In Makhachkala, the rector of the Institute of Theology and International Relations Maksud Sadikov and his nephew Zalimkhan Musaev were killed. This was announced on Tuesday by RIA "Novosti" the representative of the Investigative Department of the IC in Dagestan. Initially, the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs received information that the rector of one of the Islamic universities and his son were shot in the capital of the republic, and the guard was seriously wounded.

The area of ​​forest fires in Siberia on Tuesday exceeded 30 thousand hectares, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Siberian Center of the Ministry of Emergencies. On the territory of the Siberian Federal District, 143 centers of natural fires were registered (an increase per day by seven); At the same time, 88 fires managed to put out in a day. The fire spread over a total area of ​​30.316 thousand hectares (an increase of 3.167 thousand hectares).

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that Russia will not create a special formula for gas pricing for Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports on Tuesday, June 7. “The price of natural gas for Ukraine is exactly the same as for all our other partners in Europe,” Putin said after negotiations with his Ukrainian colleague Nikolai Azarov. According to the Russian prime minister, the Ukrainian side in the negotiations proposed changing this formula and laying other components into it.

Representatives of the St. Petersburg Zenit met with the midfielder of CSKA Alan Dzagoev for his transition to the camp of the current champions of Russia. The meeting, according to Sports.ru , referring to a reliable source surrounded by a football player, took place in St. Petersburg after the match of the national teams of Russia and Armenia. It is clarified at the same time that the football player himself was treated without much enthusiasm to the idea of ​​a transition to Zenit.

The world's largest Airbus 380 passenger aircraft last Monday made the first landing in the US capital, RIA Novosti reports. Air France, who arrived from Paris, met the Air France aircraft at Dalles’s Washington Airport, dozens of journalists and all the airport leadership, which shot a giant airliner on mobile phones, photo and video cameras.

The issuance of General Ratko Mladic to a military tribunal does not mean at all that the European Union will accept Serbia with open arms. So believes an employee of the Institute of International Economic and Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Balkanist historian Sergei Romanenko. In an interview with Polit.ru, he said that in order to join the EU of Serbia, it is necessary to survive a long process of reconstruction.

The 54-year-old resident of the Soviet District Omsk Oleg Slobodchikov received 3 years in a colony of general regime for 23 depraved actions in relation to 6 girls 10-15 years old, ITAR-TASS-Siberia reports. It was established that from June to September 2007, Slobodchikov lured neighboring girls in his apartment on Kommunalnaya Street, promising them computer games. Then he paid them from 200 to 1 thousand rubles so that they would not tell anyone about the far from computer games.

United Russia intends to exclude from its ranks the blogger Elena Miro (the real name is Mironenko). Mironenko gained scandalous fame after the post that she under the nickname Miss-Tramell published in her Livejournal, writes Moscow Komsomolets . In his LiveJournal, the blogger offers to save the center of Moscow from the "abominable old women." Mironenko claims that such an idea arose from her after she nearly knocked out one “vile old woman with a soured on wheels”.

Now on June 6 in Russia the day of the Russian language will be celebrated. Dmitry Medvedev signed the corresponding decree yesterday during a visit to the Pushkin State Language State Institute. This visit was not accidental - on June 6, 2011, the 212 years since the birth of an outstanding Russian poet. “In my opinion, I couldn’t find the best day for the Russian Language Day, I had no hesitation here,” the president explained the choice for the holiday.

Olga Gurova , Vitaly Nayshul 1. More than 500 years ago, on May 29, 1453, under the onslaught of Turkish-Sosmans, the capital of Byzantium, Constantinople, is the center of the then Orthodox world. For Russia, lost in the northern forests of the cultural province of the Orthodox world, which suddenly became the main Orthodox state of the world, a difficult time of self -identification has come. The size of the then Russian cultural disaster is difficult for us to imagine.

The daughter of Muamara Gaddafi Aisha on Tuesday filed claims to the courts of Brussels and Paris, the subject of which was the actions of NATO in Libya, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Western media. The reason for this act was the “military crime” of the North Atlantic Alliance - as Aisha’s lawyers described air strikes on the residence of her father on the night of May 1.

Yuri Krasnozhan was dismissed from the post of head coach Lokomotiv. This decision was made by the participants in the meeting of the board of directors of the FC, who ended on Monday late in the evening. That is - on the eve of the 48th birthday of Krasnozhan. The news of the possible stitching of Krasnozhan scattered to the vsubbot, and when the fans rushed to find the truth to the club site, he, unable to withstand the influx of exciting combatants, began to work with large reinforcements.

The Federation Council is ready to approve the introduction of Russian peacekeepers to Libya, the chairman of the Committee on Defense and Security, Viktor Ozerov, said on the air of Radio Echo of Moskvy . The corresponding document must submit the president to the Council. After the senators consider the submission and make their resolution, the president makes the final decision on the participation of the domestic armed forces in the operation.

We publish a transcript of the program “Science 2.0”-a joint project of the information and analytical portal “Polit.ru” and the Vesti FM radio station. The guest of the program is a doctor of historical sciences, the head of the department of the Modern East of the Russian State Humanitarian University, the leading researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies and the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrei Korotaev .

The number of the Russian population employed in traditional sectors of the economy can be reduced by 12.9%by 2025, writes today, June 7, Kommersant , citing a report to the Prescription of the Forecasting Resources of the Institute of People's Economic Forecasting (Inp) of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrei Korovkin.