The State Duma has prepared a new version of the bill on “deals with justice” Rules may be introduced into Russian criminal legislation that provide for the possibility of concluding a so-called deal with justice, so that law enforcement officers can legally promise those under investigation to “cut down their sentence” or provide state protection for their cooperation.

Today the results of the parliamentary elections held yesterday in Lebanon with a high turnout will become known. 580 applicants applied for 128 deputy mandates. The battle was between the parliamentary majority, the core of which was the Al-Mustaqbal (Future) movement, and the opposition led by the Shiite organization Hezbollah (Party of Allah). The winning majority in the 2005 elections is supported by the West and moderate Arab countries, while the opposition is close to Syria and Iran.

International Animation Festival opens in Annecy Today, the largest and most prestigious animation festival opens in the French city of Annecy. Almost 7 thousand participants, 63 countries, 500 films - full-length and short, original and commercial, drawn in pencil and the latest three-dimensional, archival, documentary, and most importantly, the most recent, many of which date back to 2009.

Button is ahead of the Red Bulls again Brawn's Jenson Button has once again won an F1 race. The Briton already has six victories in the first seven races of the season. In this regard, he repeated the achievements of Jimmy Clark (1965) and Michael Schumacher (1994). The lower steps of the podium were occupied by Red Bull drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel. The Turkish Istanbul Park circuit has long been loved by racers.

FOOTBALL. June 9. Qualifying match for the 2011 European Championship among youth teams. Faroe Islands - Russia. Tórshavn. June 10. Qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup. Finland - Russia. Helsinki. Russian Championship. Premier League. 12th round. June 13. "Terek" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Dynamo" - "Kuban", "Spartak" M - "Khimki", "Rubin" - "Rostov". June 14. "Spartak-Nalchik" - "Zenit", "Tom" - "Amkar", "Saturn" - "Lokomotiv", "Moscow" - CSKA.

The Dutch team has already made it to the World Cup The number of participants in the 2010 World Cup is growing every day. Teams from Japan, Australia and South Korea will definitely go to South Africa next summer. The first European team to secure a place at the world championship was Holland. Group 1. The Portuguese, almost in disgrace, almost lost their status as applicants for a trip to South Africa.

Dagestan police beheaded On Friday afternoon, it became known about the death of the 53-year-old Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Lieutenant General Adilgerey Magomedtagirov. The minister was shot dead with a sniper rifle while leaving one of the banquet halls in Makhachkala, where he was a guest at the wedding of the daughter of one of his subordinates (the father of the bride was seriously wounded).

Naftogaz of Ukraine received half a billion dollars from the reserves of the National Bank for settlements with Gazprom The diplomatic and informational activity that Moscow launched around the situation with Ukraine’s payments for gas brought an unexpected result. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's nerves could not stand it, and last Friday, when he gave instructions to pay for May gas supplies within an hour, he almost collapsed the national currency.

The official premiere of “Anna Karenina” took place Sergei Solovyov took ten years to film Anna Karenina... That's what he says. It is clear that this is an important work, but I wonder why exactly it is important. At first there was no plan to combine it in a diptych with “Assa 2”: the role of Anna was to be played by Irina Metlitskaya, and she has nothing to do with “Assa”. Then, when it became clear that Tatiana Drubich would be filming, apparently something changed...

Member of the Board of the European Central Bank Gertrude Tampel-Gugerell answered Vremya Novostey's questions “The financial architecture in the world should be as long-term and sustainable as the architecture of St. Petersburg, but this is not yet the case,” this is how Gertrud TAMPEL-GUGERELL, a member of the executive board (board) of the European Central Bank, figuratively argued the need for serious reforms in the financial sector , speaking at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum.

Russia and Ukraine are close to overcoming the gas crisis Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko spent more than five hours in negotiations on Saturday evening. Fundamental agreements on the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine and its transit to Europe were reached at two o’clock on Sunday morning.

American woman receives high school diploma at age 90 Eleanor Benz from the American city of Chicago waited for the “start to adulthood” for 73 years. Just the other day, a 90-year-old mother of 15 children, grandmother of 54 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren received a matriculation certificate in a solemn atmosphere, RIA Novosti reports. The reason for this phenomenal delay is purely economic. Eleanor's school time coincided with the period of the Great Depression for America.

Svetlana Kuznetsova won Roland Garros Russian tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova became the winner of Roland Garros. Three years ago, she lost to Justine Henin of Belgium in the French Open final. This time, on the main Parisian court, Kuznetsova defeated the world's first racket, compatriot Dinara Safina - 6:4, 6:2. After the match, Safina said that she had lost to herself for the second year in a row. In Kuznetsova’s career, this is the second victory in Grand Slam tournaments.

They decided not to make a scandal out of a fight involving the senator's nephew The Tushinsky District Court of Moscow on Friday released from custody four employees of the Mitino police department, detained at the end of May on charges of beating a group of Chechens, among whom was the nephew of Senator Aslambek Aslakhanov, MUR employee Mansur Aslakhanov. The court was supposed to decide on changing the preventive measure only on June 9.

Deripaska returned to managing the company The outbreak of the financial crisis forces company owners to make decisions that they would not have made in more prosperous times. Thus, billionaire and the main shareholder of the world's largest aluminum producer RUSAL, Oleg Deripaska, five years later will again take the position of general director of his main company. “His candidacy (Deripaska. - Ed. ) was proposed by En+ (the main shareholder of RUSAL, part of Mr. Deripaska’s Basic Element.