On June 14, 2009, within the framework of the Moscow International Book Festival, the Polit.ru Studio of Short Prose project was presented at the Central House of Science Oksana Chernobriva reads the story "Bath"

It so happened that the announcement of the start of construction of the BTS-2 oil pipeline was made at the height of the “milk war” between Russia and Belarus. This naturally led to the conclusion that we were facing another stage in the permanent economic conflict between the two countries.

The Ministry of Finance has already developed amendments to the Law "On Lottery". Recently, participants in the Russian lottery market said that they plan to sign a charter of Russian lottery companies and create a self -regulatory organization, writes Moscow Komsomolets. From July 1, 2009, a law prohibiting the work of gambling establishments in Russia enters into force, with the exception of four areas specially designated for this.

In the south-west of Moscow, more than 9 million rubles were stolen from the apartment of the Institute of Physico and Chemical Medicine, news agencies report. According to the employee of law enforcement agencies of the capital, yesterday at 14.10 a woman born in 1946 turned to the police.

State support for cinematography does not stop, although it was reduced due to a total reduction in financing due to the crisis by 15%. This was announced today by Deputy Minister of Culture Alexander Golutny in his report at parliamentary hearings in the State Duma, reports the Polit.ru correspondent Lev Fainberg.

In relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America, we are talking about a political dialogue, there is no talk of financial assistance yet, the leading researcher at the Latin America Institute Emil Dabagyan said in the commentary “Polit.ru”. The Venezuela government decided to return its ambassador to the United States. An anonymous source in the US State Department said that the Barack Obama administration also decided to return the ambassador Patrick Duddy to Karakas.

“My powers as the head of the Federation Council will end in March 2012, until that moment I will not leave this post,” her leader Sergei Mironov said at a press conference following the first part of the Congress of Just Russia. So he denied rumors that he was waiting for a quick transfer to the post of governor of St. Petersburg. Sergei Mironov recalled that all 7 years, that he has been kindling the upper house of the Russian parliament, he is “transferred” to St. Petersburg.

NAC Naftogaz Ukraine states that since the beginning of 2006, the Ukrainian underground gas storages (PHG) have not been stored in gas volumes belonging to Gazprom OJSC, therefore, the claims of the Russian monopolist, concerning the disappearance of certain fuel volumes from the Ukrainian PHGG, are incorrect, UNIAN reports with reference to the message of the NAFTOGAZ press service Ukraine ".

Yesterday, June 24, the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin discussed the future law “On Trade” with the market participants. The prime minister proposed to finalize it within ten days. Suddenly interrupting the meeting, he went to the Perekrestok store for autumn boulevard in Krylatsky to inspect prices, along with products and retailers.

The first human case of influenza A/H1N1 has been reported in Cambodia, Xinhua reports. According to the country's Ministry of Health, the virus was detected in a 16-year-old teenager from the United States who arrived in the country as part of a school group. She was touring Cambodia with her classmates. Last week the girl felt unwell. On Monday she was taken to the clinic, after which doctors were able to make a diagnosis.

On the day of the assassination, June 22, the President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov went to work with an unusual route for himself, Izvestia writes. He spent the night in his family village of Tarskoye, located in neighboring North Ossetia, from where he went to work. So, the criminals somehow recognized the route of the presidential court on June 22. The publication notes that such an awareness of bandits about Yevkurov’s affairs may indicate that there is a traitor in his environment.

In the first year of the possible Pandemia, the A/H1N1 flu may get about 30% of the Russian population, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, the chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko, predicted. Onishchenko warned that in hospitalization, 6 million 300 thousand people will need to be in hospitalization in the third or fourth month of the development of the Pandemia.

On June 25, a cooperation agreement between the engineering company OJSC Atomenergproekt and the Government of the Voronezh region was signed in Novovoronezh, the press service of Atomenergproekt reports. The document was signed by the Governor of the Voronezh Region Alexei Gordeev and the general director of OJSC Atomenergoproekt Vladimir Generalov.

Demonstrations in Iran are unlikely to lead to great changes in the country, despite all the hopes of Western dreamers, writes The Guardian . Analysts tend to overestimate the importance of street demonstrations abroad, especially since in our eyes everyone who goes on the streets in protest embodies everything good and democratic in the world, the newspaper writes. However, calling street rebels a new velvet revolution, we provide the Iranians with a poor service.

Spartak head coach Valery Karpin, acting as the head coach of the team and not having the appropriate education, “gave testimony” for his possible training at the higher school of coaches (Higher School). Recently, Karpin caused dissatisfaction with some colleagues in the workshop, saying in an interview that he does not know what he could be taught at the Higher School. “Naturally, I did not expect such a resonance, and moreover, I did not want to offend anyone in my own words.