The Russian division of the foreign automaker Volkswagen predicts a 30 percent decline in the Russian car market in 2015. The head of Volkswanen Group Rus, Markus Ozegovich, said this in an interview with TASS. “The forecast of the Association of European Businesses for a market decline of 25 percent in 2015 is too positive, it will get worse,” Ozegovich said.

The five -star Dubai hotels recorded a significant increase in the amounts spent by guests on additional services. In 2014 and the first quarter of 2015, the guests of the Dubai hotels of the five -star segment spent significantly more on additional services of the hotel than in previous years, Russian Emirates report. The most wasteful guests are again named by Russian citizens - they spent on average a hotel in excess of payment for accommodation of $ 122 per day - 19% more than in 2013.

“It turned out that in some incomprehensible way a bill was now introduced into the Duma, which they had already tried to introduce in September last year. Then it was rejected by state human rights institutions, and by January of this year the Ministry of Justice, together with human rights activists, prepared a new bill that suited everyone. But in May, it is not clear how, it was the first, rejected version that made it into the Duma. How did this happen?

In the Vatican, on Thursday, the official representation of the second encyclical of the pope of the Roman Francis "Laudato Si '", dedicated to the "healing of the common house of mankind", took place.

On June 18, Muslims begin the post of Ramadan . It is one of the five pillars of Islam and is obligatory for believers: in the daytime they refrain from eating, drinking drinks and smoking, and also commit matters of mercy and read daily on a passage from the Qur'an, reading all the scripture within a month.

The electric train encountered a truck in the Pristensky district of the Kursk region, TASS was told in law enforcement agencies of the region. According to the UK, six people were injured as a result of the incident, three wagons left the rails. The amount of material damage is established. Earlier, the head of the press service of the regional Internal Affairs Directorate, Lilia Kameneva, reported that the victims were taken to the Central District Hospital of the Postensky District.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on June 18, on the proposal of President Petro Poroshenko, adopted a resolution on the dismissal of Valentin Nalivaichenko from the post of head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU, analogue of the FSB of the Russian Federation. - approx. Newsru.com ). The decision was made without discussion, 248 deputies of 364 registered in the session hall voted for it, Newsru.ua reports.

Autotor begins the release of the updated Hyundai i40 model at a factory in Kaliningrad, the company’s press service said today. “The new car will replace the previous modification released on Autotor since 2013,” the representative of the press service said. The new Hyundai i40 is presented in six trim levels in the sedan body (Comfort, Active, Active Plus, Lifestyle Plus, Business, High -Tech) and three in the package of the station wagon (Comfort, Active Plus, Advance).

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that plans for modernizing the nuclear potential of Russia are not conflicting with the country's international obligations. So Rogozin reacted to the words of the commander in chief of NATO united by the NATO armed forces in Europe, American General Philip Bridlav that Russia's plans to replenish the country's nuclear forces 40 with new intercontinental ballistic missiles are not acceptable for a responsible nuclear power.

Zhanna Friske was buried today in the Nikolo -Arkhangelsk cemetery, only the closest - about a hundred people said goodbye to the actress and singer. In the morning, a funeral service took place in the Elokhov Cathedral, where its fans could be present, TASS reports. The burial place was fenced, but hundreds of people who wanted to say goodbye to the singer gathered in the cemetery. Among them were Olga Orlova, Philip Kirkorov, Sergey Lazarev, Svetlana Surganova and others.

The PSA Peugeot Citroen automobile concern, together with Bollore, is going to launch the serial production of a new electric car in the body of the convertible, reports CARS-N.COM . The car was built on the basis of the Bluecar electric car and received the name Bollere Bluesummer. It is worth noting that Bluecar is a joint development of Bollore and Pininfarina tuning atelier.

The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Samara, together with the employees of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Samara region, stopped the activities of a local entrepreneur, who was convicted of the distribution of leaflets depicting extremist materials. The corresponding message appeared on Thursday, June 18, on the official website of the department.

Russian agricultural producers are asked to expand the list of products that fall under the food embargo, due to chocolate and some other confectionery products, Kommersant writes with reference to the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert.

Until August 31, each Wednesday of the Tretyakov Gallery (GTG) on the Crimean Val can be visited for free, Colta.ru reports with reference to the press service of the GTG. "On Wednesday, individual visitors can visit the exhibition and exhibitions on the Crimean shaft on free entrance tickets," the press service said in a statement. In addition, every working day is opened by the courtyard of the gallery and entrance from the Crimean embankment.

In Europe, the arrests of Russian property and assets continue. The next court ruling was enforced by the bailiffs of France. There were arrested accounts of representative offices of the International Information Agency "Russia Today" on Thursday, June 18, his editor -in -chief Margarita Simonyan said. “The arrest was imposed on our account in France.