Yuri Osipov was elected President of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the fourth time The Russian Academy of Sciences elected a president . More precisely, we are talking about re-election - for the fourth time, the highest academic post was occupied by Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Yuri Osipov.

At least one of the Russians will be among the strongest quartet at Roland Garros Sunday at the French Open tennis championship passed without the participation of Russians in personal meetings. Many of our compatriots focused on pairs performances. Yesterday at Roland Garros the first quarterfinalists in singles were determined, and there were some sensations. The Serbians successfully completed their matches in the daytime gaming session.

The Aslamazyan case will end with the rehabilitation of several thousand “smugglers” The number of criminal cases that can be reviewed after the Constitutional Court recognized Part 1 of Art. 188 of the Criminal Code (smuggling) that does not comply with the Basic Law , numbers in the thousands. According to statistics released last Friday by representatives of the Federal Customs Service (FCS), over the entire past year, customs authorities opened a total of 4,459 “smuggling” cases.

FOOTBALL. June 4. Friendly match Russia - Lithuania. Burghausen (Germany). June 7-8. Final tournament of the European Championship 2008. Group stage. 1st round. Austria and Switzerland. The last test of strength before the start of the final tournament of the European Championship in Austria and Switzerland for the Russian team will be a test match with Lithuania. Even if the opponent is not the strongest, you can’t do without sparring.

CONCERTS Shiv Kumar Sharma (Santur, India). Classical Indian music of the Hindustan tradition. Great Hall of the Conservatory , 19.00. MOVIE "Speed ​​Racer" (USA, 2008). Directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski. Starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Scott Porter, Melville Poupaud and others.

The German energy concern RWE made concessions to Brussels . The company decided to sell its gas distribution network in Germany within two years, as required by the European Commission. The RWE supervisory board approved this decision on Saturday, according to a press release from the concern, which owns a 4.1 thousand km long gas network in Germany. Thus, the concern, like its competitor E.ON, succumbed to pressure from the European Commission.

The President and the Government have begun to complete the electricity reform The state has begun to prepare for life without RAO UES of Russia - as is known, on July 1 this company will be reorganized. Last Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin held a meeting dedicated to solving the most pressing problems of the industry.

AK&M rating agency has identified the most efficient sectors of the economy Russian oil refining turned out to be the leader in the efficiency rating of industrial sectors prepared by the AK&M Rating Agency based on the results of 2007.

Boeing rescheduled deliveries to Aeroflot and Sibir Aeroflot will receive the Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft it ordered almost two and a half years later than stipulated in the contract. The American company Boeing, which is experiencing difficulties with the implementation of the Dreamliner program, officially notified the Russian air carrier about this. Another Russian customer of the Boeing-787, the Sibir company, did not report receiving a similar notice.

Robert Dudley is not going to leave the post of president of TNK-BP under pressure from Russian shareholders TNK-BP President Robert Dudley, who was the first to officially admit the existence of a conflict between the company's Russian and British shareholders , said that he has no plans to resign. “I remain committed to remaining in the leadership of the company and leading it to future success.

Jamaican sprinter sets new world record At the Grand Prix track and field tournament in New York, Jamaican sprinter Bolt completed the 100-meter dash in a record 9.72 seconds. with an acceptable tailwind of 1.7 m/sec when registering the highest achievements. The islander improved the previous world achievement of his compatriot Asafa Powell by 0.02 seconds. In May of this year in Kingston, Bolt covered 100 meters for the first time in 9.76 seconds.

High-ranking sources of Vremya Novostey confirm that the 61-year-old Russian Ambassador to the United States Yuri Ushakov will become the deputy head of the government apparatus of Sergei Sobyanin, and in fact a foreign policy adviser to Vladimir Putin. It is expected that his duties will be similar to those performed by his assistant Sergei Prikhodko when Putin was president.

Moscow sent unarmed soldiers to Abkhazia Before Moscow and Tbilisi had time to sum up the results of the UN Security Council meeting held on Friday (and in each of the capitals they interpreted its results in their own favor), the degree of confrontation between Georgia and Russia immediately rose to an extremely dangerous level. The reason for this was the announcement of the entry into Abkhazia on the evening of May 30 of units of the Russian railway troops.

Vladimir Putin gave an interview to French Le Monde Toward the end of his first foreign visit as prime minister, Vladimir Putin assured French journalists that “the president of Russia today is Mr. Medvedev.” During his short stay in Paris, Mr. Putin managed to hold negotiations with the current leaders of the country - President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Francois Fillon, and with former President Jacques Chirac, and even with the patriarch of French literature, Maurice Druon.

Northern winds continue to drive dry, cold air into European territory. And the first on its path will be the northern regions, where it will begin to rain, heavy in places. In the northwestern region in the next two days, as the cyclone and its atmospheric fronts advance, there will be short-term rains, there will be no more frosts, but it will become cooler, during the day +13...+19оС. On Monday, the central regions will be on the eastern edge of the anticyclone.