Rosfinmonitoring disagrees with FATF The leadership of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring did not like the recommendations of colleagues from the international group for combating money laundering (FATF). An international organization has proposed giving the Russian Central Bank the right to revoke licenses from banks if any of its owners have been convicted of a criminal offense.

The leader of Russian Freemasons proclaimed a course towards openness The exhibition “Freemasonry: history, ritual, symbolism” opened at the Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg. “This is generally the first exhibition dedicated to the history of Freemasonry in the world and in Russia since the beginning of the 20th century,” says curator and scientific director of this topic Marina Ptichenko.

The Bolshoi danced “Flames of Paris” Perhaps this is the first real failure of Alexei Ratmansky at the Bolshoi Theater. There were triumphs - both brilliantly instantaneous, like the passage of a blade in the air, “Dreams of Japan”, and the deceptively simple-minded “Bright Stream”.

Vladimir Potanin and Guy de Sellier will compete for the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Norilsk Nickel The board of directors of Norilsk Nickel is to elect its chairman today . The positions of the two largest shareholders of the nickel giant - the united company Russian Aluminum (RUSAL) and Vladimir Potanin's Interros - diverged on this issue.

Dear Martina! In one of your interviews during the Wimbledon tournament, if the correct translation has reached us, you said that you are not very impressed with the current women's tennis. Like, when did it happen that the top four “seeded” tennis players were eliminated before the quarterfinals.

CLUBS Kevin Mahogany (USA) and Oleg Butman Quartet . Mahogany is one of the most sought-after jazz vocalists, and for the past four years, according to polls by several jazz publications, in particular the authoritative Down Beat, he has been the number one jazz vocalist. Igor Butman Club , 20.00. Anastasia Glazkova (vocals). BB King , 8 p.m. Jazz Piano. Jazz, blues. "B2" , 20.00. Ash.

Chronicle of sporting events Czech forward Jaromir Jagr has signed a contract with the Russian hockey club Avangard. Under the terms of the agreement, the 36-year-old striker will spend the next two seasons in Omsk, and then the contract, by agreement of the parties, can be extended for another year.

The Williams sisters won the doubles tournament and played for the singles title The Wimbledon women's tournament ended in absolute triumph for the American Williams family. Serena and Venus first won the final match in doubles, defeating Lisa Raymond (USA) and Samantha Stosur (Australia), 6:2, 6:2, and then faced each other in the decisive singles match. Here success was on the side of the older sister Venus - 7:5, 6:4. She won the British Open for the second year in a row.

Russia wants to achieve results in relations with the United States before the change of owner of the White House Russia is committed to “continuous intensive interaction” with the United States and intends to send a corresponding “strong impulse” during the meeting of the two countries’ presidents Dmitry Medvedev and George W. Bush at the G8 summit on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . This was stated by Assistant to the Russian President Sergei Prikhodko.

FOOTBALL. Russian Championship. Premier League. Rescheduled match of the 11th round. July 9. "Zenit" - "Spartak-Nalchik". Rescheduled match of the 12th round. July 9. "Saturn" - "Moscow". 13th round. July 12 . "Amkar" - "Luch-Energia", "Spartak" - CSKA, "Shinnik" - "Wings of the Soviets". July 13. "Tom" - "Spartak-Nalchik", "Khimki" - "Zenit", "Dynamo" M - "Lokomotiv", "Moscow" - "Terek". Intertoto Cup. July 12--13. Second round return matches.

Dmitry Medvedev participates in the G8 summit for the first time Dmitry Medvedev's plane landed in Japan last night. Several months ago, when the current president of Russia was still preparing to take this post, Western journalists were actively interested in the question of who would represent Russia at the G8 summit of heads of state . Not because they doubted Mr. Medvedev’s victory in the elections, but because they expected to see Vladimir Putin in Japan, albeit in prime ministerial status.

Russian shareholders of TNK-BP are perplexed why BP began to sue them British BP filed a lawsuit against Russian partners in TNK-BP, who own half of the joint company - Alfa Petroleum Holding Ltd. (represents the interests of Alfa Group) and OGIP Ventures Ltd. (represents Access Industries of Leonard Blavatnik and Renova of Viktor Vekselberg). She demands compensation of 8.4 billion rubles.

The 81-year-old leader of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro, was awarded the National José Martí Prize for achievements in the field of journalism. The decision to award Castro the main award for Cuban journalists was made on Saturday by the VIII Congress of the Union of Journalists of Cuba.

A year ago, Sochi received the right to host the Winter Olympics Last weekend, Sochi celebrated a year since the historic night of July 5, 2007 . That night, at the 119th session of the International Olympic Committee, beating Austrian Salzburg and South Korean Pyeongchang, Sochi received the title of capital of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Winter Paralympic Games in 2014.

One of the distinctive features of the events of July 6, 1918 was the shocking immaturity of the age of its main participants. They were very young. For example, the anti-hero Yakov Blyumkin is only 20 years old, his “colleague, friend in the revolution” and accomplice in the murder of Mirbakh Nikolai Andreev is 22 years old, the military leaders of the uprising Dmitry Popov and Yuri Sablin are 27 and 21 years old, respectively.