Photo by Fotobank/Getty Images How stress and chronic lack of sleep are shortening your life Would you prioritize sleep if you knew it kept your immune system strong? The American Academy of Sleep Medicine suggested thinking about this difficult question. The publication of a study by the Academy showed that the immune system reacts sharply to lack of sleep.

Photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Sony's purchase of cloud gaming platform Gaikai symbolizes the approach of a new era in the world of video games. Will there be a place for Sony itself in it? The most high-profile deal of the past week was the purchase by Sony Corporation of the startup Gaikai, which is developing a cloud gaming platform of the same name. The Japanese giant paid $380 million for the company, which was barely three years old.

photo ITAR-TASS Entrepreneurs of the Krasnodar Territory told Forbes about the disaster and how business helps the population of the affected areas Oksana Pinchuk, financial director of the Crimean Wine Factory (Krymsk): It is impossible to list all the damage: equipment, finished products, inventory, in general, absolutely everything was damaged. The water was three meters high, flowing at high speed, now everything is upside down, the condition of the plant is like after a bombing.

The Eurogroup agreed with the European Commission's proposal to postpone the deadline for reducing Spain's budget deficit below 3% of GDP from 2013 to 2014, RIA Novosti reports . Following this decision, key European stock indices rose at the opening of trading on Tuesday. The Stability and Growth Pact in force in the EU limits the budget deficit of each EU country to 3% of GDP. If a state exceeds this figure, it must go through a procedure of forced reduction.

Top managers of a leading space industry enterprise siphoned off budget funds allocated for the GLONASS system through shell companies, police say. RKS calls all suspicions groundless The management of Russian Space Systems OJSC is suspected of misuse of more than 500 million rubles allocated for the development of the GLONASS system. As the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Tuesday, the criminal case is being investigated under Part 2 of Art.

The Russian financial agency, which will manage the resources of the Reserve Fund and the National Welfare Fund, will receive the right to invest government funds in shares, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Deputy Minister of Finance Sergei Storchak. The creation of RosfinAgency is planned for early 2013. “The agency will have the opportunity to buy shares and, probably, the process of cautious entry into the shares will begin,” Storchak told reporters on Tuesday.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, almost 48,000 people were affected by the catastrophic flood in the Krasnodar region. Earlier it was reported about 35,000 casualties. “In the city of Krymsk, 17,600 people remain without energy supply, 28,000 people without gas supply, and 2,000 people without water supply,” the department reports. 246 interdepartmental task forces are assessing material damage in the disaster zone.

photo ITAR-TASS We must help the victims, but we must not get used to relying only on ourselves. This way the state will lose the remnants of public control The flood in the Kuban caused a wave of sympathy and support that has become familiar to man-made and natural disasters in Russia. In a matter of hours, a massive collection of funds, items and products will be launched. Volunteers have appeared at the scene of the disaster and quickly convey information about the needs of the victims.

photo by Max Novikov for Forbes Forbes correspondent about first impressions from flood-stricken Krymsk in the Kuban: about people, rescuers, authorities On Monday in Krymsk they buried the dead, cleared away rubble in houses, and tried not to panic. “Are you guys on the committee? Don’t you have the key to my office?” A woman with a pathologist's badge busily rushes in the dark past multi-colored coffins laid out right on the ground and runs up to us.

As part of the reform, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia will have to reduce the total number of the Federal Fire Service by 20% by 2013. As a result, about 40,000 people will lose their jobs, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday , citing a source familiar with the situation in the department. Some time later, the department denied this information.

The Russian authorities will undertake to restore flood-damaged housing in the Krasnodar Territory. The construction of new houses for residents of Kuban, who lost a roof over their heads due to the disaster, will take only a few months - from August to November. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced such deadlines at a government meeting on Tuesday.

Investigators have completed their investigation into the explosion at Moscow's Domodedovo airport in January 2011. A criminal case was opened against four suspects of involvement in organizing the terrorist attack.

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On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin for the first time commented on the high-profile legislative initiatives of State Duma deputies on assigning the status of “foreign agents” to non-profit organizations receiving funding from abroad and returning the “slander” article to the Criminal Code. Both ideas of the legislators, according to the president, need amendments, but in general the head of state supports the proposals.

Review of the press around the world. Why has democracy in Paraguay taken a giant step backward? What will the Prime Minister of India be remembered for? Should donors pursue exclusively noble goals? South America Democracy in Paraguay took a giant step back last June when the local parliament impeached President Fernando Lugo. about this as part of Project Syndicate Gustavo Setrini and Lucas Arce from the Paraguayan Center for Economic Research (CADEP) write .