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.

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).