On Sunday, in the Bronnitsy near Moscow, where the National team of Argentina was based during the World Cup, the presentation of the chocolate cake of the “sky blue” Lionel Messi was held. A 150-kilogram cake in the form of a figure of a natural-size football player standing on a football field was made by confectioners on the occasion of Lionel's birthday. June 24 Messi turned 31 years old.

The former head of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Joseph Blatter, who visited Russia on these days on a private visit, appreciated the organization of the first world championship in the history of the Russian Federation and the performance of the hostile teams on it. "Everyone said in Europe: look at the Russians, how stupid they are, they can’t win anything. And now look at the scoreboard! And Russia played great with Egypt and won the case. Although it was not easy there.

The Trust bank, on the basis of which the Bank of Bad Debts is now being created, will require more than 100 billion rubles due to the new monetary issue from the Central Bank, writes Finanz.ru . “The Central Bank sanctified the largest players starting from the third quarter of 2017, receiving many assets in the process.

Chairman of the Board of Directors and the main owner of the AFC Holding System Vladimir Yevtushenkov commented on reports on the possible introduction of US sanctions against him. “Well, what about the sanctions? When they will be introduced, then we will think,” Yevtushenkov told reporters on Monday, June 25, in Krasnoyarsk (quote for Interfax ). American congressmen were previously asked to impose sanctions against the head of the AFC.

The Portuguese national team tied with the Iran team in the third, final round of the group stage of the World Cup. The meeting of group B in Saransk ended with a score of 1: 1, which allowed the Portuguese to take only second place in the quartet and go to the playoffs on Uruguay.

The top manager of the Inter RAO company Karina Tsurkan, suspected of espionage, first after detention, spoke about her attitude to the initiated criminal case. According to the woman, she became a pawn in someone's game, but it will not work to break her. For almost a week, Karina Tsurkan has been in the Lefortovo investigative insulator. She passed quarantine, after which the suspect was settled in a regular camera to another prisoner, writes the Moscow Komsomolets .

The four -time Olympic biathlon champion Daria Domracheva from Belarus announced the completion of a professional career. The famous athlete made the corresponding statement on Monday in Minsk at a special press conference at the National Olympic Committee of Belarus. “I didn’t just have to gather and invite you. I thought for a long time, but it was time to put the dots on the“ i ”. I tried to find a compromise between raising a child and a professional career.

The owner of an art gallery in the US state of Connecticut, Fernando Lewis Alvarez, who installed a 3.5-meter sculpture of a spoon with heroin in front of the building of the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma in Stamford, was detained by the police. The sculpture was part of an artistic protest against the company's production of opioid-based drugs, which are causing an increase in the number of drug addicts in the United States.

The blaster used by Harrison Ford's Han Solo in the Star Wars movie saga was sold at auction in the United States for $550,000. This prop, created specifically for the sixth episode of Return of the Jedi (1983), was until recently part of the collection of one of the film's set designers. The new owner of the lot following the Julien's Auctions auction in Las Vegas was the Robert Ripley network of entertaining museums, which exhibit the most unusual examples of world culture.

A group of engineers from the University of Tokyo has developed a modular multi-rotor platform that can change shape during flight, writes N+1 . The design, based on an earlier development by the same engineers, vaguely resembles a snake. If necessary, the drone, called Dragon, can create a ring to grab a small load or stretch out to fly through a narrow opening.

“About Turkey. There are two factors. One is transitory (but, alas, it quickly disappears only in a historical perspective; for a human life this is a long time). The provincial factor,” the publicist writes on his Facebook page, summing up the first results of the elections in Turkey. "Large pro-Western cosmopolitan cities once again in yet another country find themselves hostage to an archaic province.

Over 40% of Russians do not think about the fact that their gadgets may be infected with programs for illegal cryptocurrency mining (miners). Experts from Avast, who surveyed two thousand respondents, came to this conclusion, writes Kommersant . In addition, during the survey, 32% of participants stated that, in principle, they cannot become victims of crypto-mining malware, because they themselves do not own mining farms and do not mine cryptocurrency.

The candidate from the main opposition People's Republican Party of Turkey, Mukharrem Indgea, recognized the victory of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the presidential election. The politician, as TASS reports, said on the air of Haberturk. The final results of the vote count have not yet been made public, but this did not prevent Erdogan from starting to celebrate his victory a few hours ago.

In France, the Catholic priest who hit the child during the rite of baptism apologized to the boy’s family and announced his departure from the church, reports Premier . On the Internet video, the moment captures the moment when 89-year-old Jacques Lacrois, trying to calm the crying two-year-old boy, beats his face quite strongly. In an interview with the France Info radio, the priest said that he was finishing his ministry and this was the last baptism that he committed.

On June 25, a strange incident occurred at the Leninsky District Court: judge Nailya Idiatova sprinkled salt on the floor of the courtroom. Human rights activists believe that those occupying such positions should sometimes undergo a psychiatric examination. When public figures who filed a lawsuit in connection with the violation of the rights of Ufa residents to clean drinking water arrived at the meeting room, they saw that salt was scattered all over the floor.