German experts do not trust the G20 The upcoming G8 and G20 summits in Canada at the end of this week will be devoted to finding answers to global economic challenges, but Germany does not have high hopes for these meetings. This is at least the opinion of analysts at the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy, who discussed the possible results of the summits in Toronto the day before.

Congressmen are looking for dirt on Russian helicopters Russia and Western states that are members of the NATO military-political alliance have begun work on creating a documentary base for their military-technical cooperation. There are no documents regulating it yet. Russia resolves these issues separately with each member country of the alliance. And there is a need to work out these relations with the entire NATO bloc.

Vladimir Putin proposed redistributing state support funds The government intends to identify new priority areas of anti-crisis support. This was made clear by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who held two events at the White House yesterday - a meeting of the government presidium and a meeting on budget expenditures for 2011-2013 in the field of transport and industry.

Gazprom increases energy construction volumes The volume of generating capacities to be built by energy companies controlled by Gazprom under capacity supply agreements (CSA) has been increased. This was announced yesterday by the head of Gazprom Energoholding Denis Fedorov.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky questioned the former Minister of Economy in court In the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow, where the trial of the second criminal case of the ex-head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of the Menatep MFO Platon Lebedev is ongoing, yesterday the former head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT), and now the chairman of the board of Sberbank German, testified as a witness Gref.

Our beachgoers won an international tournament The Russian pair Alexander Likholetov - Evgeniy Romashkin, representing the Dynamo-Yantar club (Kaliningrad), won the international European series beach volleyball tournament, which ended in the Romanian city of Constanta. In the final, the Baltic team prevailed over the Dutch tandem Dalmeyer - Van den Outenaer - 21:18, 21:17.

In the center of the European territory of Russia, the weather will be protected by a fine anticyclone, +25...+30°C, in the south up to +33°C. However, along the western border of Russia the influence of cyclones will be felt. In the North-West region in the next two days there will be short-term rain in places, thunderstorms are possible, on Tuesday afternoon +16...+21оС, on Wednesday +20...+25оС, in the south of the region both days up to +27оС.

In Kazakhstan, NGOs are holding a nationwide campaign “We are one team” The other day, passengers at the bus station in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, observed an unusual sight: a caravan of brightly painted buses with the inscription “Every student goes to his native village!” departed from its “berths!” We were told about this unusual route by the Civil Alliance of Kazakhstan, which was the instigator of the national campaign “We are one team” currently taking place in the country.

Georgia will soon unveil a new concept for a peaceful settlement in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and is counting on Western help. Today, Foreign Minister Grigory Vashadze will visit Germany. But the main hopes are pinned on the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, scheduled, as Vremya Novostei was told by the Georgian Foreign Ministry, for early July. The date has not been specified for security reasons, but US media reports that Clinton will visit Tbilisi on July 7.

Critics like to joke about the fact that the private Crystal Turandot award importantly calls itself the highest and main theater award in Moscow. In reality, these titles are not backed by anything, but if the organizers decided to call it the capital’s first theater award, which also sounds very pompous, no one would argue.

Russia can vote for the North Caucasus PACE resolution for the first time Today in Strasbourg, the special rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on human rights in the North Caucasus, Dick Marty, will present a report on the results of his visit to Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan at the end of March this year.

North Korean footballers defeated by Portugal Brazil became the second team to secure early participation in the playoffs at the World Cup in South Africa. And North Korea suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in the history of such tournaments. After the defeat by Portugal (0:7), football in the DPRK may no longer be considered a national and popular sport.

France is looking for traitors, England is suppressing the rebellion Special days are coming at the World Championships. Today, in a match with the hosts of the World Cup, the conflict-torn French team will decide whether to say goodbye to South Africa in shame or loudly slam the door. And tomorrow the fate of England and its head coach Fabio Capello will be determined, whose team has never lost at the tournament, but has already become one of the main disappointments of the World Championship.

The Consumer Rights Protection Society believes that Gorky Park “charges for air” The Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights filed a lawsuit against the management of the Central Park of Culture and Recreation. Gorky. On Monday, lawyers from the OZPP submitted a statement of claim to the Savyolovsky District Court of the capital, from which it follows that the administration of the Central Park of Culture and Culture is illegally charging an entrance fee to the park.

Dmitry Medvedev promises to fire officials for failure to carry out his instructions In his favorite high-tech genre of video conference, Dmitry Medvedev checked yesterday how the instructions given to him were being carried out. Judging by the report of the head of the presidential control department, Konstantin Chuichenko, in general, the executive discipline of the bureaucracy is growing.