The maneuvers of the countries-participants in the organization on the Collective Security Treaty of the Rubezh Treaty of the second stage of the largest command and staff exercises in the organization of the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) "Rubezh-2008" began yesterday at the Moscow CSTO headquarters.

14:59 // 30.07.2008 Moscow does not exclude the possibility of stopping negotiations with the United States on issues of interest to the American side, a source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said. “We can reach the moment when we can stop discussing on the merits of the issues of interest to the American side,” said the interlocutor of ITAR -TASS .

19:59 // 30.07.2008 The third person involved may appear in the criminal case of an attack on Sberbank collectors in Moscow, when two people were killed, a high -ranking source in the capital's power structures told RIA Novosti . "So the criminal investigators who are investigating this high -profile crime think," the source said. Two suspects have been detained at the moment.

The announced 100 thousand people for a rally in support of Karadzhich, of course, did not gather, but arithmetic is no longer so important here. And without 100 thousand forces capable of representing the place of the next battle for the television cameras Belgrade, it turned out to be quite enough. True, nothing similar to the pogroms, made in the days of the proclamation of Kosovo independence, this time did not work.

The absence of flood on the rivers reduced the profit of hydroelectric power plants at the disposal of Gazeta there are materials from the expanded meeting of the board of OJSC RusHydro, which took place at the beginning of the week in Vladikavkaz. At the meeting, the preliminary results of the first half of the year were summed up and the financial forecast of the holding was given before the end of the year. In 2008, RusHydro plans to help out 60.9 billion rubles.

The Ministry of Economic Development recorded a decline in pace on all fronts of the Ministry of Economic Development published monitoring of the Russian economy in the first six months of 2008. In the second quarter, the domestic economy developed more slowly than in the first. So, in January - March of GDP grew by 8.5%, and in April - June - by 7.6%. In general, for the first half of the year, growth was 8%. Economy braking is explained by the fall of industrial production.

The action of deceived co -investors suspended the hunger strike of St. Petersburg equity holders today announced the suspension of the action from Thursday. The continuation of the hunger strike is possible in the fall - if the situation is not resolved before that time. A hunger strike is carried out by 12 deceived co-investors of St. Petersburg, requiring a meeting with the governor of the city Valentina Matvienko.

In the capital, a hot line of complaints about corruption in Moscow yesterday began the All -Russian Anti -Corruption Public Reception "Clean Hands". The initiator of creating a hot line to receive calls of citizens who suffered from corrupt officials in the state apparatus was the Russian lawyers association for human rights.

Rostourism can disband the Russian tourating trial await serious changes. As it became known to Gazeta, on Monday, the new head of the Federal Tourism Agency (Rosturism) will begin its duties. With a high degree of probability, it can be argued that Vladimir Strelkovsky, who has not yet entered the post of general director of Norilsk Nickel, will come to replace his deputy Anatoly Yarochkin. But not for long. It is possible that already in the fall, Rosturism will be disbanded - as unnecessary.

The Ukrainian police are suspected of a train brigade by the investigators of Russia and Ukraine are trying to reveal a crime in the spirit of Agatha Christie’s novels. On the night of July 15, in just four hours in the compartment and sleeping wagons of the Voronezh train - Simferopol robbed six sleeping passengers. They assure that the criminals, opening the door of the coupe, took them only money - about 200 thousand rubles.

19:13 // 30.07.2008 Chinese astronomers, using two observatories in the country, organized a direct broadcast of the solar eclipse that will occur on August 1 through the Internet, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the Academy of the PRC. The report, in particular, states that observation of a complete solar eclipse will be organized by scientists of two Chinese observatories - Nanjin and Shanghai, who are located in the east of China.

16:30 // 30.07.2008 Members of the family of the ex-leader of the Bosnian Serbs are pleased with Karadzhich, living in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIG), will receive back passports, withdrawn from them on January 9 of this year by order of the high representative of the world community in Big Miroslav Laikhak.

12:20 // 30.07.2008 The authorities of the Northern District of Moscow, where half of the car owners lack parking spaces, plan to build new parking garages for 50 thousand parking spaces until 2011, while there are about 130 thousand, said the SAO prefecture officer. At the same time, according to him, more than 250 thousand cars are registered in CAO.

Financial pyramids still attract depositors over the past three years in Moscow, 31 criminal cases have been instituted related to the fraud of financial and construction pyramids. This was announced yesterday at a press conference by the deputy chief of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Economic Security, Lieutenant General Viktor Vasiliev. He noted that a couple of years ago, scammers mainly entitled depositors with promises to provide housing at prices below market ones.

In the suburbs found an underground drug laboratory, the activities of an underground laboratory for the production of synthetic drugs were preceded the other day during a special operation, employees of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Moscow Region. According to the "newspaper", representatives of the department, some time ago, drug police received information about a group engaged in the Moscow Region of large parties of amphetamine.