The Ministry of Press of the Russian Federation regarded the decision of the Belarusian authorities to close the NTV office as an attempt to undermine the process of strengthening union relations. "Such actions of the Belarusian authorities in the Russian Ministry are considered unacceptable from the point of view of observing the basic democratic principles, which include freedom of speech, the right to receive information and independence of the media.

Plato Lebedev. Photo by ar On June 10, the Moscow City Court should consider the cassation appeal of the lawyers of the head of Menatep Platon Lebedev, the independent newspaper reports. Lawyers filed a complaint against the arrest of the entrepreneur authorized by the Basmanny Court of the capital on Monday. The defense asks the Moscow City Court to cancel the measure of restraint chosen by Lebedev - arrest and free him from custody.

At a trial in Vladikavkaz, a militant from Gelayev's group partially admitted his guilt, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press service of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia, in the last word, a 24-year-old resident of Chechnya, Jamalai Aliyev, admitted his guilt in participating in a group, illegally crossing the state border and carrying weapons. Which of the accusations brought against him Aliyev denied, the agency does not indicate.

This week, SCO Group CEO Darl McBride travels to Japan to explain his company's position on Linux to the heads of Asian IT companies. Many of these companies are already paying SCO for a license to the corporation's Unix; in addition, many are seriously working on their Linux strategies. According to SCO, Linux uses fragments of Unix code. In this regard, in March, SCO filed a lawsuit against IBM, which licensed Unix and actively supports the development of Linux.

The Stavropol Territory received the right to set quotas for the migration of the population. According to Ekho Moskvy, these quotas will also apply to Russian citizens. This is provided for by the regional law "On Measures to Suppress Illegal Migration", which came into force on Wednesday. Deputies of the regional Duma have been trying for seven years to be able to regulate migration.

Britney Spears has announced that she has finally stopped being a virgin, according to Reuters. Prior to this, the 21-year-old star had said for years that she would keep her virginity until the wedding. However, in an interview with a glossy magazine, Spears said that she had sex with her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake. "I've only slept with one person in my life," Britney said. “I thought it was forever,” said the star. However, after a two-year romance, their relationship broke off.

After an investigation, the Turkish prosecutor's office came to the conclusion that Russian hockey player Roman Lyashenko, whose body was found in a Turkish hotel on Tuesday, committed suicide, ITAR-TASS reports. The Russian legionnaire of the NHL club New York Rangers was found dead in his room in one of the hotels in Antalya by the hotel staff.

A state of emergency was declared in the Tomsk region on Wednesday due to an increase in the number of forest fires. According to Interfax, the corresponding decree was signed by the governor of the Tomsk region Viktor Kress. According to the deputy head of the region for public security Alexander Selivanov, according to the governor's decree, an additional 2 million rubles will be allocated from the emergency liquidation fund of the regional budget.

Photo from Newsru.com On the night of Tuesday, Wednesday in a colony for minor criminals in the village of Kolosovka, Kaliningrad Region, a riot began. Teenagers set fire to one of the buildings of the colony, reports ITAR-TASS. In total, about 80 prisoners rebelled. After the adolescents were arson, they closed in one of the colony rooms. To extinguish the fire on two floors of the building, four calculations arrived, which managed to quickly localize the fire. There are no victims and victims.

The court denied Sharman Networks p2p system , the owner of the KaZaA , an antitrust lawsuit against film and recording studios. On July 2, District Judge Steven Wilson ruled that Sharman Networks had no right to accuse copyright holders of antitrust-violating attempts to force it out of business as a competitor because it is not a studio competitor. The company distributes not film and audio products, but file-sharing software, the observant judge noted.

Changes to the law on foreign exchange regulation and foreign exchange control, which reduce the standard for the mandatory sale of foreign exchange earnings to no more than 30 percent from the current 50 percent, were published on Wednesday in the official Rossiyskaya Gazeta and entered into force.

Photo by ar The organizers of the terrorist attack in Tushin can be found by a mobile phone number, NTV reports. Fragments of the phone were discovered at the site of the attack, according to which, as the witnesses say, one of the suicide bombers spoke a few minutes before the explosion.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office is conducting a supervisory review on a deputy's request for possible tax evasion by some oil companies, in particular, Yukos. The Prosecutor General's Office confirms this message. According to Interfax, cited by Gazeta.Ru, State Duma deputy Mikhail Bugera sent a request to the Prosecutor General.

Poster from the site www.cccp.narod.ru The Ministry of Defense has prepared its bill "On the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation." This is a vision of the legal framework of the RF Armed Forces precisely the military, the General Staff, and the Minister of Defense.

all . Nearly two-thirds of American students play computer games, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, but there is no reason to believe these people are nerds who spend all day in front of a monitor, unable to communicate with people or do anything at apart from games.