19:32 // 05/22/2008 Russian journalists today were the first to see the most expensive lots of the upcoming Russian trading Sotheby´s in London on June 9, 10 and 12, ITAR-TASS reports. The betrayal exhibition unfolded at the Schusev Museum of Architecture. Muscovites will be able to get on the exposition on Friday. In total, more than 20 paintings by domestic artists of the 19th and 20th centuries are presented in the museum halls.

Lebanon leaves the crisis yesterday in Lebanon ended the political crisis, which lasted 18 months. In the capital of Katar Doha, representatives of government and opposition forces signed an agreement on the normalization of relations. Now the streets of Lebanese cities can be opened again for free travel of cars, and the shooting between the warring parties will stop.

11:26 // 05/22/2008 The State Duma Council determined the agenda of the anniversary, 1000th meeting of the State Duma, which will be held tomorrow. The first part of the meeting will be devoted to the anniversary celebrations.

15:55 // 05/22/2008 The Russian Foreign Ministry made it possible to understand that the first deputy minister of justice of Ukraine Yevgeny Korneychuk was closed to the entrance to the Russian Federation. “Given what Yevgeny Korneychuk publicly stated, we assume that he does not plan to visit the Russian Federation,” the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Nesterenko told reporters, RIA Novosti reports.

15:23 // 05/22/2008 In connection with the ban on the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov took adequate measures against a number of Ukrainian politicians to enter the territory of Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

11:17 // 05/22/2008 The Georgian Foreign Ministry sent a note to the CIS Secretariat “with a demand for the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth to immediately withdraw the units of the RF Armed Forces illegally introduced there recently from the Abkhaz conflict”. This is stated in the release of the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tbilisi today.

17:20 // 05/22/2008 Russian units of military air defense are not related to the destruction of Georgian unmanned aerial vehicles over Abkhazia, the head of the military air defense of Russia, Colonel General Nikolai Frolov, told reporters. "Our units do not participate in Abkhazia. The statements on this Georgian side are groundless," the general said. The Georgian side accused Russia of destroying its drone in April 2008.

10:34 // 05/22/2008 The director of the CIS SIS, head of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov, was elected head of the Council of Heads of Security Bodies and Special Services. According to ITAR-TASS , such a decision was made unanimously today at the 24th meeting of the Council of Heads of Security Bodies and Special Services of the CIS states, which began in Bishkek.

12:06 // 05/22/2008 Under Smolensk, a training training ground for military air defense is created, at the opening of the 16th Military Scientific Conference, dedicated to the development of air defense of the ground forces, the head of the Military Academy of the military air defense of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Smolensk Anatoly Gavrilov General.

The fines were counted from the minimum wage to the GOSID Duma rubles in the third final reading, she adopted yesterday the law on the calculation of judicial fines in the framework of the current procedural legislation in rubles, and not in the minimum wages (minimum wage), as it was still. Corresponding amendments are made to the Civil Procedure Code, to the arbitration procedural and criminal procedure code. Indeed, the minimum wage to fines has a very conditional attitude.

British scientists are close to creating a drug to combat dangerous hospital infections British researchers believe that for three years they will be able to create a medicine, before which even superinfection - methicillin, resistant golden staphylococcus (MRSA). Currently, clinical trials of a new substance called XF-73 are underway, on the basis of which the medicine can be created.

Foreign Minister Bernard Kushner ended the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kushner to the Moscow visit to Moscow yesterday completed his visit to Moscow. In the morning, he held negotiations with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and after he was accepted in the Kremlin by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. One of the main topics of negotiations with Sergey Lavrov was a new agreement on partnership and cooperation between Russia and the European Union.

17:39 // 05/22/2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will take part in the celebration of the decade of the capital of Kazakhstan Astana, said President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Once again, Sergei Mavrodi discovered the head of the MMM financial pyramid Sergey Mavrodi, a representative of the press service of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) of the Russian Federation, who was wanted by the head of the MMM financial pyramid (FSSP) of the Russian Federation. The piquancy of the situation is that Mavrodi was found at the presentation of his book, after which he was offered to voluntarily go to the FSSP department in the central district of the capital for a conversation.

14:24 // 05/22/2008 Former Russian Ambassador to Cyprus Andrei Nesterenko began the duties of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, heading the Department of Information and Seal of the Foreign Ministry, a representative of the department told RIA Novosti . Earlier, the department was headed by Mikhail Kaminin, who became the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia in Cuba. Source: gzt.ru