The President of the All -Russian Federation rowing in kayaks and canoe Sergey Kushakov in an interview with the newspaper News associated with rowing, recently more often appeared in alarming sections. The disqualification of the Russian Federation of rowing in connection with a doping scandal led to the fact that in this sport Russia will most likely be left without Olympic licenses. However, everything is not so bad in related disciplines - rowing on kayaks and canoe and rowing slalom.

14:41 // 05/15/2008 The aircraft of the Air Force (Air Force) of Russia did not participate in the destruction of Georgian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, said Colonel General Alexander Zelin, General Committee of the Air Force. “I can once again confirm that the aircraft of the Russian Air Force in this event did not take part,” Zelin told reporters.

11:22 // 05/15/2008 Renault will establish at the end of 2009 in Moscow at the capacities of the Autofmos factory production of the new Renault Sandero car, the company said. The release of the Renault Sandero car is planned at the new production facilities of Autoframos, which will be doubled in 2009 and reached 160,000 cars a year. The current production area is engaged in the manufacture of the Renault Logan sedan model, Prime-Tass notes.

The shareholder of the Yukos will not give Russia the Supreme Justice Court of Israel yesterday recognized the as legitimate by the former co -owner of Yukos Leonid Nonzlnin citizenship of this country and the refusal of the Israeli authorities to extradite it to Russia. Thus, the lawsuit filed by Julius Nudelman and Eliezer Shimoni was rejected to the Israeli Ministry of Internal Affairs, the legal adviser to Israeli Government Menacham Mazuza and Leonid Nevzlin himself.

16:33 // 05/15/2008 The Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation will consist of 15 people, which is three fifths from the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers, the press secretary of Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov said. His words are given by RIA Novosti . "The three fifths of the total composition of the Cabinet of Ministers are, in fact, quorum for decision -making," Peskov said. Source: gzt.ru

The 61st Cannes Film Festival began with a press show of the film "Blindness" of the Brazilian director Fernando Meyrellsh yesterday the next Cannes International Film Festival opened. Having exchanged the seventh ten, the main world film forum decided to younger: the presence of classic directors in the competitive program, usually exceeding half, was reduced to a third.

Only 600 compatriots responded to the call to return to Russia by the Federal Migration Service (FMS) reported yesterday about the implementation of the state program to relocate compatriots.

14:22 // 05/15/2008 The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation confirmed the facts of gross violations of the legislation at the disposal of the land plots of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences identified by Rosprirodnadzor. This is stated in the message of the Ministry of Natural Resources, reports Prime-Tass . In March 2008, the deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitnol sent materials about the identified violations to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.

The prosecutor’s office is satisfied with the court decision by the prosecutor's office was satisfied with the decision of the Moscow City Court, which sentenced eight accused in the case of the explosion in the Cherkizovsky market of Moscow to the terms of two years to a life imprisonment, the prosecutor Alexei Chumichev said. "We believe that the punishment was a fair, satisfied with the court decision," said the prosecutor.

Actor Nikolai Pastukhov, in an interview with Gazeta, was celebrated by the 85th anniversary of the Russian artist Nikolai Pastukhov. A student of director Alexei Popov first entered the Red Army Theater 17-year-old. He left this theater, returned and still consists in his troupe.

The Kremlin yesterday confirmed the powers of two more advisers to the head of state and almost all the presidential envoy both in parliament and in the highest court, and in the seven federal districts. A former head of the Ministry of Justice Vladimir Ustinov was added to the districts in the districts. As the newspaper predicted (see the number of May 13), Ustinov was appointed representative of the president in the North Caucasus, which looks like a decrease.

17:12 // 05/15/2008 The entrance to Russia of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the leader of the party "Time", which is part of the pro-presidential block "Our Ukraine-People's Self-Story", Vladislav Kaskiva is not allowed in accordance with the law, the official representative of the FSB of the Russian Federation Vadim Shibaev said on Thursday of RIA Novosti .

19:30 // 05/15/2008 Zenit football players, who won the UEFA Cup on the eve of Manchester, returned to St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The plane with the players landed at the Pulkovo airport. The players went down the ladder to the music of a military orchestra.

The 12th art art “Art Moscow” was opened in the Central House of the Artist (CDC) yesterday the 12th international art fair “Art Moscow” was opened. She will work until the end of the week, and on the night of May 17 to 18, her visitors will be able to spend at the Dawstrart festival, moving from one exhibition site or a Moscow gallery to another. Art Moscow began to behave as a solid art fair, which has already reached a certain age.

Yesterday, in St. Petersburg, in the 79th year, writer Yuri Rythau Yuri Rytheu passed away a little more than 20 when his first stories appeared in the Almanac of “Young Leningrad”, and then in “Logok” and “New World”. Soon the Chukotka Saga was written, it was published in Magadan, but made his name known in the country and abroad. During his life, Yuri Rytheu tried articles and essays, novels and stories, saga and novels.