The next hearings in the case of the former Minister of Finance of the Moscow Region Alexei Kuznetsov will be held in France on September 18. This was reported in the Court of Appeal of Lyon, where the case is being considered, ITAR-TASS reports. Kuznetsov is suspected of committing a crime in the field of housing and communal services, as a result of which the budget of the Moscow Region caused damage worth more than 3.5 billion rubles.

Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, as the head of the company, the Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine (EECU), possibly collaborated with criminal authority Semyon Mogilevich, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Wikileaks . This is the message of the US Ambassador in Kyiv, sent to Washington on April 14, 2006.

The number of signatures under an online pattern with a request to verify the mental health of the deputy Elena Mizulina exceeded 100 thousand. The last 10 thousand supporters of the petition , published in Runet in July last year, scored in a matter of days. Under the petition, many residents of the Omsk region, which is represented by Mizulin’s parliament, reports, reports Omskinform . “I also do not like the fact that she did nothing for Omsk.

In the city of Lisichansk, the Lugansk region, two groups of separatists, previously representing the "Lugansk People's Republic", did not share the authorities, as a result of which local rebels expelled representatives of Lugansk from the city and proclaimed the "Lisichansk People's Republic", reports Newsru.ua with reference to the publication of Infornsist . Who will lead this neoplasm is not yet known.

The large-scale exercises that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation holds in the Kaliningrad region in parallel with the maneuvers of NATO in three Baltic countries and the Baltic Sea, entered the active phase, ITAR-TASS reports. In the Baltic Sea, a group of 24 ships of the Baltic Fleet is deployed as part of maneuvers.

The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zanier on Thursday visited the camp of accommodation of those who arrived from Ukraine in the Neklinsky district of the Rostov region, Interfax reports. Zaner got acquainted with the work of the first -aid post, the dining room, visited a number of rooms in the Dmitryadovsky accommodation camp.

The high court of the Synd Province in the southeast of Pakistan on Thursday excluded the former president of the Republic of Musharraf Perevez at his request from the list of defenseless persons . The Pakistan government can appeal this decision in the Supreme Court within 15 days, ITAR-TASS reports. Musharraf, who had previously been charged with treason, was included in the list of persons who are forbidden to leave the country in April 2013 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The recently elected Egyptian President Abd al-Fatta al-Sisi visited a woman in the Cairo hospital who underwent a group rape during celebrations in honor of his inauguration. The head of state handed the victim a bouquet of flowers and apologized to her. “I came to ask for forgiveness from you and all Egyptian women. Do not lose the presence of the spirit,” said the president whose words are quoted by Newsru Israel .

Employees of the Main Directorate of the Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, with the power support of the Rynes fighters "of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in a restaurant located in the west of Moscow, on the eve of the" gathering "of leaders and authorities of the criminal-premises, which" planned the discussion of the redistribution of the influence and redistribution of funds obtained by criminal means, " the press service reports.

In the southeast of London, the recently, 19-year-old Russian student Anastasia Tutik died. She had sex on the balcony along with a Mexican acquaintance by 18-year-old Miguel Ramos, but at some point the couple lost her balance and fell from the sixth floor of the prestigious residential complex Knights Tower. The accident, according to The Daily Mail , reported at the height of the parties about the end of the exams. Anastasia studied at BellerBys college.

The main state holiday of the Russian Federation - the Day of Russia - was noted by residents of the Russian Federation. This day recalls the historical declaration of sovereignty, which is 24 years old today. For the first time, holiday events are held in Crimea, which was attached to Russia less than three months ago. In honor of a significant day, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented state prizes for 2013 to outstanding citizens of the country.

In Mali, the explosion of a mined car took the lives of at least four UN peacekeepers. The suicide bomber rammed the entrance to the base of peacekeepers in the city of Agelkhok, located in the north of the country with a car with a car. At the same base, some parts of the army are also stationed, reports Reuters. The victims of the attack were the citizens of the child who are included in the multidisciplinary comprehensive Mission of the UN to stabilize in Mali (Minusa).

Russia advocates the development of "consistent and balanced approaches" in the UN peacekeeping activities, the constant representative of the Russian Federation under the World Organization Vitaly Churkin said on thematic debates in the Security Council. During them, the latest trends in the peacekeeping activities of the UN were discussed.

The head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, intends to obtain at least part of the debt from the Ukrainian Naftogaz. By Monday, Monday in Russia is waiting for a transfer of almost two billion dollars (out of the four that Ukraine owed). Miller's statement sounded after the Russian-Ukrainian gas negotiations were stained the day before due to the price of price. Gazprom will no longer transfer the deadline for transferring gas supplies to Ukraine to prepayment regime, Miller said.

Journalist and media manager Leonid Burshid, who at different times participated in the fate of such publications as Ukrainian Forbes, Russian Newsweek, and Elephant.ru, admitted that he was going to emigrate to Germany. According to him, he no longer sees the point of launching new media projects in Russia, since there are no more publications left here that perform the main function of the media - “the protection of the weak from the strong”.