Sochi was shortlisted. And Russia is closer than ever to getting the Olympic Games. Even if they were winter, when people went wild in front of the screens this winter, inflating TV ratings, who thought that the summer Olympics would be more prestigious? Games, they are Games! I almost said “and in Africa.” It probably won’t reach Africa, but holding the Winter Olympics off the coast of a warm sea in the subtropics is quite possible.

The Public Chamber intends to meet with Yuri Luzhkov on Wednesday, June 28. They practically invite the mayor “on the carpet”, they want to discuss what it is like in South Butovo. Numerous accusations of populism have already rained down on Kucherena. For me, even if it’s populism, as long as it really helps people. It is interesting that the Kucherena commission refused to talk to the prefect and local district authorities today.

In Ukraine, the “orange” parties after long approvals have nevertheless agreed on the creation of a government coalition. At a new level, the confrontation between Tymoshenko and Poroshenko is restored. Only if earlier secretion in the National Security and Defense Council looked for Poroshenko something like a comforting prize for a defeat in the struggle for premiere (real hardware weight of this structure is low), now he becomes the chairman of the parliament.

More than 3% of Russian cellular subscribers will pay for incoming calls even after July 1, 2006. Owners of direct cell numbers will have to pay for incoming calls. The cellular network subscriber will have to pay for call forwarding; each federal number will be assigned a duplicate number. In theory, no one should pay for such a call, but what if no one at all? And since it is impossible to charge a fee from the caller, they will charge the person who is calling.

Despite the summer heat, religious life in the capital boils that no day is a conference or round table.

The Moscow Arbitration Court considered the issue of the legality of additional tax debt accrual to YUKOS resolved within the framework of the company's bankruptcy case. The legal proceedings on the claim of YUKOS, which demanded that the additional accrual be declared illegal, have been terminated. The Federal Tax Service believes that in 2004, Yukos, by selling oil and petroleum products to intermediary firms, evaded paying taxes in the amount of 108 billion rubles.

The authorities have launched a real attack on the Academy of Sciences: the government is developing a project to transform the RAS into a public organization, depriving the RAS of the right to manage property and finances. The Academy believes that the culprit is the lands and real estate of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which the Kremlin has coveted.

The Speaker of the Federation Council, apparently, liked chopping off heads - this time, he demanded the dismissal of the editor-in-chief of the Parliamentary Newspaper, Pyotr Kotov.

The heat is terrible, they say all over the planet, we are not the only ones suffering. And so that we could feel completely better, we decided at the same time to create a shortage of ice cream in Moscow. In the near future, capital producers, together with Rospotrebnadzor, plan to conduct large-scale inspections of ice cream. The basis for the inspection was the results of examinations, which showed that many seals marked with GOST do not actually comply with it.