Hackers, calling themselves Lulz Security or Lulz Boat, said they had a successful attack on the US Senate website and stole internal data from it. A group of cyber-criminals writes about this on Monday on its website . “Hello friends! We do not really love the US government. Their ships are weak, their jokes are not ridiculous, and their sites are not very reliable, ”the representatives of the Lulz Security group emphasize.

On June 14, the ex-press secretary of the Khamovnik court, Natalia Vasilieva, who declared pressure on the court during the sentencing in the second case of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, will interview the Investigative Committee, writes Gazeta.ru . This was announced by Irina Khrunova, a lawyer from the Human Right movement "Agora", providing legal assistance to Vasilyeva.

Arkady Zakharov On June 23-24, 2011, the first book fair will be held in Perm. Her headliners will be Vladimir Sorokin and Zakhar Prilepin. Actually, this fair is more like a book festival: unlike their London or New York colleagues, Permians are not betting on the attracting publishers or booksakers (although both of them will come to a self-proclaimed “cultural capital”), but to high-quality humanitarian content.

Wikimedia Commons We publish the text of the lecture. geographer. The sciences, associate professor of the Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography of the Geographical faculty of Moscow State University Andrei Valerievich Panin on the topic “Belt, winter, summer time: which is better for Russia”, read on April 14, 2011 at the Political Lectures of Polit.ru. Text of the lecture Briefly remind the background of the question.

A homeless man, shot down by the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Kudrin, intends to sue the minister. He told about this on the air of the Russian News Service on June 14. 30-year-old Sergei Kuraev explained that he did not know how to sue and expressed hope for the aid of “smart people”. According to the victim, both the official and himself are to blame for the incident. Kuraev admitted that he crossed the road in an unidentified place.

The Austrian government suspended the sale of two mountain peaks in the Alps after the opposition and public organizations began to demand that they remain publicly available, the newspaper Washington Post reports. “We suspended the sale to consider alternative opportunities,” said Austrian Government Ernst Eichinger. On Tuesday, it became known that in Austria two mountain peaks were exposed for auction - Roscoscope and Gross Kinigat.

Rosprirodnadzor experts estimated the damage caused by the Baikal Pulp Plant Environmental of 520 million rubles. This was reported on the website of the department. Rosprirodnadzor announced the completion of the audit of the Baikal cellulose-paper plant. As a result, 31 violations of Russian legislation were identified. Last week, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he was ready to personally connect to solving the problems of the lake.

The Russian Presidential Administration was “in the course of details” of the trip of the head of Fide Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to the Libyan capital of Tripoli, said Dmitry Medvedev, Assistant Sergei Prikhodko, RIA Novosti reported on June 14, 2011. “According to the information available to us, during the conversation with Muammar Gaddafi Ilyumzhinov, he outlined an official Russian assessment of events in Libya,” said Prikhodko.

Russia signed an agreement with France on the supply of four French helicopters Mistral. The first two ships will cost the Russian side of 1.2 billion euros, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Tuesday with reference to a source close to negotiations. As explains the publication, the delegation of Rosoboronexport signed a contract with the French DCNS corporation on June 10 in Paris. The first two helicopters will be made on French shipyards in Saint-Sazer.

The copy of the documents provided by the former press secretary of the Khamovnichesky Court cannot indicate the falsification of the sentence to Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR) Vladimir Markin said on June 14, 2011 Novosti .

The protection of employees of the Office “K” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, arrested in connection with the case of underground casinos, will file a complaint against the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Moscow City Court, writes on June 14 Kommersant . According to their lawyers, they first encounter a situation where people were arrested in a case where they did not even go through witnesses, while the investigation against them was terminated by the Prosecutor General.

The founder of Microsoft Bill Gates said that the creator of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg was engaged to his girlfriend Priscilla Chan. This was reported on Tuesday, June 14, Tvnz . Gates accidentally called Chan the “bride” of Tsuckerberg in an interview with the British Daily Mail, where he spoke of charity. According to Gates, Tsuckerberg turned to him for help in organizing a charity program.

The sovereign credit rating of Greece on Monday fell from “c” to “SSC” with a “negative” forecast, the Standard & Poor's International rating agency said in a statement. The agency notes that it decided to reduce the rating due to the fact that the country is threatening one or more defaults. Note that on the Standard & Poor's scale, the CSC rating implies that the country is experiencing difficulties with calculations on debt obligations and depends on favorable economic conditions.

Venezuela's leadership introduces tough restrictions on the use of electricity by the country's population and industrial enterprises, RIA Novosti reports. The plan of local authorities implies a general decrease in electricity consumption within a month. Business representatives are required to reduce electricity consumption by 10% compared to the same period in 2009.

The traffic police of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs recorded several radio -roads that will call drivers and passengers to comply with safety rules in transport. Social advertising will be broadcast at the Vesti FM, Energy, Autoradio and Humor FM radio stations, the press service of the department reports.