AFK "System" will purchase telecommunication equipment and Chinese ZTE services, using the financial support of the Chinese State Development Bank, Vedomosti said. In March, the Bank for the Development of China and ZTE entered into an agreement on cooperation in the amount of more than $ 15 billion; Of this money, the contract will be financed.

Russia voted against the adoption of a resolution extending the mandate of the UN mission in the region of Georgia and Abkhazia. A group of Western countries made a proposal for the technical extension until June 30 of this year. In support of this project, ten delegations spoke out, four delegations - China, Vietnam, Libya and Uganda - abstained during the vote. At 00:00 in New York time (8:00 Moscow time), the UN mission in the region of Georgia and Abkhazia will cease its work.

Sophos specialists reported the discovery of two new worms attacking Apple computers under the control of Mac OS X. In addition to the updated version of the worm, which this antivirus company reported in May, experts found another virus called OSX/Jahlav-C. The first program, according to the Haker.ru publication, refers to the category of amateur and is not able to cause real harm, but the second worm is very dangerous.

The decline in industrial production in May 2009 in relation to the same month of 2008 accelerated to 17.1% from 16.9% in April and 13.7% in March, Rosstat said. Experts believe that even relatively high oil prices will not help Russian industry - government measures are ineffective. The fall in industrial production in April was deeper than analysts expected. The consensus prognosis of the dynamics of industrial production in May, prepared by Interfax , was minus 13.1%.

The third day in a row, the search for the bodies of people who died in the plane of the passenger aircraft Air France in the Atlantic Ocean did not bring any results. This was reported at a press conference in the city of Recyfi in the north-east of Brazil, official representatives of the Naval and Air Force of the South American country.

Russia is not interested in shocks in world financial markets and the collapse of the dollar, said Presidential Assistant Arkady Dvorkovich. “The lesser that we need now is to shock in foreign exchange markets ... No one wants to ruin the dollar. No one has such goals, including us. We must approach this issue as carefully as possible, calmly, discuss all the nuances and elements of this problem,” he said.

A motorist from Barnaul was sentenced to decide the court to arrest ten days for driving a car in a state of drug intoxication. Earlier, for 193, a traffic rules committed by him were deprived of the right to drive a total of 156 years, a representative of the city traffic police told RIA Novosti . "The man was detained last week in the Barnaul industrial region, he drove the car in a state of drug intoxication.

In one of the military units, stationed in the Leningrad Region, a contract for the contract service committed suicide. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the assistant commander of the troops of the Leningrad Military District (LVO) Colonel Yuri Klenov. "This happened after the completion of cleaning weapons in the unit. The dead soldier left a note that is in the military prosecutor's office," Klenov said Suicide occurred at 16:50 Tuesday.

Former State Duma deputy from the LDPR and the famous entrepreneur Mikhail Glushchenko was detained in St. Petersburg. Glushchenko was unofficially called one of the customers of the murder of Galina Starovoitova. The detention is reported by the Fontanka.ru website. Glushchenko was detained on Tuesday in the 58th police department, where he came to receive a passport. According to preliminary information, extortion is charged with him. The crime was committed in 2003 in St. Petersburg.

The deputies of the Suzdal City Council on Tuesday decided to resign the head of the city. Sergei Reyunin became the first mayor in Russia to lay out powers with the wording "for inaction." The elections of the new mayor, according to the City Council, can be held in October this year, Izvestia write. In accordance with the law, at least two -thirds of the vote is required to remove the head of the city. In the Suzdal City Council - 15 deputies. "For" the resignation voted 13 of them.

Hegumen Feognost (Pushkov), known for the Internet community with his scandalous texts under the nickname Abbatus_mozdok, was sent for the staff and is prohibited in the clergy. The decision was made by the Diocesan Council of the Dzhankoy diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, chaired by Bishop of Dzhankoy and Razdolnensky Nectarium.

In the capital, searches and recesses are held in connection with the case of the theft of $ 87 million during the construction of the Moscow Hotel. Investigative and operational measures are followed by several addresses in Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. Large -scale searches started at 7:00, the source noted. The exact addresses and names of the companies interlocutor of the agency found it difficult to name.

French prosecutors ask the court to impose a ban on two French branches of the Church of Scientology . These organizations are suspected of fraud. As already reported, the process over them is now taking place in Paris . The representative of the Mod Morel-Kuzhar prosecutor’s office also demanded that the head representation of the organization of 4 million euros of the fine at the head representation of the organization, reports Sedmits.ru with reference to the BBC.

Abkhazia Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba said that the position of the Patriarch of All Georgia Elijah II in relation to the republic makes it impossible to visit Abkhazian territory, the Interfax-religion portal reports. Shamba criticized the message of the Head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, the UN Secretary General pan Gi Mun, which says that Abkhazia and South Ossetia have never been independent subjects of international law.

Eight police officers were injured and 18 fans were arrested during the riots in the center of Los Angeles after the victory of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA) championship. On Sunday, the club won the final series of Orlando Magic and the 15th time in its history won the championship title.