The deputy of Fair Russia, Gennady Gudkov, commented on a letter from a citizen of Bulgaria to the Investigative Committee, in which he asks "to deal with the investments of the State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov through one of the Cyprus banks from another offshore company, allegedly created for laundering of funds." In an interview with the Moscow Komsomol member, Gudkov said that "the authorities are trying to make him from the victim of the defendant." "The NTV channel was not too lazy to send

Katar authorities sent China a request to invest 5 billion dollars in his stock market, although foreign investors have a maximum quota five times less than this amount, BBC reports on Monday. Katar addressed the corresponding request a few days after Beijing stated that he intended to soften the rules of the work of foreign investors in the Chinese market.

The founder of the WikiLeaks resource Julian Assange demanded that the Swedish authorities give him guarantees that he would not be transferred to the United States. He stated this in an interview with the Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald, Interfax reports on Monday. According to Assange, for him sufficient guarantees would be the termination of the investigation of the case of the dissemination of the secret information conducted by the American authorities.

On July 7, in the village of Nikola -Lenice of the Kaluga Region, presentations of the new project of the artist Nikolai Polis - landscape installation “Ecumenical Reason” will be held. Nikolai Polissky is the founder of the Arch of Archion festival and the only representative of the Russian Land Art. The installation of the "Ecumenical Reason" he continues the scientific series. In 2008, the first major project of the series was shown in Luxembourg - the Bolshaya Andron Collider.

The possibility of extending the Lublin-Dmitrov line in the Severny (SWAO) area is considered in the plan for the construction of the metro, the construction world reports on June 25 with reference to the deputy mayor of Moscow for urban planning policy and the construction of Marat Khusnullin.

The Ministry of Labor at the end of last week sent a draft pension reform to the government, according to which to receive a full labor pension will need to work at least 45 years for men and at least and 40 years for women. Graduates of universities or mothers who took leaves for children will be able to receive a normal pension only after 67-69 years. Without the indicated experience, citizens will receive only a truncated pension.

So far, the State Duma Committee on Criminal Law agrees on the new edition of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud” with a new description of the crime, and the Supreme Court insists on the old wording, business representatives are preparing their own, third option, with the allocation of businessmen in a “preferential” category of violators. Business representatives are preparing to join the “Legislative race” around Article 159 of the Criminal Code - “Fraud”.

In 2012, Saudi Arabia will allow their athletes to take part in the Olympic Games, which will be held in London, reports the Air Force . Earlier it was proposed to prevent all athletes from this country to participate in the upcoming games due to discrimination on the sexual basis. It is reported that only one is known about one sportsman from Saudi Arabia, which can speak at the Olympics, since its level meets the necessary requirements.

The feature film “I Serving the Soviet Union”, which was demanded by Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, watched 5.4 percent of Russian viewers. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the study "TNS Russia". The film was shown on NTV on Friday Prime Time on June 22. In total, according to the company, the film was watched by 703.1 thousand people or 22.7 percent of all viewers who watched the TV at that moment. For this type of television product, this indicator is above average.

The bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decided not to hold votes on Russian candidates for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to his source. “There will be no election of a Russian judge at this session. Most likely, the next vote will only be held at the session in October, ”the agency’s interlocutor said. Now Russia is represented by Anatoly Coover in the Strasbourg Court. His powers expire in November 2012.

Two members of the LulzSec hacker group Ryan Chiri and Jake Davis admitted attacks on Sony Corp sites, CIA and News Corp., while denying that they illegally posted information on them, on Monday the D Etroit N Ews . During the trial in London, Clearry pleaded guilty of six of the eight points of the prosecution . He also said that he got access to Pentagon computers. The second person involved in the case admitted to two of the four accusations.

The Petersburg police refused to start a case in connection with a violation of traffic control as an inspector of traffic police due to video defects. This was reported in the blog "Society of the Blue Vederoks". According to the police, due to a violation of the color rendering, the “30th frame effect” occurs in the video from the registrar, in which the traffic police car drives to the red traffic light with turned off the “flashing lights”.

The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region confirmed the legality of the against the city of the city of Berezovsky criminal case against employees of the Yevgeny Roizman Foundation "City without drugs." This was reported on the website of the supervisory authority. The case was initiated after a complaint of one of the former patients of the female rehabilitation center of the City without drugs fund under the article “Illegal imprisonment” (Article 127 of the Criminal Code).

The UN Conference on the Sustainable Development of Rio+20, which ended in Rio de Janeiro, most likely will not affect the situation with nature and its protection, and and at any development in general, Ecologists of Greenpeace believe. The Rio+20 summit, which took place on June 20–22, 2012 in Brazil, was dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of the previous global conference on sustainable development, which also took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Thomas Kroup. Photo fragment from the planetarium site We continue the publication of the materials of the Forum "Funds and Museums as a popularizers of scientific knowledge", which took place as part of the Popular Science project. The director of the Hamburg Planetarium Thomas Croupe is talking about his experience. First, let me thank you for the invitation here, to your beautiful city. I was recently in Yaroslavl and looked there a planetarium.