Photo: Russian national team midfielder Alan Dzagoev was recognized as the best player of the meeting according to UEFA. Reuters The Russian national football team defeated their opponents from the Czech Republic with a score of 4:1 in the first match at Euro 2012. The goals were scored by Roman Shirokov, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Alan Dzagoev, who became the real hero of the match. CSKA midfielder Dzagoev scored the first goal against the Czechs in the 15th minute, the second in the 79th minute.

The paratroopers who died while extinguishing a forest fire in Tuva are forever included in the lists of parachute service fighters of the Tuva Forestry Aviation Base, the press service of the government of the republic reported on Saturday.

A new trial of political prisoner Taisiya Osipova continues in Smolensk. Many of the people who sympathized with her thought that since the previous sentence was overturned, then Taisiya had almost been released. This is wrong. She remains in custody. For more than a year and a half now. The new judge, whose last name is Kozhevnikov, is undoubtedly trying to complete the process as quickly as possible, and is extremely negative towards Taisiya, which he does not hide.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The United Russia party is opening a special website where any United Russia member can file a lawsuit against Alexei Navalny, who calls the ruling party “a party of swindlers and thieves.” The author of the idea was State Duma deputy from United Russia Vladimir Burmatov. “As a member of United Russia, it is extremely unpleasant for me to hear Navalny’s offensive definition of my party.

A minor pupil of the Kadnikovsky orphanage (Vologda region) will appear in court for locking a young child in a closet without informing any of the adults. He was charged under paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Art. 127 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal deprivation of liberty), the case has been transferred to court, the press service of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Vologda Region reported on Saturday.

A delightfully unsympathetic LDPR deputy named Mikhail Dyagterev introduced a bill stating that the state, in order to stimulate the birth rate, would pay one hundred thousand rubles to each mother who gave birth to her first child. Question: What motivates people to have their first child? Can one hundred thousand rubles play a significant role in the decision to have offspring? Please answer.

In Magadan, for the first time, a hotspot for accessing the Internet was installed on the territory of the park named after the 70th anniversary of the city. “You can access the Internet for free using communication devices with Wi-Fi modules - cell phones, communicators, smartphones, tablets, netbooks and laptops,” the head of the press service of the Magadan branch of the OJSC told the Interfax agency on Saturday, June 9 "Rostelecom" Nina Kosareva.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Author of the article: Evgeniy Natelashvili Blogs have reported that one of the establishments of the Shokoladnitsa chain is refusing to serve people wearing protest symbols. PublicPost correspondent Evgeniy Natelashvili tied a white ribbon on himself and went to a cafe for lunch. “Twitter users report that the Shokoladnitsa on Tsvetnoy refuses to serve people with protest symbols, citing instructions from the administration,” the National News Service wrote on its blog .

The repeated competition for the election of the head of the administration of Elista (Kalmykia), held on Saturday, identified six more candidates for this position in addition to the two announced earlier, Interfax reports, citing the press service of the mayor's office.

Hot weather in the Tomsk region contributes to a significant increase in the population of white butterflies, whose caterpillars can cause serious damage to garden crops, said Valery Surnaev, deputy head of the regional department of environmental protection. “In one warm summer there are usually two generations of butterflies, and this very hot summer we expect three generations. In the fall there will be a huge number of them,” V. Surnaev told the Interfax agency on Saturday, June 9.

Today was the penultimate organizing committee on June 12th. We decided that we agree with the route proposed by the mayor’s office: a procession from Pushkinskaya along the Boulevard Ring and a rally on the inside of Sakharov Avenue. The rally will be held as a rally-concert dedicated to Russia Day. Representatives from 12 regions will perform, interspersed with live music. The program includes Vasily Shumov, Gleb Samoilov, Louna, Chacha and many others.

On June 8, at the Museum and Public Center named after A. Sakharov, public hearings were held to a full house on the investigation of crimes and lawlessness of the authorities during the dispersal of the mass demonstration in Moscow on May 6, 2012. Those gathered listened to testimonies from beaten citizens, and also saw photos and videos confirming unlawful actions on the part of police officers.

"United Russia" decided to make some money on its present, popular name and file thousands of lawsuits with the demand for monetary compensation: “The ultimate goal is to make a blogger answer for insults to the party in power - in particular, for the wording of“ Crooks and thieves, ” the newspaper writes. The idea belongs to the deputy from "United Russia" to Vladimir Burmatov . According to him, the one -party members asked him to help correctly draw up claims for Navalny.

Staraya Ladoga is a village 120 km from St. Petersburg. Few people know that this was once a serious city - the first capital of ancient Rus'. One of the versions of the “Tale of Bygone Years” claims that it was the Ladoga residents who invited the Varangian Rurik in 862, who came with a retinue, built a fortress in Ladoga and made this city his first residence. And only three years later Rurik went to build Veliky Novgorod.