The World Bank and the International Fining Business International Corporation explores how state regulation affects the activities of small and medium -sized companies. In the global rating, Russia in 2012 took 120th place out of 183, between Cabo-Verde and Costa Rika. Since this year, the rating for the government has become guidelines for improving the investment climate: President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that should raise Russia to 20th place by 2018, Vedomosti reports.

Entrepreneur Alexei Kozlov, sentenced to five years on charges of fraud, was transferred to the colony, while the court decides the issue with his petition for conditionally aid release, reports his wife, journalist Olga Romanova. "Sos. We are sitting with lawyers in the Golovinsky court. A petition for my husband’s parole was received by judge Kristina Kostryukova. She appoints a request on the merits. And at that time, right now, my husband is sent to the stage.

The criminal investigation department in St. Petersburg refused the founder of the movement of the Moscow gay parade Nikolai Alekseev to initiate a criminal case against protodiacon Andrei Kuraev for words about the Madonna concert . The applicant received the corresponding refusal on Friday. The reason for the refusal is that Andrei Kuraev "suggested an assumption about the possible provocative behavior of individuals in protest," Nikolai Alekseev portal Interfax -religion said on June 2.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation in the second reading on Friday adopted the draft law introduced by deputies of the LDPR on the introduction of a single voting day in Russia - on the second Sunday of September, ITAR -TASS reports. At the same time, the bill stipulates that in the year of the federal parliamentary elections a single voting day will be combined with the day of voting in the election of State Duma deputies (first Sunday of December).

Syrian air defense, according to the data that has not yet been confirmed, shot down on Friday the Turkish F-4 Fantom fighter and knocked out another aircraft, which walked along with a fighter in the area of ​​the Southeast coast of Turkey over the Mediterranean Sea. According to the Lebanese television channel Al-Manar, a shot down aircraft, on board of which there were two pilots, collapsed into the water.

Responsibility for the temporary failure of the Twitter microblog network was taken by a participant in one of the hacker groups. This was reported by the electronic version of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph . The hacker under the nickname Cosmo said that DDOS-Atak was held against the Twitter network (Distributed Denial of Service), ITAR-TASS reports.

The conflict between the leaders of the protest movement Ksenia Sobchak and Ilya Ponomarev accepts a new revolution. The TV presenter on Friday posted on the Internet a short video recording of her conversation with a deputy settler in the VIP hall of the Sheremetyevo Airport.

The public of Kyiv was concerned about the fate of the main football oracle-Boar of Funtik, which is “registered” in the capital's fan zone, after the 2012 European Championship in football. Many fans speak out to send a boar to the "barbecue and lard". Euro 2012: schedule and results of matches Funtik did not make any exact forecast, predicting the victories of the Sweden national team over the Ukrainian team, as well as the owners in matches with the British.

The Russian antivirus company Dr. Web has discovered a new version of the harmful Android.Spyeye program, which abducts incoming SMS messages from users mobile devices, a mobile phone number and an infected device identifier, reports Securitylab . This means that important data can fall into the hands of attackers, for example, part of the victim’s personal correspondence. The Trojan program impersonates the Android Security Suite Premium application.

The Russian Ministry of Defense in the coming months will adopt the new School pistol , which was recently represented by the public. As expected, the “haircut” will replace the Makarov pistol, which has been in service since the late 1940s. Experts, however, are skeptical : the military gun was not tested, but made it together with the Italians.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monty warned of the apocalyptic consequences of the possible failure of the EU leaders summit next week, saying about the death spiral, primarily from the point of view of politics, the British The Guardian writes.

The police came up with a search of another private security company belonging to the family of opposition deputies of the Gudkovs.

US Minister John Bryson resigned on medical indicators. He recognized this in a letter addressed to President Barack Obama. “I came to the conclusion that the attack that I, transferred on June 9, could interfere with my activity as a minister,” said Brays in the public statement, as ITAR -TASS reports.

The chief referee of the scandalous match of the group stage of Euro 2012 between the national teams of England and Ukraine Viktor Kashshai admitted that his brigade made a mistake without counting the ball of Ukrainian Marco Devich on the goal of Joe Hart. According to the Hungarian referee, he and his assistants are disappointed with what had happened.

A strange situation develops around the Urals City without drugs Evgeny Roizman. According to the media referring to it, the security forces defeated the women's rehabilitation center in Yekaterinburg, forced to leave more than 50 female narcomans to leave the fund. Now the police intends to storm the institution, Roizman assures. At the Ministry of Internal Affairs, such accusations are categorically denied. According to Roizman, no one is left in the center.