POLITICS
President Barack Obama is replacing Ambassador John Beyrle with Michael McFaul. The appointment confirms the special significance Obama is paying to relations with Russia.
(Kommersant)
Russia and Belarus have clashed over the conditions for a $3 billion loan from Eurasec to Minsk. The Kremlin said Belarus could lose the opportunity to obtain the loan if Alexander Lukashenko keeps pursuing his line.
(Moskovskiye Novosti, Moscow Times)
Sergei Bagapsh, the "perfect president" who governed Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia for the past six years, died of heart failure in a Moscow hospital early on Sunday after undergoing operations for cancer. He was 62.
(Moscow Times, Moskovskiye Novosti, Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Japanese carmaker Nissan's plant in St. Petersburg will be suspended for five days due to problems with engine deliveries from Japan. Other carmakers could follow suit.
(Moskovskiye Novosti)
The government has vested the Economic Development Ministry with the right to cancel any acts undergoing registration in the Justice Ministry that contain excessive regulation for businesses.
(Vedomosti)
Russian grain sales abroad will resume July 1 after a nearly one-year embargo. The world markets could receive some 25 million metric tons of it.
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
SOCIETY
An unauthorized gay parade was dispersed by Moscow law enforcers. Gay activists said they will appeal the parade ban.
(Moskovskiye Novosti, Moscow Times, Kommersant)
The Moscow department of Russia's Investigative Committee initiated four criminal cases on embezzlement of budget funds allocated to buy medical equipment. Nearly all the documents on contracts interesting investigators have disappeared.
(Moskovskiye Novosti)
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said Russia was behind the rallies staged by the opposition in the capital of Tbilisi that were brutally dispersed by police.
(Moskovskiye Novosti, Kommersant)
A Just Russia deputies plan to ban the financing of toll road construction on state freeways from the federal budget.
(Kommersant)
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