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.

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.

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).

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.

Belarusians are trying to “untie the knots” with Russia and the European Union Disagreements with Moscow are forcing Minsk to establish closer ties with Europe.

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.

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.

The National Alliance parliamentary bloc, headed by the current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, began negotiations on the formation of a government. Before this, he had already managed to unite his State of Law party and several Shiite religious parties into a single bloc. Now they are trying to come to an agreement with the Kurdistan Alliance bloc of Iraqi Kurdish parties. The President of Iraq and a Kurd by nationality, Jalal Talabani, insisted on this.

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.

Heroes and losers of the opening matches of the 2010 World Cup The World Cup starting in South Africa threatens to become a real nightmare for goalkeepers. The roar of a vuvuzela, due to which even the nearest defender cannot hear a word from his goalkeeper, psychological pressure and a plastic unpredictable monster, which only by misunderstanding and thanks to its relatively spherical shape can be called a soccer ball, make the goal guards a laughing stock.

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.

Watch from June 17 on Moscow screens “Toy Story: The Great Escape” (USA, 2010, Lee Unkrich). Another continuation of the landmark Pixar cartoon and certainly one of the most successful threequels in the history of cinema in general. A company of toys known from previous episodes (a cowboy, an astronaut, a piggy bank, Mr. and Mrs.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili spoke of the “existential danger” that his country faces from its “unceremonious neighbor.” Speaking in Batumi to members of the government and deputies supporting him, he referred to Mikhail Bulgakov’s “Heart of a Dog” and complained that Georgia had just as uninvitedly been “densified” by occupying the largest room and corridor in a Georgian “apartment.” In Batumi on the Black Sea, parliamentarians are currently holding a retreat, and the Georgian leader