The MECTR and the Ministry of Transport agreed on the project of the association of the companies of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation at the meeting on Tuesday agreed on the unification of OJSC SKOCOFLOT and OJSC Novoship on the basis of the Sovcomflot. This was announced by the deputy head of the mayor Kirill Androsov.

At the World Sports Championships, the Russian team leads in the overall standings the Russian team won two gold medals yesterday at the World Water Sports Championships in Australia. And again, this is the merit of the "weak" half of the national team. After the Sunday, the triumph (the Russian woman won 5 km in open water) Larisa Ilchenko repeated her success on Tuesday, but already at a distance twice as long as 10 km. And the victory cost Larisa a lot of effort.

Writer Vladimir Sorokin - in an interview with the newspaper after the trilogy about the space ice and the anti -utopian novel, "Oprichnik Day", writer Vladimir Sorokin returned to drama. In the recently published collection of dramatic works, the author included the new play "Capital", the stage embodiment of which should soon appear at the Moscow Practice Theater. The correspondent of the newspaper Kirill Reshetnikov met with Vladimir Sorokin.

The European Union will fill the alcohol of the gas tank of the European Union announced a tender for the processing of unclaimed wine in biofuel. According to the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Marianne Fisher Boel, such a “crisis distillation” has long become commonplace. The fact is that the wine industry of the countries of the Old World annually faces the crisis of overproduction.

12:41 // 20.03.2007 This weekend, March 25, Russia switches to the "Summer Time". At two o'clock in the morning, the hours of hours will be transferred an hour ahead. "Summer time" is set until October 27. For the first time to translate the arrows to the “summer” and “winter time” was offered in England in 1880, reminds IA REGNUM . In Russia, the first time the clock was transferred to the "Summer Time" in 1917. This procedure has become annual since 1981. Source: gzt.ru

The company "RN-Development" occupies nine billion dollars from banks "Grandmother" Board of Directors Rosneft approved two major borrowed transactions that will allow the company to take an active part in the "analysis" of Yukos assets. Rosneft herself will take $ 13 billion from the consortium of banks. And for $ 9 billion, she will give out guarantees, the happy owner of which will be RN -Development LLC - Rosneft's granddaughter, created this year.

The Basmanny Court supported the lawyers of the convicted shareholders of Yukos yesterday, the Basmanny Court of Moscow recognized the preliminary investigation in the new case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev in Chita. This was insisted by their lawyers, who filed a court in the court. If the decision of the district court does not cancel the Moscow City Court, it is quite possible that the accused will soon be transferred to Moscow.

The Yukos audit was invalid yesterday by the Moscow Arbitration Court made a decision on the claim of the Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service No. 5 to CJSC PRISVOVERKHUSKUPPERS AUTIT, in which the tax authorities demanded invalid agreements for the Audit of the Yukos oil company for 2002-2004 and recover $ 480 thousand received under these transactions from auditors in favor of the state. In rubles, tax authorities estimated this amount of 16.8 million rubles.

The authorities of Nizhny Novgorod found the original way to prevent the opposition to the opposition in Nizhny Novgorod by law enforcement officers arrested the 60-thousandth circulation of the newspaper of the United Civil Front yesterday at the Nizhny Novgorod Pechatnik printing house. The release was dedicated to the "marsh of the disagreement", which is scheduled for March 24.

12:00 // 20.03.2007 The Communist Party will receive its representation in the parliament of Dagestan. These are the intermediate results of recalculating votes in a number of polling stations of the republic.

17:24 // 20.03.2007 According to the latest data, as a result of a methane explosion at a mine in Novokuznetsk, which occurred the day before, 105 people were killed, a representative of the press service of the administration of the Kemerovo region said. “Now the main efforts of the rescuers are aimed at looking for five miners that remained underground,” he said, adding that additional forces, in particular, rescuers who arrived from the Rostov region will be attracted.

If you want to offend someone strongly, you need to take away something from him that they gave it earlier. To give, and then take away - even small children and domestic animals do not forgive this, not to mention adults and solid people. In such a situation, Russia was: Moscow was deprived of the right to hold the World Cup. Hardly the President of the Russian Federation of Boxing Eduard Khusainov can be attributed to those who are ready to forgive the above resentment.

15:20 // 20.03.2007 Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov proposed reviving the TRP standards and handing schoolchildren the icon "Ready for work and defense," ITAR-TASS reports. “It is necessary to work out and introduce standards for our schools,” the mayor ordered at today's meeting of the metropolitan government.

The star of Vanessa Williams became the 2331st on the Hollywood alley of Glory when in 1984 the Miss America crown gave another girl, since the black winner of the Vanessa Williams title was photographed for the Penthouse magazine, many predicted that the happy star Williams will go out in the darkness of obscurity. But this did not happen. This Monday, Williams received a new star, which became the 2331st in a row on the Hollywood Alaley of Glory.

The capital of Great Britain intends to kidnap the title of the financial center of the planet at New York during the construction of St. Paul's Cathedral, architect Christopher Ren found a stone of stone with the inscription “Resurgam” - “Resurrected”. The amazing revival of London, who was committed at the beginning of the 21st century, will not force a single architect to suffer in search of a quote worthy of dazzling cathedrals dedicated to capital, quickly growing along the horizon line.