15:50 // 03/15/2006 Russia and the CIS states are especially vulnerable to the risks associated with human trafficking, the representative of UNICEF in Russia and Belarus Karel de Roy said. "Russia and the countries of the former USSR are in second place after Southeast Asia in relation to the scale of human trafficking," K. de Roy told on Tuesday in Moscow at the presentation of the report of the UN agencies.

The Lithuanian government will expand the list of applicants for the refinery, Lithuania can expand the circle of potential investors Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) after the redemption of shares from Yukos. This was announced yesterday by the head of the government working group for negotiations on the purchase and sale of shares of the MN, Minister of Economy Kasytutis Daukshis.

"Patriot of Russia" wants the party president "United Russia" may receive the right to nominate a presidential candidate. Yesterday, the leader of the Patriots of Russia party, Gennady Semigin, hinted at such an innovation. “It would be correct if the presidential candidate nominated either one party that will receive a large percentage of votes in the State Duma election, or party coalition,” Semigin said.

09:37 // 03/15/2006 The deputies of the Moscow City Duma intend to adopt a law that will determine the appearance of the Moscow metro for at least a decade ahead.

Western Yukos creditors sold his debts in almost half a billion dollars of Rosneft. At first glance, an ordinary commercial transaction. In fact, the end of the confusing and by no means not only economic history. With morality that can sob out someone. Does this mean that Russia (or rather, Vladimir Putin), the West forgave the "case of Yukos"? The answer is not as simple as it seems. The Yukos case always had a political connotation. And not only domestic political.

An overview of classical music on CD recently incognito was visited by one famous conductor, our former compatriot, now living in Holland; Among other spectacles, he happened to see the ballet "Bright Stream" in the Bolshoi Theater. Despite more than forty years of experience working with a variety of repertoire (including Shostakovich’s music), the high guest heard the ballet music for the first time and was surprised at the extent to which the influence of Prokofiev was noticeable in it.

The opposition responded to the change in the regulations of the Moscow City Duma yesterday Mosgor Duma adopted in the first reading the amendment proposed by United Russia in the regulations, according to which deputy hearings can be carried out only within the framework of the Duma commissions. The opposition, who believes that in this way it “plugs the mouth” to her, arranged a protest of the building of the capital's parliament.

17:25 // 03/15/2006 The Russian President said that one of the main goals of the state is to create a fleet adequate to the level of modern threats. “Our main goal is to create a fleet adequate to the level of modern threats and capable of reflecting any military -political pressure on our country, the fleet - providing marine power and the security of our people,” said Vladimir Putin, speaking at the solemn evening dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the submarine forces of Russia.

The region began to lose investment attractiveness, it seems that foreign car concerns began to lose interest in St. Petersburg and its environs. Last December, Valentina Matvienko told the newspaper about six foreign concerns conducting negotiations with the St. Petersburg authorities about the construction of their industries in the region. Today, according to the chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade of the Government of St.

In the Winter Garden of the Academy of Sciences, a showing collection of transformable clothing "13:20" The so -called transformable clothing appeared in Russia recently. Her presentation took place in May 2005. But today, a company of young designers with the unusual name “13:20” gathers hundreds of spectators at its shows and participates in Moscow High Fashion Week. The original idea helped to promote so quickly.

Moscow gets rid of villages on its territory on a scarce Moscow land can still live in your own house with a garden garden. But not for long. Capital officials, for whom the former villages and villages preserved within Moscow, had finally decided to demolish them for several years. Yesterday, the Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov signed a decree on the demolition of 36 villages in the Molzhaninovsky, Northern District of the SWAO, South Butovo and other places in Moscow.

Russia is the leader in the trade in a living product, the Institute of Economics of the city, together with the UN and UNICEF, presented the analysis of the problem of human trafficking in the Russian Federation. The presentation of the report was terrible numbers: millions of children were thrown out into the street, hundreds of thousands of women are involved in prostitution, a quarter of migrants were turned into construction slaves.

A record increase in wheat prices will cause a shade of rise in price so far the government decides how to cope with inflation, Russian consumers are on the verge of a new test prices. After the rise in price of salt and sugar, bread, pasta, semolina and wheat cereals, flour and even milk in line. The thing is that over the past week the increase in wheat prices has reached a record in the last one and a half years of indicators.

13:50 // 03/15/2006 On the fact of the collapse of the front-line bomber Su-24M in the Voronezh region, a criminal case has been instituted. "The military prosecutor's office of the Voronezh garrison opened and is investigating a criminal case under Article 351 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of flight rules or preparation for them)," Natalya Zemskova, official representative of the military prosecutor's office of the Moscow Military District, told Interfax.

China became interested in the construction of magnetic railways in China, between Shanghai and the city of Hangzhou, the longest railway in the world for magnetic pillow trains will be built. After the implementation of this project, Shanghai will be able to apply for the title of the capital of the world, with a successful decisive high -tech problems.