The desire to switch to Asian currencies - Yuani, Hong Kong or Singapore dollars - indicates Russia's attempts to turn towards Asia, while its relations with European partners remain tense due to the Ukrainian crisis. Partially refusing to settle in dollars, Russia additionally diversify its currency risks. This, according to Inopressa , writes on Monday the British newspaper The Financial Times .

The official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Markin, denied his own words about the prospects for the criminal persecution of the ex-president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili for the attempt of the total destruction of Ossetians in South Ossetia. "All the heads of states, both acting and the former, among which Mikhail Saakashvili, have immunity.

Russia should act as a unifying principle for the now disunited by the Muslim Ummah in the post -Soviet space - for this it is necessary to work more actively with communities in Ukraine and in other CIS countries, where there is often a misunderstanding about the situation of Islam in the Russian Federation and Russian Muslims. This opinion was expressed by RIA "Novosti" First Deputy Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European part of Russia (Dumer) Damir Mukhetdinov.

Russian journalists of the Zvezda television company who arrived in Russia, freed after the detention in Ukraine, told the details of the stay in custody. The board of the Ministry of Defense, who delivered the operator Andrei Sushenkov and the sound engineer Anton Malyshev, landed at the Chkalovsky airfield at night.

The federal budget revenues in 2014 may be less planned. About this, as reports RIA Novosti , said the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Ksenia Yudaev at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes on Monday, June 9.

Pensioner Bruce Campbell from Oregon, Oregon, lives for six months a year in his house - the Boeing 727 aircraft standing in the forest. For many years working as an engineer, Campbell wanted to find aircraft that served his term, worthy of use, and now he managed to do this, writes The Huffington Post . For the implementation of the idea that Campbell considers his life, he needed 10 years and about $ 220 thousand.

The homeowners of the London district of Southwark Bridge Road installed metal pins at the entrance of one of the houses to protect it from tramps. According to The Metro and The Mirror , the length of the pins, which, according to the residents, appeared about two weeks ago - more than 40 centimeters. However, in the photo published by Ethical Pioneer on Twitter, they look much less. Defenders of the homeless stated that this was an inhuman appeal.

“On the night of June 5, Zhenya Yezyakyan, an eight-month-old child from Slavyansk, was taken to a hospital in Rostov-on-Don. He is alive. This is the main thing. However, his life and the lives of many other people were in danger due to the criminal and cynical behavior of NTV journalists and Komsomolskaya Pravda. Father Mikhail told me the following about the child: “When Zhenya was diagnosed with Werdnig-Hoffmann spinal amyotrophy, the doctors did not give any chance that he would survive.

A former employee of the Soviet and Russian special services, who escaped to the UK, nominated the version that the American Edward Snowden, ex-employee of the NSA and the CIA, was lured specially to Russia, forcing to ask for asylum. Boris Karpichkov, known for the exposure of the murder of the British scientist David Kelly, said that Snowden was noted by Russian agents back in 2007 and now allegedly gained various information from him, reports The Daily Mail .

The Australian Daniel Riccardo from the Red Bull team won the first in his career won at the stage of the Formula-1 Auto Rights Championship, winning the Canada Grand Prix. The second place at the seventh stage of the championship was taken by the Mercedes racer Nico Rosberg, who strengthen the leadership in the individual standings. The third partner was Riccardo on Red Bull, four -time world champion German Sebastian Vettel.

The Spaniard Rafael Nadal became the winner of the French open championship in the tennis , having won in the final of the Grand Slam soil tournament a strong -willed victory over Serb Novak Jokovic with a score of 3: 6, 5, 6: 2, 6: 4. Tennisists spent three and a half hours on the court. According to the winner, the second set in the final match was the key moment. “I started poorly, lost in the first set,” Nadal admitted.

"The plant was founded in 1898 by the French-Belgian joint-stock company "Dil and Bacalan" under the name "Verkhnevolzhsky Railway Materials Plant". In 1915 it was renamed the Tver Russian-Baltic Carriage Plant, and after nationalization (in 1918) - the Tver Carriage Building The plant was called the Kalinin Carriage Works from 1931 to the 1990s. From the first years of the 20th century, the era of passenger carriage construction began at the plant.

The idea of ​​the leader of the Russian Communists and the head of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma of Gennady Zyuganov, who proposed holding a referendum to rename St. Petersburg back to Leningrad, did not meet understanding in the Federation Council, where, according to rumors, Zyuganov himself would soon move . Senator from St.

“The city named after the “talented manager” will organically fit into the new image of great Russia. And this will be another confirmation of the formation of a new world order, and new mechanisms in international politics, and in some places - in domestic politics. This new order and new mechanism is the Referendum! And the mechanism is very convenient, gaining more and more popularity for solving those problems that are not very convenient to solve by “conventional” methods.

Last week, the US Department of Justice prepared documents to initiate a criminal case against a citizen of the Russian Federation Evgeny Bogachev, living in Anapa. According to the US authorities, he, as part of a cybercrime group, arranged hacker attacks on computers with banking information.