Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised to build a new yukhny airport in Rostov-on-Don from scratch. Now Rostov-on-Don is serving the airport of the same name located in the northwestern part of the city. In 2010, 1.44 million people used it. Vladimir Putin also promised to invest in Sochi, Volgograd, Gelendzhik, Anapa and Krasnodar more than 10 billion rubles for three years. Putin did not forget about other infrastructure projects of the Southern District.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with FIFA President Joseph Blatter, who arrived in Moscow, and discussed with him the organization’s issues in our country of the World Cup in 2018. According to RIA Novosti , referring to the press service of the government, Blatter arrived in Russia on a working visit, and the meeting was informal. In addition to Putin, Blatter met with the Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy, the chairman of the Russia-2018 Organizing Committee Vitaly Mutko.

On May 6, the Moscow City Court announced the verdict in the case of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. The court sentenced Nikita Tikhonov, whom the jury found guilty of the murder of Markelov and Baburova, to a life imprisonment, RIA Novosti reports. The civil wife of Tikhonov Evgenia Hasis, recognized by the accomplice of the murder of a lawyer, was sentenced to 18 years in the colony.

The verdict in the case of the murder of lawyer Markelov and journalist Baburova did not become unexpected. The main accused received his life, his civilian wife - 18 years old. The jury verdict and judges proved that Russians are poorly related to violence for nationalist reasons. On Friday in the Moscow City Court, the verdict was announced found guilty of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.

The State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov said on May 6 that United Russia supported the initiative of the St. Petersburg branch of the party to withdraw from the upper house of the Parliament of the Speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov, RIA Novosti reports. Gryzlov noted that "the party has a position against Mironov - he must hand over the senator mandate." On May 4, Mironov notified that the Legislative Assembly of St.

The captain of the Moscow “Spartak” Brazilian Alex will leave the Russian club the coming in the summer and move to their homeland. According to the edition of Marca Brazil , referring to a source in the Brazilian Club of Corinthians (the source himself wished to remain unknown), the leadership managed to coordinate all the transition conditions with both a football player and Spartak. It is reported that Corinthians can only pay the right amount.

The Moscow authorities intend to free the city center from dugs and other large advertising structures. This was stated by the head of the media and advertising department Vladimir Chernikov, Interfax reports. According to him, this applies to the territory, at least, within the third transport ring. The city authorities are hoping in two years to clear the center of Moscow from advertising “percent of 40”, Chernikov said.

The scientific community is alarming about the project of the new Charter of the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research (RFFI). This fund is one of the most important and main sources of financing science in the country, decisions in which are made by scientists themselves based on the examination of scientific projects. It is planned that the new charter will be adopted on May 17, 2011 at the Council of the Russian Federation, and then approved by the federal government.

Vladimir Putin spoke about plans to bind the growth of energy tariffs to the inflation level, RIA Novosti reports. The Prime Minister noted that the decision to limit tariffs to inflation has not yet been made. He stated that he wants to restrain the growth of tariffs for electricity. “There are all pros and cons here,” Vladimir Putin said about the alleged option for calculating energy tariffs. Recall that since the beginning of this year, the inflation rate in Russia amounted to 4.2%.

Russia insists that the “fire elements” of the US anti-missile defense system in Europe (EuroPro) do not approach state borders closer to its radius of action, ITAR-TASS reports. This was announced last Thursday by the constant representative of Russia at NATO Dmitry Rogozin based on the results of the special facting of the Russia-NATO (SRN) council at the ambassador level.

On May 6, posters with the image of Stalin appeared in the wagons of the St. Petersburg metro, writes Fontanka.ru . At the moment, the metro employees are searching for posters. The metro administration of the cultural capital promised to remove them within an hour due to the fact that the posters are unauthorized advertising, Interfax reports. Passengers of the St. Petersburg metro themselves spoke about posters with the image of Stalin.

The President of Ukraine promised to sign the law previously approved by the Verkhovna Rada, according to which, on the streets of the country, on the streets of the country, along with national flags, the Victory Banner would be posted, Kommersant writes. The new law will oblige to place red banners next to the Ukrainian flags on May 9 of each year.

The fourth stage of the Formula-1 championship-the Grand Prix of Turkey, which traditionally gathers the largest number of Russian fans, starts in Istanbul with two sessions of free races, RIA Novosti reports. Friday races will begin at 11:00 and 15:00 Moscow time. On Saturday morning, the third practice will be held (12:00 Moscow time), at 15:00 Moscow time - qualification races. Sunday race begins at 16:00 Moscow time.

The Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars, Army General Nikolai Patrushev, who took this post three years ago, will receive the opportunity to control the domestic army. The corresponding powers are given a new provision on this constitutional body, the text of which is posted on the Kremlin’s website on Friday evening.

To present in the Federation Council the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg instead of Socialist-Revolutionary Sergey Mironov will be a unicorn. This was stated by the chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia Boris Gryzlov, RIA Novosti reports. He noted that United Russia has a majority in the Legislative Assembly. Gryzlov did not specify the names of possible candidates. Earlier, Gryzlov said that United Russia supports the initiative of the St.