This year, Roskosmos plans to reconstruct the 31st launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, from where the Soyuz-2.1 launch vehicles with unspial useful loads are launched, as well as find funds for the modernization of the cosmodrome power supply system, said the head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin. “We have been leased by the Baikonur cosmodrome until 2050, everything was built here in Soviet times, and in fact we have largely developed modern resources.

On the social network Facebook, the page of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill appeared. In the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church, Gazeta.Ru noticed that the Patriarch's page will be updated daily. You can familiarize yourself with the performances of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and the news dedicated to him, as well as see his photos.

On May 14, 2012 , the result of a large project was summed up - “Polit.ru Prize”. Elizabeth Glinka, better known as Dr. Lisa , was chosen by the man. Electors, representatives of the Polit.ru community, cast her votes. There were several performances at the ceremony. The speakers said that the most important thing for them. Dmitry Itskovich asked the first to speak to Vitaly Nayshulya. “He is our main match, he is both light and sunk,” so Itskovich said about Nayshula.

The EU naval forces held their first raid in places where Somali pirates are based. As a result of the operation, several boats were destroyed, BBC reports on Tuesday. The military was delivered to pirate bases near the Port of Nakharkhir on helicopters. Two vessels, which were supposed to block light pirate boats, acted as support from the water. The command of the command says that not one of the participants in the operation was injured - however, like local residents.

The metropolitan department of nature management and environmental protection estimated the damage from the camp on pure ponds of 20.4 million rubles. About this, as Interfax reports, the representative of the department said. Earlier, officials talked about damage to a million rubles. The large amount is explained by the fact that two thousand square meters of a trampled lawn were with a monument of garden and park art.

Greenpeace of Russia sent a letter to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation due to the fact that in the data of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Amur Region there is a distortion (concealment) of information about the scale of forest fires.

The Government of the Russian Federation listened to complaints of state -owned companies dissatisfied with the double burden in connection with the obligation to finance the target capital (Endaum) of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech). Now state -owned companies have been able to choose - they will be able to expel to the enduum or at least 1% of the funds from their innovative development programs, or up to 3% of their net profit.

Preparing food for participants in the youth camp on Seliger will be the St. Petersburg company Concord M Evgenia Prigozhin. The starting price of the contract amounted to more than 51 million rubles, however, Concord in the fight against three opponents (Russian Traditions, the Federal Medical University Group of Companies and Beltorg) offered a smallest amount - 36.67 million rubles for 17.6 thousand participants from July 1 to August 2.

The State Duma accepted a statement in which she demanded to hold accountable, including criminal, “performers, organizers and instigators” of the riots that occurred on May 6 in Moscow. “For” only 236 deputies from “United Russia” voted. The remaining fractions did not support the document. An alternative statement prepared by communists and Socialist Revolutionaries scored only 150 votes. For adoption, it is necessary that 226 deputies speak out.

At the Zavtra club, May 18, 19 and 20 will be dedicated to Poland. Visitors to the Polish weekend will learn about Polish comics, animation, cooking and good music. Admission to all events is free; the Zavtra club is located in house No. 26 on Sretenka Street. On May 18 at 18:00, a showing of Polish cartoons will begin, and at 21:00 a concert of singer Maya Kleshch will begin. The evening of May 19 will also begin with animation - viewing will begin at 17:00.

The Moscow government approved a decision on the creation of a unified mobile platform (EMP), which will allow you to use the potential of mobile devices to improve the quality of city services, the metropolitan department of information technology said on May 15.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev presented President Vladimir Putin with proposals for the structure and composition of the new cabinet of ministers. reports this RIA Novosti . So far, the composition of the new government has not been disclosed.

The former head of the Military Medical Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General of the Medical Service, Alexander Belevitin, did not plead guilty to the sane crime. This was reported by RAPSI . The second person involved in the same case, Deputy Belevitin Alexei Nikitin found guilty at all points of the prosecution.

By December 2014, a new section of the Lublin-Dmitrovskaya line from the Maryina Roshcha station to Seligerskaya, which will consist of six metro stations, the press service of the Moscow government said on Tuesday, May 15. On the new section of the Lublin-Dmitrovsky line, the Butyrskaya, Fonvizskaya, Petrovsko-Razumovskaya stations will be opened, which will have a transplant to the Serpukhov line, “District” next to the small ring of the railway, “Upper Likhobors” and “Seligerskaya”.

The head of the Altai Republic, Alexander Berdnikov, took under personal control the situation with mercury waste, which are stored in the open air 11 km from the village of Aktash of the Ulagansky district, and instructed to urgently take measures to dispose of them, the press service of the government of the republic said on May 15.