“Sometimes it’s better to chew than to talk,” as one television advertisement rightly said. This absolutely applies to Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, for whom the first process is proceeding incomparably more successfully than the second.

On January 1, 2009, a significant event took place in the global road sector: the Chinese authorities carried out a systematic radical reform in the field of pricing in the fuel market and road taxation. Namely, the government abolished fees and charges that were collected from drivers directly on the roads.

In uniform Reasonable plans and stupid rhetoric March 18, 2009 Alexander Golts So, it happened. Dmitry Medvedev, who has been the supreme commander in chief for almost a year, finally met with the leading composition of the armed forces at the expanded collegium of the Ministry of Defense. Let me remind you that at the previous such event, held in November last year, there was no president.

Until recently, Russia denied reports of supplies of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, and on March 18, a certain high-ranking representative of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), on condition of anonymity, told RIA Novosti that Russia had signed a contract for the supply of these systems Iran, although missiles have not yet been delivered to the country.

In society After the third Putin March 18, 2009 Vladimir Nadein Strong and forth article Denis Dragunsky makes a strong impression. It’s even scary to touch. The warning is always smart. Cassandra is not about to be optimistic. The prediction of even sobering those who are not drunk. And then some shout: Down, they say, Putin! And then? Thinking? Among the many answers that Denis Dragunsky gives to this and other burning questions, I still did not find one.

The fact that the contract exists has been known for more than a year, after the Iranian Minister of Defense let it slip. As I understand it, the statement that gave birth to the FSMTC in December 2007 did not say that there was no contract: it said that negotiations were not conducted this year - thus indirectly confirming that they were conducted in 2005 or 2006.