The number of the Black Sea Fleet will decrease, the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov said in a closed meeting of the Federation Council on Wednesday. Now 24 thousand people serve there, and the minister did not specify how much this number will decrease. The words of the minister were handed over to "Interfax" Senator Viktor Ozerov.

In Primorye, operatives detain the suspects in contacts with the "forest brothers", who have been catching the police and special forces for a week. According to the latest messages, part of the gang is blocked in the forest. According to Data.ru, in the village of Mountain Key, a special operation to identify the gang contacts ended. The operatives considered it necessary to check the apartment in one of the houses. The basements were checked in the entrance, the apartment itself was closed.

The prosecutor's office of the Austrian city of Salzburg began an investigation into the history of the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko and his entourage in 2002 in the Austrian Alps, while the Belarusian leader was prohibited from entering the European Union, Kommersant writes.

Sberbank of Russia created two subsidiaries - Sberbank Finance and Sberbank Special Deosito, writes RBC Daily. This decision was made with the aim of activating Sberbank operations according to the recently adopted concept for the development of brokerage operations in the stock market in 2010-2012. Sberbank Finance will serve brokerage customer operations in terms of marginal trade, as well as organize the placement of corporate customer securities.

Almost three quarters (73%) of the Subscribers of the Bloomberg agency, the leaders of large companies, evaluate the likelihood of Greece default for debt obligations as a high, Finmarket reports . Only 23% of the respondents believe that the project of salvation of the country by strictly cutting out budget expenditures will be able to prevent defaults inside the eurozone and protect the association from decay.

On June 9, in Kyiv, the General Director of the State Corporation "Rosatom" Sergey Kiriyenko and the Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine Yuri Boyko signed an agreement on cooperation in the construction of the third and fourth power units of the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant. “This is really a partnership agreement,” said Sergey Kiriyenko.

Dmitry Centragas controlled by Dmitry, who owns 50% in the Swiss trader Rosukrenergo, won the case against Naftogaz of Ukraine in international arbitration, writes News Vremya. Thus, the court ruled that the Ukrainian State Military District must return the Rue 11 billion cubic meters of gas, which were unreasonably withdrawn from the trader in the winter of 2009.

Yesterday, the State Duma Committee under the legislation unexpectedly refused to adopt without discussing the amendments to the scandalous law on the prohibition of protests on ordinary and railways, RBC reports. At yesterday's meeting of the profile Duma committee, the amendments tried to “shove” without discussion, but this outraged the parliamentarians, and they demanded a detailed discussion.

The agreement on cooperation in the construction of the third and fourth power units of the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant was signed today in Kyiv by the General Director of the State Corporation "Rosatom" Sergey Kiriyenko and the Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine Yuri Boyko, news agency reports.

OJSC Atomredmetzoloto, which mines the division of the State Corporation "Rosatom", concluded with Uranium One Inc. The agreement in accordance with which ARMZ increases its share in the capital of Uranium One Inc. by redemption of additional emission Uranium One Inc. (356 million ordinary shares). As a payment for this package, atomredmetzoloto shall make 50% of the shares of JSC Akbastau JSC, 49.7% of the shares of Zarechny JSC, as well as $ 610 million with money.

A fire in the jewelry workshop of Moscow was liquidated. The workshop is located on the Yeritory of OJSC "Experimental Factory of High -quality Loans" in the area of ​​the Alekseevskaya metro station. The fire broke out in the four -story building of the old building at 10a Nizhomoskovskaya Street. The flame spread along the fourth floor of the building, where the jewelry shop is located. According to preliminary data, the fire area was 150 square meters. There are no victims and victims.

The press secretary of the Polish government Pavel Grace asked for apologies from the Smolensk riot police for accusations of abduction from credit cards of those who died in the Tu-154 plane crash, RBC reports. The Polish official at a press conference stated in Russian that the charges were a “simple mistake”. In the first messages that appeared in the Polish media on June 6, the detention of three riot police officers were reported.

Tonight in the Kizlyarsky district of Dagestan, the minister of the Madrases of the village of Yasnaya Polyana Zaputdinov was killed, reports Radio Liberty. The unknown shot the man at 23:30 not far from his own house, after which he disappeared from the scene, but was detained along the "hot" traces. A machine gun was removed from the criminal. Investigative actions are carried out.

Recently, the next quarterly discussion took place in the UN Security Council of the state of affairs in Kosovo. From meeting to meeting, consideration of this problem is becoming more and more routine. One gets the impression that many would like to remove this issue from the agenda, but the problem has not been resolved, and much remains to be done to resolve it.

The Russian Ministry of Defense does not intend to abandon the idea of ​​a contract under a contract in the Russian armed forces. Such a statement was made by the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, reports RBC. According to him, now in the state of the Ministry of Defense there are about 150 thousand contractors. “If financial capabilities allow, their number will grow. Ideally, contractors should be 200-250 thousand, ”he said.