May 18, 2011, 20:32 Cars Vehicle inspection included in insurance The authorities have prepared a technical inspection reform Evgeniy Shipilov , Mikhail Lobachev A key role in the inspection procedure will be given to auto insurers. They accredit operators conducting instrumental inspections. Maintenance coupons will be abolished, and a mark on the technical condition of the car will be placed in the OSAGO policy.

19 May 2011, 13:41 Business Tax authorities will check transfer prices Rustem Falyakhov Starting from 2012, the Federal Tax Service (FTS) will control transactions of parent companies and subsidiaries of interdependent companies amounting to over 3 billion rubles. The Ministry of Finance pushed the corresponding amendments to the Tax Code through the government.

18 May 2011, 16:28 Sports Wolfsburg made an offer to buy Welliton Wolfsburg approached Spartak with an official offer to purchase striker Welliton. The German club is ready to pay €12 million for the Brazilian. It was previously reported that Spartak and Rubin began negotiations for Welliton and red-and-white midfielder Ibson.

May 18, 2011, 09:29 Sergey Shelin Distress signals Sergey Shelin Columnist for the Rosbalt news agency The surge of public optimism that always occurs from winter to spring did not take place this year.

The A Just Russia party, after the recall of from the Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov , will be dissolved within a month, believes LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky . St. Petersburg deputies on Wednesday adopted a resolution to recall Mironov , who represented the St. Petersburg parliament in the upper house of parliament for almost ten years.

President Dmitry Medvedev promised to think about changes to legislation affecting peasant farms, including bankruptcy procedures. “I will think about how to introduce legislative initiatives relating to peasant farms. We need to be very attentive to bankruptcies, give a deferment... The same applies to taxes and issues of local government,” Medvedev said. He noted that we must remember that in Russia a third of the population lives in villages.

18 May 2011, 17:25 Culture Cuddy quits "Dr. House" Lisa Edelstein leaves the series "House" Despite the fact that Hugh Laurie gave his consent to film the eighth series of House, his partner Lisa Edelstein , who plays the head physician of Princeton Plainsboro Hospital Lisa Cuddy, announced her decision to leave the project.

Questions for the press conference of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev were not prepared in advance, and the topics raised by journalists show the real state of civil society, Presidential Press Secretary Natalya Timakova told the Russia Today TV channel . “It was a fairly lively conversation... I think that no one had the feeling that the questions were prepared, that the questions were well-organized, or that there was prior agreement.

American fans of the series “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” came out to protest with the slogans “Save our shows!”, Deadline reports . These soap operas are broadcast by ABC, and after the announcement of the next season's programming schedule, their place was taken by other series - about the cannibal detective "The Chew" and "The Revolution". The shows that activists are fighting for are very old. All My Children has been running since 1970, and aired its 10,000th episode in 2008.

has been selected for the lead role in the film “The Lone Ranger,” which is being directed by Gore Verbinski Actor Armie Hammer (The Social Network) , reports Collider . His partner in the film will be Johnny Depp , who will play the role of the Indian Tonto. Depp agreed to Jerry Bruckhammer's participation in this project back in 2008. The Lone Ranger appeared as a radio show in the 1930s and was made into a TV series in 1949.

A Belarusian court on Wednesday sentenced three young men to seven years in prison for setting fire to the KGB building in Bobruisk, reports the Belarusian portal UDF .

May 18, 2011, 10:17 pm Politics Medvedev received dance support Young people danced “American Fight” under the monument to Zhukov Several dozen young people held a flash mob on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, under the monument to Georgy Zhukov: for a minute, supporters of Dmitry Medvedev from the VKontakte community danced to the song “American Fight.” The young people said that in this way they expressed support for the president.

Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, amid the rapid deterioration of relations with Washington after the operation to physically eliminate Osama bin Laden, said that China is Islamabad's true friend. “Gilani noted that no matter what difficulties Pakistan faces, China always stands by its side. Islamabad views Beijing as a true friend and will support it as always,” Xinhua reports .

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev , at his press conference in Skolkovo, said that he does not see “supernatural” successes in the country’s modernization program he announced, but said that it must continue. “Modernization is a process. The most important thing is to achieve a new quality of development for the country... we haven’t achieved this yet...

a member of the bureau of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party Oleg Morozov, , is confident that Sergei Mironov, who was recalled from the Federation Council on Wednesday, will soon receive a deputy mandate in the State Duma and head the A Just Russia faction. “There is a 100 percent guarantee that this will happen in May,” Morozov told reporters.