New parties may join it The leadership of the Batkivshchyna party is negotiating to increase the number of parties whose representatives will run for the Verkhovna Rada on the list of this political force. Among the new members of the association may be, in particular, the leaders of the “Civic Position” Anatoly Gritsenko and the European Party Nikolai Katerynchuk.

"United Russia" will soften the punishment for driving into oncoming traffic, despite the objections of the State Traffic Inspectorate The State Duma Committee on State Construction yesterday recommended adopting for the first reading amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO), mitigating the punishment for driving into the oncoming lane for the purpose of overtaking.

Wage arrears in the Far Eastern Federal District as of mid-June amounted to 152.3 million rubles, which is twice as much as at the beginning of this year, reports the press service of the Russian Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District. As of January 1, 2012, wage arrears in the district amounted to 72.9 million rubles. “Wage arrears in the district amount to 152.3 million rubles. Over the past 10 days, the debt has increased by 8 million rubles,” the press service reports.

The prosecutor's office intends to check the activities of Boris Milgram as Deputy Prime Minister of the Perm Territory for possible corruption. The Deputy Prime Minister himself announced this in his blog. According to Mr. Milgram, the audit was initiated by Ksenia Aitakova and Vladimir Korsun, deputies of the Legislative Assembly from the Communist Party faction. “It’s interesting that the inspections came during the period of the White Nights and the huge series of Scarlet Sails,” writes Mr.

The Council of Muftis of Russia protested against the decision made on March 26 by the judge of the Leninsky District Court of Orenburg regarding 65 Islamic books. “The judge of the Leninsky District Court of Orenburg A.V. Nuzhdin satisfies the prosecutor’s request for 65 (!) titles of literature of theological and historical content from literally all Islamic publishing houses in Russia,” the Council of Muftis said in a statement.

Russia does not sell helicopters to Syria, it only repairs old helicopters, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters after the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama “on the sidelines” of the G20 summit. “Russia does not sell or supply helicopters to Syria,” Mr. Peskov said, answering questions from journalists. He explained that Russia is only repairing old equipment, RIA Novosti reported on June 19.

Super tournament Mikhail Tal Memorial in Moscow Eighth round. Fabiano Caruana (Italy)-- Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) 1:0. Alexander Morozevich (Russia) - Luke McShane (England) 0:1. Magnus Carlsen (Norway)-- Evgeny Tomashevsky (Russia) 0.5:0.5. Alexander Grischuk (Russia) - Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 1:0. Teymur Radjabov (Azerbaijan) - Levon Aronyan (Armenia) 0.5:0.5. Ninth round. Aronian-Caruana 1:0. Nakamura-Radzhabov 0.5:0.5. Tomashevsky-Grischuk 0.5:0.5. McShane - Carlsen 0:1.

London 2012 will be an excellent opportunity for the Russian delegation to once again attract the attention of the world community to the Games in Sochi. As part of the large-scale program, it is planned to present much of what awaits participants, spectators and guests in the 2014 Olympic capital. Alexey Lesnikov In the spotlight A special Sochi.Park pavilion will be opened opposite Hyde Park and will become a platform for the presentation of the Games in Sochi.

While resignations are underway, Vladimir Kolokoltsev identified tasks for new deputies Vladimir Putin yesterday removed several more senior police chiefs from their posts - the head of the Main Directorate for Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri Draguntsov; Chief of Staff of the Minister Mikhail Velichko; Head of the special purpose center for private security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergei Golovanov.

The administration of Perm is going to announce a competition to fill the vacant position of head of the Leninsky district, city manager Anatoly Makhovikov told Kommersant. Let us remind you that back in April, Viktor Shein left the post of his own free will. Before the competition is announced, Mr. Makhovikov intends to discuss the upcoming appointment with Governor Viktor Basargin. “The area is iconic, central,” the city manager explained to Kommersant. Vyacheslav Sukhanov

The Bank of England said it will provide £5 billion (about €6.2 billion) on June 20 in its first extended collateral repurchase (ECTR) auction aimed at boosting lending to the UK economy as the eurozone crisis worsens. Last week, the Bank of England announced that at least once a month until further notice it would provide at least 5 billion pounds sterling (about 6.2 billion euros) for 6 months during emergency operations to provide liquidity to banks.

At a meeting on Monday, the Arbitration Court of the Tomsk Region satisfied the application of the Kemerovo LLC Siberian Fuel Company (STK) about its intention to pay off the accounts payable of Tomsk Bearing CJSC in the amount of more than 540 million rubles. To do this, the company has been given until June 28, the bankruptcy trustee of the bankrupt enterprise, Andrei Plotnikov, told Kommersant.

The Verkhovna Rada introduced a mandatory standard for the presence of bioethanol in gasoline at the level of 5% since 2014 and 7% since 2016. 252 deputies voted for the adoption of the bill proposed by the Cabinet of Ministers as a whole, with 226 being the minimum required. The content of 5% bioethanol in gasoline will be recommended from 2013, and a mandatory bioethanol content of at least 5% is envisaged in 2014-2015.

A general agreement on a three-year cooperation program between the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg) and Tatfondbank was signed yesterday in Kazan. The purpose of cooperation is to create an electronic publication of the Hermitage Line museum, the general partner of which will be Tatfondbank. The program is considered in the context of preparations for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Hermitage.

For the Olympics in Sochi, several dozen large hotels should be built at once under the management of well-known operators. As a result, the hotel industry in the city will be completely rebuilt, and the quality of service should change even in private mini-hotels. True, for this, the owners of new facilities will have to figure out how to fill them after the Olympics.