Yesterday, a referendum on the adoption of a constitution for a parliamentary republic was held in Kyrgyzstan. According to the Central Election Commission, the turnout was high even in the south, where interethnic clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks recently took place. In the Osh and Jalal-Abad regions, more than 40% of voters came to the polls. In Bishkek and other northern regions, the turnout was more than 60%, and in the country as a whole – 60%.

Rosstat will recalculate quarterly and annual GDP figures since 2006, the head of the agency, Aleksandr Surinov, announced. The recalculation is planned to be completed by the end of the year; it is caused by changes in the calculations of industrial production dynamics – Rosstat completed this work by May. Since 2010, Rosstat has switched to a new method of calculating the industrial production index, changing the base year (2008 instead of 2002) and the product classifier.

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An anti-crisis situation centre will be created under the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, the Brussels-based online newspaper EUobserver reported. The talk is about creating a "single crisis response center" under Ashton's leadership, which will be located at the headquarters of the EU diplomatic service being created. The anti-crisis center will have a staff of about 160 people, and a budget of 10 to 20 million euros per year.

To support a long-term economic recovery, developed countries with trade deficits should cut budget spending even more aggressively, import less, and save more. In turn, developing countries and developed economies with trade surpluses should increase domestic consumption, import more, and scale back stimulus measures less aggressively.

Iran will postpone a new round of talks on its nuclear program until the end of August to "punish" the West for imposing new sanctions on Tehran, President of the Islamic Republic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday. "We are postponing the talks because of [the West's] misbehavior and the adoption of a new Security Council resolution," Ahmadinejad said at a news conference in Tehran. "This is a punishment so that they [world powers] understand how to talk to other countries" (quoted by AFP).

June 28, 2010, 02:59 / Business The chicken war with America is over The presidents of Russia and the United States have released American poultry - it will no longer be treated with chlorine, and it can safely go to Russia Anfisa Voronina Natalya Kostenko We have reached an agreement that we will begin exporting chicken to Russia again.

You can get a glass of wine, a six-pack of beer, or a suite from the hotel if you complain about it on Facebook or Twitter Every fifth ( 21%) Russian Internet user found a job through social networks, according to researchers from HeadHunter ( hh.ru), who surveyed 4,500 respondents across Russia from June 15 to June 24.

erry Colangelo (AP Photo /Ross D. Franklin) Rod Thorn's decision to resign as president of the New Jersey Nets basketball club was facilitated by the presence of "Russian spies" in the management of the club, which was bought in May by Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, The New York Daily News writes, citing sources close to the situation. “After months of working with Prokhorov’s small fry looking over his shoulder, Thorn has decided to leave,” the paper wrote.

Gazprom Neft Oil company. The main shareholder is Gazprom (95.7%). Capitalization is $18.9 billion (LSE). Financial indicators (US GAAP, Q1 2010): revenue - $7.29 billion, profit - $727 million. Gazprom Neft, Guinean GEPetrol and the country's Ministry of Energy have signed a production sharing agreement (PSA) for two oil blocks, the Russian company reported. The issue concerns exploration and development of blocks T and U of the Guinean shelf.

Vladimir Putin's acquaintance from St. Petersburg, oil trader Gennady Timchenko, has managed the impossible: to breach Gazprom's export monopoly. Novatek, of which Timchenko officially became a co-owner about two years ago, has signed a long-term agency contract with Gazprom for gas exports. Novatek is going to export liquefied gas from the giant Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye field in Yamal, where a liquefied fuel plant is planned to be built.

D.Grishkin A representative of BP's press office in London reported that Tony Hayward will remain as BP's CEO. The company thus refutes the words of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin that the BP CEO is leaving his post and intends to introduce his successor. Such reports, citing Sechin, were reported by news agencies this afternoon. "Tony is not resigning, he is not going to resign today, he remains the CEO of BP," BP's London press office said.

Kyrgyzstan yesterday chose the present. The constitutional referendum should not only answer the question of the transition to a parliamentary republic. It should urgently legitimize the interim government. Now the issue is not so much about the political structure of Kyrgyzstan, but about whether the country will be able to solve its own problems itself or whether a new outbreak of interethnic and inter-clan contradictions will require external intervention.

The agreement between MIT and the Skolkovo Foundation requires the parties to jointly identify opportunities for MIT to engage in education and research in collaboration with leading universities and research institutes in Russia by the end of 2010. MIT must also consider joining the Skolkovo Foundation as a partner. “We are interested in the opportunities that MIT has in working with scientists and engineers in Russia,” MIT President Rafael Reif said at the signing ceremony.

The Moscow authorities intend to allocate 721.592 billion rubles to finance the capital's targeted investment program for the next three years, according to a draft resolution of the capital's government on the investment program for 2011-2013.