The main task facing the Russian Academy of Sciences /RAS /is "the development of nanotechnologies for the near future." This was stated at a press conference by President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Osipov.

** Themes of the day ** Part of the central newspapers noted that President D. Medvedev at a meeting with the Prosecutor General Yu. Tchaiku demanded to clear the adopted regulatory acts of both federal and regional levels from spaces, which can be used for corruption purposes . D. Medvedev also said that he considers it necessary to make decisions to verify small and medium -sized businesses at the level of the constituent entities of the Federation.

The Russian military railway workers began to restore the railway in Abkhazia, Echo Moscow reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. According to the Ministry of Defense, about 400 troops should restore a section of the road with a length of 54 kilometers.

During a visit to France, Vladimir Putin again regained his leadership in the number of references on the air of federal television channels. The Russian prime minister met with French President Nicolas Sarkoi and gave a long interview to the French newspaper Le Monde, making a number of political statements. Meanwhile, on the party front there is no trace of equality on the body, writes “Independent Gazeta” .

The American auto giant General Motors announced the closure of four factories for the production of light trucks and SUVs, Associated Press reports. According to the head of GM Rick Curon, two plants in the United States and one in Canada and Mexico will stop work. In addition, according to him, "the production of Hummer brand cars can be stopped." He also added that General Motors will pay close attention to the production of small -scale economical cars.

** Public Chamber of the Russian Federation ** The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation appealed to the State Duma deputies with a request to adopt the laws that expand the possibilities of public expertise of bills, said O. Kutafin, deputy secretary of the Russian Federation, at a meeting with the first deputy head of the State Duma Committee on the Legislation of V. Gruzdev and Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Budget and Tax, A. Makarov.

Tonight in Moscow several vehicles were set fire again. First, BMW caught fire on the Profsoyuznaya Street. According to the preliminary version, under the bottom of the car they put the paper and set it on fire. Then, about two in the morning, Audi on the First Vladimir. The third goal of the attacker was the Gazelle on Navy street. Thus, the total number of cars affected by the hands of the arsonists affected over the recent days reached 22.

The chairman of the trade union of the locomotive brigades of the Pushkino depot, Nikolai Pavlov, was recognized as a person who committed an administrative offense, Vesti TV channel reports. By the decision of the justice of the peace on the profiled sheet, a fine of 1.5 thousand rubles was imposed. On June 9, an administrative case will be considered for the same offense against the deputy chairman of the trade union trade union Alexei Mukhin.

Russian human rights activists called on the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Yuri Kalinin to resign or "take a step towards dialogue with civil society." Kalinin was accused of a "catastrophic" state of the penitentiary system. In their letter, human rights activists indicate “the brutal handling of prisoners, extremely unsatisfactory conditions of detention, arbitrariness and corruption of the administration in places of imprisonment”.

Yesterday, on June 2, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed to withdraw from consideration in the State Duma amendments to the “ Law on Media ” regarding the spread of false information. Medvedev openly criticized the amendments to the media law that would easily close any publication without a court decision.

1990s became the time of the discovery of archives, archival publications on the most important facts of Soviet history, the time of making the most important decisions that reform the archives and the archival business as a whole. What happens to declassify archival documents now? Why is the decree of B.N. Yeltsin dated 1992, in which it was ordered to declassify legislative and other acts for 3 months, which served as the basis for mass repressions and encroachments on human rights, "...

Russian striker Pavel Pogrebnyak will undergo a second medical examination and finds out whether it will be able to perform at the European Football Championship. The burbnyak was injured in a friendly match against Serbia last week. In that meeting, the striker of St. Petersburg “Zenith” opened an account, but soon felt pain and was replaced. As it turned out, the burial “tore the meniscus” and the mentor of the Russian national team Gus Hiddink called this injury “relatively serious”.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** Baltika-Lost The heads of government of the Council of States of the Baltic Sea will discuss issues of long -term cooperation in the region. The Russian delegation will be headed by the First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov.

In St. Petersburg, at the 85th year of his life, one of the former party leaders of the USSR Grigory Romanov died. For many years, Romanov was the first secretary of the Leningrad regional committee of the CPSU. Born in a peasant family. Member of the Great Patriotic War. He fought by a signalman on the Leningrad and Baltic fronts. A member of the CPSU since 1944. In 1953 he graduated from the Leningrad shipbuilding institute in absentia.

The press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine said that the fact of poisoning in 2004 of the presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was proved by investigative actions, therefore, the statements of deputy David with the renewal is not true. Zhenya said the other day that Yushchenko was not poisoned. As you know, during the Orange Revolution of Zhivaniy, it was one of Yushchenko’s closest associates.