United Russia is faithful to the Presidential Standard of United Russia and several political scientists gathered on Thursday at the Central Executive Committee of the party to talk about the implementation of Putin's plan, voiced by the president in eight messages to the Federal Assembly. Prominent party members argued for an hour and a half, trying to answer the main question - is there a plan at all.

The Art-Moskva Modern Art Fair in the Central House of Artists and Disciplined Modern Fans appeared at the Central House of the Artist (CDC) by four o'clock in the afternoon on Wednesday-as indicated in invitation tickets, which during the days of the Art-Moscow become a solid currency in the capital. The ticket can be bought at the checkout, but the possession of one way or another obtained by a branded piece of glossy cardboard means a special involvement in what is happening.

09:16 // 05/17/2007 US President George Bush and the British Prime Minister Tony Blair who arrived in the United States will discuss the preparations for the Big Eight summit in Hilligendam on June 6-8, the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran’s nuclear program, ITAR-TASS reports. During the negotiations, the problems of the Dokhia round of global trade negotiations and the situation in the Sudanese province of Darfur will also be touched upon.

12:00 // 05/17/2007 The volume of investments in the electric power industry in 2008 will exceed 900 billion rubles. This was stated at a meeting of the Government of the deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Energy Andrei Dementyev.

11:00 // 05/17/2007 In Vladivostok, two young people today are charged with beating a journalist Konstantin Borovko, who entailed his death. The suspects are a 20 -year -old young man and his minor accomplice. “According to investigators, it was they who attacked a journalist on the night of January 20, 2007, beat him and stole a mobile phone. Konstantin Borovko died on the spot from the injuries,” Irina Nomononova, senior assistant to the Primorsky Territory prosecutor, told ITAR -TASS .

"Baby Tsahes" under the roof of the Mossovet Theater on the top of the Mossovet Theater, on a small stage "under the roof", director Nina Chusova arranged a circus booth based on Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. Having put on picturesque rags, its vague artists are ready to amuse the audience immediately with rope passing, and random focuses, and a moralizing fairy tale about Tsahes’s crumbs, nicknamed Zinnobert. In "Troshka Tsahes", theaters often see a parable with political subtext.

12:40 // 05/17/2007 The negligence of the catering units was the cause of outbreaks of acute intestinal infection of salmonella origin among children in Lipetsk and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug). This conclusion was reached by experts of Rospotrebnadzor, ITAR-TASS reported in this department.

The Russian authorities decided to continue the investigation of the Bony case-the most sensational economic scandal of the late 90s of the last century. Yesterday, the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation sent a lawsuit to the Bank of New York to the Moscow Arbitration Court on the reimbursement of $ 22 billion damage. The new round began almost immediately after the death of Boris Yeltsin.

The Diet of Latvia supported the bill on the ratification of the border agreement with Russia, the Seim of Latvia Ratimrovolov, the border with Russia. Most of the people's deputies voted for the document - the ruling coalition and the left opposition. Latvia will no longer put forward territorial claims to part of the Pskov region The Latvian parliament with the final second reading approved the ratification of the on March 27 in Moscow an agreement on the border between Latvia and Russia.

13:20 // 05/17/2007 The Ministry of Finance of Russia is opposed to the inclusion of the costs of the expenses for the provision of medical assistance to the injured in an accident, believing that this will lead to an unjustified increase in OSAGO, RIA Novosti reports.

The police extort money from foreigners from the Association of guides-translators, guides and Turmenders sent an official letter to the Kremlin’s commandant’s office, the government and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow with a complaint about the frequent cases of extorting money from foreign tourists who are forced to submit documents for registration for a long time. look Lubyanka consults fashionable to create public councils at ministries and departments.

16:21 // 05/17/2007 The Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg satisfied the claims in the amount of about 4 million rubles from four families, whose relatives died as a result of the Tu-154 aircraft in 2006, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the lawyer Igor Trunov, representing the interests of the victims.

15:50 // 05/17/2007 The founder of the financial pyramid MMM Sergey Mavrodi, convicted of fraud, will remain in Kartsere until the end of the sentence, his lawyer Olga Makarova told RIA Novosti . "Yesterday, my client was placed in a punishment cell, where he will stay until the end of the sentence, that is, until May 22. I am not known to the reasons for transferring him to the punishment cell," she said. According to the lawyer, on May 22, Mavrodi must be released.

In 2050, Gazprom, Shell, Exxon and other large companies taken together made less for energy saving in 2050 than “quiet, invisible people in the sleevers developing energy -saving technologies”. Without these technologies, the need of mankind for energy would be 5 billion tons of oil equivalent more than there is now. This was stated by the Director of the Center for the Effective Use of Energy, Igor Bashmakov at yesterday's press conference at Interfax.

So far, Moscow does not cancel the ban on the import of Polish meat Poland refuses to maintain bilateral relations at a high level with Russia until they cancel the ban on the import of Polish meat. Poland Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga actually refused to invite her Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov to visit Moscow on a working visit, leaving him unanswered. The Russian Foreign Ministry is surprised by such a decision.