The Russians Alisher Usmanov and Roman Abramovich entered the top three richest residents of Great Britain according to The Sunday Times . Their total capital last year exceeded 20 billion pounds. The list of thousands of the richest inhabitants of the United Kingdom is headed by the Indian Steel Steel Magnate Lakshmi Mittal to the eighth year in a row. Over the year, his condition was reduced by a quarter and is a little less than 13 billion in the British currency.

Fans of the Petersburg football club Zenit, which last Saturday after a confident victory over Moscow Dynamo became a champion of Russia in football ahead of schedule, arranged a thousands of procession around the city before the match, RBC reports. When a crowd of fans passed along the palace bridge, the span of the structure began to walk with a shaking as a result of the resonance caused by fans.

The German Ambassador to Belarus Cristof Vale returned to Minsk, DEUTSCHE WELLE reports. As stated in the German Foreign Ministry, the German ambassador has been in the Belarusian capital since April 26. Two months ago, together with the ambassadors of other EU countries, he left Belarus in protest against the actions of the authorities in relation to the heads of diplomatic enterprises of Poland and the EU.

The press secretary of blogger Alexei Navalny, Anna Veduta, denied the information that he intends to leave the ranks of the opposition, and his statement on this matter was just a joke, Interfax reports. “Now you can defend your dissertation “On the consequences of lack of a sense of humor,” Anna Veduta told the agency. Alexei Navalny also personally denied his departure from the opposition in an interview with Gazeta.ru .

Leo Uskin Battle of Lepanto. Unknown artist. The end of the 16th century. National Marine Museum, Greenwich. Source: Runivers.

The United States sent to one of the countries a few hundred kilometers from Iran, the most modern American F-22 Raptor fighters, the American television channel Fox News said. The name of a particular country is not declared, as is not known about the number of aircraft placed there.

At the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, the police detained two supporters of the opposition who argued with the Orthodox activists, Interfax reports. According to eyewitnesses, the opposition argued with representatives of the Union of Orthodox Borensers. The latter shouted: “Sodom will not pass!”, At the same time, pouring people with white ribbons with holy water and blocking their way to the temple.

On May 29, the State Duma will host the final parliamentary hearings on Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) with the participation of the speaker of the lower house Sergei Naryshkin. This, according to RBC , said the chairman of the Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship Igor Rudensky.

The Court of Kazan chose the arrest as a preventive measure to the former head of the Dalniy police department Ilgiz Akhmetzyanov, according to the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR). Thus, the court granted the application of the investigation to arrest the suspect in unlawful actions in relation to the detainee. Earlier, on April 26, another ex-employee of the Dalniy police department was detained 22-year-old Denis Vasiliev.

The authorities of Saudi Arabia decided to show “humanism” and provided refuge for family members of the terrorist Usama Ben Laden, liquidated by American special forces a year ago in Pakistan, reports Reuters . Officials in Riyadh noted that the decision to provide asylum has all legal grounds. At the same time, it is not known which of the family members of the ex-head of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group was sheltered in Saudi Arabia.

A certain interest, shown by readers in my essays about the prerequisites of the ice battle ( part 1 , part 2 , part 3 ), brought to the idea of ​​painting on paper a kind of registry of Russian-German military-political relations in a historical perspective-exclusively in order to compare what will turn out with our sustainable idea that the Germans were our typical enemies-opponents on the battlefield.

France President Nicolas Sarkozy criticized the statement of the ex-head of the IMF Dominic Stross-Kan that last year's scandal in the United States was the result of intrigues of his political rivals, Reuters reports. “In the midst of the election struggle, a week after the first round of elections, Strauss-Kan appears and begins to teach us morality and say that this is supposedly, I am guilty of everything that happened to him.