The driver of the bus, which yesterday rolled over on the highway in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine, was detained, he is in a temporary detention center. As Interfax was informed today in the local police, the criminal case was instituted on the fact of an accident, and not against the driver himself. Earlier, the Russian embassy in Ukraine RIA Novosti reported that the driver was arrested. 43 pilgrims from the Pskov region went on the bus. 14 Russians were killed, 29 - they were injured.

Promotion in support of the Pussy Riot near the Tagansky court of Moscow, July 4 The Moscow City Court today considers the complaint about the extension of the arrest of three participants in the Pussy Riot punk band. Lawyers will ask them to free their clients and elect them another measure of restraint, not related to deprivation of liberty. The defense intends to present a list of famous public figures, ready to vouch for Nadezhda Tolokonnikov, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich .

The new Coalition Government of Greece was enlisted by the support of the parliament and will be able to carry out anti -crisis measures in the country When voting on Sunday evening, more than half of the 300th Greek parliamentarians expressed confidence in the conservative-centric cabinet led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.

In Makhachkala today, as a result of the explosion at the gas station, one person died, six were injured. According to the Ministry of Emergencies in Dagestan, the explosion occurred during the transfusion of fuel in a container and was technogenic in nature. Investigators work at the scene.

Cycling. Multi -day race "Tour de France" Stage 8. Belfort - Pork 1. Tibo Pino (France) 2. Cadel Evans (Australia) 3. Tony Gallopen (France) In the overall standings in front of Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)

In Havana in a 60-year-old patient of one of the hospitals, a cholera was found. A few days earlier, in the south-east of the country in the city of Manzillo, three people died from cholera. According to the BBC, more than 50 people turned out to be infected cholera. The source of the disease is unknown. Doctors suggest that the cholera vibrions were in the water that the sick drank.

In St. Petersburg, a rally of the opposition agreed with the authorities on the Marse Field. According to police, about 150 people gathered. Several activists of the opposition addressed the gathered calls and slogans. A few more participants in the action turned from a scene with verses directed against the authorities.

In Nigeria, in the central state of the plateau, the federal senator and the leader of the majority in the regional parliament were killed on Sunday. Unknown people shot politicians who arrived at the funeral of the victims of the Saturday attack. The murders and attacks, as is supposed to be the mosema nomads from the Fulani tribe. The staff of the plateau is on the border between the mainly Muslim south of Nigeria and the Christian North.

The turnout of voters at the universal elections in Libya on Saturday, according to preliminary estimates, was about 60 percent. This was reported by members of the Central Election Commission of the country, according to which, on the day of voting "due to the facts of sabotage", more than 20 polling stations could not open, mainly in the eastern areas. Mostly there, on the eve of people, people went to protest promotions with an appeal to boycott the elections.

Flood in the Krasnodar Territory, July 7, 2012 The number of flood victims in the Krasnodar Territory is, according to the latest data, 144 people. Five of them died from electricity defeat. About 80 victims were delivered to hospitals. In total, over 300 people applied for medical help, the Russian Emergencies Ministry of Emergencies reported. They noted that with the victims, with those who were evacuated, psychologists are constantly working.

Veronika Bode: Russia and the West in public consciousness are our current topic. How do citizens of the country relate to various foreign countries? Who and why do you need anti -Western moods in society? Our guest is the director of the analytical center of Yuri Levada Lev Gudkov, one of the leading analysts of the Public Opinion Foundation Grigory Kertman. And on the telephone line - a professor of sociology of the University of Michigan Vladimir Shlyapentokh.

One of the streets of Gelendzhik The size of compensations for the victims and families of those killed as a result of a flood in the Kuban, whose victims, were, according to the latest data, more than 140 people were determined. It is reported that the families of the dead will receive two million rubles each - payments will be divided equally between the regional and federal budget. Each victim will be paid 150 thousand rubles.

Alexandr Genis, Writer July 9 at 23 hours Moscow time in the program of Alexander Genis - Vienna note; velvet empire; how to play the Indians; Craft of a vegetarian. Since the 50 millionth Austro-Hungarian Empire smelled into oblivion, not so much a small alpine country is disposed of its inheritance as museums and libraries that have become the guardians of the precious fragments of the disappeared country.

In the hospital of the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, three affected passengers of the bus remain, which turned up on the highway yesterday. As Interfax was informed today in the country's Ministry of Health, their condition is difficult. 43 pilgrims from the Pskov region went on the bus. 14 Russians were killed, 29 - they were injured. The bodies of the dead and the rest of the victims were delivered by the Ministry of Emergencies to Moscow and Pskov.

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