First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov instructed to make changes to the traffic rules, allowing the right turn of the cars to the red traffic light. Now such a maneuver is allowed in several foreign countries. Shuvalov also instructed to check if in Russia it is possible to use the so -called diagonal pedestrian crossings, as in Japan and Australia. Experts interviewed by Kommersant are afraid that innovations can lead to an increase in victims among pedestrians.

On the night of June 20, a backup tank brigade was stormed in the Donetsk city of Artemovsk. The Donbass.ua website reports that the shelling began at two in the morning, eyewitnesses talked about automatic lines and powerful explosions. The caterpillar technique was pulled to the checkpoint. As the League. News recalls, on June 8 and 9, the separatists were already trying to capture the military unit, but received a rebuff and were forced to leave the object.

“Why create chaos and falsification at polling stations, if you can simply not allow real competitors to participate in the elections. Why rewrite protocols when it is enough to put pressure, intimidate, psychologically torture 20 deputies of municipalities, and prohibit them from signing for a real competitor. And Then everything will go like clockwork!

The US space department has determined an asteroid, to a meeting with which American astronauts can go in about ten years. It wears the symbol of 2011 MD, periodically passes in its orbit in a relatively close distance from the Earth and has sizes that are ideal for rendezvous with a manned ship, as NASA reported. Using the Spitzer orbital telescope, it was possible to establish that the diameter of the asteroid is 6 meters, and the mass is about 100 tons.

“The fact is that for some reason these apocalyptic rumors are not found on NASA’s website - nasa.gov. And for some reason they appeared on the Internet in Cyrillic. And first of all - on the Ukrainian website. In the era of information dominance of virtuality, it is more important than ever for people to hold on to common sense. And he suggests that the end of the world, we know, will come someday. At least on the scale of the solar system. In a few billion years, apparently.

The Chelyabinsk road workers used to build the road instead of crushed stone gems. This conclusion was reached by Rosfinnadzor experts, checking the quality of the federal highway M-5 at the village of Travniki. It turned out that during the reconstruction of one of the sections of the Ural highway, instead of crushed stone, it was bombarded with a craftsmith - a snake. This semiprecious mineral is not only too expensive to use it in this quality, but also too fragile.

The Eurogroup (the Council of Finance Ministers of 18 Eurozone countries) came to the conclusion that Lithuania fulfilled all the necessary norms in order to switch to a single European currency from January 1, 2015. About this, according to Interfax , said the Chairman of the Group, Minister of Finance of the Netherlands Yerun Deisselblum.

Czech President Milos Zeman opposed the imposition of sanctions against Russia. According to the Czech leader, there is no reason for the isolation of the Russian Federation, the head of the Czech Republic said in an exclusive interview to the First Deputy General Director of ITAR-TASS Mikhail Gusman. "I see no reason why it is necessary to isolate the Russian Federation from the European Union, why talk about sanctions, about the blockade, about the embargo," Zeman said.

China will direct four oil towers to the South China Sea, despite the fact that not even two months have passed after the bloody pogroms in Vietnam, provoked by a wave of protests due to the installation of the PRC of a deep-water drilling platform in this controversial area, Reuters reports. The Nanchay-2 and Nanhai-5 platforms are planned to be placed in the area of ​​the island of Dunsha, the Chinese marine police department reported.

In the capital at the Troekurovsky cemetery on June 20, the funeral of the correspondent of VGTRK Igor Korneluk was held in Ukraine. Farewell to the journalist took place in the studio of the Special correspondent program, RIA Novosti reports. He was buried with military honors - to the sounds of gun volleys. The memory of the victims was also honored in the Stavropol Territory - for three days, people carry flowers to the GTRK building.

The national teams of Japan and Greece shared glasses in the match of the second round of the group stage of the World Cup in Brazil, prematurely guaranteeing the Colombians a place in the 1/8 finals of the tournament. The meeting of rivals in group C at the Arena Dunas Arena stadium in Natal ended with a score of 0: 0. - World Cup 2014: Schedule and competition results The game abounded with rudeness - only in the first half, both teams violated the rules 21 times.

Twitter Vice President Colin Crowell will visit Russia on June 23-25 ​​on a business visit. This was reported by ITAR TASS, citing publication in the newspaper Izvestia . During the trip, Crowell plans to meet with representatives of state bodies and large Internet companies. Information about the planned meeting was confirmed by Rambler & Co and the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC).

Julian Assange, who founded the organization of WikiLeaks , has been living in the London Embassy of Ecuador in a converted women's toilet, afraid to get into the hands of English police officers who can arrest him and extradite him to Sweden, which, in turn, can extradite him to the United States, where he is threatened with a long prison term.

The North Korean leader Kim Jong -un instructed the reconstruction of the largest stadium on May of the first time in Pyongyan.

The first private Russian space satellite of the Tablesat-Armenian, launched the day before, along with 32 microsnettes of the RS-20B Dnepr RS-20B conversion (according to the Western classification-Satan), successfully brought to orbit and has already transmitted the first signal to the ground. All systems work normally, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the company "Sputniks" , which created the device. "Our experts received a stable signal from the satellite.