The Russian team opened an account in a match with Sweden at Euro 2008. In the 24th minute, Roman Pavlyuchenko completed the combination with an accurate blow.

The information situation around the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is aggravated. Yesterday, Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia announced the new fortifications found and the next illegal Georgian police post. Today, at the request of Tskhinvali, observers of the OSCE conducted monitoring of the territory adjacent to Ergneti and stated that they did not find any fortifications.

The process of integration of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO today has become one of the central problems of the political agenda of Eurasia. After, in the text of the final statement of the NATO Bucharest summit (published by the heads of state and governments of the alliance on April 3, 2008) it was written: “NATO welcomes the Euro -Atlantic aspirations of Ukraine and Georgia for NATO membership,” Russian diplomacy completely ceased to sleep calmly.

According to an international survey conducted by the WorldPublicOpinion.org organization in collaboration with research centers from various countries, today there is no generally recognized leading country in the world in solving international problems. Nevertheless, we can name a number of countries and personalities whose opinions are considered authoritative to a greater extent.

The Governor of the Primorsky Territory Sergey Darkin met with the workers of the Russian Tolfram mining enterprise, who announced the hunger strike due to non-payment by the owners of the company's enterprise. The other day, Governor Darkin returned from Moscow, where he agreed with Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev so that he would not be pursued criminally and not dismissed.

Since June 19, between Israel and the radical Palestinian movement Hamas, which controls the gas sector, will enter into force a half -year truce. Israel pledged not to carry out offensive military operations in the gas sector, and Hamas promised to prevent the missile shelling of Israeli. The Egyptian side acted as intermediaries in negotiations between the leadership of the Palestinian group and Israel. A truce will be carried out in stages.

The TV of every Russian citizen should receive at least 20 television channels, and the broadcasting network itself should be digital, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a working meeting with the Minister of Communications and Communications Igor Schegolev.

On June 16, a new stage in the negotiations of the four investors of the Ignaly nuclear power plant began in Barcelona. Finally, the share of the participation of investors in the new nuclear power plant will be recorded only after 3 years. “The consortium of the Baltic and Poland countries will not launch the Ignalin nuclear power plant within the previous time, namely by 2015.

“If the economic changes in Cuba will meet consumer requirements until 2009, then the system will be able to prove to itself that its days are far from accountable,” said the head of the Center for Cuban Studies of the University of Anthony Capsee.

In almost one week there were two events related to the eternal theme "Russia and its compatriots." Namely: the 10th Congress of the Russian press and the decision of D. Medvedev to provide a visa-free entry into Russia to the non-citizens of Latvia and Estonia. Compatriots are pleasant, but with meaning worse. Well, yes, all this is cute - both the Russian press and the non -citizens. If only do not pay attention to technical details.

Less than four months have passed since an event of unprecedented significance took place in Cuba. On February 24, a session of the National Assembly of People's Power unanimously elected 76-year-old Raul Castro, the younger brother of the permanent leader Fidel Castro, to the highest government positions. At first, it seemed that everything would remain unchanged.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President D. Medvedev held a working meeting with Prime Minister V. Putin , during which he discussed with him the socio-economic situation in the country. ** Regional news ** President of Bashkiria M. Rakhimov supported the idea of ​​the head of Tatarstan M. Shaimiev to return to the system of election of the heads of regions.

An interactive vote is held on the demoscope website "What sociologists do you know?" The virtual survey is dedicated to the anniversary date - the 50th anniversary of the Soviet sociological association, the creation of which in 1958 marked the beginning of a new stage in the development of domestic sociological science. The survey organizers are asked by the questions: "How successful was the finished stage?

As part of our joint project with openDemocracy , we are publishing an article by Professor Anthony Capsia, head of the Center for Cuban Studies at the University of Nottingham, about Cuba on the threshold of change.

In the colony of general regime No. 10 in Rostov-on-Don, a collision occurred between prisoners and colony officers, Gazeta.ru said. The conflict occurred due to the disobedience of the orders of the guards, as a result of which a fight arose. Several administration employees received bodily harm. The press service of the prosecutor's office of the region said that there were no victims among prisoners ,.