The head of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said that the full transfer of the Russian armed forces to a new organizational and staff structure will end by December 1, 2009. By June 1 of this year, half of the army, including ground forces, has already been transferred to a new structure, he added.

Maryana Torocheshnikova In Moscow, former co -owners of Yukos are judged - once the largest oil company in Russia. In 2005, the Meshchansky court of Moscow sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev to the long term of conclusion for tax evasion.

In St. Petersburg dolphinaria, searches and interrogations were held. Employees of the OBEP of the Petrograd police department described animals. According to the police protocol, Neon, Bayan, Dasha, the Northern Sea Leo Varya, a pair of Pacific walruses Krona and Sonya, the Belian Dolphin, Polina and Micah, the Northern Sea Kitty, reports Fontanka.ru , were seized.

Alexander Polivanov This weekend I went to the country for the first time this season. Metro, train, bus, 10 minutes walk. The same amount back. The head of the Moscow metro, Dmitry Gaev, said in the spring that due to the crisis, 400 thousand fewer people were traveling on the metro every day. 400 thousand! But whoever I asked, no one felt more at ease on the subway.

Relatives of Magomed Evloev plan to once again apply to the court with a request to investigate his death under the article “Murder”, Ingushetia.org reports. According to the lawyer of the Yevloev Musa Pliev family, the law allows you to repeatedly apply to the court with a similar petition. “I do not exclude that the case can accept another turnover, it can be investigated by the right article, and the right, in my opinion, 105th is the murder,” the lawyer said.

In Russia, it is necessary to cancel the possibility of punishment in the form of real imprisonment against persons who have compensated the victims of the damage, said the first deputy director of the Federal Bailiff Service Sergey Sazanov. Sazanov noted that it is necessary to comply with a number of other requirements, in particular, committing a crime belonging to the category of small or moderate severity, as well as committed for the first time.

The Labor Party suffered a crushing defeat in local and European elections, however, the Prime Minister of Great Britain Gordon Brown, against the backdrop of dismissal in the government and calls for resignation from his party members, managed to stay at the post, writes The Los Angeles Times (translation to Inopressa.ru ).

In the village of Timoshovo, Kaluga Region, two unemployed men took a large arsenal of weapons, grenades and ammunition, RBC reports. According to a law enforcement officer of the region, police officers found two submachine guns, a machine gun, MP-38, 19 RGD-33 grenades and 108 rounds of various calibers. Now the source of the acquisition of the seized is being established.

Last night in the south of Thailand, unknown people penetrated the mosque and opened shooting at parishioners, reporting news agencies. To date, the number of victims has increased to 12 people. According to doctors, there are now 11 people in hospitals, four of whom are in critical condition. The tragedy occurred on Monday evening. Unknown, armed with machine guns, penetrated the mosque in the Ai Paje area of ​​the province of Narathivat and made random shooting.

Compared to last year, the real incomes of the Russian population decreased by 1%. This was announced today by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Interstate Council of the EU EXECES. He noted that there is a decrease, but "we did not allow failure here." At the end of May, Rosstat published new data on the growth of the number of unemployed in Russia, based on the assessment of the International Labor Organization.

Russia did not impose any sanctions against Belarus. This was stated by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov following negotiations with his Belarusian colleague Sergei Martynov, RBC reports. Commenting on the situation on the ban on the import of dairy products from the territory of Belarus, Lavrov said that since November last year, a new technical regulation on dairy products has been in force in Russia.

Yuri Budanov, sentenced to 10 years of strict regime for the murder of Chechenka Elsa Kungaeva and freed from prison ahead of schedule, was questioned as a suspect in a new criminal case of the murder of residents of Chechnya. “In 2000, eighteen residents of the Chechen Republic were illegally deprived of freedom at a checkpoint located at the village of Duba-Yurt of the Shali district of the Chechen Republic. Three of them were subsequently discovered killed.

During the debate in the Krasnogorsk court, the prosecutor asked in absentia to sentenced to 15 years in prison Boris Berezovsky, accused of embezzlement of AvtoVAZ company, his lawyer Valery Doronin said, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS .

The election of a new member of the Federation Council from the Sverdlovsk region will become a prelude to the struggle for the post of governor of the region. This was stated by Uralinformburo by the leader of the Central Ural Liberal Democrats, State Duma deputy Vladimir Taskaev. According to the current legislation, the new senator must be appointed before the beginning of July.

According to the BBC , a prisoner of detentions at the American military base in Guantanamo Ahmed Ghailani, who will appear in front of the US Civil Court, arrived in New York. Ghailani is accused of involvement in the organization of explosions among American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. 224 people became victims then. Ahmed Ghailani was arrested in Pakistan in 2004.