Press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov denied the statement that the president had met in St. Petersburg with the ex-head of the Ministry of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, RIA Novosti reports. According to him, there was no meeting. Recall, on June 26, the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper reported that Putin met with Serdyukov during the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg.

Astronomers from the University of Texas in Austin in Commonwealth with colleagues from other observatories found pulsations of brightness at the remains of the dead star GD 518. Through the pulsations, these occur with a period of 400-500 seconds and are connected, scientists believe, with the process of crystallization of these remains. They published a message about their opening in the last issue of TheastrophysicalJournalletters.

Peter is their own Sergey Mitrokhin and Alexei Navalny on the forum of municipal deputies Denis Styazhournal.com The so -called “municipal filter”, introduced after the return of direct elections of the heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, has become a real problem for opposition candidates fighting for the position of Moscow mayor.

Ecuador is ready to provide political asylum ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden within the walls of his embassy. This conclusion was made by Journalists of Wall Street Journal on the basis of statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Equador Ricardo Patino, who performed on Wednesday, June 26.

Candidates of mayors Alexei Navalny were invited to speak to municipal deputies on June 27, but he refused due to the participation of the candidates of Sergei Spider of Troitsky and the chairman of the Volya Party Svetlana Peunova.

The police detained several people on the old Arbat during an inconsistent campaign dedicated to the 50th anniversary of businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, bloggers on Twitter write. The exact number of detainees is not reported. “They detained many girls. In autozaks fights and female screeching, ”writes @vladiannas. People launched balls with the image of Khodorkovsky and shouted : “Freedom to political prisoners”, “Enough political processes”, “We demand justice”, “Congratulations”.

The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II handed the creators of the Internet a nominal prize in the scientific and technical field of 1 million pounds (more than $ 1.5 million), BBC reports. The queen was received by the British Tim Berners Lee, Frenchman Louis Puzin, Americans Robert Kahn (Robert Kahn), Vint Cerf, and Mark Andreessen. The reception on the occasion of their awarding took place in the Buckingham Palace.

The reason for the fire, which arose on June 21 on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line of the Moscow metro, was mechanical damage to the coupling of a tenth-free cable connection, the press service of the Moscow Metro reports. Due to the damage, there was a “short-term excess jump in the voltage in the TPP-8 network, which feeds the subway substation, which led to the fire of the cable.

The Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky, temporarily released by the Cambodian court for guarantee and a non -departure subscription, sold the island belonging to him in Cambodia along with the berths and the villa he built, and bought another instead, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Russian lawyer. According to the defender of Polonsky, the businessman bought an island next to the resort city of Sianouquin, 70 km from the shore of the island state.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill said that in connection with the verdict of the monk Elijah (Semin), the priests should draw conclusions and “avoid the temptations of this year”, the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate reports. “The rejoiced by the monk Elijah gave a reason to seeking the whole church to blame our entire church, became an incentive for slanderous fabrications against clergy, the vast majority of which honestly and sacrificingly carrying its pastoral ministry.

A map with the location of the free Wi-Fi networks in the capital's parks appeared on the Open Data portal, the Moscow Information Technology Department reports. Currently, the Internet access points are already in 13 parks of the capital, including Sokolniki, Garden Hermitage, Izmailovsky Park, Krasnaya Presnya, Garden of Culture and Rest named after N.E. Bauman ”and“ Fili ”. Each park accounts for at least five Wi-Fi-pounds, depending on its size and attendance.

The sensational story with the disappearance of an 84-year-old scientist, the author of the most ambitious idea of ​​a space project in the history of the 20th century-“space elevator”-Yuri Artsutanova, ended safely. He was found in Moscow, where he went to chat with reporters, reports the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg. With a statement about the loss of Yuri Artsutanov, his son appealed to the police of the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg on June 23.

On June 25, at 23 hours 27 minutes of Moscow time from the Guiana Space Center (GCC, French Guiana), the joint calculations of Russian and European specialists launched the Soyuz-ST-B Russian launch vehicle with the Frigat-MT accelerated unit and the O3B spacecraft. In the calculated time, the head block as part of the Frigat-MT acceleration unit and four satellites separated from the third stage of the launch vehicle and continued the flight.

The head of the Moscow Education Department, Isaac Kalina, believes that schoolchildren should not go to the toilet while passing the exam, Interfax reports. “ There is one trifle that you need to get rid of. These are trips to toilets, ” Kalina said on June 26. He hopes that such a measure will help prevent cheating. The head of the department noted that graduates do not write off in audiences, but during the exit from the audience.

The share of those who personally approve of the early release of the ex -owner of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has increased from 19 to 33%over the past six years, and opposing against 44 to 16%. This is evidenced by a survey conducted by the Levada Center on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the businessman. The results of the survey are published by Vedomosti in the article "Seal enough" (No. 111, dated June 26).