Gazprom is preparing to limit gas supplies to Belarus Moscow decided to remind Minsk about the growing debt for gas, thereby continuing to use all available levers of influence on Belarus in order to speed up the start of the functioning of the Customs Union. Yesterday, a meeting took place between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Gazprom head Alexei Miller, where the situation surrounding gas supplies to the “brotherly republic” was discussed. Mr.

The incident with the “freedom flotilla” is being investigated by two commissions Russia supported Israel's decision to create its own independent commission to investigate the incident with the “freedom flotilla”, which delivered supplies to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. “Any actions to clarify the tragic circumstances of what happened on May 31 in the Eastern Mediterranean cannot but be welcomed,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said yesterday.

The President launched the first fourth-generation nuclear submarine Yesterday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Severodvinsk in the Murmansk region, where he took part in the removal from the boathouse of a nuclear submarine named after the city. According to the president, the Severodvinsk nuclear submarine is designed to strengthen the group of missile submarines of the Russian Navy and help strengthen Russia’s defense potential and its positions in the World Ocean. Mr.

CONCERTS Dsh!Dsh! Guitar-electronic pop-rock. “16 tons” , 20.00. Trio of Ivan Farmakovsky and Valery Ponomarev (trumpet). Igor Butman Club , 20.30. "Lamp Ladino". Sephardic songs in original and author's arrangements. Club-theater "Workshop" , 21.00. CLASSIC Historical concerts on Red Square. R. Schumann, F. Mendelssohn, J. Meyerbeer. Performers: T. Lanskaya (soprano), E.-R. Gunter-Schmid (Switzerland), L. Kruzhkova (cello), E. Derzhavina (piano), T. Levitina (piano), I. Ipatov (piano).

Dmitry Medvedev visited Grozny Immediately after Russian Independence Day, Dmitry Medvedev unexpectedly went to Chechnya, which had long sought independence from Russia, but now seemed to have firmly taken its place in the ranks of the North Caucasus republics. On Monday, June 14, the presidential plane landed at the Grozny civil airport, which now has international status.

In Lithuania, history has become hostage to ideology The Lithuanian Seimas yesterday adopted an addition to the article of the criminal code establishing liability for denial of facts of genocide and crimes against humanity recognized by Lithuanian legal acts or international courts. And also for denying, as Lithuanian parliamentarians announced, “the aggression of the USSR or Germany against Lithuania.” And more aggressive actions against it in 1990-1991.

Methane protected early life on Earth from ultraviolet rays Our planet in its youth was not at all blue as it is now. From space, it apparently looked very similar to what is now Titan, the second largest moon of our solar system and the largest moon of Saturn. The ground was enveloped in a dense haze of a reddish hue, through which it was difficult to see anything; and the ocean, thanks to the iron dissolved in the water, was green.

Congress wants to tighten control over the US Federal Reserve While giving the US Federal Reserve System (FRS) greater powers to regulate the financial system, US congressmen continue to try to strengthen control over the central bank. According to experts, in this way the Senate will be able to better save funds without distributing them to bankers affected by the crisis.

Moscow's urban planning policy will be based on the standards of the last century Immediately after the scandalous master plan for the development of Moscow until 2025 came into force, capital officials continued to rework urban planning legislation to suit the needs of the construction complex.

The Basketball Super League is dead An unprecedented event occurred yesterday in Russian men's basketball. At a meeting of the Super League Council, nine clubs that played in the A division in the 2009/10 season and the winner of the B division announced their withdrawal from the tournament in its current form, that is, under the direct control of the Russian Basketball Federation.

The US President is ready to eat seafood from the Gulf of Mexico, but will not appear in public next to the head of Verkhovna Rada Goldman Sachs, which has been under enormous pressure from the American authorities in recent months, is not destined to become a second YUKOS: due to circumstances, this role was wrested from the bankers by the oil company BP. Every new day brings new bad news for the British, who are trying in vain to drown out the oil gusher at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

Russian Railways is restructuring suburban services The board of JSC Russian Railways (RZD) approved documents for the creation of two suburban passenger companies - in the Kaliningrad region and in the northern regions of the European part of Russia. The press service of the railway monopoly reported this yesterday. It is expected that the new companies will begin operations on August 1.

Kinotavr films again showed an unpleasant picture of the world Auteur cinema, which is mainly shown in the Kinotavtra competition, no matter how you look at it, fulfills its main function - it truthfully records the state of society. It is a condition, as director Sergei Loznitsa correctly noted: let doctors make the diagnosis, but cinema only demonstrates the symptoms. Some topics involuntarily begin to be interesting to everyone.

Rospotrebnadzor abandons the ban on imports of products from Tajikistan Russia is beginning to gradually abandon the protective sanitary and epidemiological measures introduced against Tajik goods and citizens in early May due to the polio epidemic. As the country's chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said yesterday, the ban on the import of nuts and dried fruits has already been lifted.

“Kinotavr” summed up the results Compared to last year, the main competition at Kinotavr was much less strong. The crisis, which was only being “prepared” last year, has already made its presence felt this year.