Representatives of the governments of Turkey and Israel held secret negotiations in Brussels. Their goal was to normalize bilateral relations, which seriously worsened after the Israeli special forces captured by the Freedom Flotchia , the Air Force reports. The meeting on Wednesday was attended by the Turkish Foreign Minister Akhmet Davutoglu and the Minister of Trade and Industry of Israel Benjamin Ben-Elizer.

The overlap of the Leningrad highway led to a delay of more than a thousand (according to some estimates) a plane person. But perhaps the most difficult situation is now not with them, but by Yuri Luzhkov and the Moscow authorities, which the General Director of Sheremetyevo indirectly accused of collapse. On this occasion, they will have to make concessions of the political or economic plan.

On June 28, 2010, the opening ceremony of the gate of Herod was held. The gate, as well as the sections of the walls adjacent to them, are now again available for the general public. The restoration of the gate took place as part of the program “City Walls of Jerusalem” and lasted 4 months, the press service of the Ministry of Tourism of Israel reports. Restoration measures were preceded by serious preparation.

The new head coach of the English "Liverpool" was the 62-year-old specialist Roy Hodgson. The press service of the British club announced his appointment on Thursday. “This is a great honor was the head coach of the most successful club of Great Britain. I look forward to the moment when I can get to work,” said Roy Hodgson. Hodgson became the 18th mentor in the history of Liverpool, and the previous place of work of the 62-year-old specialist is the London Fulham.

The candidate from the ruling coalition managed to gain a majority of votes. Former Prime Minister of the Federal Land Saxony Christian Wulf will become the tenth Federal President of Germany, writes Deutsche Welle . On June 30, extraordinary elections of the federal president were held in Germany. The new Gava state after taking the oath, which will be held on July 2.

There was no sensation in the presidential elections in Colombia. Juan Manuel Santos, representing the ruling Social Party of National Unity, having secured the support of 9 million voters, defeated his competitor with a convincing advantage in the second round. 3.5 million people voted for ethnic Lithuanian Antanas Mockus, the former mayor of Bogota, nominated by the Green Party. The gap is impressive. 69 versus 27.5%, but this was to be expected.

Investigators of the Kurgan region investigate a criminal case against the 45-year-old employee of the “correctional colony No. 6” of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Kurgan region, the press service of the SCP reports . The colony employee is suspected of abuse and exceeding official powers, receiving a bribe and attempting to illegally sell narcotic drugs, committed by a person using his official position, in a particularly large scale.

About two -thirds of the pavilions of the closed Cherkizov market in Moscow have already been demolished, it is planned to completely clean this territory before the end of this year, the head of the department of the consumer market and the services of the capital, Vladimir Malyshkov, told reporters today. Recall that the Cherkizov market, which since the 1990s was the largest "flea market" in Moscow, was closed on July 29, 2009 due to violations of sanitary and fire norms.

The sketch design of the Rus-M launch vehicle began last year, after the competition held by Roscosmos, Viktor Remyshevsky, Deputy Head of Roscosmos, told Interfax-AVN . The project is executed by the three largest enterprises of the rocket and space industry-the Samara enterprise "TsKB-Progress" in cooperation with the RSC "Energia" and the GRC Makeeva. They have almost completed the sketch design. The other day, the project will be presented to Roscosmos.

The government abandoned a sharp increase in excise taxes on strong alcohol in the next three years. According to Vedomosti , such a decision was made at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on June 29. The Ministry of Finance proposed to increase excise taxes on alcohol with a fortress above 9% as one of the sources of budget replenishment. In 2011, it was proposed to raise the rate from 210 to 330 rubles. for 1 liter of water -free ethyl alcohol, in 2012 and 2013.

The journalist of the Charter97.org site Natalya Radina was interrogated today in the investigation department of the prosecutor's office of Minsk.

In accordance with the instructions of the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, a resolution of the investigator of the investigation department in the Tver district of the city of Moscow on the refusal to institute criminal proceedings against the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee on the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who investigated the criminal case against the lawyer of the Hermita Capital Management Fund, Sergei Magnitsky, reports The press

The Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Sergey Morozov said at a meeting with local residents that he would cancel the resolution of the Ulyanovsk City Hall on the closure of schools No. 7 and No. 8, whose teachers announced a hunger strike in protest, RBC reports. According to Morozov, the commission created on his behalf studied the situation and found violations in the actions of a number of officials.

The Ministry of Transport today is going to hold a special meeting dedicated to the problem of huge traffic jams in the north of Moscow in connection with the repair of the overpass, the Echo of Moscow reports . At the same time, Rostransnador confirmed the need for the repair. Recall that yesterday the general director of Sheremetyevo Airport accused Luzhkov of intentionally overlapping the Leningrad highway. Mikhail Vasilenko wrote about this the day before on his blog.

The losses of Aeroflot - Russian Airlines from the "transport collapse on Leningradka" only for today amounted to about 700 thousand euros. This was stated by the Deputy General Director of Commerce, Andrei Kalmykov, reports Prime-Tass . According to Kalmykov, no one agreed and notified the issue of blocking the road for repair with them. According to him, "the first day - Monday - has become murderous for us." 1300 people were late on the plane.