In Vladivostok, a sanctioned picket starts against the international project "Russia-NATO: Actually", RIA Novosti reports. It is reported that the picket initiated by the leaders of the Left Forces of Primorye is near the Far Eastern State University, where the project events will be held. More than 100 people are already involved in the picket, and the number of its participants is growing.

The next Address of the President of the Russian Federation was more like a session of magic. Black or white - only time will tell. The president, posing as a fakir, with a slight wave of his right hand created hundreds of billions of rubles out of thin air, and with a graceful movement of his left hand distributed them to tens of millions of sufferers.

In the city of Kirovsk, the Murmansk region, the final of all-Russian children and youth competitions in skiing among students of the Sports School was held. More than 100 athletes aged 5 to 10 years from different cities of Russia took part in competitions on the basis of the Khibina Snow Park complex. During the 2005-2006 season, 5 stages of competitions were held, the organizer and general sponsor of which was the Group of Companies of the ESN, headed by Grigory Berezkin.

The results of the first 24 years of the Haiti census are amazing with a high level of unemployment, maternal and child mortality, as well as the prevalence of infectious diseases, according to the report of the UN population (UNFPA), published yesterday, RIA Novosti reports.

The task set before the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in yesterday's presidential message to the Federal Assembly, to be prepared to participate in the global military conflict, is impossible, the head of the Center for Military Forecasting Anatoly Gypsy. In his interview with the Polit.ru correspondent, Gypsya noted that for such a conflict, the Russian army has neither forces, no funds, nor qualified personnel.

In the 85th year of his life, the outstanding American journalist Abraham Michael Rosenthal , who for 17 years-from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, headed the most authoritative newspaper- New York Times . Rosental was born in 1922 in Canada, in a Jewish family of immigrants from Russia. He began journalistic activities in 1944, worked as a military correspondent in India and Japan.

The issue of the withdrawal of Ukraine from the CIS is not considered today, Ukrainian Pravda reports. This was announced today by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Boris Tarasuk. According to him, Ukraine seeks to constructively take part in the activities of the CIS, but Ukrainian initiatives that are very important for citizens of the Commonwealth do not meet support.

On the fact of a fire in the territory of the enterprise for the selection and cleaning of oil products in Gudermes, a criminal case has been opened under the article intentional destruction of property, RIA Novosti reports. According to the prosecutor of the republic, during the inspection of the scene of the fire, signs of intentional actions aimed at destroying property were discovered.

Today, the Russian print media market has been replenished with another publication - the weekly arguments and time. At the same time, it became known with this that the weekly “ Arguments and Facts ” sued the publication with a similar name, accusing its owners of the production of “control products”, the newspaper “ Gazeta ” writes.

The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation published a preliminary results of the investigation of the A320 aircraft catastrophe near Adler, RBC reports, citing the press service of the department. The investigation commission analyzed the ground -based means of objective control: recording negotiations between crew members with dispatchers of the approach, circle and landing of Sochi Airport, as well as the data of the radar.

On the wastelands of the state of North Dakota (USA), the prototype of the spacesuit is tested, which will be used in the study of Mars, reports Space.com . They include moving along the "Martian" rocks and collecting samples of breeds. The spacesuit will also be verified in the conditions of a modeled sandstorm. The development of a prototype of this device, on which the NASA grant was spent in the amount of $ 100 thousand, took 14 months.

Russia may lose the opportunity to hold international sports competitions on its territory. This was discussed at a meeting of the Expert Council on the application of the legislation on advertising of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), reports REGNUM , On July 1, the Federal Law "On Advertising", adopted on March 13, 2006, comes into force.

The film "Silent-Hill" was released in Russian rental-a film adaptation of the classic computer game of the 90s The plot of the film is slightly different from the plot of the game, but the idea is the same at all. The town of Saylet Hill has been closed since a terrible tragedy happened in it: coal and the whole city flashed in the outskirts, flashed overnight, burned down. No one was able to save, and since then entry into the city is prohibited.

Today in the capital of Austria, the EU summit - Latin America and the countries of the Caribbean. About 60 heads of states and governments and more than 1,500 members of delegations will take part in it. According to the department of the Federal Chancellor, the heads of 25 member countries of the European Union, Romania and Bulgaria as candidates for joining the EU, as well as their Latin American colleagues from 33 countries were invited to the meeting.

The Georgian parliament today unanimously adopted the resolution "On the integration of Georgia into NATO", reports Gazeta.Ru , with reference to ITAR-TASS.