. The bank tied the fall in profit with an increase in losses on retail and corporate loans, as well as with the Ukrainian crisis, Vedomosti believes.

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv sentenced the two military personnel of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who were found guilty of excess of official powers and mockery of the opposition activist during January street protests. Then the security forces shared the naked of the detained fighter of the Cossack hundreds of self -defense of the Maidan and brought him to the cold.

The Archnadzor public movement addressed the open letter to the head of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev, in which he asks him to save the Shukhov Radio Bath, the famous creation of Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov, recognized in the world as one of the most beautiful engineering structures.

From June 1, additional restrictions on smoking in public places and the sale of cigarettes come into force: from this day it will be forbidden to smoke in bars, restaurants, long -distance trains, hostels and hotels. In addition, the sale of cigarettes at non -stationary points without a trading floor, such as kiosks, will be prohibited.

In the Naursky district of Chechnya, Lokomotiv and one axis of the first train car, which followed the Route Grozny -Moscow, came off the rails. The report about the incident was received at 20:44 Moscow time Tuesday, May 27, as ITAR-TASS reports. The accident of the train, consisting of a locomotive and 18 passenger wagons, occurred after the train drove away 300 meters from the station of the NUR station. “Lokomotiv and wagons did not overturn.

The Department of Housing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published a methodological manual to use a subsidy for the acquisition of housing by military personnel, the press service and information of the ministry said on Wednesday. The purpose of the online method of method is to increase the legal literacy of military personnel and minimize risks when buying apartments with them. The reference book was prepared by lawyers of the housing department.

Capital Rules for evacuation of cars can be recognized as illegal. The corresponding lawsuit was received by the Moscow City Court. Lawyers indicate that it is impossible to hold the car at the parking lot before paying for the movement and storage services: this contradicts the constitution, recalls "Kommersant" .

The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg did not discover signs of extremism in the book of Yuri Mikhailov "The moral image of history", in which the Slavs are called the oldest people-bearer, tells about the negative role of "Jews" and the Negroisa, the superiority of Orthodoxy over Catholicism and the monarchy over the democracy. The examination of the Russian Academy of Sciences recognized that this work is incurring interethnic and religious discord, however, experts of St.

The program of the IX Moscow International Open Book Festival was announced, which will be held from June 11 to 14 at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow, Colta.ru reports. The Moktkf program consists of four directions: "Books", "Music", "Cinema" and "Children". The program "Books" Special Projects of the Festival "Life of wonderful people", "Culinary lecturer", "ambassadors of poetry: international poetic project".