The Minister of Communications and Local Self -Government of the British Government Haisel Blire resigned. This is the second minister of the cabinet, who left his post, reports the Air Force . Candal erupted after the publication in the Daily Telegraph. The newspaper said that, under the guise of compensation for professional expenses, deputies from different parties paid bills for apartment renovation and purchase of personal belongings.

Continuing the video general “adults” with classics - scientists, cultural figures, public figures who have become a national treasure - we talked with the wonderful writer Leonid Genrikhovich Zorin . Distant Borusyak's love . Lyubov Borusyak: Today we are talking with Leonid Genrikhovich Zorin, a famous playwright, whose plays in our country probably know everyone. Many of his plays, which were created in the middle of the twentieth century, feel great in the present century.

45% of the inhabitants of Kaliningrad as a whole belong to the prospect of the construction of a Baltic nuclear power plant in the region. This is evidenced by the survey conducted in the city in May of the Kaliningrad Express Monitoring Group. So, 19% of the city’s residents are supporters of the project, 26% “do not mind construction if it passes in compliance with all environmental and technical standards and requirements”. Opponents of construction were in a small minority - 43%.

In recent years, the DPRK has several times conducted an “test” of the level of international security in the Asia-Pacific region, and is now trying to impose on the countries participating in negotiations on the problems of the Korean Peninsula. In October 2006, Pyongyang declared himself a nuclear power by conducting an underground test of a nuclear device.

Dmitry Medvedev signed the Federal Law “On ratification of the European Social Charter (revised) of May 3, 1996,” the Kremlin press service reports. The Federal Law was adopted by the State Duma on May 20, 2009 and approved by the Federation Council on May 27, 2009. This document determines the circle of basic obligations of the state to ensure basic social and economic rights of citizens.

“.. about the Soviet man as a new type of person, about homo sovieticus, or, in short, about homosos. My attitude towards this creature is ambivalent: I love and hate at the same time, I respect and at the same time despise, I am delighted and horrified at the same time. I myself am a homosos. That is why I am cruel and merciless in his description.

Russian students arrested last Wednesday in Egypt have been released, Channel One reports. According to various sources, from eight to thirteen people were released, but about thirty people still remain in custody. Most of them face deportation, and, according to Egyptian law, the suspects will have to return home at their own expense. The students were suspected of violating Egyptian laws - in particular, the passport and visa regime.

Brazil’s military forces saw the fragments of Air France, which had missed over the Atlantic Ocean, on board 228 people. The fragments are scattered on the surface of the water within a radius of 5 km and ninety kilometers from the place where the first traces of the aircraft were discovered. Among the fragments, the Brazilians saw a seven -meter piece of metal in diameter, the Air Force reports.

The people's deputy from the Party of Regions of Ukraine, Deputy Yanukovych, Anna German, said today that the party had not yet finally decided on the coalition with BYUT, because it could not forget the grievances against her from Yulia Tymoshenko, Prua reports. “It’s not easy for us to forget what was heard from this rostrum addressed to us from the Ust of Yulia Tymoshenko.

Today, the funeral of the outstanding Russian actor Vyacheslav Nevinniy will take place at the Troekurovsky cemetery of Moscow. Farewell to the actor will begin in the building of the Moscow Art Theater at 10:00 a.m. at the address: Kamergersky Lane, 3. The Civil Panchid will begin at 12:00. The funeral service for the deceased will take place at 13:30 in the temple of the Sunday of the Word in Bryusovo Lane.

The ex-president and the current speaker of the Moldova Parliament Vladimir Voronin said that as a result of early elections, the balance of power in the legislative body of the country will change significantly. The chairman of the Moldovan Communists is confident that the ruling party has every chance of getting 80% of the mandates in the future parliament, reports News-Moldavia . Early elections in Moldova, according to preliminary forecasts, may take place in August 2009.

The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia has opened its Internet reception , which allows you to conduct an online reception of citizens, reports Vesti.ru. Each site visitor can write a letter with the question of interest to him, after which his application is processed and the answer is prepared.

In the villages of Alkhasta, Arshty, Data of the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, a regime of a counter -terrorism operation has been announced, news agencies report. According to an employee of the group of public relations of the Republican FSB of Russia, such a decision was made in connection with the information received that a group of militants was hiding in this area.

According to USA Today , the Supreme Court of Los Angeles appointed the wife of 81-year-old Peter Falk (well known for the television series "Colombo") his official guardian. Falk suffers from senile dementia. The adopted daughter of actor Katerina, who disputed the right to conduct all her father’s affairs in the Los Angeles court, is now allowed to visit him once a month. Katerina motivated her lawsuit by the fact that for 30 years she could not establish relations with his wife Falk.

On Monday, the Supreme Court considered the controversial issue: whether the sanction of the prosecutor general is needed to initiate a criminal case against judges or is enough to decide the head of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (SCP). A clash of interests of the two departments took place as part of the consideration of the case of the judge of the Okulovsky District Court of the Novgorod Region Tatyana Nesterova, writes the newspaper .