The State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation on administrative offenses, increasing fines for violations on mass shares.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said that his country could join NATO in 2014. He expressed this opinion after the end of the NATO summit in Chicago. “As I understand it, the next summit will be devoted to the expansion of NATO. I also noticed that the policy of the "open door" of NATO is ongoing.

In the capital of Japan, on Tuesday, the grand opening of the Tokyo Sky Tree (Heavenly Tokyo Tree), which became the second largest building and the highest communication tower in the world, took place, Kyodo reports. The height of Tokyo Sky Tree, along with Antenna, is 634 meters, which is almost twice as high as the famous Tokyo television tower, whose steel top was bent on March 11, 2011 as a result of an earthquake . The first visitors were able to climb the tower on Tuesday morning.

The first thread of the Nord Stream naval gas pipeline, pumping Russian gas to Northern Europe along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, was first brought up for the full load last Monday, Interfax reports. The fixed performance amounted to 73 million cubic meters per day or 27.5 billion cubic meters per year. The gas pipeline was launched in November last year, but, due to the debugging of the equipment, until recently was used for about a third.

Former senior director of business process management in Yahoo! Robert Kwok admitted to the trade in insider information about the company's transactions, Bloomberg reports. The top manager agreed to pay a fine, the amount of which the court will determine later. As it turned out, the ex-managing unit of American Financial Rome Shah received confidential information about the quarterly profit of Yahoo! and potential transactions with other companies.

Home V the first reading State Duma Consider The bill "United Russia" On strengthening the administrative responsibility of organizers and participants in rallies . " Target this The bill is to bring order And Provide responsibility V case , if will be Some disorder or Hooligan , extremist Gots . Bill Put Zaslon before those who goes on rallies With Such intentions . We Let us give bill To European And world standards.

Rostekhnologi Corporation invited the German concern Daimler to buy 25% in the KamAZ automotive company, but there has not yet been a reaction to this proposal, Interfax reports. “We are negotiating, offered to buy 25%, but they (Daimler), while they think,” said Sergey Chemezov, head of the state corporation. After the purchase, the share of the German concern in the Russian automaker will grow to 25 percent plus one promotion and will become blocking.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev joined the United Russia party, Interfax reports. Medvedev was admitted to the party at the meeting of the primary branch of United Russia in the Moscow District of Ramenka Kompas. The party ticket Medvedev was awarded by the secretary of the primary department Lidia Aleshin. Recall that today it became known that Medvedev wrote a statement about joining the party.

The new composition of the administration of Vladimir Putin is very much like the old composition of the government of Vladimir Putin. Ivanov, Volodin, Fursenko, Golikova, Nurgaliev. Nabiullina, Levitin, Schegolev. Press Secretary-Peskov. It will not be easy to work with Medvedev ministers with such a neighborhood. Following the government, the presidential administration, the new President Vladimir Putin, was appointed.

From the cosmodrome at Cape Canveral in Florida today, May 22, 2012 at 07:44:38 UTC (11:44:38 Moscow time), a private spacecraft Dragon, created by the American company SpaceX , headed from the SLC-40 site. The start was successful. The flight is demonstrated. His task includes docking from the ISS on May 25 at 12:06 UTC (16:06 Moscow time) and returning to Earth on May 31.

The Moscow Information Technology Department put up a draft electronic medical card for public discussion. Muscovites have already begun to leave comments on the project. Citizens indicate that it is necessary to provide a person with access to the electronic version of his card via the Internet. There are also playful suggestions: “The main thing is to develop a special incomprehensible font,” one of the participants in the discussion believes.

On May 22, at the State Duma building, the police detained the leader of Yabloko, Sergei Mitrokhin. About ten Yabloko activists gathered at the State Duma, protesting against the consideration of the bill on raising fines for violations at rallies assigned on Tuesday. Police officers took Mitrokhin to a car recovery with the words that this action is not agreed, the RIA Novosti website reports. Earlier, other participants in a single picket have already been delivered to the autozak.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine forbade smoking, selling and advertising cigarettes at Euro 2012 events. More than two -thirds of deputies voted for such a ban, Interfax reports. “Any advertising of tobacco products, advertising signs for goods and services, other objects of intellectual property law, under which tobacco products are produced, is prohibited,” the law says. European football champion will be held from June 8 to July 1. Two countries accept it - Ukraine and Poland.

President Vladimir Putin on May 21 signed a decree on the expansion of the list of strategic enterprises. Now the government will not be able to sell the shares of the FSK UES (Gosdol - 79.55%), Holding IDGC (53.69%), RusHydro (60.38%) and System Operator (100%). The only action of Rosneft was also declared strategic, which directly belongs to the federal government.

Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin, who was detained on May 22 near the State Duma building, has been released from the police, reports the RIA Novosti website . As the Ministry of Internal Affairs explained, Mitrokhin was released from the police after a preventive conversation, and administrative protocols were drawn up against five more people. They were ordered to appear in court on May 30.