Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum , immediately stating that the country's modernization should be continued regardless of who and which positions would take in the near future. He also promised the business to reduce taxes since 2012, as well as the departure from the economic model of "state capitalism". Experts believe that Medvedev in the current speech took as the basis the ideas of the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin.

The Ministry of Economic Development proposes to maintain a prohibitive fee for gasoline for July, the deputy head of the Ministry Andrei Slepnev told Interfax on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. The gasoline crisis burst out in Russia at the end of April: then several regions at once collided with an acute fuel deficiency, and in the rest of the prices they began to grow sharply.

The Russian authorities consider the possibility of creating a special fund for regulating prices in the national food market, the first deputy prime minister Viktor Zubkov said, speaking at PMEF. “We think about creating some kind of financial fund so that it is favorable or unfavorable in any year - could be a kind of price regulator in the country,” said Zubkov, commenting on possible measures to ensure food security.

The monthly Russian audience of Internet users in the spring of 2011 amounted to almost half of the country's adult population - 46%, or 52.9 million people. The increase per quarter (from the winter of T.G.) amounted to about 7%. Such data, according to Interfax , are given in the public opinion of the Foundation "Public Opinion" released this week. The ballot was based on the combined data of regular FOM polls conducted during the spring of 2011.

On Wednesday, June 15, a secular ceremony of presenting the TOP -100 of the sexual women of the planet - 2011 "Russian version of the Russian version of the male magazine FHM , writes " Komsomolskaya Pravda " was held in Moscow. Among the awarded are the singers Sati Casanova, Sasha Savelyeva, Julia Kovalchuk, Nyusha, Victoria Daineko, Katya Lee, Nadia pen, actress Agnia Ditkovskite, Lera Kudryavtseva, gymnast Laysan Utyasheva.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril supports the idea of ​​a multipolar world and calls for Russia to become one of his poles. “Politicians and economists speak on the topic of multipolarity.

The Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) published on the eve of the Internet four options for the election of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia for a wide public discussion. Now the candidacy of the Patriarch approves the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church at a closed meeting.

The judge of the Presnensky court of Moscow, Alexander Shipikov, who recently closed the criminal case against the ex-head of the city committee for advertising Vladimir Makarov, believes that the official was guilty, but escaped punishment thanks to investigators. It was they who allowed, in the words of the judge, “unreasonable red tape”, due to which the case materials entered the court only five months after the statute of limitations for the crime.

In Blagoveshchensk (Amur Region), at the intersection of Mukhina and Oktyabrskaya streets, KamAZ with cadets of the Far Eastern Higher Military Command School collided with the Toyota Dyna truck. As Interfax reports with reference to the inspector for the propaganda of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Amur Region Larisa Topolskaya, as a result of the accident, two cadets were sent to a military hospital. In total, four people were injured in the accident.

On Friday, in the apartment located in the northern part of Tel Aviv, the body of Dr. Yona Elian, one of the participants in the operation to capture the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann, was discovered, Newsru Israel reports. Eliana's relatives who found the body called the police. Investigators issued a verdict that an 88-year-old doctor committed suicide. It is known that in recent years, Jona Elian was seriously ill.

A family of three disappeared after swimming in a pond located near the village of Yalodnya, Kashirsky district of the Moscow region. They cannot find young parents and their five -year -old son for the fifth day. “Most likely, all three drowned as a result of an accident,” a source of Interfax said in law enforcement agencies. The incident occurred on Monday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking on Friday at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, regarded his program of modernization of the country as a "most modern and worthy policy for it" and listed strategic goals that unite all Russian society. The head of state warned that for the sake of achieving them, changes would be required in the structure of the government and all authorities.

The screens of 40 Italian cinemas are a fantastic film about the aliens "6 days on Earth", which cost the creators of 200 thousand euros, Inopressa reports with reference to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica . The newspaper calls the picture "a real revival of Italian science fiction." “But this is not only a cinematic work, but also a demonstration of faith.

Specialists from the University of Illinois (University of Illinois) managed to create a technology that will allow large sheets of metamaterials interacting with light as natural materials cannot. For example, such materials are able to create optical illusions like an enlarged, reduced or displaced object, force the rays to bend the hidden object, form images with a resolution less than the length of the wave of light illuminating the scene, etc.

Russia and France have signed a contract for the supply of two landing and vertebral-like mistral ships for the needs of the Russian Ministry of Defense. This happened at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Interfax reports. Together with ships, Russia will also receive technologies for their production, including codes of combat control systems and communication systems.