**They promised communism, but decided that there would be an Olympics!** July 5, 2007 in Sochi was declared a day off. Probably because it would be wrong to work in this municipality on such a day. We had to start celebrating. Or sleep, because the news of the city's victory in the Olympic race came at four o'clock in the morning.

In the vicinity of Kabul, the suicide bomber attacked the NATO convoy, Reuters reports citing the Afghan police. The explosion was injured by two British soldiers. This year in Afghanistan there is an increase in the number of explosions of mined cars, the country's authorities associate this with the fact that the Taliban changed the tactics of attacks.

The American Foundation of Heroes named after Carnegie posthumously awarded the medal of Russian Vitaly Tsikoza, who died, saving a three -year -old girl, the Russian BBC service reports. In addition, two American rescuers were awarded medals who were able to get to the girl and save her. The programmer and computer science teacher of Novosibirsk State University Vitaly Tsikoza was visiting Utah with his former classmate.

Rosneft’s Tax Code bought an office of Yukos and traders of the bankrupt company from Prana LLC for $ 3.4 billion. The company announced this in the memorandum prepared for the release of Eurobonds, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** Federal Assembly The State Duma will accept the first three -year budget, tighten the penalties for violations of traffic rules, distribute the funds of extrabudgetary funds for a three -year period. Boris Gryzlov will summarize the results of the spring session.

Vladimir Putin proposed the candidacy of the current governor Valery Serdyukov to the post of head of the Leningrad region. The President also proposed the candidacy of the current governor Viktor Tolokonsky for the post of head of the Novosibirsk region, the press service of the head of state reports.

Today in the center of St. Petersburg, the excursion bus crashed into a pillar, 9 people were injured as a result. The incident occurred on the Oktyabrskaya embankment (Nevsky district) at 7:45, reports RBC . Currently, medical and road services are working at the scene. All victims are Russian tourists. They received injuries of light and moderate severity. The last major accident involving the bus occurred in the Leningrad Region on June 28, the agency recalls.

I don’t dare talk about all of Canada, but I really like Montreal. It would not be surprising if he made such an impression on me immediately upon arrival from the USSR, but after all, I have already lived in France for 16 years, but come on...

** July 9, Monday ** The main events: At a meeting of the Legislative Duma of the Khabarovsk Territory, the candidacy of V. Iishaev will be examined to give him the powers of the Governor of the region. His candidacy was introduced by the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin on July 5, 2007. Memorial dates: On this day they were born: - Ishchenko Alexander Nikolaevich (1959), deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Ecology.

The German authorities forbade inexperienced drivers to drink at the wheel, AP reports. Amendments to the rules of the road that will enter into force next month, German parliamentarians approved today. Restrictions to affect drivers under the age of 21 and those whose driver's experience does not exceed two years. A border of 0 ppm will act for them. For other drivers, there is still a border of 0.5 ppm.

The governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko is not going to run for the presidency. “I sincerely want to say that I have no ambitions and mania of greatness,” said the governor, reports Echo of Moscow . “I am so passionate about my work as a governor, this is a great honor, the trust of people - responsibility.” “I made a lot from my program, but I have many plans. May God grant me the strength to realize everything that I planned until the end of my term in 2011, ”said Matvienko.

The second stage in the evacuation of Russian citizens from the gas sector is expected to begin on July 9, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. “The evacuation is planned on Monday, but the situation in the gas is so difficult that we cannot talk about it with accuracy,” said Alexei Pogodin, head of the representative office of the Russian Federation at Ramalla, from Ramallah. According to him, in the lists of Russian citizens who want to leave the gas sector, 114 people appear.

The State Duma at a plenary session on Friday adopted in third reading the Law “On Amending the Code of Russia on Administrative Offenses”. The law is aimed at strengthening administrative responsibility for violation of traffic rules, Prime-Tass reports. Now the bill must be approved by the Federation Council and signed by the president.

The television company REN TV announced the detention in the suburbs of her film crew, Gazaeta.Ru reports. According to the television company, today, in the village of Beloomut near Moscow, REN TV filming group was detained, which removed the reporting violations in the distribution of housing for the military.

In Moscow, an expanded meeting on the improvement of trade and economic relations of Russia and the EU took place. Despite the routine name, it seems that there was a fairly serious event. Of course, from the very beginning it was politicized, which the Foreign Minister Lavrov succeeded in. In his opinion, a suspicious attitude towards Russia from the European Union did not disappear, but even encouraged (who exactly? - Polit.ru).