21:56 // 30.05.2008 At least 25 people became victims of flooding in Ethiopia on Friday night, Reuters reported with reference to local authorities. Long rains caused floods in this African country. In the most difficult situation were residents of the eastern part of Ethiopia - on Friday night, the water level in the area of the city of Dzhigiga rose sharply, and people who slept in their homes did not manage to evacuate.

11:17 // 30.05.2008 The ex-head of the World Bank (WB) James Wolfenson believes that Russia will take only ninth place among the successful economies of the world by 2050, while Russia seeks to enter the top five by 2020.

It is possible that in the near future the alcohol market awaits new shocks.

During this week, a package of bills on the redistribution of the tax burden should be submitted to the State Duma

The rate of price falling risks the risk of updating the 1992 record this month of housing prices in the UK fell faster than the previous one, since the economic uncertainty and instability of mortgage markets negatively affected both customers and sellers. In May, housing prices decreased by 2.5% compared to a fall of 0.9% recorded in April. Now the average housing prices are 4.4% lower than a year ago.

18:58 // 30.05.2008 Russia will raise the issue of the flights of Georgian drones in the UN Security Council in the Zezino-Abkhaz conflict zone, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed. “The Georgian side that the drones flew and will fly in the conflict zone is a gross violation of the UN Security Council resolutions. It is this issue that is key to prevent exacerbation in the conflict zone. And this issue will be posed today at the UN Security Council,” Lavrov quotes RIA Novosti .

20:59 // 30.05.2008 At the Red Army-Zavadnaya mine, number 1 in the Donetsk region arose, an evacuation of the work shift was organized, the head of the press service of the territorial administration of the State Herdrofromnadzor Marina Nikitina told RIA Novosti . "The fire arose in the fifth southern lava of the central panel of the block number 8 on the horizon of 700 meters. All miners were withdrawn from the emergency site and the adjacent territory," she said.

The British group Iliketrains performed in Moscow in the Russian capital for the first time was the young British group Iliketrains. It can be called the successor of the Sigur Ros and Mogwai: Iliketrains - new heroes for fans of building. The group arose in 2004 in Lids. So far, in her discography debut EP (mini-album) "Progress Perform", released in 2006, and the full-fledged record "Elegies to Lessons Learnt", which came out last fall.

12:32 // 30.05.2008 The Commander -in -Chief of the Russian Navy, Vladimir Vysotsky, does not exclude that Russia can increase the number of its ships in Sevastopol to hundreds “The basic agreement gives us the opportunity to have up to hundreds of ships on the Black Sea Fleet, and now we have 35, the number of the composition can reach up to 25 thousand, and we have 11.

19:17 // 30.05.2008 On the fact of an attempt on the life of Vakha Evloev, a former deputy of the People’s Assembly (parliament) of Ingushetia and the cousin of the first president of the Republic of Ruslan Aushev, a criminal case has been instituted, the representative of the Investigative Department of the SCP of the Russian Federation for Ingushetia told RIA Novosti .

20:30 // 30.05.2008 Russian Mikhail Yuzhny was unable to reach the 1/8 finals of the Tennis tournament of the Big Slam series - the open championship of France with a common prize pool of 15,575,960 euros. Today, the 15th Syanyani yielded to the representative of Spain Fernando Verdasco (22) with a score of 6: 7 (5: 7), 7: 5, 5: 7, 1: 6, ITAR-TASS reports. Source: gzt.ru

16:27 // 30.05.2008 The General Director of the Bolshoi Theater Anatoly Ixanov congratulated the great Russian ballerina Marina Semenova on a 100th anniversary, he said to RIA Novosti . Ixanov said that in the morning he sent a telegram with congratulations and a bouquet of flowers to the famous ballerina. "What can be said about Marina Timofeevna Semenova?

17:54 // 30.05.2008 The Israeli military wounded eight Palestinians on Friday, using firearms against the participants in the demonstration on the border of the gas sector with Israel, the Al-Aaksa television channel reports. Thousands of Palestinians under the flags of the Hamas Islamist movement gathered at the inactive border crossing of Suf, demanding from Israel to remove the blockade of the gas sector.

TNK-BP companies are presented with new multi-billion dollar tax claims searches and courts that TNK-BP has encountered in recent months, they were just fire and water for the company. Copper pipes sounded yesterday, when it became known about the initiation of a criminal case against the former President of TNC Semyon Cukess and new tax claims for 2001-1003 in an amount almost reaching $ 1 billion.

20:22 // 30.05.2008 The Kuzbass mining rescuers, replacing each other, have been continuing for ten hours for ten hours, the continuous searches of six miners who were under the rubble as a result of the accident at the Lenin Mine in Mezhdurechensk told RIA Novosti , the head of the Rostekhnadzor department for the Kemerovo region Nikolai Smirnov.