Most Russian citizens do not know which holiday is celebrated in the country on June 12, sociologists found out. 25 years after the adoption of the declaration of state sovereignty of the RSFSR, few recall it. As follows from the VTsIOM survey, more than a quarter of the respondents do not know the name of the holiday, and more than three quarters do not imagine what event the date is associated with.

The Indian state of Uttar-Pradesh finds out the circumstances of the death of an employee of the media, who burned alive while trying to arrest him. The authorities tried to give out the death of an oppositionist for suicide, who accused a senior official of sexual violence and corruption, using the Internet to criticize.

The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed concern about the possible US plans for the military expansion of space.

The Russian skier Ivan Malakhov was the first in the world to jump from a helicopter to the slope of the crater of the current volcano, where the seething boilers of lava were among the snow and ice. An extremal made the trick of his dreams on a 1.7-kilometer crater slope of the Mutnovsky volcano (height 2323 m), located in the southern part of the Kamchatka peninsula, making a 12.5-meter jump from a helicopter ( video ). The preparation of the trick took about four weeks.

The metropolitan police detained 11 members of a criminal group deceiving the elderly and disabled. The attackers suggested that the victims buy certain devices that supposedly have wonderful healing properties and are a panacea. Among the defendants in the criminal case were visitors from Central Asia, the North Caucasus Federal District and other regions of Russia. The suspects were detained in accordance with Art.

Prices for international roaming for Russian citizens should be reduced at least twice. Such an opinion, as TASS reports, was expressed by the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation Igor Artemyev in an interview with Russia 24. According to him, this also applies to Internet traffic and SMS messages.

The Ministry of Economic Development has developed a bill that will greatly facilitate the access of small and medium -sized businesses to the purchase of state corporations and companies with state participation, RBC reports. According to the publication, the draft department makes amendments to the Law 223-ФЗ, which regulates the purchases of state-owned companies.

The Council of Europe reminded Russia of the duty to Yukos. The CE Committee of the ETD complained that the Russian Federation is not in a hurry to comply with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to prepare a plan for the payment of compensation to former shareholders of the Yukos oil company. The committee expressed concern that Russia is not going to execute the decision and does not respect it.

The mass riot , which was raised on June 8, lifted by prisoners in the medical and office of N19 under a maximum regime colony N2 in the city of Salavat in Bashkiria, was discontinued, the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (Federal Penitentiary Service) said on Thursday.

The County Police of the West Yorkshire in the UK is looking for an Asian appearance teenager, who arranged stabbing right in the training class. The attacker wounded the teacher and ran away. The incident occurred at the Dixons Kings Academy school at Bradford at about 9:00, before starting to study. A 14-year-old boy hit a 50-year-old teacher with a knife in the stomach. Suspect classmates were witnesses of reprisals, writes The Daily Mail .

US Vice President Joseph Biden on Wednesday again confirmed the intention of the United States and the Semerians to introduce additional sanctions against Russia, if necessary, responding to the actions of the Russian Federation, primarily in connection with the Ukrainian crisis. The next statement of the White House was published after the meeting of Biden with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Detained in Turkey on the border with Syria, while trying to join the militants of the Islamic State, a student of Moscow State University Varvara Karaulova will be able to return to Russia on Thursday, June 11, Igor Mityakov, the press attache of the Russian Embassy in Ankara, said on the eve of RIA Novosti .

The government approved a report on the execution of the federal budget for the first quarter of 2015. The income and expenses of the Russian budget in the first quarter of 2015 exceeded the planned ones, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. "The budget revenues over three months of the current year were approximately 17% more than the forecast value. The costs increased by 4.7%," he announced.

The leaders of Gazprom announced at the end of May that the construction of the Turkish Stream underwater section will begin in the first decade of June. She is already behind, but a pipe-laying ship and auxiliary vessel rented from the Italian company Saipem and Varna standing on the raid did not strive, lie on the Bulgarian shore and special pipes prepared for the first thread of the highway. The Russian company develops activities in two other areas.

The winner of the contest "Kinotavr. A Short Meter" was the film "Nastya" Kirill Pletnev, reports "Interfax" . The 26-minute film of the famous actor Pletnev tells the story of a provincial woman-police Nastya (Inga Oboldin) and a local thief. The script is based on the real story of Nastya Cherepanova, a postman from Nizhny Novgorod, who in 2011 stole a pension from the bank and, together with her lover, went in search of a better life, TASS reports.