Three students of St. Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg State University) became the winners of the 38th Student Championship of the World Computing Association programming (Association for Compution Machine Collegiate Programming Contest, ACM-Eicpc), global global The sponsor of which is the IBM Corporation. The final of the ACM-ICPC was held in Yekaterinburg.

The mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman, who recently began to learn the English language, first publicly tested his knowledge in practice. At the opening ceremony of the World Programming Championship in the Ural capital, the mayor turned to those present in English. Roizman's speech was extremely brief and more resembled training topics about his hometown for learning language.

The Russian Orthodox Church provides widespread support to refugees from the south-east of Ukraine who has arrived in Russia. The flow of people who suffered and lost their shelter during the armed conflict does not dry out. There was no one from human grief and the distant Yakut and Lena diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday evening called the British Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the situation in Ukraine, Reuters said.

The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Pavel Klimkin took part in a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO commission at the headquarters of the military alliance located in Brussels. One of the main topics of the discussion was the support of Ukraine against the backdrop of "aggression by the Russian Federation." During the visit to Brussels, Klimkin agreed with the leadership of NATO and the US State Department on closer cooperation.

In Cairo, as a result of a series of explosions in the subway, which thundered on the morning of June 25, at least eight people were injured, Reuters reports. According to Interfax , three were killed. According to the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Abdel-Fattah, the email, a home-made explosive device worked at the Shubra station in the north of the city. A man who, according to suspicions, suffered and brought a bomb to the station, reports Newsru Israel .

In the Sverdlovsk Museum of Local Lore of Yekaterinburg, for the first time in a long time, the valuable archaeological artifact - the Shigirsky idol , the oldest wooden sculpture in the world, which is three times older than the Cheops pyramid, was removed from the glass sarcophagus. Seven chips-figures were sawn off from a unique totem. With their help, scientists hope to more accurately determine the age of the sculpture, and also find out how it was done, Znak.com reports.

The bride from the United States made a selfie a minute before a fatal accident: the best friends Kolett Moreno and Ashley Theobald went to the bachelorette party, but their Chevrolet Malibu collided with a pickup.

On Tuesday in New York, at the age of 98, one of the oldest American theater and cinema actors, Ilai Walllak, who starred in more than 80 films and the most famous for his role in Western Sergio Leon, "Good, Bad, Evil". Walllak also became famous for roles in Western "Great Seven", as well as in the third part of the saga "godfather". Information about the death of the actor was confirmed by his daughter Katherine, reports The New York Times .

Boris Akunin “Recently, for another Fandorin adventure, I had to delve into the history of early submarines. As often happens to me, I got carried away, went far from the topic and read two thick books about underwater battles of the First World War. What fates, what characters! Submariners of that era were even braver than aviators. The pilots at least died quickly, in the fresh air, while the crew of the submarine most often faced a painful, slow death from suffocation.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin bought 50 sets of bulletproof vests and helmets for journalists, who, according to him, climb "for the truth to the front line." The security of media workers in hot spots also took care of the LDPR, offering a bill on insurance by the editorship of their employees.

The Government of Nigeria denied information about the abduction the other day more than 60 people in the state of Borno in the north of the country. “Based on the data known to us, we can say that there were no abductions of more than 60 people in the state of Borno,” Reuters quotes the statement of the Government National Information Center Nigeria.

The US Department of Trade has allowed two oil companies from Texas Pioneer Natural Resources and Enterprise Product Partners to export super -light oil, writes the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal . Texas companies received such an opportunity due to the fact that American reserves of ultra-light oil increased due to the development of shale deposits in which the reserves of this oil are large.

Saudi Arabia will collide in the near future with a shortage of dates. This can cause a serious problem in the approaching month of the Muslim post - Ramadan , who, according to the lunar calendar, will begin with the sunset on June 27. The dates of this month have a special role. The cause of the deficiency of sweet fruits was the campaign deported by the Saudi authorities to deport foreign workers.

“So, dear citizens, your pensions went to our Crimea. You tore your shirts and aprons, shouted that you were ready to give everything for the sake of Crimea, you were ready to transfer your pensions to support it - so your voices were heard and you acted exactly according to your wishes. And now, if anything happens, you have no right to whine and throw up your hands, saying, where is our money and why does the state pay such a crappy pension for our long and hard work.