The Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation recommended that the chamber reject the bill with amendments to the law "On Citizenship", introduced by former President Dmitry Medvedev in April 2012, the newspaper "Vedomosti" writes. The document proposed to simplify the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship living abroad by children, one of the parents of which is a Russian.

Representatives of the Guinness Book of Records recorded a new economy record for cars with an internal combustion engine: the serial Volkswagen Passat TDI drove more than 13 thousand km along the average diesel fuel consumption of 3.02 liters per 100 km. This indicator was recognized as the best among car cars, but at the same time it is even better than that of the hybrid “record holder” from 3.4 liters per 100 km, WorldCarfans notes.

“Teachers were given lists of students’ cell phones, they took pictures of the text of the assignment on their cell phone and sent an MMS to the teacher, and in return they received the correct answer options. For some subjects, the correct answers were distributed, obtained either from the Internet or from the same teachers.

The main defendant of the “Oboronservis case” , the former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Evgeny Vasiliev, is suspected of another scam. This time with the ground, as a result of which damage was caused in the amount of 600 million rubles, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.

In the mountains of Pakistan, communication with the Russian-Latvian group of climbers has been lost, which, according to preliminary data, contains six citizens of the Russian Federation. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the Federation of Calpinism of Russia (FAR). As the Executive Director of the headlights Alexei Ovchinnikov specified, there is no connection with them with Monday. This information was transferred to the Embassy of the Russian Federation.

In anticipation of the anniversary of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who marks 50 on June 26, and against the backdrop of suspicions of the preparation of the soil for the third sentence to him, activity around the next Yukos case increased markedly. According to the Kommersant newspaper, two participants in the public examination on the second sentence Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev were invited to the Investigative Committee the other day.

The Western press, commenting on the appointment of Elvira Nabiullina, the head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, notes that the first woman at the head of the Central Bank in the countries of the Big Eight replaces Sergey Ignatiev, a convinced monetarist, a distinctive feature of the 11-year-old leadership of which were, for example, high interest rates.

“How can one deny, for example, that the Soviet Union was personally led by Comrade Stalin. No one denies this. But some people like Stalin and his policies, while others do not. Criticizing Stalin does not mean denying his rule. Now the number of Stalin lovers and his critics is approximately equal. But there would be thirty million more critics if everyone he destroyed innocently rose from their graves.

Investigators with new zeal took up the investigation of crimes of 15 years ago committed by the "Orekhov" organized criminal group. As a result, they questioned the results of interrogations of convicts conducted using a polygraph. Detectives suspect that an experienced FSB expert "deliberately distorted" the data obtained by drawing opposite conclusions.

Femen activists conducted another action in support of like -minded people in Tunisia, attacking the car of the Prime Minister Tunisia Ali Laraed. Three Sexisters from Brussels managed to get to the court of politician during his official visit to the European Parliament, reports Newsru.com Israel . The Sextremists managed to track down the motorcade of the Islamist wiring at one of the European Parliament checkpoints.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov considered it necessary to explain about the situation around the fugitive ex-employee of the American special services of Edward Snowden, who arrived at the Sheremetyevo airport from Hong Kong on Sunday and soon disappeared from sight . The former US National Security Agency did not cross the Russian border, the head of the Foreign Ministry announced.

Google is not obliged to delete personal information from his search index, today the adviser to the highest judicial instance of the European Union, the general lawyer of the Eurosudic, NIILO YAYASKINEN, said. According to him, companies working in the EU, although they are obliged to comply with the legal requirements of national legislation of the European Union to protect data, but this does not oblige them to delete personal materials posted on the network by third parties, reports Reuters.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny, nominated by the Moscow branch of the RPR-Parnas to participate in the elections of the Moscow Mayor, refused to speak from the Council of Municipalities of the city on Tuesday, Kommersant reports. As follows from the records on Twitter Navalny, offended by the composition of the participants, the blogger made a briefing for journalists on the street.

To find out where and how the Russians live in general, you can now turn to the ninth of the census of the Russian population of 2010, dedicated to housing conditions. He was recently published by Rosstat . The Internet magazine Slon.ru chose some interesting numbers from the report. 2/3 Russians live in apartment buildings. 64,000 people are considered homeless throughout Russia. These are 0.04% of the country's population, or approximately one person out of 2,200.

The world famous Danish architect Hanning Larsen died at the age of 87, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to representatives of his Henning Larsen Architects studio. At first, born in Jutland, was a carpenter, then studied architecture in Copenhagen, later studied and worked in the USA and Great Britain. In 1959, he opened his own studio in the Danish capital, in which today about a hundred architects are working on projects around the world.