Schengen visa. Photo Newsru.com The French Embassy in Moscow refutes reports on the introduction by the French visa center of the quota of 250 passports a day from Russian travel agencies sending Russian citizens to rest in France, Interfax reports. “There are no quotas,” Isabelle Turancho quoted the Embassy press attaches as saying.

Emblem Guam and flags of its members The Guam summit (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova), who began work on June 18 in Baku, may turn out to be unprecedented in terms of the number of participants. In addition to the leaders of the member countries of the GUAM, the presidents of Poland, Romania and Lithuania will take part in the summit. For the first time within the framework of the summit, meetings of Guam-Ssha and Guam Japonia will be held.

Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo by ar Vladimir Putin should become a life -lifelong president of Russia, said Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. “As long as he has health, we must ask him to kneel to rule the state,” he said in an interview with Kommersant -Vlast magazine. “If we want to maintain the integrity of Russia, if we want us to have a great power of Russia, then President Putin should be,” Kadyrov said. “Why can you be president in Kazakhstan? Or in Turkmenistan?

Moscow-River. Photo from the site www.kembr.com Experimental water taxi routes will be organized in Moscow during 2007 navigation. As RIA Novosti reports, a representative of the city administration said this. "At the first stage, three experimental water taxi routes will be organized in the city, and in the future, if this experiment is successful, the number of routes can be increased," he said. A taxi will run along the Moscow River.

In six -sided negotiations on the Korean problem. Photo from the site ITAR-TASS DPRK funds entered the Russian Central Bank. As ITAR-TASS reports, the Ambassador of North Korea in Moscow announced this. According to him, all technical problems are settled. From the Central Bank, funds should enter the Russian bank in Khabarovsk, then to the North Korean Vneshotorgbank. After that, according to the diplomat, the IAEA inspectors will be ready in Pyongyang.

Boris Sokolov. Photo from the site www.open-forum.ru Varlam Shalamov is one of those who opened the truth about the Gulag to the country and the world. But it so happened that the world had previously read the “One Day of Ivan Denisovich” and “Archipelago Gulag” written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and the Kolyma Stories forever remained in the Solzhenitsyn Shadow. Shalamov never waited for their publications in his homeland.

Ingush police. Frame NTV In Ingushetia, during a special operation, one of the leaders of the Wahhabi underground was destroyed, the full namesake of the former president of the republic Ruslan Aushev, Kommersant said on Monday. According to the special services, Aushev was one of the organizers of the attack in June 2004 on Nazran and other settlements of the republic, as well as the capture of the school in Beslan.

Monument to the heroes of Plevna. Photo from the site Gayrussia.com Activists of the Orthodox Youth Movement "St. George!", Patrolling the Ilyinsky square, where gay gathering, were fired by unknowns last Sunday. As Interfax reports, the press secretary of the movement Diana Romanovskaya stated this. “Several shots of pneumatic weapons were made from a nearby car,” she said. “There are victims among passers -by and representatives of patriotic public organizations.

Loop A twenty-year-old-hand-cutting soldier was found hanged in the village of Tunoshna of the Yaroslavl region. He served in a military unit located next to this village. According to Interfax, this was announced by the senior investigator of the prosecutor's office of the Yaroslavl district of the Yaroslavl region Mikhail Nazarov. “Last Saturday, a local resident found a twenty -year -old soldier hanged in a barn in the village of Tunoshna,” said Nazarov.

'' Marsh of disagreements '' in St. Petersburg. Photo by Kirill Kudryavtseva especially for faces The police and riot police did not violate the law during the "marsh of the disagreements" in St. Petersburg on April 15, the city prosecutor said. "The actions of the police to suppress illegal actions by the participants in the public event were undertaken in reasonably," the prosecutor’s response to a statement on violations of the law from police officers said.

Sberbank of the Russian Federation. Logo from the site www.gazeta.ru The opposition coalition "Another Russia" intends to achieve complete compensation for deposits in Sberbank of Russia, depressed in the 90s. The initiative group, organized by the United Civil Front, filed claims against the government, the press service of another Russia reports. The purpose of the claims is to restore the rights of citizens to complete fair compensation for deposits.

Last update: 12/26/2007 By the end of December, the only presidential candidate from the democratic opposition was Mikhail Kasyanov at the end of the distance. Until January 16, he must collect 2 million voter signatures. Boris Nemtsov , nominated by the Union of Right Forces, on December 26 announced the exit from the presidential campaign. The CEC did not register Vladimir Bukovsky .

Hugo Chavez. Photo by ar Venezuela President Hugo Chavez will perform in the State Duma of Russia on June 29. According to ITAR-TASS, this was announced by Monday Vice Speaker of the Chamber Sergey Baburin. Chavez will visit the lower house of the Russian parliament as part of an official visit to Russia. His performance will take place in the stamp hall of the State Duma building in Okhotny Ryad.

Money. Sasha and Dima Borodulina, stolen in the center of St. Petersburg in mid -May, are alive and healthy. Negotiations are underway on the payment of ransom to the kidnappers. According to Fontanka.ru, this was announced by the deputy general director of the agency of journalistic investigations Yevgeny Zashenkov.

Gazprom logo. Photo from Newsru.com The Federal Antimonopoly Service proposes to refuse to combine the assets of Gazprom and the Siberian Coal Energy Company. According to Kommersant Monday, this is stated in an analytical report on the influence of Gazprom’s energy strategy on competition in the fuel and energy complex.