Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he had a meeting with former Kyrgyz president Almazbek Atambayev in the Kremlin, at which he discussed the situation in the region and the republic.

Experts from the Kazan national research technological University conducted a study of quality of domestic and imported vodka.

In the nature reserve "Pasvik" started only in the North-West region of Russia, a mobile laboratory, which in August have expedition within the framework of two international projects on the study of the biosphere of the Arctic.

On Wednesday, the Ivanovo region took the baton of the All-Russian Theater Marathon, which started in January in Vladivostok. 

The Federal Antimonopoly service (FAS) Russia has fined Google for 100 thousand rubles for advertising on the preparation and writing of final qualifying works.

The state Duma adopted in third final reading the law forbidding to give micro loans secured on dwellings and generally toughening the requirements to microfinance and microcredit organizations.

The Philippine ambassador to the Russian Federation, Carlos Sorreta said that his country wanted to cooperate with the Russian side in the field of energy.

Senators suggested stricter identification of users of postal services and blocking the sending of messages with prohibited information.  T