19:30 // 05/26/2006 The polemic, which has long been around the column "against all" in the federal and regional elections, has grown into a practical plane. Today, the legislators of the Tver region have transferred a bill to the State Duma providing for amendments to a number of legislative acts of the Russian Federation regulating referenda and elections in our country.

19:10 // 05/26/2006 Iran will make a response in the event of aggression by the United States, said on Friday the head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry of Manuchekhr Motaki. “If the Americans strike Iran anywhere, Iran will be a response,” RIA Novosti quotes the words of the Iranian minister at a press conference in Baghdad, where he is on a visit. Source: gzt.ru

20:28 // 05/26/2006 The German auto giant "Volkswagen" will produce its cars in Russia at the assembly factory in Kaluga. This was announced today by the headquarters of the concern in Volsburg (Lower Saxony). It is assumed that the construction of the enterprise will begin in 2006, and by 2011 it will be brought to the design capacity - 250 thousand cars per year. Initially, "Skoda -Octavia" will go from the conveyors, and then the model of the Volkswagen itself.

19:00 // 05/26/2006 The rights of all people should be measured with morality and morality, this also applies to sexual minorities, the members of the Federation Council emphasize, commenting on the decision of the Moscow authorities on the ban on the holding of the gay parade in the capital. In an interview with ITAR-TASS, senators fully supported the decision of the Moscow government.

18:20 // 05/26/2006 Customs officers detained a smuggled batch of non-ferrous metals worth about 54 million rubles on the Russian-Finland border. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today in the press service of the North-West Department of the Federal Customs Service of Russia. Behind the truck that brought from Finland supposedly the Party of Ferromargans, observation was established from the border checkpoint. "When the truck arrived at one of the private warehouses of St.

19:15 // 26.05.2006 Russian Nikolai Davydenko, having defeated the Czech of Irja Novak today with a score of 6: 2.6: 2, reached the finals of the tennis tournament (prize fund 380 thousand dollars) in the Austrian Peretkhah. His rival in the decisive match will be the Romanians Andrei Pavel, whose rival, Peruvian Luis Orna, abandoned the semifinal meeting due to injury. Source: gzt.ru

18:27 // 05/26/2006 The mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky actually abandoned the salary. "From the first day (June), let my salary is 1 hryvnia ($ 0.2) a month before we do not begin to issue at least one thousand apartments for Kiev residents monthly. And then my deputies will return everything to me when we reach this level," the head of the city at a meeting of the expanded college of the Kyiv city state administration said on Friday.

18:43 // 05/26/2006 The French director Xavier Bovois, whose film "Little Lieutenant" participates in the main competitive program of the 59th International Film Festival in Cannes, was fined by local law enforcement officers for trying to impersonate the policeman.

The Court of the Texas city Houston found the former leaders of the Enron Corporation. Now they are waiting for years of imprisonment. The financial scandal related to the company called the experts the largest in the history of the United States. As a result of Enron bankruptcy, more than $ 60 billion was lost in the value of securities, almost 2.1 billion in pension payments, and 5.6 thousand people lost jobs. Kenneth Lei is found by jurors guilty of all 6 accusations.

17:50 // 05/26/2006 In the Paris Palace of Congresses, the spring session of the NATO parliamentary Assembly opened. The delegations of 26 states included in the Alliance, as well as associated countries and observers, participate in its work. As part of the advisory forum, which will last five days, the situation in the world will be discussed, a meeting of the NATO-Russia commission will be held. For the first time, China sent his representatives to the assembly meeting.

16:56 // 05/26/2006 In the Spanish capital, on Friday, the 6th International Automobile Salon, representing the novelties of the world automotive industry, opened. Among the companies participating in the Motor Show - BMW, Volvo, Toyota, Nissan, Daimlerchrysler, Chevrolet, Ford, Citroen, Peugeot and many others. On an area of 120 thousand square meters in eight pavilions, 193 manufacturing companies placed their products.

17:30 // 05/26/2006 The merger of the Russian company Severstal with the second in the world of the European steel group Arselor is an additional certificate of trust in the Russian economy, to large Russian enterprises. " This was stated today in the State Duma, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin.

18:09 // 05/26/2006 Consumers in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region are disconnected from the energy supply as a result of the equipment defect at the Vostochnaya substation. As ITAR-TASS reported in the press service of the Lenenergo electric grid company, during the preventive repairs on the Vostochny, automatic shutdown worked, as a result of which several Lenenergo facilities that supply consumers with electricity were temporarily withdrawn from work.

14:47 // 05/26/2006 Oil spot with an area of about 600 square meters. meters were found on the Neva in the area of the St. Petersburg Sea Port. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the city.

As a subject of the Federation, the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, considers it possible and even appropriate the unification of Moscow and the Moscow Region, as well as St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. According to the mayor, these constituent entities of the Federation are "unified economic systems, and it is quite possible to talk about their unification into a single subject of the federation." “This thing is useful in many respects,” the mayor assured.