17:50 // 10.05.2006 Russian President Vladimir Putin by his decree appointed Police Colonel Anatoly Agoshkov as deputy chief of public security police of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. This was reported by the press service of the head of the Russian state.

Yuri Zhdanov - "Gazeta" yesterday President Vladimir Putin in a message to the Federal Assembly announced the need to stimulate an innovative economy. So far, the Russian government has not come up with a different way to stimulate this sphere, except by creating special economic zones (SEZs).

20:00 // 10.05.2006 The chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, Yuri Baluevsky, said that by 2016 the Russian army would be reduced to 1 million people. The NSSh said about this at a press cockered on Wednesday in Brussels. According to the general, at present, the number of armed forces of the Russian Federation has 1 million 134 thousand people. "These 1 million 134 thousand people should turn into 1 million by 2016," Baluevsky said. Source: gzt.ru

The authorities of Georgia and Ukraine want to speed up their way out of the Commonwealth this week, the authorities of Georgia and Ukraine announced their readiness to leave the CIS.

The metropolitan police summed up the results of the May holidays in the capital's law enforcement agencies note that the past May holidays were quite calm. The crime rate these days was lower than average indicators. On average, about 350 different crimes are recorded daily in the city, and on May 1 they were committed only on May 272, 9 - 246. Less on the holidays were recorded by robberies and robberies.

12:39 // 10.05.2006 "It is necessary to ensure the competitiveness of our education otherwise we will encounter a real separation of the quality of education from modern requirements," said the President of Russia, speaking with the annual message to the Federal Assembly. The head of state spoke out for the support of universities that carry out innovative programs of its development.

In the capital, traditional summer preventive shutdowns of hot water begins. Until the end of May, warm water will disappear in more than 19 thousand buildings. These are not only residential buildings, but also schools, hospitals, shops, administrative buildings. Until September 1, preventive shutdowns will cover almost all of Moscow. The exception will be only a few new areas where they will not be required, thanks to the modern polyurethane foam pipes, which do not need an annual check.

It seems that the attempt of the head of the holding “Basic Element” (“Bazel”) Oleg Deripaska to take the development of the automotive industry in her hands. According to the sources of the "newspaper" in the Kremlin administration, in mid -April, representatives of Bazel offered the Russian president their own concept for the development of the industry. However, most likely, this project will not be implemented.

Human rights organizations express “restrained optimism” Russia became a member of the Human Rights Council that recently appeared in the UN. The decision to liquidate the UN Human Rights Committee and replace it with the Human Rights Council was adopted by the UN General Assembly on March 15. The main difference between the Council and the Committee will be an informal approach to members of the organization.

16:10 // 10.05.2006 A 4th grade student of the Grozny school, who wrote a poem about the deceased President of Chechnya Akhmat Kadyrov, received an apartment and 10 thousand dollars as a gift. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Government of the Chechen Republic.

12:54 // 10.05.2006 Speaking with the annual message to the Federal Assembly, the president said that over the past years, pensions have been raised repeatedly and next year the pensions will be increased by a total of another 20%, RIA Novosti reports.

16:23 // 10.05.2006 This was stated by Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaking on Wednesday in the House of Communities of the British Parliament. Answering the deputy’s question from the opposition in connection with the approximation of the anniversary of the rebels in Andijan, Blair noted that the British government still considers the use of power and law enforcement agencies of Uzbekistan to be “disproportionate”.

16:17 // 10.05.2006 In Voronezh, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the fact of the spread of nationalist literature. This was announced by ITAR-TASS today by the head of the regional prosecutor's office, Dmitry Chebotarev. According to him, as a result of investigative measures, the fact of the sale at several retail outlets was recorded, which contained calls for racist crimes.

In Russia, the number of forest fires has sharply increased as extremely tense is now evaluated by experts to the situation with forest fires in Russia. According to the Federal Forestry Agency (Falh), from the beginning of the year to May 10 there were already 6912 - 4.5 times more than in the same period last year. So, only in yesterday 319 fires were registered.

Sergey Lobanov (1887-1942) in the Museum of Personal Collections for a festive timeless time like the completed semi-legal May holidays, exhibitions are often that the organizers would like to hide from too close attention of the public. Or expositions, the initiators of which could not stand up for their wards, providing them with more winning exhibiting terms.