Andrei Gelasimov’s novel “Steppe Gods” was chosen as the national bestseller Of the six members of the Small Jury of the National Bestseller Award, three voted for Andrei Gelasimov’s novel “Steppe Gods.” Sergei Nosov (“The Secret Life of St. Petersburg Monuments”), Sergei Samsonov (“The Kamlaev Anomaly”) and Alexander Snegirev (“Oil Venus”) received one vote each. The most popular candidates Ilya Boyashov (“Tankman, or “White Tiger”) and German Sadulayev (“Tablet”) received the bagels.

Ukrainian special services isolated a Russian deputy Moscow reacted harshly to the incident that occurred on June 6 at the Simferopol airport with Russian State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin. “The meeting arranged for the Russian parliamentarian, whom the Ukrainian security service considers an undesirable person, provoked a sharp deterioration in the well-being of the Russian representative.

The UPC Directorate for Chechnya reported yesterday that it does not rule out the possibility of the forced transfer of brothers Isa and Musa Yamadayev.

Global aviation loss forecast gets even worse International Air Transport Association (IATA) Director General Giovanni Bisignani outlined a grim outlook for global civil aviation as he opened the body's annual general meeting in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. IATA experts have worsened their last year forecast for losses in the industry. According to new data, it turns out that in 2008, the world's airlines collectively lost $10.4 billion. For 2009, Mr.

Tomorrow marks ten years since the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1244 on Kosovo in 1999. The document gave the go-ahead for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in the Serbian region and ordered the start of international discussions about its final status.

The Moscow City Court yesterday sentenced Uzbek citizen Farkhod Tursunov, accused of rape and murder of 15-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Anna Beshnova, to 23 years in a maximum security colony. “The court sentenced Tursunov to be found guilty of committing crimes under Articles 105 (murder), 131 (rape) and 132 (violent acts of a sexual nature),” said judge Andrei Rasnovsky, announcing the verdict. The judge imposed a harsher punishment than the prosecutor requested during the debate.

The Prime Minister called on United Russia to monitor single-industry towns Yesterday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met at his Novo-Ogaryovo country residence with the leadership of the United Russia party, of which he is the leader. He was visited by the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Party, Speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov, Head of the Central Executive Committee of United Russia Andrei Vorobyov and Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council Vyacheslav Volodin.

There will be more skeptics and fringes in the European Parliament The European political pendulum has swung sharply to the right - this is the main result of the elections to the European Parliament. They were held in 27 EU member countries from June 4 to 7 (in each country elections were held on one of these days). The deepening economic crisis has done its job - protest sentiments have intensified. Voters, firstly, were not very willing to vote.

How to keep children safe online Runet has become more attentive to the children's audience: the first resources have appeared on it to help young users be more careful when getting to know the Network. In the West, such tools have been working effectively for a long time. Perhaps it will work for us too. Young users consider the Internet to be the second safest place after their own home.

Chigirinsky and Baysarov find out who will sell shares of Sibir Energy to Gazprom Neft The annual meeting of Sibir Energy shareholders is due to take place on June 29 in London. According to the company, the list of event participants will be compiled based on the list of shareholders who are registered in the Sibir register.

There are at least young people in the Russian women's basketball team Our national team at the Women's European Basketball Championship taking place in Latvia last night completed its first local sports task. Having beaten Turkey (74:61) and the Serbian national team (72:37), the wards of head coach Valery Tikhonenko, who made his debut at the official level as a mentor of the fairer sex, secured access to the second group stage.

Putin has not yet allowed Deripaska to buy Russneft Having shown at the end of last week his ability to solve problems at the micro level in Pikalevo, Leningrad Region , Prime Minister Vladimir Putin again returned to global problems of economic activity. Yesterday he was busy with problems related to transactions involving foreign capital.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized six more Romanovs as victims of political repression Following the recognition of Nicholas II and his family as victims of political repression, the Prosecutor General's Office also rehabilitated the relatives of the last Russian emperor who became victims of the Red Terror.

Musicians from Budapest and Cologne performed at the orchestra festival The IV Festival of World Symphony Orchestras continues in the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions. Following the National Orchestra of the Capitol of Toulouse, two more European ensembles played in the main part of the forum: the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Cologne West German Radio Orchestra.

Lakers take the lead Basketball. NBA. Playoffs. Final. Lakers - Orlando - 101:96 (OT). The series score is 2-0. The fate of the second match of the final series of the NBA playoffs, unlike the first meeting, was decided in a bitter struggle and required extra time, in which the Lakers proved their advantage over Orlando. The Magic, however, could have decided everything in their favor at the end of the fourth quarter.