The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine today adopted laws on state support for children's international centers "Artek" and "Young Guard", reports "Gazeta.ru" with reference to ITAR-TASS. From the budget of Ukraine, 60 million hryvnias ($ 7.5 million) are allocated for these purposes, obtained by reducing allocations for the maintenance of the Presidential Secretariat.

As a result of the collapse of the Mi-24 military helicopter in the Saratov region, a decision was made to temporarily terminate all the flights of helicopters of this model, reports Radio Mayak . This was stated by the assistant to the Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Drik.

The largest operator of integrated telecommunication services in Russia and the CIS company Komstar-Ots has completed transactions to acquire regional operators of the Stream-TV group owned by OJSC Mass-Media, the Komstara report. The total amount of transactions amounted to 6.75 billion rubles (about $ 186.6 billion).

As predicted, the period from May 1 to May 12 is a period of information void, which, however, was successfully filled by the officialdom of festive events. The nature of power is to maintain rituals. This is her duty, her job. And although you can, like millions of Muscovites, isolate yourself by evacuating from the city to nature, something will still creep into your consciousness. Sorry, but the following got through to me.

In response to the question of how much reserve funds are enough if they will be spent on covering the budget and such income income and such revenues, Pyotr Kazakevich, deputy director of the Department of International Financial Relations, State Debt and State Financial Activities of the Ministry of Finance, the “informal manager” of the Stubfond recalled that the same issues arose a year ago during the separation of the Stable, we reported when separating the Stable Correspondent Lev

The Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, Roman Immortal, said, if the Prime Minister refuses to make changes to the budget, then it is necessary to replace the prime minister himself, UNIAN reports. “If the Prime Minister believes that everything is fine today, the budget is fulfilled, then it seems to me that it is necessary to change the prime minister, and not to discuss with her about what needs to be done with the state budget,” said the immortal.

Yesterday, the leader of the Hamas Palestinian movement Hadhal publicly thanked Iran for “financial, political, informational and folk support” during three -week military operations in the gas sector. At the same time, he did not say a word about the support of the military, of which Israel and the USA are accused of the Islamic Republic, writes The Washington Post .

Alexander Zhukov The problem of piracy in the coastal waters of Somali, Yemen, Kenya and at the vast water area of ​​the Indian Ocean east of the African horn did not arise on its own. Even a non -specialist understands that this is a consequence of the domestic political problems of Somalia, its protracted internal conflict, which has been tearing this country into parts for 18 years now.

The Governor of the Pskov Region Mikhail Kuznetsov wrote a statement of departure, sources in United Russia and the Presidential Administration reported. According to Vedomosti, the issue of Kuznetsov’s departure was resolved in December (the powers end in December 2009) and they are looking for a replacement.

The popular series about how Zenit’s football player goes into the top club of Europe has come to an end. Two and a half minutes before the transfer of the transfer window, the leader of the Russian national team Andrei Arshavin signed the long -awaited contract with the London Arsenal.

The actions of Russia, carried out recently in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, were considered at a meeting of the Russian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze with the US Ambassador to Georgia John Tept, news - Georgia reports.

In the samples of “A” biathlonists who received charges of violation of anti -doping legislation from the International Union of Biathlonists (IBU), the modern CERA, third -generation erythropoetin, found a modern drug. This was in an interview with the whole sport agency by Dr. Pierre Zhane, a member of the IBU medical commission. “I can confirm that the positive samples of the biathlonists showed the use of third -generation erythropoetin - cra,” said Dr. Pierre Zhane.

Sevak Sarukhanyan , Victor Sergeev Energy resources and control over them today form the basis of the political and economic competitiveness of many states. However, “energy weapons” can bring not only benefits: three quarters of states rich in natural resources, at the moment, are at first places in the list of the most corrupt countries of the world, while most of them are far from the democratic regime.

The Board of Directors of Gazprom at the correspondence meeting approved the purchase of 1.06% of the shares of the Zenit football club for 26.6 million rubles. Gazprom Transgaz St. Petersburg (100%daughter of a gas monopoly), the Council protocol said. The seller of 200 shares of the club was the Support Fund for sports fans of St. Petersburg. The share of Gazprom Transgaz St. Petersburg in the authorized capital of Zenit increased to 25.01%, the protocol said.

Two deputy governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko resign. SMIs do not exclude that this may mean preparations for early replacement and Matvienko herself.