Today in New York, official accusations to a suspect of espionage in favor of Russia will be charged. In the indictment, the names of 11 people are named, ten of them will appear before the court, reports the Associated Press. The explanation of the press service of the prosecutor's office says that 10 out of 11 accused were arrested on June 27.

The number of personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be reduced by 20%, or by 200 thousand people, and the central apparatus - by 10 thousand. Such a statement was made by Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Sergey Gerasimov.

Head of the Department "Pragmatics of Culture" of the GSE; managing the improvised service "IMHOT"; The head of the Scientific Research of the Pragmatics of Culture, Alexander Dolgin, with the help of IMHOTHNET data, tells about the features of the public perception of the film “Tired of the Sun - 2” Nikita Mikhalkov. Questions were asked by Oleg Popov. What can you say about the "tired of the sun-2" Nikita Mikhalkov?

In the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, a criminal case was opened due to high child mortality in the maternity hospital of the city of Muravlenko, the press service of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation reports.

Russia and the United States have reached an agreement on the exchange of spies as a result of the meeting of Russia's ambassador to Washington Sergei Kislyak and Deputy Secretary of State William Burns ended in effectively. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to an unnamed source in diplomatic circles. According to the source of "Gazeta.ru", tonight to Moscow in a special operation, the most famous of the detained scouts - Anna Chapman will be delivered incognito.

The Ministry of Culture was fired by the director of the Polytechnic Museum Gurgen Grigoryan. The decree on his resignation was signed by the Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev, according to the museum’s website. Gurgen Grigoryan led the Polytechnic Museum since 1986. The name of his replacement is still unknown. Polit.ru collaborates with the museum as part of the Public Lectures project Polit.ru , which has been held in the Polytechnic Museum in January 2010.

The term of the preliminary investigation in the case of an accident on Leninsky Prospekt with the participation of Mercedes Vice President Anatoly Barkov is extended to four months, the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said in an interview with the Russian newspaper . He said that the case is investigated by the Main Investigation Department under the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in Moscow, more than 50 investigative and procedural actions were carried out.

Three children from the Azov camp are in the hospital, one of them is in intensive care, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. According to an employee of the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Krasnodar Territory, today there are three in the hospital, and not two children, as previously reported. Among them is one nine -year -old boy who swallowed water during bathing, and, fortunately, was saved.

The International Monetary Fund increased the forecast for the growth of the global economy in 2010. from April estimate of 4.2% to 4.6%. The IMF increased the forecast for the growth of Russian GDP, which, according to the results of 2010. It is expected at 4.3%, which exceeds previously published forecasts by 0.3 percentage points. In 2011 GDP growth is predicted at 4.1%, which is 0.8 percentage points above previous expectations.

The Parliament of Moldova adopted yesterday a decision on the holding of a constitutional referendum on September 5, 2010 on the issue of returning to the popular elections of the president. During the referendum, voters will be invited to answer the question: “Do you support changes in the Constitution that will allow the president to elect through popular voting?” There are two options for the answer: “yes” or “no”.

Today at the VII Tver Socio-Economic Forum "Information Society" is presented the project "GOSBUK"/ www.gosbook.ru " Gosbuk " is a professional expert network on public administration. The first interactive communication platform in Russia, designed specifically for civil servants, specialists in different fields of government and experts from various spheres of society.

The Federal Penitentiary Service refutes the information that has appeared today that Major Denis Evsyukov was sent to the colony for the Black Delphin's lifelong prisoners in the Orenburg region. “Some write that he is in Sverdlovsk, others, in Orenburg. Neither one nor the other are wrong,” said the FSIN employee to the Russian News Service . "We do not comment on this topic.

The result of the constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan was not unexpected. In the end, the results of all elections in independent Kyrgyzstan were known even before the votes were counted.

In the center of St. Petersburg, an attack was attacked on the Bank "Sovetsky". According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, six unknown people burst into the bank’s branch, which is located on Sadovaya Street, reports Fontanka.ru . According to preliminary information, the criminals put on the floor of all who at that moment were indoors, after which they demanded that the cashier give them cash. Now the amount of the stolen is specified.

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