16:00 // 06/06/2006 The mayor of the city of the Lesnaya Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Ivannikov, was convicted in the Yukos case for 6 years conditionally without the right to occupy senior positions in local governments for 3 years. This was reported today in the press service of the court of the Sverdlovsk region.

It became almost a tradition that meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers are without its chairman. Mikhail Fradkova is more confident in Dmitry Medvedev. The more often and diverse this replacement happens (the prime minister of supervision projects, trying on his chair), the more persistently there is a feeling that the disputes about the future successor of Vladimir Putin are a thing of the past. The feeling, of course, is not proof, but yesterday it is even more strengthened.

Viktor Yushchenko again agreed to an alliance with Yulia Tymoshenko yesterday the next statements appeared that the ruling coalition in the Verkhovna Rada was finally formed - as part of the pro -presidential bloc “Our Ukraine”, the Socialist Party of Ukraine (PA) and the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYUT). In the case of unification, they will draw up a faction of 243 deputies, that is, they will receive even more than the simple parliamentary majority with the right to form a government.

19:58 // 06/06/2006 Residents of the industrial city of Chiatatur in the west of Georgia, where a manganese was mined in mines, held a protest on Thursday: the manifestants lay on the rails and blocked the railway traffic in the Chiatatur-Zestafoni section. Participants of the action demanded from the management of the mining enterprise the payment of a compensation amount in the amount of 11 million Lari ($ 6 million) for loss as a result of the enterprise of their housing.

The Russian company will gain control over the Armos GAZPROM, a gas pipeline from Iran and the Razdanskaya TPP yesterday Gazprom and the Armenian government signed an agreement for a period of 25 years, defining the strategic principles of partnership in gas -energy projects in the republic. The agreement fixes the price of Russian natural gas for Armenia in the amount of $ 110 per 1 thousand cubic meters until January 1, 2009.

In the Arctic, the remains of the ancient ancestor of all land creatures were found a unique find made by American scientists in the Arctic region of Canada, marked a real breakthrough in the study of evolution. On the island of Elmmer, which is only 800 kilometers from the North Pole, fossil remains of an animal belonging to the most important evolutionary period were found, when life took only the first timid steps from the waters of the world ocean on land.

20:40 // 06/06/2006 One of the three detainees in the case of beating the Minister of Culture of Kabardino-Balkaria, Honored Artist of Russia Zaura Tutov, was officially charged under Article 112 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Intentional causing medium severity of harm to the motives of national hatred." This was reported by ITAR-TASS by lawyer Ruslan Koblev, representing the interests of the victim.

The struggle with the Mimicry of Grandfather Sergei Ivanov expects that there will be more sergeants-contractes in the army who receive a worthy salary for the service.

18:40 // 06/06/2006 France Prime Minister Dominic de Wilpen again defended the "first hiring agreement" and called on students who opposed a new type of labor count of labor, to resume normal classes in universities and lyceums. “I have already said and repeat:“ The first hiring agreement ”is a means that pursuing one goal is to facilitate employment and employment,” the head of government said on Thursday at a traditional monthly press conference in the Matignon Palace.

In port zones, legislators are ready to allocate a billion dollars after a year ago the Ministry of Finance reconciled with the advent of special economic zones (SEZs) in Russia, they become more popular. The government has already approved the rules for the creation of three types of SEZ-technical, informational, industrial production and tourist-recreational. On the way, the fourth type is port OEZ, which should attract investors to modernize sea and river ports, as well as airports.

In St. Petersburg, a media forum “Dialogue of Culture” was held this week by the State Hermitage, he accepted the participants of the media forum “Dialogue of Cultures”, organized by the expert and analytical center of the media centers “Eurasia Media Center” under the leadership of Ashot Dzhazoyan with the support of UNESCO, the International Confederation of Journalistic Unions and the International Academy of Television and the International Academy of Television and radio.

20:54 // 06/06/2006 At least 69 people died as a result of a shipwreck in the Red Sea, BBC British television and radio corporation reports. According to her, the ship, on board of which were more than 200 people, sank on the way from the port of the city of Djibuti to the port of the city of Tajura. Most passengers of the ship were headed to the religious ceremony.

20:23 // 06/06/2006 The loan will be allocated until the end of June. This was announced today by the director of the World Bank for Russia Kristalin Georgieva during a meeting with Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev in Kazan. The first borrowing trance in the amount of 50 million dollars was transferred to Kazan in 2005 for the implementation of the project for the development of urban economy, the construction of health and education facilities.

The memorandum of Russia and the EU will help to straighten the situation in the market Russia and the European Union signed a memorandum of the regionalization of animal diseases and on the transit of livestock products through the EU countries and from the EU to Russia. One of the key provisions of this document concerns the procedure for introducing restrictive sanctions on the supply of meat products.

The METRA promises to cancel the duties on the import of equipment for coal power plants, the coal industry is one of the few examples of successful industry reform in Russia over the past decade. Despite the plunder of the “coal loans” of the industry, it was still possible to free itself from ineffective production and reach the trajectory of sustainable growth. The increase in coal production exceeds the average rate for fuel and energy complex.