By 2025, it is planned to build 343 new hotels in Moscow with 92.7 thousand rooms (173.5 thousand beds). newspaper writes about this with reference to the draft industry scheme for locating hotels in the capital The Vedomosti in its issue dated June 14. As the publication notes, within the first phase of the program (by the end of 2016), it is planned to build 146 hotels with 30.1 thousand rooms (56 thousand beds).

Russian tennis player Ekaterina Makarova reached the quarterfinals of the tournament in Birmingham, England. In the third round match, the Russian woman beat the 46th racket of the world Marina Erakovic from New Zealand with a score of 2:6, 6:1, 6:3. Makarova, ranked 54th in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), will compete for a spot in the semi-finals with the winner of the match between Melinda Zink of Hungary and Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan.

Rosstat's assessment of Russian economic growth in the first quarter of 2012 is overestimated. This was stated by Deputy Minister Andrei Klepach , RIA Novosti reports . According to Klepach, the figure is 4 percent, while Rosstat calculated 4.9 percent in January-March. Klepach added that although the Ministry of Economic Development’s assessment was published earlier, the department will not change it.

German Kaplun, Alexander Morgulchik and Artem Inyutin, who left the RBC company in April, joined the management of the British company TMT Investments, which invests in Internet startups, on June 14. Kommersant reports this with reference to the businessmen themselves. German Kaplun took the position of director of strategy for the company, Alexander Morgulchik will be in charge of business development, and Artem Inyutin will be in charge of investments.

14.06.2012, 21:04:09 version Print | PDA/PDA Photo by Lenta.ru Point site Two thousand applications for registration of new domains have been submitted On June 13, as previously promised, the international organization ICANN opened a list of all applications for registration of new top-level domain names. In total, we received almost two thousand proposals from more than 500 companies. Now ICANN will decide which domains are destined to appear on the Internet, and which can wait.

The parliament of the unrecognized republic of Transnistria has elected a new speaker. This position, as reported by Novosti-Moldova news agency, was taken by Mikhail Burla (who previously held the post of vice-speaker). Burla was replaced as chairman of parliament by Anatoly Kaminsky. The latter, we recall, ran for president in the 2011 elections, but lost to Yevgeny Shevchuk . On June 13, Kaminsky resigned.

Moody's downgraded Spain's sovereign credit rating by three notches, from A3 to Baa3. As noted in the agency's press release published on June 13, the rating was also again placed under review, which makes it possible for it to be further downgraded over the next three months.

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said that the status of non-citizens in the republic was approved at the suggestion of the OSCE. As Ves.lv reports, he made this statement in an interview with Rigas Laiks magazine. “Now there are conversations in some places - they say that you have a category of non-citizens. In fact, the OSCE and Max Van der Stoel (Dutch politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, since 1993 - OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities ) ," said Ilves.

The creators of the television series "Game of Thrones" have apologized for using an artificial head of George W. Bush in one of the episodes of the first season. This was reported on The Wrap website. The head was used in the tenth and final episode of the first season. The episode was titled "Fire and Blood" and aired on HBO on June 19, 2011.

14.06.2012, 20:13:37 version Print | PDA/PDA Still from the film "Snow White and the Huntsman" Evil won "Snow White and the Huntsman" is released Snow White has been an extremely popular character lately. In particular, just in March Tarsem Sinha's film "Mirror Mirror" was released (in the Russian Federation it was called "Snow White: Revenge of the Dwarves"). The Disney studio was going to film its version of the famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Internal OPEC "Oil Club" will gain access to Putin, bypassing the government The informal “oil club,” which Russian oil companies created on the initiative of former Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, is beginning to take on tangible shape: club members have decided to become a presidential council on fuel and energy issues.

For fresh air Journalists picketed Investigative Committee Dozens of journalists from federal publications gathered on Wednesday, June 13, near the building of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. In the morning, a letter from the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, was published with a story about how the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, took the publication’s deputy editor-in-chief, Sergei Sokolov, into the forest and threatened him.

Scientists have completed reading the genome of the bonobo monkey Pan paniscus . Thus, the pygmy chimpanzee became the last species of ape whose DNA sequence was determined by biologists. The work was published in the journal Nature ; a brief review is provided by NatureNews. Scientists worked with the DNA of an eighteen-year-old female bonobo named Ulindi. Of greatest interest to biologists were the pairwise differences between the nucleic acid sequences of bonobos, chimpanzees and humans.

14.06.2012, 21:15:44 version Print | PDA/PDA NuSTAR model. NASA illustration Black hole hunter The NuSTAR telescope went into space On the evening of June 13, 2012, after several delays, the NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) apparatus set off into space. The purpose of this orbital observatory will be to study outer space in the X-ray range with unprecedented accuracy.

The International Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat named the world's best skyscrapers in 2012. A total of five buildings were named winners. Thus, the best skyscraper in Europe, according to the council, was Palazzo Lombardia in Milan (Italy). In particular, the 161-meter tower houses the apparatus of the regional government.