Russia has fulfilled its threat : from 10 a.m. on Monday, Gazprom transferred NAKA NAKA of Ukraine to the prepayment of gas supplies, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the message of the Russian company. “The decision was made due to the chronic non -payments of Naftogaz of Ukraine. The delayed debt of the company for the delivered Russian gas is $ 4.458 billion: $ 1.451 billion - for November -December 2013 and $ 3.007 billion for April 2014,” Gazprom said.

At a special event in Bristol, the British team of developers Bloodhound introduced the cabin of the driver-pilot for the long-awaited Bloodhound SSC car, which in the near future will try to set a new world speed record. Currently, the ground speed record is 1227 km/h, but the Bloodhound team hopes that its car under the control of the experimental British pilot Andy Green in 2015 - 2016 will be able to accelerate to 1600 km/h. The Daily Tech Info website gives some details of the superisod.

The Internet company "Yandex" announced the acquisition of one of the most popular Russian car portals - Auto.ru. This was reported in the official press release of "Yandex". After the closing of the transaction, which approximately must occur in the III quarter of 2014, 100% of Auto.ru shares will go to the search engine. The approximate transaction amount is $ 175 million. Yandex plans to further develop the portal, which will continue to work, preserving the previous address.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service calculated the share of federal television channels under the national and regional advertising placement. The total share of the first channel, VGTRK and NTV amounted to 49.28% against 52.39% in 2011-2012. The share of the STS Media channels (STS, Home and Peretz) amounted to 16.94% against 17.22%, the share of TV Center and MGTRK Mir decreased, the share of TNT, TV-3, “Fifth”, Disney, Yu ”and“ Pepper ”increased, Kommersant reports.

Supporters of the unregistered party "Other Russia" by Eduard Limonov in response to riots in Kiev near the building where the Russian diplomatic mission is located, the Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow was thrown with fire and smoke bombs. During the action of four, police officers detained, RBC reports. Activists protested against the Ukrainian authorities, and also offered to close the Embassy of Ukraine.

At the solemn worship in the cathedral church of Athos (Protate) last Saturday, an annual official transfer of power on the Holy Mountain to the new composition of the Holy Epistasia was held - to the body that owns the executive power on Athos.

After this month, Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian troops to move away from the border with Ukraine, the West breathed a sigh of relief, writes Inopressa , quoting the publication in The Wall Street Journal . "Putin blinked" as today's meme says. We would be happy about this, but the facts in the field testify to something else, ”the publication states, referring to the publication in The New York Times . In this material, the observer Thomas L.

The volume of mortgage loans issued in the Russian Federation increased in January - April 2014 compared to the same period last year by 1.45 times - to 496.2 billion rubles, the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML) said in a statement. “Over the four months of 2014, 291,824 thousand mortgage loans were issued for a total amount of 496.2 billion rubles, which is 1.38 times higher than the level of January-April 2013 in quantitative terms and 1.45 times in monetary terms,” the report notes.

In the Chinese city of dope, located in Hainan province, more than 300 children recorded the increased content of lead in the blood. Local residents claim that the children were infected due to poor disposal of the waste of the nearby plant. However, the authorities assure that children just need to “chew pencils” less.

The film "Cinema about Alekseeva" with the popular actor Alexander Zbruyev in the title role on June 20 will open a Russian cinema program at the 36th Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF). This was announced today at a press conference in Moscow, the curator of the project Irina Pavlova.

In the bill on home insurance, the Ministry of Finance did not include the opportunity to insure unregistered real estate against emergencies. According to experts, in Russia this is every tenth house or building, Izvestia writes. The bill on housing insurance against natural disasters developed by the Ministry of Finance has passed final discussions in the government and has been sent for approval to the Central Bank (CB) and the Ministry of Justice.

The volume of capital investments in the development of oil fields in Eastern Siberia and the expansion of oil exports in the eastern direction until 2035 will be 1 trillion of dollars. About this, as reported by the finmarket , said the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich, speaking at the World Oil Congress in Moscow. According to him, the share in oil supply in the east of the country will increase from 12% to 23%.

The metropolitan special forces and employees of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs neutralized the gang of robbers, which attacked the collectors and carriers of money. The attackers were detained in vigorous when they tried to abduct a large amount of cash at the site of an adjusted accident.

The “professionalism” and “logic” of the propaganda ideologists and their tool—the updated RIA—is amazing. It turns out that now the militias are not sure that they shot down a Ukrainian IL-76, but they are also not completely sure that the Ukrainian security forces did it. Otherwise, where does this wonderful formulation “COULD BE shot down” come from? Is there any third party there?

In relation to the underground chapel of the Holy Trinity on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, the next act of vandalism was committed the day before. As stated in the information published on the website of the Jerusalem Patriarchate, the attackers hacked the iron lattices at the entrance to the chapel and desecrated the altar. Representatives of the Israeli police reported the incident to Patriarchate.