In Kyiv, negotiations on gas prices between Russia and Ukraine were completed with the participation of the European Commission. Gazprom refused to change its position on gas tariffs, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official representative of the concern Sergey Kupriyanov. “The Russian side expects the payment of accumulated gas debt in the amount of 1951 million dollars until 10 a.m. on June 16.

The founder of the Party of Progress Alexei Navalny asked the leadership of the Communist Party of the Communist Party and Yabloko to include in the lists in the elections to the Moscow City Duma Konstantin Yankauskas and Nikolai Lyaskin. The appeal is placed on the Navalny blog. “Dear Gennady Zyuganov, Sergey Mitrokhin and their supporters.

“Remember that the greatest difficulties will not have the press, not the teams and the organizers, but you, fans,” FIFA writes in his memo. But this is it for the Europeans accustomed to the order, and we are closer to Brazil Photo: Reuters Long before the start of the mundial in the press around the world, an active campaign has unfolded against the World Cup. He was exhibited in a black light, focused on the fact that the country was not ready to accept the mundial.

Eight former employees of the Kazan Police Department of Dalniy received a total of 67 years of colony. This was reported by the Openinform agency with reference to the head of the Kazan human rights center Igor Sholokhov, representing the interests of the four victims.

The investigation does not have data on the criminal case of fraud in the elections of the Moscow Mayor in 2013, accused of which three supporters of opposition Alexei Navalny are taking place. This was reported with reference to the source in the Investigative Committee (SK) of Russia by the Vedomosti newspaper on June 16.

The American medical equipment manufacturer Medtronics announced the desire to change the tax residence permit from the United States to Ireland, writes Bloomberg . This will become possible after the acquisition of a competitor, Covidien, an American company that changed tax citizenship to Irish back in 2009. The transaction is announced on the general website of two companies.

The United Group Eksmo and AST agreed on the purchase of the Proof educational literature publishing house. About this with reference to the chairman of the board of directors of Drofa, Alexander Kondakov, reports Kommersant. On June 11, the Federal Antimonopoly Service allowed AST to purchase 61% at Drofa LLC and 100% of Drofa Holding LLC.

The ninth issue of the heading of the posttnouka project on Slon is not released on Friday, on Monday: we are confused at the weekend. As always, however, this is a selection of the most interesting videos of the week with small comments from the postnayuki specialists.

Former deputy head of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Countering of Corruption (GUEBIPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General Boris Kolesnikov committed suicide.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sharply reduced the prognosis of US GDP growth for 2014, Bloomberg reports. This indicator decreased from 2.8% according to forecasts in April to 2%. In 2015, the growth will be the same as predicted earlier - 3%, experts of the fund believes. Inflation this year will remain low, and unemployment will almost not be reduced - “full employment” should be expected no earlier than the end of 2017.

Rosneft President refused to publish a declaration of income, Vedomosti writes . The anti -corruption decree of the President of July 8, 2013 is not related to the company, the newspaper said in response to an official request.

The Ministry of Economics and Energy of Germany checks the contract for the sale of the DeA company to the Letterone group for € 5.1 billion, writes Spiegel with reference to a source in the department. DEA is a subsidiary of the German energy concern RWE, and Letterone is affiliated with Alfa-Group Mikhail Friedman. The notification of the start of the audit was received at RWe on Friday, June 13.

The Yandex Internet search engine agreed on the purchase of Auto.ru automobile portal. This was reported on June 16 in the Yandex press release. The amount of the transaction is estimated at $ 175 million. It is expected that it will be closed in the third quarter of 2014. After that, Yandex will continue to develop the resource. The base of ads for the sale of vehicles Auto.ru is the largest in the country.

Gazprom introduced a prepayment regime in gas supplies for Kyiv due to non-debt non-binding. This is stated in the message on the website of the concern. The company did not specify whether supplies to Ukraine were terminated, but noticed that payments for June had not yet been received. Earlier in the Russian concern, it was stated that if until 10:00 Moscow time on June 16, the Ukrainian side would not pay $ 1.9 billion on debt account, then the gas will be supplied only after payment.

BusinessWeek magazine, as part of its latest issue of The Global Tech, talks about the Chinese company Xiaomi, a rapidly rising star in the technology market, which has already flooded China with its cheap but functional smartphones, and is now beginning to expand internationally. The goal is nothing less than to grab market share from Apple, which Xiaomi plans to defeat with $130 smartphones and its own MIUI mobile firmware based on Android.