The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government Communications Center monitored foreign antivirus companies, including Kaspersky Lab. This is reported by The Intercept with reference to documents from former NSA employee Edward Snowden. According to the publication, the NSA studied Kaspersky Lab software for its vulnerabilities and obtained private data about clients by monitoring the exchange of information between the installed program and the company’s servers.

The company received a contract for the construction of a complex for growing turkeys The St. Petersburg construction company RSK-SPb LLC received a contract for the construction of a complex for growing turkeys in the Ryazan region, designed for 20 thousand heads. Analysts believe that the poultry industry is attractive for investment and has high growth potential. Production of poultry for slaughter in January - April 2015 compared to the same period of the previous year increased by 10.3%.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls believes that the chances of reaching an agreement to resolve the crisis in Greece have increased significantly. He made a corresponding statement in Frankfurt am Main after a meeting with ECB head Mario Draghi. “There is a clear movement: we are getting closer to reaching an agreement,” TASS reports the words of Mr. Valls. According to him, Athens presented serious and credible proposals for budgetary savings measures.

Board of Directors of MegaFon approved the acquisition of 100% of Gars Telecom Group of Companies, the company reported. The acquisition will allow MegaFon to increase its share in the b2b services market and consolidate its presence in the fixed-line communications segment in Moscow business centers.

In Mordovia, a complex of local treatment facilities was opened at the Saransky Dairy Plant OJSC (SMK, part of the Danone group of companies in Russia), reports the press service of the republican government. According to the developers, today production at the plant fully complies with the requirements of Russian water protection legislation The operation and maintenance of the facilities was entrusted to the specialists of the EDF Fenice Rus company (a subsidiary of the Italians EDF Fenice).

Chairman of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region Denis Pasler instructed to prepare development programs for the cities where UMMC operates - Kirovgrad, Revda and Verkh-Neivinsky - by the second half of July 2015. It is planned that they will then be discussed with the head of the region, Evgeny Kuyvashev. According to the document, in Revda (Sverdlovsk region) three existing schools will be reconstructed and one new one will be built.

Sverdlovsk Rospotrebnadzor began an investigation into the poisoning of 15 children and two adults on trains traveling along the Adler-Perm and Moscow-Novy Urengoy routes. According to TASS, citing the department's press service, the children ate in the dining car. “After the train departed, the children developed symptoms of nausea and abdominal pain. Upon arrival of the train at the Yekaterinburg-Pasazhirsky station, an ambulance was called.

After a two-year break, the Adler-Gagra electric train resumed service, reports the press service of the Southern Customs Administration. The report notes that three pairs of commuter trains run between the resorts, each with four cars. According to the head of the customs post of the Adler railway border crossing point, Sergei Kamaleev, the customs control procedure for processing one train takes no more than 7 minutes.

Investigative bodies of the Ural Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, after the hospitalization of children removed from the train due to food poisoning, opened a criminal case. The case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (provision of services that do not meet the requirements for the safety of life and health of consumers), reports the press service of the investigative department.

Mikhail Kosoy vacated the post of chairman of the Penza government The Chairman of the Government of the Penza Region, Mikhail Kosoy, has vacated his position. The corresponding order was signed by Acting Governor Ivan Belozertsev based on a personal statement from Mikhail Kosoy. “This is my personal decision related to the transition to another job - in the capital.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation found extremism in the Ukrainian media Roskomnadzor ordered Russian providers to limit Russians’ access to the forum of the online publication “Ukrainskaya Pravda”, since the Prosecutor General’s Office discovered information on the forum containing calls “for mass riots and extremist activities.” Experts consider such restrictions to be unlawful.

The head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, was re-elected as head of the board of directors of Uralkali, according to the company’s website. It is noted that the owner of Uralchem, Dmitry Mazepin, and independent director Robert Margetts were re-elected as his deputies. The Board of Directors of Uralkali also approved a program of exchange-traded interest-bearing non-convertible bonds in the amount of up to 100 billion rubles. Validity period is 20 years from the date of registration.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk sent a letter to the European Union (EU) with a request to check the agreements between the Russian company Gazprom and the Slovak gas operator Eustream, Reuters reports. Attached to the letter is a document from the law firm Wikborg Rein, which states that Gazprom, which controls flows through the Uzhgorod-Velkie-Kapushany pipeline, is impeding the work of the Ukrainian company Ukrtransgaz.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the distribution of 12 billion rubles between regions in 2015. to improve drug provision for citizens with benefits. This was reported today on the government website . The funds were allocated from the federal budget to the Ministry of Health and distributed among the constituent entities of Russia in accordance with the approved rules.

About new nuclear missiles : “The Avangard missiles are being put into service, this is a rather interesting missile, it has a maximum range of 6 thousand km, a minimum range of 2 thousand km. This is the smallest of the strategic missiles. It could be aimed at Europe , that is why such a nervous reaction occurred there. Heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles, as far as I know, are still in the development stage.