Sport UNICS took a step towards CSKA UNICS and CSKA won the second matches of the semi-final playoff series Boris Khodorovsky CSKA beat Lokomotiv-Kuban, and UNICS beat Khimki in the second matches of the PBL playoff semi-finals. The winner and second runner-up of the regular season lead the series with a score of 2-0 before the away matches in the Moscow region and Krasnodar.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday evening had a telephone conversation with South African President Jacob Zuma earlier in the week , who met with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi , ITAR-TASS reports . Zuma told Medvedev about the progress and results of his just completed mission to Libya following the decision of the emergency summit of the African Union and the meeting he had with Gaddafi during this trip.

The Ural Charitable Foundation will continue to sponsor this year’s Gagarin Cup winner, Ufa’s Salavat Yulaev. This was announced by the chairman of the fund, the former head of Bashkiria Murtaza Rakhimov, who emphasized that the fund had only suspended the allocation of funds until the end of the week.

The Federal Service for Financial Markets will not fine market participants for violations of the insider law until January 1, 2012, it told reporters on Wednesday on the sidelines of the VTB Capital investment forum “Russia Calling!” Head of the department Dmitry Pankin . The Federal Law on Combating Misuse of Insider Information and Market Manipulation came into force on January 27, 2011.

From Wednesday in the Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after. Gorky has earned free wireless broadband Internet access, park representative Anastasia Anikeeva told Gazeta.Ru. “For now - only on Fontannaya Square, and from June 15, WiFi will cover the entire parterre part of the park - starting from the Crimean Bridge to Neskuchny Garden,” Anikeeva said. Access to the network will be free for everyone, a park spokeswoman added.

On Wednesday it became known that on May 28, a children’s holiday “Day of Tsarevich Dimitri” was held in Uglich (Yaroslavl region), playwright and popular blogger Vladimir Golyshev drew attention to this . The holiday was announced by the official website of the Patriarchate. “With the blessing of Patriarch Kirill, “Day of Tsarevich Dimitri” acquired the status of an all-Russian Orthodox children's holiday this year,” the site reports.

Five-year Schengen visas will soon become available to Russians. This was announced by the Director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry Vladimir Voronkov. According to him, Russia and the European Union agreed to switch to issuing five-year visas. Such an opportunity may appear in two to three years. “This process is now intensifying. I think that this process will not take much time,” Interfax quotes him as saying.

Russian and NATO fighters will for the first time take part in the anti-terrorist exercises “Vigilant skies - 2011”, which will be held from June 6 to 10 in the airspace of Russia and NATO countries, said the official representative of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) Nikolai Sintsov .

01 June 2011, 15:26 News The fire in the office center where Lenta.Ru and Rambler are located has been extinguished , citing a representative of the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow Evgeniy Bobylev, reports Firefighters extinguished a fire in the Omega Plaza office center in Leninskaya Sloboda, Interfax . This office center houses the editorial office of the online publication Lenta.Ru, as well as the office of the Rambler company.

01 June 2011, 10:53 Army We stood up for defense from our homeland The head of the Ministry of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov recommended that draft boards not draft graduate students into the army Anastasia Berseneva The Minister of Defense recommended that draft boards not recruit graduate students into the army.

The Austrian prosecutor's office on Wednesday demanded that three people accused of involvement in the murder of former security guard of the head of Chechnya, Razman Kadyrov , citing Agence France-Presse reported , Umar Israilov, be sentenced to life imprisonment, RIA Novosti . “I believe that the fair sentence for the three defendants is life imprisonment,” prosecutor Leopold Bean told the nine-member jury on Wednesday, which is expected to reach a verdict later that day.

01 June 2011, 11:00 Sports The fight of world boxing champion Ragozina was canceled due to the refusal of her opponents The title fight of the absolute world professional boxing champion of Russia, Natalya Ragozina, scheduled for June 18 , has been canceled due to the refusal of potential rivals to enter the ring, the athlete’s agent Anna Kholmovskaya said. Ragozina was supposed to voluntarily defend her titles on June 18 in Yekaterinburg.

01 June 2011, 11:06 Sports A decision on continued financing of HC Salavat Yulaev is expected on June 3 The chairman of the Ural charitable foundation, the first president of Bashkiria, Murtaza Rakhimov , said that the foundation he heads did not refuse to finance Salavat Yulaev, but only suspended the allocation of funds until the end of the week.

Human rights activists are going to file a claim with the district court of Chita in connection with statements by former prisoner Alexander Kuchma , who several years ago served his sentence in Krasnokamensk together with the ex-head of the Yukos company Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and in May of this year told Gazeta.Ru that that he was forced to attack Khodorkovsky with a knife and report harassment on his part.

01 June 2011, 00:40 Sports Grammatikov: Blatter needs to draw conclusions regarding FIFA's governance system Secretary General of the Trade Union of Football Players and Coaches (PSFT), Nikolai Grammatikov, shared his opinion about the problems in FIFA. “Blatter needs to draw conclusions, first of all, regarding the management system,” Grammatikov told BBC Russian .