The Russian budget remains scarce in 2011, the head of the Ministry of Finance Alexey Kudrin predicts.
«The part of expenses is necessary at the end of the year therefore, we keep us the forecast for deficiency hardly more than 1 %» – he has declared.

The vice-speaker of the State Duma – one of the leaders of «A Just Russia» Alexander Babakov leaves party and plans to enter the «All-Russia People’s Front» of Vladimir Putin . His application will be considered by the Perm regional department next Monday. Only the «Fair Russia supporter» confirms that Babakov leaves and doesn’t regret about it: he has ceased himself to be useful for the party. Others confirm that Babakov nowhere leaves and splits in the party yet.

On change to classical spies will come quantum spies.
About the future quantum revolution “holes” of quantum cryptography and possibility to give the information faster than velocity of light told the winner of the International laureate in quantum communications, Alexander Lvovsky — the professor of the faculty of Physics at University of Calgary and a member of governing council of the Russian quantum center.
– Could you give a clear definition how to understand the quantum computers?

12th of July, 2011. Some 10 or so authors, mostly writers, sent search engine Yandex, biggest in Russia and Russian speaking infosphere, a letter. It “appeals to the leadership of the company “Yandex” with a request to join the campaign for the protection of copyrights in RuNet.”

Russian prosecutors have appealed against a decision by a French court to release two luxury yachts allegedly belonging to fugitive Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, the Prosecutor General’s Office said on Monday.
The French appeals court canceled a previous court decision to seize the yachts earlier this month.

Many people were killed and at least eight injured after a Tu-134 passenger aircraft with 43 people on board crash landed in Russia’s northern republic of Karelia, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Tuesday.
The plane en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk crash landed on a highway one kilometer (0.6 miles) away from the airport, where it was scheduled to land at 0.04 Moscow time on Tuesday (20.04 GMT Monday).

A new and deadly multi-resistant strain of E.coli suddenly appears, resistant to no less than eight families of anti-biotics. Was this the result of Mother Nature herself, or can we see the evil hand of Man in this? We examine the facts and the possible implications…If it was man-made it is scary. If it is a natural development, it is terrifying.
First, the facts
First and foremost, the need for a responsible media to report the facts and not create panic so as to sell copies. In …