Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he will sign a bill banning the adoption of children by same-sex families if the corresponding document is adopted by the Russian parliament - he made this statement on Tuesday at a press conference following the Russia-EU summit in Yekaterinburg. “If such a law is adopted by the country’s parliament, I will sign it,” Interfax quotes Putin . According to him, at the moment such a law has not been received by him.

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photo by Yuri Martyanov/Kommersant Social polls indicate that the trial in the Kirovles case is only beneficial for Alexei Navalny The data from the latest Levada Center survey on Alexei Navalny, published on Tuesday, requires a detailed interpretation. Several semantic layers should be distinguished: a) knowledge about Navalny, b) trust in the politician and support for his ideas, c) assessment of the Kirovles case. Let's take a closer look at each of them.

Manufacturer of fruit bars and two online services are winners of the competition On May 30, Forbes announced the names of the winners of the 3rd startup competition. 11 companies took part in the competition. The most widely represented among them are Internet services, but there are also manufacturers of food products, devices for spatial orientation, and organizers of sports games. nominated all these companies In November 2012, the competition jury to the semi-finals.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin proposed allowing investigators to inspect companies involved in the privatization of large state-owned assets - he made this statement on Tuesday, speaking at the Eurasian Anti-Corruption Forum in Moscow. “I propose to introduce the possibility of conducting operational search activities in order to verify documents and study legal entities involved in the privatization of large property,” Interfax quotes Bastrykin .

The head of the Ministry of Education and Science, Dmitry Livanov, said on Tuesday on the Ekho Moskvy radio station that he does not value the status of an official, and expressed hope that he will not hold the post of minister for long. When asked by radio hosts whether he has to limit himself much in his role as Minister of Education, Livanov replied that the ministerial burden greatly hinders him. “I suffer from this, I hope it won’t last long,” RIA Novosti agency quotes Livanov as saying .

The US aircraft manufacturing corporation Boeing plans to create a pilot school in Skolkovo, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing a Ministry of Transport official and a fund employee. We are talking about creating a specialized flight school at the space cluster of the technopark, a Skolkovo representative said.

The Civic Platform party will participate in the Moscow mayoral elections, even if they are postponed to September 2013, the party leader, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov (No. 10 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia , net worth: $13 billion) announced to the press on Tuesday. -release obtained by Forbes. “The Civic Platform party will in any case participate in the elections if they are postponed to September 2013.

photo ITAR-TASS On Monday, businessman Alexey Kozlov was released from prison, where he spent a total of more than four years. On his way to Moscow, Kozlov gave an interview to Forbes — What are your future plans... - The first thing is to get home. Now we are halfway from Ivanovo, staying with friends. Now we’ll have breakfast and go to Moscow.

The cost of creating a high-speed rail service in Russia will amount to more than 5 trillion rubles ($157 billion), said the head of Russian Railways (RZD) Vladimir Yakunin in an interview with Bloomberg . Another 1.5 trillion rubles, according to Yakunin, may be required by Russian Railways to build a railway track for trains that can travel at a speed of about 200 km per hour - that is, half as slow as high-speed trains.

President Vladimir Putin said that he is not aware of any threats to the security of the former rector of the Russian Economic School (NES) Sergei Guriev, and explained his move to Paris by the fact that the economist’s wife lives in France. Regarding the fact that the head of our school of economics went to Paris - his wife lives in Paris and works.

American actor Steven Seagal may take part in the promotion of Russian small arms abroad, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said during a visit to the Degtyarev plant on Tuesday. According to Rogozin, he discussed with the plant’s shareholder the possibility of involving Seagal in “demonstrating the advantages of Russian weapons” over “the best examples of American and, in general, Western weapons”—for example, at major international exhibitions, Interfax reports .

Gazprom plans to create a joint venture with Rosneft to develop the Arctic shelf in the East Siberian Sea, Prime agency reported on Tuesday, citing Deputy Chairman of the Board of the gas holding Alexander Medvedev.

Representatives of the Public Chamber of Moscow at a meeting on Tuesday recommended the mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin to hold early mayoral elections, RIA Novosti reports . This idea was supported, among others, by the representative of the Public Chamber on media Konstantin Remchukov and the head of the commission on nationalities of migration policy and religion Maxim Shevchenko, as well as the speaker of the Moscow City Duma Vladimir Platonov.

French authorities have evidence that sarin gas has been repeatedly used in Syria, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters on Tuesday, citing laboratory tests conducted in France. “As a result of the study, sarin was found on many samples at our disposal. France is confident that sarin was used several times in some areas of Syria,” Fabius was quoted as saying by the Associated Press .