The General Promoter of Formula 1 Bernie Ecclestone in a recent interview with The Times said that he once received an offer to buy a racing series from the Russian oligarch, who wanted to purchase it for his grandson. However, Ecclestone rejected the proposal. “He would have kept everything under control, like a small dictator, but did not know what to do. It was worried about me,” the Motorsport -Total portal quoted Ecclestone.

The French organist-improviser Olivier Latri performed in the Tchaikovsky concert hall. According to the Blagovet-Info agency with reference to the information of the TV channel, at twenty-three, Latri won the competition to replace the organist’s position in the Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God. However, his game can be heard not only at worship. With concerts, he traveled the whole world. Latry with pleasure performs the works of modern authors, including his own.

The 2016 World Cup among the confederation of independent football associations (Conifa) will be held in Abkhazia, the president of the Abkhazia Football Federation Jemal Gubaz said on Wednesday in Sukhumi. The corresponding decision unanimously made the Conifa Executive Committee. "Abkhazia is ready for the world championship among the national teams.

The termination of the contract between the Russian Gazprom and the contractor of the “Turkish stream” Italian Saipem is a technical issue and will not affect the implementation of the project. About this, as Interfax reports, said Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak. According to him, regarding the possible delay in construction due to a break in the contract - there are no clear terms. “We work in the mode: the faster, the better,” the head of the Ministry of Energy assured.

The Japanese Corporation Honda Motor announced on Thursday about additional review of free repairs inside the country another 1.63 million cars of various brands due to Takata safety pillows. She officially notified the country's government about this, TASS reports. In total, in connection with defective airbags, about 9.5 million cars of all companies have already been withdrawn in connection with defective airbags.

The mayor of Vilnius Remigiyus Shimashus told reporters that the Russian ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov invited him to visit Crimea, but he refused this proposal. He will agree to go to Crimea only at the invitation of Ukraine, which still considers this peninsula to be a “occupied” part of its territory. Shimasyus told in an interview with BNS that the conversation with Udaltsov took place on July 7 in the self -government of the Lithuanian capital.

The mayor of Baltimore Stefani Rolingz-Blick on Wednesday, July 8, fired the city chief of Anthony Batts, who served since 2012, BBC reports. The temporary head of the police will be the deputy Batts, Kevin Davis. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, the mayor of the city said that Batts honestly fulfilled his duty since 2012, but emphasized that the situation with bossal crimes needed immediate intervention.

The Documentary Cinema Center ( CDC ) and the Moscow Museum from September 2 to 6 will be presented by the Documentary Cinema Film Festival, uniting films that explore the new boundaries of modern megacities and the city as a social system.

The Senator from the Bryansk region Mikhail Marchenko announced that the Federation Council will leave after the September elections of the governor of the region, which he represents in the upper house of parliament. “I will not go into the three applicants for members of the Council with any candidate, and, therefore, since September I will leave my post officially,” TASS quoted him.

In Barcelona, ​​the draw of the 2015/16 basketball Euroleague was held , following which three Russian clubs recognized their rivals. Khimki near Moscow will perform in group A together with the Spanish Real Madrid, the Turkish Fenerbahce, Serbian "Croven Star", German Bavaria and the French "Strassbur". The Moscow CSKA will play in the group D with the Israeli McCabi Electra, the Spanish “unique”, the German “Bamberg”, the Turkish “Darussafak” and the Italian “Dynamo Sassari”.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) calculated with the head coach of the national team Fabio Capello, paying him both salary debts and immediately salary until the end of 2015. At the same time, the Italian specialist himself noted that he has no complaints about domestic football officials. “Do not worry, the salary was paid before the end of the year. He has no complaints against us,” said the acting head of the RFU Nikita Simonyan, whose words quoted TASS.

Police officers of France have achieved permission to wear a beard and tattoos, writes The Local . Previously, more stringent requirements were presented to the appearance of employees: for example, the hairstyle should not interfere with a uniform headdress. For about two years the police union fought to change the rules, according to which the police had no right to wear tattoos, and wearing a beard was possible only with the permission of the authorities.

In the struggle for superiority in the rich resources of the Arctic region, Russia has achieved a significant advantage at least in comparison with the United States. About the current balance of power in the Arctic, the commander of the coast guard of the United States Paul F. Tsukunft told reporters.

The Russian Bouquer prize voiced Long List at a press conference in Moscow on Thursday, among the applicants-the works of Dina Rubina, Roman Senchin, Sergey Nosov, Alexei Varlamov and other authors. The announcement of the short leaf of the "Russian Boker" will be held on October 9. The final of the award is scheduled for December 3.

In Vladikavkaz, a memorial plaque was opened in memory of the Cossack chieftain, which died in the Donbass. The initiators were relatives, friends and neighbors of the deceased Vladimir Kostionov (call sign of Kostya), as well as Terek Cossacks, representatives of the “Supreme Council of Ossetians” and veterans of the Great Patriotic War, Komsomolskaya Pravda reports. A man who is called the media called the chieftain of the Vladikavkaz district of the Terek Cossack army, died about a year ago.