The four largest Russian investment companies - Rosneft, Transneft, Surgutneftegaz and TGK -2 were unhappy with the government bill that forces them to share information about themselves with the minority and members of the board of directors. According to Vedomosti , they stated their objections in a letter to the curator of the fuel and energy system in the government, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sichin. All four companies conflict with their minority shareholders.

Scientists from the Munich Technical University (Germany) have developed hexagonal tactile modules that form a kind of "skin" for robots. A novelty called HEX-O-SKIN was created with the aim of providing humanoid robots with the opportunity to feel touching throughout the body, reports Membrane.ru . Each module is a printed circuit board with many sensors.

The program of the Olympic Games - 2014 will include three new disciplines in which six sets of awards will be played. This decision was made by the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee during the 23rd IOC session, which is taking place these days in the South African Durban. According to the IOC press service , at the games in Sochi there will be men's and women's competitions in the ski slopstail, Slopstail on snowboarding and a command-bearing slalom on snowboarding.

Chinese banks provided much more loans to local authorities than official statistics. This threatens to worsen the prospects of the country's banking sector, the Moody's rating agency said in a statement. The Audit Department of the PRC published a report on the situation in the field of bank lending of local authorities, writes Bfm.ru.

Several promising young general generals of the General Staff, listed in the personnel reserve approved by the President of the personnel reserve, filed resignation reports. The reason for such a demarche was the disagreement of subordinates with the head of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov.

The Russian Ministry of Finance posted on its website an increase in excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol, which it plans to increase in the next three years. Moreover, prices for "bad habits", according to the department, should grow faster than inflation.

Investigators are investigating a criminal case against the spouse of the suspect in organizing a massacre in the village of Kushchevskaya Sergey Tsapk, who, according to them, tried to give a bribe an employee of the traffic police in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, the site of the regional prosecutor's office reports.

The helicopter of the Norwegian transport company Airlft fell on Monday evening, July 4, in the mountains in the west of Norway, near the Hardanger Fjord popular among tourists. According to the local police, all five people on board were killed. According to preliminary data, the disaster occurred due to complex weather conditions-in the mountain valley of Dalamut, where the car has fallen, now there is a strong fog, ITAR-TASS reports.

In the near future, a fracture may occur in a conflict in Libya. The country went into the stage of peaceful settlement, and its leader Muammar Gaddafi may agree to leave his post. “The colonel sends signals that he is ready to leave power in exchange for security guarantees. And they are ready to provide such guarantees for him,” a senior source in the Russian leadership told Kommersant .

The Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia Elijah II proposes to suspend consideration in the parliament of a bill proving the provision of the status of a legal entity to several religious associations operating in the country. In a common Georgian patriarchy, the statement of Elijah II notes that in the parliament in the first reading on July 1, the deputies adopted this bill.

In Voronezh, the famous Paralympets Maxim Narozhny died tragically. The athlete, won silver at the Games in Beijing, on Monday at about 22:00 Moscow time fell from the balcony of his apartment located on the fourth floor. From the injuries received, the 35-year-old athlete died on the spot. According to Interfax with reference to the Investigative Department of the IC of the Russian Federation for the region, most likely a man committed suicide.

In Saratov, there was an release of oil into the Volga from a flooded Debarkader, moored in the very center of the city near the Cosmonauts embankment. “An oil spot, about 100-150 sq. M, was discovered today, and work began immediately on its fence and liquidation,” ITAR-TASS said in the regional department of Rosprirodnadzor.

The British company Aston Martin on its Facebook page made a statement regarding the production of the V12 Zagato supercar . A luxurious sports cap will be released by a limited edition of 150 copies, while the price of the new item will be prohibitive. For each of the hundred and fifty cars, Aston Martin will ask for 330 thousand pounds (more than half a million dollars), Auto Evolution reports.

The Supreme Administrative Court of Luneburg (Lower Saxony, Germany) suspended the construction of certain sections of the NEL gas pipeline, which should connect the Russian Nord Stream with the European gas transportation system. According to Kommersant , the decision was made at the request of 18 residents of the city of Vincen-on-Lue (Harburg district), who opposed laying the gas pipeline through their city. The court granted their requirement for security reasons.

The famous Soviet football player and Russian coach Oleg Dolmatov signed a contract with the Khimki football club, which will be headed before the end of the current season. This was informed by the press service of the Moscow Region team, acting in the first division of the championship of the country. The head coach Dolmatov was replaced by Alexander Grigoryan, who on the eve of resigned after the victory of his team in the 1/32 match final of the Russian Cup with Podolsky Vityaz (2: 0).