563 1 min. ... Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's "Open Government" (OP) faced its first scandal. Not all of the 200 people included in the expert council at the EP are ready to work in it and have agreed to their participation. In any case, this is what a number of experts said from those whose names were published on the OP website. The number of people appointed to the expert council included several unexpected people who were even considered to be in opposition.

85 YEARS AGO 159 1 min. ... It is considered inappropriate to further expand Japanese oil and coal concessions in the Far East. Give a directive to the Main Concession Committee to prevent as much as possible the further expansion of Japanese forest concessions in the Primorsky region. From the minutes of the Politburo meeting N120, 1927. Materials prepared by Svetlana Kuznetsova and Evgeny Zhirnov

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development have agreed on a bill on introducing the institution of a financial ombudsman in Russia, the Prime agency reports, citing a source in the Ministry of Finance.

Handball Women. 1.Norway. 2.Montenegro. 3. Spain. Men. 1. France. 2. Sweden. 3. Croatia. Water polo Men. 1. Croatia. 2. Italy. 3. Serbia. Kayaking and canoeing Men. Single kayak. 1. Ed McKeever (Great Britain). 2. Saul Rivero Craviotto (Spain). 3. Mark de Jong (Canada). Double kayak. 1. Yuri Postrigay - Alexander Dyachenko (Russia). 2. Roman Petrushenko - Vadim Makhnev (Belarus). 3. Liam Heath - John Schofield (Great Britain). Single canoe. 1. Yuri Cheban (Ukraine). 2.

There are no more tickets left for free sale for the friendly match between the national football teams of Ukraine and the Czech Republic on August 15 in Lviv. “Now there are almost no tickets left for free sale. Of course, there was no such excitement as on the eve of the first game against Austria at the Lviv Arena, but given the holiday period, the start of sales was very good. In almost a week, all tickets were sold to residents of Lviv ", said stadium operations director Alexey Zhukovin.

The Investigative Committee does not believe that the testimony of a life-convict should be taken on faith The investigation into the long-standing case of the murder of the famous performer Mikhail Krug, committed in 2002, may take an unexpected turn. Let us remind you that unknown persons shot the author of a number of popular songs in his country house.

Electronic Arts, the second-largest US computer game developer, is in a tie with Microsoft Corp. negotiations on the supply of mobile gaming applications for the new version of the Windows operating system Microsoft plans to launch a new version of Windows for both desktop and mobile devices later this year to better compete with Apple and Google, which each develop their own operating systems for tablets and smartphones, reaping huge profits from the growing popularity of these devices.

The volume of world trade in 2011 increased by a record 19%, as calculated by the analytical agency JETRO. In monetary terms, growth was achieved due to higher energy prices and a “boom” in trade among developing countries. In 2012, the situation is rather the opposite - we cannot count on new records, experts say. According to a report by JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization), global trade volume increased to $17.97 trillion last year.

Russian track and field athletes exceeded their medal target Athletics In the last three days of the Olympic athletics tournament, Russian athletes won five gold medals. In total, they took 18 medals from London (8 gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze) and thereby exceeded the plan stated by the All-Russian Athletics Federation of 5-6 gold, and a total of 15 awards. Kommersant correspondent VALERIYA MIRONOVA reports from London.

Auto inspectors helped car owners deceive insurance companies Samara traffic police officers Andrey Uyukin and Maxim Glazov were sentenced to ten and eight years in a maximum security colony, respectively. They paid bribes to arrange non-existent accidents in order to deceive insurance companies. The prosecutor's office, which demanded a suspended sentence, does not agree with the sentence.

The Sverdlovsk District Court granted the investigation's request to select a preventive measure in the form of detention for two alleged instigators of the fight between representatives of the Tajik and Armenian diasporas. Both are suspects in criminal cases of hooliganism. According to Kommersant, we are talking about a native of Armenia named Nadaryan and a citizen of Tajikistan Saidov.

Barnes & Noble has reduced the price of its devices from $20 to $50 The largest American bookselling company Barnes & Noble on Sunday reduced the price of all three models of its readers and Nook tablets. The price for a tablet with 16 GB of memory has decreased from $249 to $199, with 8 GB - from $199 to $179. The price of the Nook Color reader has also decreased - from $169 to $149.

523 1 min. ... Governor of the Stavropol Territory Valery Zerenkov reacted extremely sharply last week to the statements of his colleague from the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Tkachev.

The military shirt of the Nez Perce tribe leader Joseph was sold at auction for more than $870 thousand. Dmitry Butkevich recalls the feat of the great Indian and tells the history of the relic: it is in this shirt that the legendary head of the tribe is depicted in a historical photograph that was used on a postage stamp in the United States.

In Tatarstan, a criminal case has been initiated against the head of the department for investigating crimes against property of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Nizhnekamsk region, 30-year-old Vitaly Shandyrov. He is suspected of taking a bribe. The investigation claims that Vitaly Shandyrov, for 120 thousand rubles, offered the lawyer of the person involved in the case to resolve the issue of terminating the criminal prosecution.