State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin said that there is no need to postpone the presidential election, and the possibility of holding early parliamentary elections should not be attached much importance, RIA Novosti reports. “Parliamentary elections, obviously, will be transferred for only three months, this is not a fundamental moment, therefore, to speak in this connection and project this decision, it is almost technical, on the presidential election - simply not an argument,” said Naryshkin.

Former Deputy Minister of Culture and one of the creators of the “Young Guard of United Russia”, Ivan Demidov, will head the newly created development fund of modern culture, writes Kommersant . According to the publication, the initiative to create the fund was supported in the presidential administration. The Board of Trustees of the Foundation may include artist Yevgeny Mironov, singer Diana Arbenina, art critic Olga Sviblova and other figures of culture and art.

The chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol Alexei Chaly said in an interview with Kommersant FM that he sees the main problem of investment in the city not in the absence of those who want to invest in the region, but "in the level of organization of power." “ Is it ready to accept these investors effectively - this is the question.

The Tver Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office organized an audit of the repertoire of the Moscow Center named after Meyerhold, the New Gazeta reports. The reason for the verification was the appeal of the organization “Art without Borders”, which saw obscenely abuse, propaganda of immoral behavior and pornography in the repertoire of the theater. The representative of the Meyerhold Center must come to the prosecutor's office to give written explanations.

Anna Sakoyan Alexander Rubtsov Photo: Natasha Chetverikova/Polit.ru On June 18, as part of the joint cycle of the University of KGI and Polit.ru-“KGI: Ideas and Persons”, a dialogue meeting with the chairman of the Council of the Free Historical Society , the Deputy General Director of the Museum Association “Museum of Moscow” Nikita Sokolov and the member of the Council of the Free Historical Society, the head of the Center for Philosophical processes of the Institute of Navalia, Alexander

The head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, Alexei Ulyukaev, said that the growth rate of the national economy can reach a level above 3.5% since 2017, Interfax reports. “We have prepared the so -called target forecast, which proceeds from the fact that it is impossible to reach the pace of 3.5% and above since 2017,” Ulyukaev said on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The Russian economic crisis caused by sanctions will cost Europe more than two million jobs and 100 billion euros. The Die Welt newspaper writes about this with reference to the Austrian Institute of Economic Research. According to Austrian economists, sanctions against Russia led to the significantly worst consequences for the countries of the European Union than expected.

Against 16 residents of Karachay-Cherkessia, criminal cases have been instituted on the fact of their participation in illegal armed groups in Syria. This was reported by the head of the Investigative Committee of the Republic. Since November 2013, the suspects have been trained on physical, tactical, combat training and rules for handling explosive devices in an educational camp for Afam Muascar militants near the city of ATMA.

The investigating authorities qualified the shooting in the Church in American Charleston as terrorism, reports Reuters . The Ministry of Justice reported that the case is investigated under articles on crime on the basis of racial hatred and internal terrorism. Previously, Dilan Ruf’s accused in this case was assigned a security deposit of $ 1 million on charges of storing weapons. On June 17, in the evening service, the young man opened fire in one of the churches of Charleston.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov announced the innocence of the soldier of the North battalion Ruslan Geremeyev, who is suspected of involvement in the organization of the murder of the politician Boris Nemtsov, Forbes reports . “He is not to blame, he was neither on the bridge, nor next to the bridge, nor in the area. Geremeyev is ready, according to his relatives, to go to court if there is a fair attitude, but that he is not a sacrament, everyone knows this.

Polit.ru completes its traditional survey on the VKontakte social network. This time he was dedicated to the arrests of Russian assets in France , Belgium and Austria on June 18 after a decision to recover in favor of ex-campaigning Yukos. Our readers were invited to evaluate this event. So, the arrest of Russian accounts in the EU countries in the Yukos case is ...

In Moscow, the opening ceremony of the Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) began. It is reported by TASS . The festival program has 12 films, including paintings from Russia, France, Spain, Lebanon, Iran, Bulgaria, Finland, Serbia. The jury MMKF will be headed by the French film director Jean-Jacques Anno. Three Russian films participate in the competition: “Orleans” by Andrei Proshkin, “Dear Hans, Dear Peter” by Alexander Mindadze and “Arventur” Irina Evtheeva.

The Chinese government is unlikely to make concessions of the Hong Kong on the electoral reform, writes Ny Times with reference to the Probyn politicians. It is noted that the Xinhua agency supported the point of view of politicians, reporting after the vote that the Government of the PRC did not have a plan to revise elections in Hong Kong.

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A new study revealed that two types of large Australian kangaroo clearly prefer to act with the left of their front limbs. Previously, the phenomenon of the “leading hand” was noted, in addition to people, only among anthropoid monkeys. The authors of the study were employees of the department of zoology of the vertebrates of St. Petersburg State University Egor Malashichev, Andrei Gilev and Karina Karenina, as well as Janeane Ingram from the universitate of Tasmania.