A group of unknown people on Wednesday in the morning attacked the family residence of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Tunisia, located in the western part of the capital of the country. During the ensuing battle, four police officers who guarded the minister’s house were killed, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Mohammed Ali Larui.

In connection with the past day of philology, I would like to say a few words of clarifying appreciation to our tender favorite discipline. Any researcher of antiquity, European or Eastern, always languishes one need: to work with the subject of his scientific lusts, he needs to know the languages ​​of the monuments he studied.

The Federation Council approved the law on the return of the column “against all” in the ballots in the municipal elections, RIA Novosti reports. In the original version, senators, headed by the speaker of the chamber, Valentina Matvienko, was supposed to return the protest column in all elections except the presidential. However, the State Duma introduced this item into the ballots only for elections at the municipal level.

The government commission approved the bill on the reorganization of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Post” in OJSC “Post of Russia”, the government said . According to the Cabinet of Ministers, the reorganization “will create optimal conditions for the effective activity of the enterprise”, modernize the postal infrastructure, and increase the competitiveness and investment attractiveness of the Russian mail.

The spouse of the activist of “Other Russia” Taisiya Osipova, sentenced to 8 years for the sale of drugs, intends to seek a review of her case, the Radio station “ Echo of Moscow ” reports. According to Sergei Fomchenkov, also consisting of another Russia, the decision to resume the struggle to revise the case is associated with the arrest of the operative Nikolai Smolin, who conducted criminal prosecution against his wife.

Deputies of the Parliament of Abkhazia at an extraordinary meeting, which began at 11 o’clock, may consider the issue of appointing new presidential elections. This was announced by the editor -in -chief of the republican "necessary newspaper" Isis Chania, reports the " Caucasian Knot ". According to the journalist, deputies will also give a political assessment of an attempt to seize the building of the presidential of the republic.

US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday (on the night of Moscow time) about the gradual withdrawal of American troops from the territory of Afghanistan. According to him, this process should be completed at the end of 2016, ITAR-TASS reports. Currently in this country there are 32 thousand American troops. By the beginning of next year, this contingent should be reduced to 9.8 thousand people, and by the end of 2016 the last American soldier will leave Afghan land, the US president assured.

Donetsk miners gathered on May 28 for a rally against the actions of the Ukrainian security forces at the Eternal Fire monument, Interfax reports . Several hundred miners of mines named after Chelyuskintsev, Skochinsky, South-Donbass-3, Abakumova and Trudovskaya came out with posters “fascism will not pass” and “Donetsk People’s Republic”.

The leaders of 28 countries included in the European Union accepted a joint statement in Ukraine, in which they announced the support of the legally chosen leadership of this country and promised to provide Kyiv with “to stabilize the situation in the country and increase its resistance to very high pressure”. It is reported by Interfax . The words about pressure were said in the commentary on the text of the statement by the Chairman of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barrosa.

American zoologists from universitte Talsa (Oklahoma) described the type of salamander living in Lake Catherine in Arkansas. The species, called Eurycea Subfluvicola , has a number of features usually characteristic of the larvae of the tailed amphibians. He does not leave the aquatic environment in an adulthood and retains feathered gills, which usually disappear when the larvae turns into an adult salamandra.

Ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov can be called as a witness in the case of Oboronservis. This was reported by Interfax on May 28 with reference to an informed source. According to the source, the prosecution will petition the call to the court as a witness to the former Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov. “The final decision on this issue will be made after the approval of the indictment, but Serdyukov’s name is already included in the list of witnesses,” he said.

In the Tver region, the activities of a criminal group were suppressed, whose members were engaged in theft from apartments and households of citizens. “During the search at the place of residence of the gang leader, an antique musical instrument was discovered and seized in a black case: a violin without strings, on the inner surface of which there is an inscription: Antonius Stradiuarius Creonnsis Faciebat Anno 1721,” the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

The power operation in the south-east of Ukraine makes the situation to a dead end, said the assistant to the President of Russia Yuri Ushakov, ITAR-TASS reports. “We believe that these provocative power actions [Ukrainian military] are developing the situation to a dead end, and after that it is increasingly difficult to organize a dialogue with representatives of both the Donetsk and Lugansk regions,” the Kremlin spokesman said.

The fan of the Zenit football club Alexei Nesterov, who hit the metropolitan player of Dynamo, Vladimir Granat during the riots in the match of the Russian Football Championship, changed the charges, the official website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Initially, the police opened a criminal case under the article "Beating" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Nesterov was arrested for 30 days.

Preston Wilson from Texas University in Austin studied sounds that make coffee grains during frying, and outlined the results of his research in the June issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America). Frying is an important stage in the transformation of collected coffee beans into a finished product. However, it is difficult to determine in advance what time is needed to fry the grains of a particular batch.