More than a hundred scientists from 28 countries of the world united to protect the famous Belarusian sociologist Oleg Manaev , who was threatened with dismissal from work from Belarusian State University for political reasons. Russian sociologists Vladimir Yadov , Boris Firsov , Igor Kon , Boris Dubin , Vladimir Ilyin , Elena Zedomyslova and other colleagues also joined the letter in defense of their colleague.

In accordance with the flight program of the International Space Station today, June 28, 2010, the Soyuz TMA-19 ship was carried out from the aggregate compartment of the Zvezda service module for the small research module of the Dawn. According to the press service of Roscosmos , for technical reasons, the separation of the ship from the station occurred later than the intended period - at 23 hours 13 minutes Moscow time. The duration of the autonomous flight of the ship was about 25 minutes.

"Labor" publishes the article " Roads and corruption. During the construction of a" jumping bridge "in Volgograd, 150 million rubles were disappeared " Despite the huge budget injections, the quality of federal roads is rapidly worsening, and their safety is below all criticism. In order to make up for a reduction in budget financing due to the crisis, the lobbyists from the Ministry of Transport decided to shift these problems to ordinary car owners.

"Your name, it doesn’t matter what posts you were, Andrei, your name in the minds of people who read the newspaper and read the Kommersant newspaper, associated with Kommersant. What should have happened so that you decide not only to leave, there, on the editor-in-chief of the Vedomosti newspaper or the editor-in-chief of the Internet portal, I do not know, but to go to some position. Advisor, a member of the Board of Directors?

We publish a statement by prof. Oleg Manaev in the wake of a conversation with the rector of BSU Sergey Ablamaiko, held on June 18, 2010, which sets out both the situation and the position of the author of the letter.

ISUPPLI analysts estimated the cost of components used in the manufacturing process of the Apple iPhone 4 smartphone in $ 188, CNews reports. This figure does not take into account labor costs, advertising promotion and software development. At the same time, in the United States, the device costs $ 199 and $ 299. The cost of components was held at $ 170-180 for several years, since Apple tried to meet a certain budget to create a smartphone.

The conflict of "Rusal" and the leadership of Norilsk Nickel went into an open war, writes Kommersant . The results of the annual meeting of shareholders of the Norilsk Nickel MMC showed that the company again had a conflict of shareholders. Vedomosti notes that the appearance at the meeting was record - the owners of 92% of the shares were present.

World oil prices over the next three years will decrease to $ 60 per barrel. At this level, prices will last more than six months. Such an assumption was expressed by the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin. “We will have a decrease to 60 dollars in the next three years. This is my forecast based on the available analytics. We will have to be at this mark more than six months. The risks of our economy need to be taken into account.

On the fact of a fire in one of the private houses in the city of Novosibirsk, as a result of which 8 people were killed, a criminal case was opened in the Investigative Committee in the Novosibirsk Region under Part 3 of Art. 219 of the Criminal Code (violation of fire safety rules, which entailed the death of two or more persons through negligence), the press service of the department reports.

On June 16-17, a visit to the Siberian Chemical Combine of the delegation of representatives of Japanese energy companies, which are considering the possibility of concluding commercial contracts from Tekhnabexport OJSC for the production of enriched uranium products from the Japanese side at OJSC SCK (part of the Twel fuel company). The guests showed a number of the production sites of the plant, which are planned to be used in this work.

Russian Vera Zvonareva entered the semifinals of a tennis tournament in Wimbledon. In the quarterfinals, she outplayed Belgian Kim Klisters with a score of 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2. In the semifinals, Zvonareva will play with Tsvetana Pyronkova (Bulgaria), who knocked out the American Vinus Williams.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rashid Nurgaliev, at a meeting of the Government Commission on the prevention of offenses, cooled that 12 children escaped from the children's camp in the Saratov region due to poor conditions of detention, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. According to Nurgaliev, 12 pupils - orphanages from dysfunctional families escaped from the Children's Camps children's camp and went 50 km in the steppe along the highway.

The verdict of the Kalyazinsky District Court, the 29-year-old citizen of Azerbaijan Albert Balstyan was found guilty of committing crimes under Part 1 of Art. 105, part 1 of Art. 161 of the Criminal Code of Russia (murder, robbery). It was established that on March 19, 2010, in the village of Korolevo Galstyan, he beat the idea of ​​Garanin, who had previously worked as a multiplier of Soyuzmulfilm, and then strangled it with a wire from a charger.

On board the Singapore cargo vessel Golden Blassing, captured by Somali pirate, there are dangerous chemicals. This is reported by the Air Force with reference to the organization of Ecoterra International, which tracks the situation with piracy in the Aden Bay and the Indian Ocean. The tanker transported ethylene glycol - a transparent oily liquid, which is the main component for the production of automobile antifreeze and brake fluids.

The French Left-centric newspaper Le Monde chose a group from the banker Mother Pigasse as an investor, founder of the Iliad telecommunications group Havier Niel and Pierre Verzhe, a partner of the legendary fashion designer of Saint Laurent. The group offered the newspaper 110 million euros to pay debts and cover operating expenses. Moreover, 5 million euros, investors are ready to give the newspaper until July 5.