The Government of Germany approved a transaction for the sale of the German Opel - parts of the European branch of the American concern General Motors - the Canadian manufacturer of components Magna International. In this transaction, Magna performs in a consortium with Russian investors - Sberbank and Gas Group. The results of negotiations that ended in Berlin on Saturday about two in the morning by local time announced the Minister of Finance of Germany, Pier Steinbryuk.

Journalist and human rights activist Elena Mugvannan, whose articles about torture in Russian colonies were published in the messenger of Civitas, asked for political asylum in Finland. This was reported to the edition of the publication by the Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights of the Republic of Tatarstan Sergey Knyazkin, who, together with Elena Muggle, was present at the Finnish-Russian Civil Forum 2009, which took place on May 25-26 in Helsinki.

It is still unknown what the Channel One correspondent Evgeny Lukinov in South Ossetia died. According to one version, he died as a result of a malfunction of the gas column. On the other, he had a heart attack. Currently, the body of the journalist has been sent to the capital of North Ossetia Vladikavkaz, where an examination will be carried out.

New Times magazine will publish an interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Answering questions from the weekly magazine, the issue of which will be published this Monday, the former head of Yukos said that he has no illusions about the Russian court.

Russian students arrested on May 27 in Cairo are still in the hands of Egyptian law enforcement agencies. This was stated by the Vice-Consul of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Area Yusup Abakarov. “The situation has not changed yet, none of our fellow citizens have been released,” he said. “In addition, until now, we have not received any explanations on this score from the Egyptian authorities.

The Warren Times Observer newspaper, which is about 11 thousand copies in the Pennsylvania, published an announcement for the murder of US President Barack Obama . The text of the announcement read: "Let Obama follow the battleship, Garfield, McKinli and Kennedy." The newspaper apologized, calling the publication a mistake.

The former secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Oleg Shenin died. This was reported on the official website of the Communist Party. Death occurred in the evening of May 28. He was 71 years old. Shenin was the secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1990 - 1991, and before that since 1989 he was the People’s Deputy of the USSR.

The prime minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi requires prohibiting the publication of scandalous photographs. It is depicted on them in the company of a minor model. Paparazzi captured Berlusconi at his villa in Sardinia. The holiday of seventy or two summer prime minister celebrated not one, but together by the young model Noemi Leticia and her friend. By that time, the girl was not even eighteen.

The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Heraldic Council negatively reacted to the initiative of Transnistria to use the Russian flag as a national in addition to the red-green state. Yesterday it became known that the Parliamentary Committee on Transnistria's legislation approved this initiative. “In the world practice, I haven’t been this yet.

Rospotrebnadzor included the Dominican Republic in the list of countries where our compatriots are not recommended to travel due to new cases of pork flu in this country. The Russians are very attentive to the warnings of the head of Rospotrebnadzor Onishchenko about countries that are not recommended to travel due to pork flu, the press secretary of the Russian Union of Trade of Trade Irina Tyurina told Echo Moskvy.

In South Ossetia, the correspondent of the first television channel Evgeny Lukinov died suddenly. According to law enforcement agencies, the journalist died in Tskhinvili in a private house where the television companies lived, the Air Force reports. The causes of the death of a journalist are not reported. In South Ossetia tomorrow, May 31, parliamentary elections will be held.

In Moscow, the car of Eduard Limonov burned out, he himself was not injured. This was announced by the press secretary of the writer and politician Alexander Averin. “Obviously, a certain device was laid in it, and when the driver started the car to drive up to Limonov’s house, the car was blazing. The driver barely managed to jump out,” Averin said. According to him, the Volga machine 3110 burned completely and is not subject to restoration, the Echo of Moscow reports.

The head of the Odintsovo district of the Moscow Region will take part in the head of the Moscow Regional Branch of the Right Business Boris Nadezhdin. Earlier it became known that for the post of head of the district where the elite Rublevka is located, the scandalously known Oleg Mitnol, the former deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor, and now the Iner of the unregistered environmental movement “Green Alternative”, want to compete.

Dmitry Medvedev and the Prime Minister of Japan Tarot ASO came to a consensus that it was necessary to seriously respond to the actions of North Korea. This was reported by the Kremlin press service. Politicians phoned today and discussed the situation that develops in connection with the DPRK underground nuclear testing, as well as launches of low -range missiles.

Viktor Yushchenko refused to come to Russia at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, UNIAN reported with reference to the deputy chairman of the secretariat of the head of state Andrei Goncharuk. According to RBC, the reason for the refusal was the fact that the forum program does not have the so -called presidential segment, so Yushchenko’s participation in the forum was recognized as inappropriate.