Financial guarantees to consumers will be easy to circumvent the adoption of amendments to the law on tourism activity threatens the collapse of the entire industry. This conclusion was reached by representatives of the All -Russian Public Organization of Small and Medium Enterprises “Ross Russia”. One of the main provisions of the bill that has passed the first reading in the State Duma is the introduction of financial guarantees of tour operators.

20:55 // 10.24.2006 The wife of the British musician Sir Paul McCartney - Heather Mills - suits a number of British Boulevard newspapers for offensive publications on the divorce of the "star" couple. As RIA Novosti reports, she suits the Daily Mail newspapers, Ivning Standard and San for the distribution of fake, insulting and extremely disappointing statements about her divorce from the ex-Beatle Paul McCartney.

The Supreme Arbitration Court canceled the results of the competition for the reconstruction of the hotel, which was won by the company Shalva Chigirinsky Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court (you) invalid the results of the competition on the choice of the developer of the site on the site of the demolished hotel "Russia".

The cooks and politicians question the conclusions of scientists to doubt excess weight increases pressure, reduces life and gives a stress on the heart. Now scientists have found that it also reduces mental abilities. The study, which lasted five years and in which more than 2200 adults took part, shows the connection between excess weight and a decrease in cognitive function. Its results were published in the October issue of Neurology magazine.

The 95th anniversary of the birth of Arkady Raikin Arkady Raikin was more than the actor. He was a legend - the country knew and loved him. In those days when everyone was silent, to speak and joke was allowed to one person - Raikin. And he did it brilliantly. The daughter of Arkady Isaakovich Ekaterina Raikina and Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Karpov, who worked with Raikin, was shared by their memories of the artist with Olga Romantsova, who worked with Raikin.

Gunter Ferkhoigen assures that his relations with subordinates do not go beyond the decency of the EU Commissioner for Industry Affairs, the vice president of the European Commission Gunter Ferkhoigen is forced to prove that his close friend received a promotion and the post of personnel assistant, deservedly. In German and Lithuanian newspapers last week, photographs were published in which the 62-year-old German, who was on vacation in Lithuania, hugs Peter Erlen.

Russia can become a tourist-raw power on Monday late at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MARTS), the interim results of applications for the creation of tourist and recreational zones have summed up. The relevant commission, according to the head of the mayors of German Gref, selected potential winners - seven subjects of the Federation.

20:53 // 24.10.2006 The cause of a large accident in Samara was the refusal of the brakes of the tram. ITAR-TASS reports that the incident occurred today at about 18:30 Moscow time at the intersection of Novovkazalnaya and Stavropol streets in Samara. For the tram moving along the route 7, for an unknown reason, the brakes were refused and on the bend, going under the slope, he got off the rails and rolled over. After that, the tram hit public transport and collided with two cars.

The entry of Eastern European countries into the EU put it on the threshold of the epidemic in Europe is spreading a new, more dangerous form of tuberculosis, against which traditional drugs are powerless. According to representatives of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, the spread of the disease has become the most serious threat to Europe since the Second World War, and it comes from the former Soviet republics. “We say to the heads of European states: wake up.

19:41 // 10/24/2006 Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the state program of voluntary resettlement of compatriots "does not pursue the goal of at any cost to return people to Russia, but is designed for those who are going to return, grants the right to choose." At the World Congress of compatriots, the head of state recalled that in June the state program of voluntary resettlement of compatriots to Russia was adopted, ITAR-TASS reports.

15:55 // 24.10.2006 The ex-prime minister of Russia Mikhail Kasyanov, who heads the People's Democratic Union (VAT), said that his movement would not dispute the refusal of his registration as a legal entity and make new attempts to register. “Our documents are all correct. We will not correct anything,” Kasyanova quotes Interfax . At the same time, he called the refusal of registration to be insolvent.

Retailers go beyond the Moscow Ring Road five to six years ago The concepts of “shopping” and “outskirts” were absolutely incompatible. Today, shopping centers in the peripheral regions of Moscow and beyond its borders grow like mushrooms after rain. The expansion of retailers into sleeping areas and MKAD is understandable: a shortage of retail space in the center of the capital, as well as high rental rates.

The Chinese shocked world gymnastics at the World Orchus, the Russian athletes won two medals that ended in Danish Orchus. In command exercises, the men's team became the second, and the female team was the third. This is the maximum of what can be expected from our gymnastics today. The last time the prize -winners of world forums in team exercises were the Russians were only in 1999! Seven years ago, in China, a team led by Alexei Nemov won silver awards.

In Kaliningrad, the Lithuanian spy caught the FSB officers of Russia detained the deputy chief of the penal inspection for the Krasnoznamensky district of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the Russian Federation for the Kaliningrad region Vasily Khitryuk. The 39-year-old lieutenant colonel of the internal service is suspected of espionage in favor of Lithuania.

South Ossetia intends to leave Zaashvili without a New Year's gift for almost 15 years, since the first referendum on the independence of the republic in 1992, South Ossetia considers itself an independent state and is ready to defend freedom with weapons in their hands.