The meeting between the leaders of Russia and Germany lasted an hour longer than planned. Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel agreed to continue the dialogue in April at intergovernmental consultations in Tomsk, and then in Dresden to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the city, where the Russian president once worked. Summing up the meeting, the Federal Chancellor of Germany said that she was “breathless” at the prospects for Russian-German economic cooperation.

The Arkhangelsk International Center for Bell Art has created a program that makes it possible to make multi-dimensional sketches that help place bells on various types of bell towers. The program takes into account the material from which the bell tower is built, the size and shape of the belfry. She also designs the location of the supporting beams and determines where to install the console to control the bells.

The ex-head of YUKOS was deprived of the opportunity to answer journalists' questions and send his publications from the colony, and of all the latest press, only the local regional newspaper is provided.

Its topics will be issues on the agenda of the Council of Europe that affect the lives of believers, interreligious and inter-Christian dialogues, as well as the peculiarities of legislation on freedom of conscience in different countries.

Unable to cope with the militants, the acting prime minister of the Chechen government decided to concentrate his efforts on another problem bedeviling the republic. Speaking today in Gudermes at a meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies, Ramzan Kadyrov said that drug addiction must be completely eliminated in Chechnya. For everything about everything acting. The prime minister gave the ministers a week.

The President is responsible for the decisions that led to the construction of a corrupt system of power in the country. It is on this thesis that the lawsuit in the Supreme Court against Vladimir Putin is based, which is going to be filed by almost three dozen co-investors who lost money on the so-called construction pyramids. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, this is the second such attempt.

Sensational at first glance, the decision of the Verkhovna Rada to resign the government was actually born at the end of 2004, when the Ukrainian establishment approved a political reform, the implementation of which was timed to coincide with the start of the parliamentary election campaign. Let us note that the current composition of the Rada is so fragmented that not a single conceivable cabinet of ministers can obtain a stable majority in it.

The incident in the capital's synagogue, as a result of which several parishioners were seriously injured, forced members of the Public Chamber to finally pay attention to the problem of ethnic hatred and extremism in Russia. At the same time, Elena Zelinskaya, a member of the chamber and vice-president of the Media Union, suggested leaving senseless criticism of the authorities and dealing with such cases on their own.

During the coming frosts, employees of the Moscow State Traffic Inspectorate will be dressed in insulated jackets and will be allowed to wear felt boots. “Unfortunately, now they no longer issue felt boots, but if someone still has them, they can be worn while on duty,” said Marina Vasilyeva, head of the propaganda department of the capital’s traffic police.

Last 2005, there was a lot of entertaining, but for me it, of course, will mainly remain like the year in which I tried on myself the process of democracy. The story of my campaign to deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation is a tidbit for memoirist, a couple of pages from which - see below ... ... And then I sat down to write the main document - an application to the district election commission.

Over the past week, Russian state media have denounced Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko through the mouths of politicians who oppose him - Rada Speaker Vladimir Lytvyn and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The whole story with the capture of the Ukrainian hydrographs of the Yalta lighthouse, of course, has nothing to do with the safety of navigation, or to the rights of the tenant and the owner. Representatives of the main headquarters of the Russian Navy clearly exaggerate the threat, drawing a nightmare scenario of complete disconnecting by the evil Ukrainians of all Crimean lighthouses (obviously also after their capture).

Representatives of the Federal Penitentiary Service stated that at the time of the transfer of the former head of Menatep, there were no free places in general regime colonies in the regions adjacent to Moscow (and there are no such institutions at all in the capital). But they could not provide any documentary evidence of this.