The death of the main witness against St. Petersburg police officers took the Prosecutor General's Office by surprise At the end of last week, entrepreneur Semyon Shubik died in St. Petersburg.

Advocaat's team lost to the middle peasants Zenit is closely involved in eliminating debts from matches. In July, Dick Advocaat's team will have to play eight national championship matches. But she suffered losses already in the second. Yesterday, the Russian champion lost at home at Petrovsky to Spartak from Nalchik - 3:4. Surely the Lawyer looks with longing as the composition of his team decreases day by day.

“Invisible difference” in “ARTStrelka-projects” As part of the first Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art “Stop, who’s coming?” The exhibition “Invisible Difference” opened. The curators of the exhibition, Alexander Evangeli and Sergei Khachaturov, invited three artists to play the game “don’t believe your eyes” and radicalize the issues of modernity “not by depicting the visible, but by making visible” (Paul Klee) the mechanisms and meanings of reality. The exhibition was housed in two halls.

The Bank of Russia weakened world currencies The ruble exchange rate rose by about 10 kopecks yesterday . to the dollar and the euro due to its strengthening to the bi-currency basket, which the Central Bank undertook for the second time in a year. On international markets, the dollar fell again amid rising oil prices caused by reports of a missile test in Iran. The Bank of Russia set the official dollar exchange rate for July 10 at 23.4147 rubles. up from 23,502 the day before.

Sports officials make plans for the Olympics Leaders of sports organizations make it clear a month before the start of the Summer Olympic Games that Russia intends to fight for second place in the team event. And they continue to determine the lineups, recognize opponents and try on sports uniforms. Fetisov wants 28 first places The head of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports, Vyacheslav Fetisov, said: in Beijing, the Russian team is capable of winning at least 28 gold medals.

New agenda for media The usual end-of-season “final” discussion about TV is clearly slipping this time into a dispute about the politics of the next season, and not just editorial. To the extent that the dispute does not boil down to old Slavonic squabbles “about censorship,” it can be welcomed, as well as the general release of debates on fundamental topics to the public: taxes, democracy, anti-corruption and anti-inflation programs, court cases. All these topics turn into discussions.

A climate miracle is expected in the mountains of Argentina: the Perito Moreno glacier may melt in winter for the first time in half a century. More precisely, not the glacier itself, but part of its tongue, which slides into a small valley. This usually happens in the summer: the melting and collapse of an ice wall of several tens of meters is considered a very attractive spectacle for tourists.

Gazprom is trying to buy gas for Europe Gazprom management energetically set about achieving the goal of “expanding the geography of purchases” of gas for the purpose of resale on world markets. The head of the concern , Alexey Miller, told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about this the other day . Yesterday it became known that Mr.

Yesterday at NATO headquarters in Brussels, the Foreign Ministers of Albania and Croatia, Lulesim Basha and Gordon Yandrokovic, together with the ambassadors of 26 member states of the alliance, signed protocols on the accession of the two countries to the military bloc. The procedure began at the April NATO summit in Bucharest .

Finland decided not to interfere with Russia's accession to the WTO Finland has decided to accept the increase in export duties on unprocessed wood in Russia . Helsinki will not prevent Russia from joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), despite increasing tariffs, an unnamed senior source in the Finnish government told Reuters yesterday. “Russia is now and in the future will be the largest trading partner in the world, so it would be somewhat abnormal if it were not a member of the WTO.

Officials promise to monitor every transaction in the energy market The Ministry of Energy held its first press conference since its creation yesterday. However, for some reason, the main speaker was not the head of the department, Sergei Shmatko, but his deputy, Vyacheslav Sinyugin, a former member of the board of RAO UES of Russia and the former head of HydroOGK (recently renamed RusHydro).

Fisheries are asking the government to save them from unnecessary checks The role of the first deputy prime minister is not easy. Especially when the farming was so troublesome: forest, fish and agriculture. Yesterday, Viktor Zubkov had to thoroughly freeze in Murmansk, solving the problems of fishing and fish processing on the eve of a meeting of the government commission. But the development of the fishing industry is not an end in itself.

The fate of the Tretyakov collection of contemporary art is alarming In recent days, two press conferences have been held about something very sad: by order of the General Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Valentin Rodionov, the head of the gallery’s newest trends department, Andrei Erofeev, was fired. Official reason: violation of accounting and storage of museum valuables. Last week, the leaders of the Tretyakov Gallery gathered critics.

Igor Sechin will take care of new preferences for the fuel and energy complex Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin yesterday at a meeting with journalists revealed many secrets of the “oil and gas yard”. He believes that the industry he supervises does not even roll like cheese in butter, as it seems to ordinary people. Its profitability today is only 9.1%, while in the West this figure is 40-45%.

The consequences of cultural drunkenness were tested on mice Quitting drinking can lead to serious depression, even if the drunk is... an ordinary laboratory mouse. This result was obtained by specialists from the Alcohol Research Center at North Carolina State University. In their opinion, if you feed rodents alcohol for a long time and then stop making them drunk, the mice begin to become depressed. Plus, without alcohol, neurons in the brains of animals are formed more slowly than usual.