New hypothesis for the start of the war June 22, 1941 is one of the most terrible dates in the life of our people. And it’s not even about the colossal losses that have no analogue in Russian and world history in the first days of the war - human, territorial, military equipment, and not about the battles that followed and the incredible hardships of the four-year mortal battle that paid for our people’s victory in it .

On the eve of the EU summit opening today in Brussels, Poland has established itself as the most uncompromising member of the European family, which has caused a lot of trouble for the current chairman of the European Union, Germany. Warsaw has not lifted last year's veto on negotiations between Moscow and the European Union on a new agreement on cooperation and partnership. And now Poland has threatened to block negotiations on a pan-European constitutional treaty.

CLUBS Birthday of the Kino group . The group is congratulated by Oleg Sakmarov , Nick Rock-n-Roll , “Grains” , “Acoustic Forest” , “My Friends” , “Rada and Thorns” . "B2" , 19.00. Air (France), Bent (UK), Brazilian Girls (USA). As part of the Stereoleto festival. B1 Maximum , 20.00. CONCERTS Gary Moore (Great Britain). Moore, a star of the eighties, known for his hit Still Got the Blues, will sing at Luzhniki (Sports Palace) , 19.00. "A Venetian at the Court of the Empress" .

The Israelis released the Slavs from the Gaza Strip Today, a plane from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations will fly to the Jordanian capital Amman to pick up 69 Russians and seven Belarusian citizens who fled from the Gaza Strip captured by Islamists to Moscow. Yesterday, they were transported through Israeli territory on buses ordered by the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv to the Jordanian border from the Eretz checkpoint in the north of the sector.

Rosobrnadzor will strengthen control over the Unified State Examination The scandalous story of declassifying the materials of the unified state exam in Russian forced Rosobrnadzor to reconsider information security issues. From now on, if assignment options are leaked to open sources, exam materials will be removed from the database and replaced with new ones.

The Museum of Soviet Occupation is preparing Ukraine for elections For a month now, scandals have not subsided around the Museum of Soviet Occupation , which was opened by the Kiev Memorial Society on May 26. Communists and socialists stage noisy protests outside the walls of a small two-story building located 40 minutes from the center of Kyiv. When approaching the museum, one notices gaping holes in the window glass from a huge boulder that flew to the second floor.

In most of the European territory of Russia, due to cyclones, the weather is unstable with rain and gusty winds. In the coming days, most of the European territory (in the rear of the cyclone) will become a little cooler: in the northwestern region the temperature will drop at night to +4...+9оС, in some places to 0оС, in the daytime to +17...+22оС. The drop in temperature will be accompanied by intermittent rain and thunderstorms in some places.

UniCredit Group bought out the share of the last shareholder of the bank with license number one The Italian banking group UniCredit has almost completed the consolidation of shares in the International Moscow Bank (IMB). Yesterday, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced the sale of its stake in IMB to a subsidiary of UniCredit - the Austria Creditanstalt bank. It is on the balance sheet of this structure that the Italians consolidate IMB shares.

On June 20, 2007, the newspaper Vremya Novostey published an article by Ekaterina Karacheva and Alexey Grishin, “Choice of a Prosecutor.” The publication discussed the intention of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Yuri Chaika, to resign. The newspaper mentioned an application allegedly submitted to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, with a request to be released from his position at his own request.

Neeli Cruz demands that Russia provide information on the reasons for the termination of pipeline oil supplies to Lithuania The European Commission is again trying to force Russia to conduct business according to the ideas of the Old World.

An explosion occurred in a mosque in the Iraqi town of Haswa, located 50 km south of Baghdad, yesterday morning. Six hours later, an explosive device went off near the imam’s house near the mosque in the city of Hilla, 95 km south of the Iraqi capital. The clergyman, who noticed the approach of the militants, managed to escape. Both mosques, according to police, were heavily damaged, but there were no casualties. Both cities have a predominantly Sunni population.

A representative of a party claiming to be liberal spoke in favor of Putin's third term The Civil Power party held two events on Tuesday. The head of the party's Supreme Council , Mikhail Barshchevsky, the plenipotentiary representative of the Russian government in the Constitutional, Supreme and Supreme Arbitration Court, chaired the round table on citizenship issues, and his first deputy, Dmitry Korobkov, met with representatives of the media. At the same time, Mr.

The number of participants in the ULEB Cup has been increased to the detriment of FIBA-Europe As expected, at a meeting of the Assembly of the Union of European Basketball Leagues (ULEB) in Slovenia, it was announced that the number of participants in the second most important club tournament, the ULEB Cup, would be doubled - from 24 to 48 teams.

The path of our teams to Beijing may be long and winding Last week, the Russian women's softball team failed to win the Euro-African zone qualifying tournament in Italy, sharing fifth place with Great Britain, and lost the opportunity to compete at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

The government promises free customs regime for ports The first competition for the creation of port special economic zones will be held in the fall. This was stated yesterday by the Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Special Economic Zones (RosSEZ) Maxim Bystrov. At the same time, amendments to the law on special zones, introducing a new type of zones - port ones, have so far only passed the first reading in the State Duma.