The Cultural Initiative group has launched a new project, “Coffee and Cigarettes,” which involves a series of evening meetings between publishing houses with fundamentally different publishing policies. The first such meeting took place at the Cofemax cafe.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Big Eight countries. ** Government of the Russian Federation ** The Minister of Finance A. Kudrin expressed confidence that after the abolition from July 1 of the current year, confidence in the ruble will increase. "Capital from Russia will not run, capital today goes to Russia, and we will support it," the minister said.

Warner Brothers recording studio began selling films and television shows via a Online Guba video exchange service, reports Computer with reference to CNET News . Under the terms of the transaction, subscribers of a file -bearing resource will be able to buy films or rent them. The cost of the new film will be 19.99 US dollars, and the old one - $ 9.99. At the same time, one day of the rental of the film will cost $ 1.79.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko calls on the parliamentary forces to immediately sit down at the negotiating table in order to resolve the crisis situation that has now developed in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainian Pravda reports. “I will fulfill my role as the president in the settlement of this type of confrontation, and I will do this exclusively by a constitutional way,” the president said.

The decision to early repay Russia's public debt to the Paris Club of creditors, taken at a government meeting last Friday, draws a bold line under the turbulent historical past of our country.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and the Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky, after a two -hour meeting, agreed to search for mechanisms to reduce the cost of paying for the supply of Russian gas of Belarus since 2007. So far, to avoid the money at the rate of $ 200 for 1 thousand cubic meters.

Today, the countdown of time starts to launch the shuttle of Discovery, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the US National Aerospace Agency (NASA). "The return countdown for launching the Discovery space shuttle will begin at 01.00 Moscow time on Thursday June 29 in (17.00 Wednesdays on June 28 on the east coast of the United States)," NASA said.

The Verkhovna Rada coalition intends to elect a speaker and prime minister. Today, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will make another attempt to elect the country's Prime Minister and Speaker of Parliament at a plenary session. The coalition “troika” consisting of BYuT, “Our Ukraine” and SPU is going to invite deputies to vote in an open mode for two of their nominees at once - Yulia Tymoshenko and Petro Poroshenko, respectively, for the posts of prime minister and speaker.

Today, June 29, the trial of the Italian football clubs Juventus, Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio, involved in the corruption scandal, said the head of the investigation department of the Italian football federation, Francesco Saverio Borrelli. A few days ago, he handed over to the federal prosecutor an extensive dossier in this case, RIA Novosti reports.

The Ministry of Finance states that the ruble convertibility will create a new situation for Russian citizens: they will have the opportunity to perform operations that have recently been limited or prohibited. That is how the department commented on the law approved by the Government to remove the latest restrictions in the currency sphere, RIA Novosti reports. As they say in the Ministry of Finance, now every citizen will be able to open accounts and place deposits in banks abroad.

The Turkish President said that he is counting on an increase in trade with Russia to $ 25 billion at the moment it is $ 15 billion. Another goal of Russian-Turkish relations Akhmet Speet Seser sees the “expansion of the range of trade”, reports the PRIM-TASS AI . Negotiations of the President of Turkey with Vladimir Putin are taking place in the Kremlin now.

What is economic growth? Is there a system of objective indicators that would allow residents of a particular country to hope that certain technical inventions or political innovations (including in the financial sector) will succeed and lead to an increase in its wealth? What is the role of migration in the economic process of the country and what are the real reasons for the currently known “economic miracles”?

In Batumi, the police dispersed the rally of refugees from Abkhazia, refusing to evict from the local hotel. On the eve of the afternoon, about fifty refugees before the government of the government of Adjara held a protest, reports News-Georgia with reference to the Black Sea Press agency. During the acceleration, the participants in the police resisted, throwing representatives of law enforcement agencies with bottles. Moreover, several people on police cars were taken out of town.

The commanders of the militants Shamil Basayev and Dokarov are located in the mountains of Ingushetia, said, speaking in the program “Crime Chronicle” of the Chechen guestelekanal “Grozny”, senior officer of the Urus-Martan District Department of Internal Affairs of Arbi Krriyev. According to Krriev, “oxygen was blocked in Chechnya, so they do not appear on the territory of Chechnya” and spend all the time in the mountains of Ingushetia, the “Caucasian Knot” reports.

We publish a complete transcript of the lecture of the Doctor of Economics, the director of the scientific programs of the Independent Institute of Social Policy, the head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Economics of the Transitional period, professor of the Higher School of Economics Sergei Shishkin, read June 22 In the club - the literary cafe of Bilingua as part of the Public Lectures Polit.ru project.