One of the brightest events of the capital's literary life was the appearance of the two-volume novel “Drawing Textbook” by Maxim KANTOR. The first large (volume of about 1,400 pages) prose work by the famous artist has already caused a lot of noise in Moscow: the author offers his concept of the history of the 20th century, considering a variety of problems - democracy and fascism, intelligentsia and government, economics and culture.

The group stage of the 2006 World Cup reached the finish line, and its final segment takes place at an accelerated pace-four games a day. The organizers of the championship made sure that the last matches of each group began at the same time. Although, not everywhere there is an extreme need for this. In group A, for example, the participants of the playoffs and, accordingly, the losers decided ahead of schedule, in the second round.

In the Laperuse Strait between Sakhalin and the Japanese Island of Hokkaido border guards, the Russian schooner-commander was detained, RIA Novosti reports. According to coastal protection, five miles south of the cliff, the Raza stone border guard discovered a fishing ship and began a maneuver for rapprochement for the landing of the inspection group. The captain of the schooner began to maneuver, and the team at that time threw over the evidence.

Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institute in Washington and Chadwick Trujillo from the Gemini Observator Oblasti opened asteroid in Neptune, reports New Scientist for the original publication of authors in Science . The object is open using a 6.5-meter telescope of Magellan-Baade (Carnegie's Magellan-Baade 6.5-metr Telescope) in Chile and the 8.2-meter telescope of the Obvori Observatory (8.2-meter gemini Telescope) in Hawaii.

The revolution in Russia is unlikely, as the leader of the People's Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov stated at a press conference in St. Petersburg, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. “Yes, I believe that the manifestation of dissatisfaction with citizens with possible falsifications in the Duma and presidential elections is possible, but the repetition of Ukrainian or Georgian events is unlikely,” he said.

In the Amur Region, a police officer had to use a service weapon, reflecting the attack of an aggressively tuned hemp collector, PrimaMedia reports. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, yesterday, the criminal police officers checked the information that unknown people were engaged in the harvesting of a wild hemp in the village of Nikolskoye, Belogorsky district of the Amur Region. At about 22 o’clock in the evening they noticed two young people collecting a wild hemp.

The book festival will be held in Moscow, from June 30 to July 2. In the courtyard of the Tretyakov Gallery of the Central House of Artists, several summer pavilions with the characteristic names “Kerch”, “Gurzuf”, “Bakhchisarai”, “Artek” will be defeated.

In the Moscow Metro, at the Pushkinskaya station, at about 22.00 several young people attacked a 16-year-old teenager and inflicted stab wounds on him, after which they disappeared, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. “A teenager in serious condition was taken to the intensive care of the Sklifosovsky Institute,” he said. According to preliminary indications of eyewitnesses, we are talking about the attack of skinheads.

On July 2, at the Avant project, Devendra Banghart will perform at the Avant project. Banghart is a musician and an artist, a singer of freedom and a mystic, a psychedelic dreamer and a pantheist, a representative of a wave of a “strange neo -light” and the owner of a flexible and beautiful voice. Devendra revived the spirit of hippies and an honest rock and roll of the 70s, and literally in a couple of years he became one of the most fashionable artists on the planet.

The chairman of the board of directors of Yukos Viktor Gerashchenko considers the best way out for the company if she becomes the "daughter" of Rosneft, RIA Novosti reports. Such a statement was made at the passing meeting of shareholders of the company. Gerashchenko said that the number of employees throughout the group of companies Yukos for 2005 decreased from 1222 people to 541 people. He also spoke about the possible departure of Stephen Tidi from the post of President of Yukos.

The Moscow City Court decided on the legality of the arrest of the Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, RIA Novosti reports. Sadretdinov was justified in the case of the murder of the editor -in -chief of the Russian version of the magazine "Forsb" Paul Khlebnikov. Sadretdinov’s lawyers demanded the release of the client with a request to let him go under the guarantee of State Duma deputy Alexei Kandaurov and the head of the public movement “For Human Rights” by Lev Ponomarev.

The organization of the Islamic Conference (OIK) proposes to resume negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program, reports " Gazeta.ru ". The Baku Declaration adopted following the session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OIK, is said about the need to resolve the Iranian problem exclusively peacefully with respect for the obligations taken to the IAEA. Today, the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of Iran Hamid Reza Asefi.

According to scientist Gregory Chaitin , today, in 2006, we still don't know how serious the incompleteness of mathematical methods is. In his article “The Limits of Provability,” the famous American mathematician, researcher at the Research Center named after.

"Rules for the detention of a vehicle" are recognized as legitimate by the Supreme Court today. Thus, the evacuation of cars will now be carried out within the framework of these rules, Gazeta.Ru reports. The legal incident is precisely in the word “evacuation”. As stated in the complaint, the member of the Yabloko party Alexander Kobrinsky, Article 1219 of the Code of Administrative Offenses directly prohibits the evacuation of the vehicle, as well as its retention in parking lots.

A group of poachers who shot the Amur tiger was detained in the Far East, PrimaMedia reports. According to Oleg Gunin, director of the animal world and protected areas of the Khabarovsk Territory, in the reserve, on the forest road, in the area of ​​the top of the Pologi Key, the Toyota Land Kruiser car stopped for verification. During the inspection in the cabin, two tiger carbines were found, one combined, in a equipped state, and a plastic bag with a gallbladder.