Presumably, the cause of the railway accident in the Lviv region of Ukraine could be the unsatisfactory technical condition of the tanks, RIA Novosti reports. “What happened, it seems to me, is the technical condition of the tanks in which transportation was carried out,” said the Minister of Transport and Communications of Ukraine Nikolai Rudkovsky.

Igor Ivanov, dismissed by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, said that he would not be engaged in politics, but will devote time to teaching and science, RIA Novosti reports. "I am a professor at MGIMO, a doctor of historical sciences, the author of several monographs on the problems of modern international relations. I like to share my knowledge, experience with future international diplomats," Ivanov said.

In the Dagestan city of Kizilyurt, an explosion thundered, as a result of which four police officers died and three were injured, RIA Novosti reports. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan said that the incident occurred at 7:40 Moscow time during the physical training of employees of the city department of Kizilyurt at the school sports site number 7. The explosive device installed near the school fence was put into effect during the run of police officers before building.

On July 17, at a meeting of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia, lists of candidates for State Duma deputies were approved, which will be put forward to preliminary internal party voting (primaries). Along with ordinary party members, the pre -election “Popularity Test” will have governors, mayors, party leaders, as well as other famous politicians and athletes.

The death of the People's Artist of Russia Mikhail Kononov caused a great resonance among numerous admirers of his talent. Taking advantage of the actor’s fame decided to remind themselves of policies from the Fair Russia party. Judging by the media, the “directors” “Directories” was remembered twice - when he joined the party and when he died. Mikhail Kononov starred in more than 50 films.

Libya is ready to consider the issue of deportation to the homeland of Bulgarian doctors, who on the eve of the Higher Judicial Council in Tripoli replaced the death sentence with a lifelong opinion, reports Newsru.com with reference to AP.

The draft resolution of the UN Security Council for Kosovo, which is based on the plan of the Special Supervisor of the Secretary General of the UN Marty Akhtisaari, was included in the UN Subances Substantus, RIA Novosti reports. “We entered” the draft resolution in Sink, his fate will be determined over the next days. Now everything is in the hands of Russia, ”the US Ambassador to the UN Ambassador Zalmai Khalilzad said.

On the evening of April 26, 2007, at Bilingua, the great Russian poet, humanist and thinker Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov gave what turned out to be his last public lecture. The key phrase was then uttered by Joseph Backstein, a legendary person from the world of contemporary art, who was once included by Prigov in his no less legendary list of fifty-six “contemporaries, associates and all of mine”: “... I believe that Dmitry Alexandrovich is the last great Russian poet.

According to Live Science , biologists from the University College of London ( University College London ) found the butterfly unusually high speed of evolutionary changes. We are talking about the butterfly Hypolimnas Bolina , which lives on the islands of Samoa in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean. In 2001, the butterflies infected the dangerous bacterium Wolbachia , which prevents males from eggs from developing, but has little effect on females.

The monitoring information center of the European Commission is concerned about the consequences of the train of the train with phosphorus and offers Ukraine its help, reports UNIAN . “The monitoring information center invited the Ukrainian authorities to make an examination of medium and long -term consequences for the environment of this accident. Ukraine is now considering this proposal,” said the European Commission, Barbara Hellfferich.

The head of the Russian Olympic Committee (OKR) Leonid Tyagachev advocates the creation of anti -doping centers in the regions where physical education and sports are most developed. "In regions such as the Rostov region, where there are many Olympic athletes, where many (people) from other regions are trained, the anti -doping center may be very necessary," said the words of Tskachev RIA Novosti . According to Tyagachev, the issue of creating such centers rests on financing.

Russian Anastasia Rodionova became the second player in the history of WTA, which was disqualified for "unsportsmanlike behavior." According to the referee of the fight with the German Angelik Kerber, Rodionova threw the ball into the fans who supported her rival. The Russian woman, annoyed by the fact that she lost the first game of the third set, repelled the ball into a group of three fans. The ball hit the fence in front of the rostrum and flew back to the court.

Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov will be the first for 70 years by the Orthodox Christian, buried in the new Donskoy cemetery in a traditional way. Dmitry Alexandrovich’s childhood passed in this area of ​​Moscow. In 1927, the first Soviet crematorium was opened in the Donskoy Monastery - the “Department of Becefulness”, as atheistic propaganda called it then. The monastery church of Rev. was converted under it. Seraphim of Sarov.

There was a plane crash in Brazil: the Airbus-320 passenger aircraft owned by the Brazilian airline, which performed the flight No. 3054 of Porto-Alegri-San Paulo, during the landing of the destination point, went beyond the airfield and crashed into a filling station. A fire began on board the liner, as a result, according to preliminary data, all 176 people were killed, the total number of victims can exceed 200 people, world news agencies report.

The BBC British corporation announced the suspension of all its interactive shows and Victorin, BBC News reports. This happened after the internal check revealed numerous violations in the show. It turned out that the winners who received monetary prizes were in advance answers to the proposed questions. For example, on March 16, in the Comic Relief program, the lucky one who called the studio and won the prize was an employee of the show organizers.