The Khamovnican Court of Moscow on Monday sentenced Tariel Oniani to ten years in a maximum security colony. Earlier today, the court found Oniani guilty of abduction of man. Oniani, who did not admit his guilt, welcomed the court verdict with an exclamation: “Long live our Soviet court!”, Rapsey reports. The prosecutor's office asked Oniani to be sentenced to 15 years with serving in a maximum security colony.

On Sunday in Ukraine, the active phase of the exercises of the Sea Breeze -2010 began - with the exit from the port of Odessa to the Black Sea 15 ships and boats of Ukraine, the USA and Turkey. "In particular, seven ships and one boat of the Ukrainian naval forces, three boats of the State Border Service of Ukraine, one US Navy, one ship and two boats of the Turkish Navy entered the sea," UNIAN agency reports with reference to the press center of the exercises.

The German concern Volkswagen registered in Russia a new autobank - a subsidiary "Volkswagen Bank Rus", writes Kommersant . The bank has not yet been received by the bank, since the authorized capital has not yet been paid, which will amount to 880 million rubles. Until now, five subsidiaries of car conheres have been registered in Russia. BMW Bank, Mercedes-Benz Bank Rus, Toyota Bank, Bank of Psa Finance RUS (Auto-Concert PEUGEOT CITROEN), OF Tokyo-Mitsubishi Yufjei.

The Russian government decided to allocate 24.7 billion rubles for the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was stated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a visit to OJSC RKK Energia, RBC reports. According to the prime minister, he expects that the Vostochny cosmodrome will become the first national cosmodrome of civil purposes and guarantees Russia the complete independence of space activity.

Kirill Kobrin Does art belong to the people? Maybe. I am ready to agree with this risky hypothesis if someone explains what the "people" are. The totality of the country's population? Or only all citizens, excluding expansion, migrant workers and illegal immigrants? Will we consider part of the “people” of babies, who have not yet had no aesthetic preferences, but even claims to possess this art? Or, say, those who are indifferent to beautiful - and even hostile?

Skolkovo, a region of the Moscow region, famous since Soviet times for its state farm where cucumbers and champignons are grown, and Leonid Brezhnev’s dacha, has become a symbol of Russia’s advanced development. To the elite and expensive business school Skolkovo, personally patronized by President Dmitry Medvedev, whose first students lived not just anywhere, but in a five-star hotel overlooking the Kremlin “Balchug”, the so-called “innocity” Skolkovo was added.

The Moscow authorities again refused the opposition to hold a rally on the triumphal square in Moscow on July 31, but the opposition is not going to give up. This was stated " Echo of Moscow " Eduard Limonov. “I learned about the refusal from the media. Apparently they called Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alekseeva, no one called me, ”Limonov said. He emphasized that the authorities refusal to agree on the campaign on the triumphal was expected.

According to studies of sociologists, most post -Soviet societies are characterized by an urgent need to rethink their past. Thus, the historical memory of the inhabitants of modern Belarus is extremely heterogeneous: on the one hand, it has developed on the basis of an official image of history, which has been planted for many years.

The largest in the Czech Republic of NPP “Temelin” switches to Russian nuclear fuel. To carry out the appropriate technological work, its first power unit stops for 2 months. Then this procedure will be carried out on the second power unit. The supply of nuclear fuel is carried out by the Russian OJSC "TVEL", which will become the only supplier of fuel for Czech and Slovak nuclear power plants. Russian raw materials turned out to be better than the same material of Westingows (USA).

Does art belong to the people? Maybe. I am ready to agree with this risky hypothesis if someone explains what the "people" are. The totality of the country's population? Or only all citizens, excluding expansion, migrant workers and illegal immigrants? Will we consider part of the “people” of babies, who have not yet had no aesthetic preferences, but even claims to possess this art? Or, say, those who are indifferent to beautiful - and even hostile?

The largest in the Czech Republic of NPP “Temelin” switches to Russian nuclear fuel. To carry out the appropriate technological work, its first power unit stops for 2 months. Then this procedure will be carried out on the second power unit. The supply of nuclear fuel is carried out by the Russian OJSC "TVEL", which will become the only supplier of fuel for Czech and Slovak nuclear power plants. Russian raw materials turned out to be better than the same material of Westingows (USA).

The Russian lawyer claims that in the capital of Liberia, the American special services detained the pilot on suspicion of attempts to bribe the highest officials of Liberia and participate in the transportation of cocaine in South America, Africa and Europe, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax.

Russian pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev, suspected in Thailand of molesting a minor and released on bail, appeared in a Thai court today, the BBC reports. “Some world media, a number of government officials and others expressed the opinion that I will never return to Thailand. I hope that now everyone understands that I am an honest person, a man of my word,” Pletnev said.

In the Ordzhonikidze district of Perm, an accident occurred with the participation of the PAZ passenger bus and the Volga car, URA.RU reports. This morning, in the Ordzhonikidze district of Perm at the crossroads of Shcherbakov Streets and the transshipment bus of route No. 73 collided with the Volga car. According to preliminary data, the driver of the Volga exceeded the speed, lost control and crashed into a light support.

Aeroflot-Russian Airlines OJSC buys 11 A-330-300 aircraft. The corresponding agreement was signed by Aeroflot with Airbus SAS, the aircraft manufacturer, widespread at the Farnborough-2010 air show, said Fininmarket . The cost of one a-330-300 aircraft is not more than $ 92 million. The total transaction size is not more than $ 1.012 billion. Aircraft are purchased for financial leasing. Aircraft delivery schedule-from the 2nd quarter of 2011 to the 1st quarter of 2013.