June 20, 2011, 15:10 News Communist Party of the Russian Federation: both Medvedev and Putin should run for president, this is the most understandable option for society First Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation , Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov said that nominating two candidates from the government for the presidential elections in 2012 would be the most understandable scenario for society, and connects the decision not to

Lawyers representing the interests of the Hermitage Capital fund filed an application with the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia about the theft of 3 billion rubles by officials of tax inspectorates No. 25 and No. 28 in Moscow, according to a press release received by Gazeta.Ru on Monday.

June 20, 2011, 01:19 Sports Brazilians Alison and Emanuel are world champions in beach volleyball Men's competitions ended at the Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rome. According to All Sports , the title of world champions was won by Brazilians Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego, who beat compatriots Marcio Araujo and Ricardo Santos in the final - 2:0 (21:16, 21:15).

June 20, 2011, 11:16 News Budanov lived in the Moscow region and long before the murder asked for protection from the Chechens, a colleague claims Colonel Evgeny Demich, who served in the 160th regiment with Yuri Budanov, who served nine years for the murder of an 18-year-old Chechen woman and was killed in Moscow in June of this year, said in an interview with Gazeta.Ru that after his release from the colony Budanov noticed he was under surveillance and asked to be provided with security.

The American company The Boeing Company plans to spend $17 billion on the purchase of titanium parts in Russia. said this in an interview with the Russia Today TV channel Boeing Russia/CIS President Sergei Kravchenko . “We plan to purchase titanium parts produced in Russia in the amount of $17 billion over the next twenty years,” said Sergei Kravchenko.

A powerful wildfire engulfed the eastern part of Texas following the states of Arizona and New Mexico . Due to strong winds, low humidity and hot weather, the fire spreads at high speed; new fires appear every day, which have already covered 6 thousand hectares of land. Residents of hundreds of homes in rural areas north of Houston have been evacuated and dozens of buildings have burned, local officials said Sunday.

June 20, 2011, 19:05 Sports Warner steps down as FIFA vice president FIFA vice-president Jack Warner , temporarily suspended from football activities due to suspicions of bribery, resigned from his post. “FIFA regrets the turn of events that led to this decision by Mr Warner,” FIFA said in a statement . “His contribution to the development of international football and Caribbean football and the CONCACAF confederation is very valuable. We accept his resignation."

June 20, 2011, 20:29 Society Moscow City Duma: issuing licenses for home births is premature It is premature to raise the issue of licensing the activities of midwives who deliver births at home. This conclusion was reached by participants in parliamentary hearings in the Moscow City Duma on the topic: “On the state of obstetric care in the city of Moscow. Childbirth at home. Causes, consequences.

The British Advertising Committee has rejected accusations of racism made by model Naomi Campbell against Cadbury for comparing her to a chocolate bar, The Guardian reports .

June 20, 2011, 16:32 Business No.com ICANN has approved the creation of top-level domains for commercial companies Igor Bakharev Corporations and government agencies will be able to put their own names on Internet sites as top-level domains. Applications for the .moscow and .moskva domains can be submitted as early as January 2012.

Russian intelligence officer Anna Chapman will “expose herself to ridicule” if she sues the Silver Rain radio station for being nominated for the Silver Galosh award, says the radio station’s general director Dmitry Savitsky . “In my opinion, this will be a complete joke,” Savitsky told Gazeta.Ru.

— 20.06.2011 09:37 — One serviceman of the internal troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs was killed and five more were injured as a result of three explosions of unidentified devices in Chechnya, a source in the republic’s law enforcement agencies said. At about eight in the morning on Sunday, an explosion of an unidentified device occurred in the forest near the village of Roshni-Chu in the Urus-Martan region of Chechnya while military personnel were conducting reconnaissance.

Unexpectedly, the true reason for Megan Fox’s dismissal from the third “Transformers” was revealed: the initiator was the film’s producer Steven Spielberg , and not the actress herself, as she had stated all this time. It was Spielberg who ordered Foxx fired after an interview in which she said that the film's director, Michael Bay, was "a real Adolf Hitler" on the set.

On Monday, the magistrate of precinct No. 136 in the Vykhino-Zhulebino district acquitted animal rights activist Irina Zelenova in the case of protecting honor and dignity. The case against her was initiated on February 4, 2010. The chief engineer of the DEZ of the Moscow Zhulebino district, Igor Posadnev, filed a claim under Art. 129 (slander) and Art. 130 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (insult). In addition, a DEZ employee filed a civil lawsuit on similar points.

— 20.06.2011 10:21 — The British Library and search engine Google have announced a collaboration to digitize 250,000 books from the UK's National Library. The British Library, which is one of the world's largest libraries by number of items, said it plans to provide scholars and students with access to copyright-free materials. Google already works with 40 other libraries around the world, but often faces problems digitizing works protected by copyright laws. BBC