Yabloko members intend to challenge the general plan of Moscow immediately after its publication The leader of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, intends today to appeal to the Moscow City Court with a demand to repeal the law on the master plan for the development of Moscow until 2025, adopted in early May by the City Duma and signed a week ago by Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. As Mr.

FOOTBALL. June 11--14. Final tournament of the 2010 World Championship. South Africa. The World Cup starts on June 11 with a match between the home team and Mexico (starts at 18.00 Moscow time). The second game of Group A, Uruguay - France, will start at 22.00. Then three meetings will be held every day. VOLLEYBALL. June 8--13. Traditional international tournament of women's teams "Volley Masters". Montreux (Switzerland). June 11--13. World League. 2nd round (double matches) .

Russia and China defended their economic interests Plans by the United States and several Western countries to vote on a new resolution regarding Iran this week at the UN Security Council may be postponed. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who visited Beijing on June 4, stressed that Russia and China are “against attempts to force the voting process,” depriving the non-permanent members of the Security Council of time “to study the project and make their proposals.” Mr.

The Swedish “The Cherry Orchard” was shown at the Chekhov Festival Ranevskaya (Marie Rickardsson) arrives from Paris by plane and instead of telegrams receives faxes from the French capital. Ermolai Lopakhin (Magnus Rusmann), telling how a cherry orchard should be divided into plots and handed over to summer residents, gives a classic business presentation: let him wave his hands at an empty wall, but it is quite obvious that on this wall are meant slides with plans for the estate.

Alexander Gorshkov headed the Russian Figure Skating Federation Olympic champion, head of the technical committee of the International Skating Union (ISU) for ice dancing, Alexander Gorshkov, was unanimously elected as its new president at the reporting and election conference of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKR).

Emergency evacuation of the North Pole-37 station was successful The ice drift of the North Pole-37 expedition, which began on September 7, 2009, ended much earlier than planned. Since the end of March, cracks began to appear on the ice floe where the research station was based. Whole pieces were breaking off. Therefore, people, equipment and all life support systems had to be evacuated urgently.

“The production and smuggling of Afghan drugs should be classified as a threat to international peace and security,” Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov made this proposal on behalf of Russia at the ninth conference in Singapore on defense and security in the Asia-Pacific region. This annual forum was called the “Shangri-La Dialogue” - after the mythical country of eternal harmony in Tibet.

The UN will deal with the “freedom flotilla” incident The international scandal surrounding Israel's interception of ships of the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian mission has reached a new stage. Already today, the question of the composition and powers of the international commission of inquiry into the tragic events surrounding the humanitarian convoy heading to the Gaza Strip may become clearer. On the night of May 31, nine people were killed during the capture of one of the ships.

Germany has chosen its presidential candidates In Germany, the ruling Christian Democrats party, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, has officially presented its candidacy for the post of federal president. Unexpectedly for many, he became, as they say here, the “land prince” - the Prime Minister of the federal state of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff. He is a lawyer by training and the father of two children. He will turn 51 in two weeks.

Russia and the European Union will create a committee for the exchange of views Russia and the EU will cooperate more closely on international security issues. This was stated by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel after two days of negotiations in the small cozy Meseberg Palace in Brandenburg near Berlin.

In the central regions of European Russia on Monday, weather conditions will be determined by the influence of a low-gradient field, however, the weather will be unstable, the main troublemaker will be an atmospheric wave front, with thunderstorms in places. In the North-Western region there will be light rain in places, during the day +17...+22оС.

Groups from Turkey and China at the World Orchestra Festival The 5th World Orchestra Festival is taking place in the Column Hall of the House of Unions: three concerts are over, three more remain. In past years, groups from Great Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Israel, and Hungary performed here. All the more unexpected was the list of countries participating in the current forum: Türkiye, China, South Korea, India, plus two orchestras from Russia.

G20 financial leaders do not agree on the fate of banks Finance ministers and heads of central banks of the G20 countries at a summit in Busan, South Korea, abandoned a plan to introduce a general bank tax to combat subsequent crises. According to financial leaders, each state must independently decide how to oblige banks to pay for their rescue in the future. Experts are confident that new financial rules that countries will introduce unilaterally will be extremely ineffective.

US special forces expand operations outside the country Faced with serious threats to national security, US President Barack Obama is urgently strengthening intelligence agencies and intensifying their activities outside the country. For the post of director of national intelligence, which became vacant after the resignation of Dennis Blair at the end of May, the president proposed the current deputy secretary of defense, 69-year-old James Clapper (pictured) .

Polish authorities suspect Russian police officers of stealing money from the credit cards of those killed in a plane crash near Smolensk Yesterday, Polish government spokesman Pavel Gras said that three members of the Russian special police unit (OMON) were detained on suspicion of theft from credit cards from dead Poles during the Tu-154 plane crash near Smolensk , which occurred on April 10 this year.