Vladimir Mau Import tariff: between the manufacturer and the consumer ( Nikolai Popov ) The revision of customs tariffs is an important point of the strategic program of socio-economic development, approved in the summer of this year, and, accordingly, the priority measures of the government for eighteen months. No wonder the new tariffs were considered by the cabinet in the summer, in hot pursuit.

Boris Zhukov (Photo: AP ) Many doubted that the next meeting of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol in The Hague would decide to make a final decision on trading quotas for greenhouse gas emissions. But no one assumed that no official documents would be adopted at all. The confused negotiators could not even decide what to do next - either to convene an extraordinary meeting of the parties, or to postpone everything until the next one, scheduled for May next year.

B.Zh. (Photo: Yuri Feklistov ) Last Wednesday, the Chairman of the Central Election Commission, Alexander Veshnyakov, announced the results of a verification of signatures collected by the initiators of the referendum on a ban on the import of radioactive waste and the restoration of federal environmental departments. Of the 2,490,042 autographs, 1,873,216 were recognized as valid.

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Galina Kovalskaya Last week, by presidential decree, the post of Minister for Social and Economic Development of Chechnya was created. The former governor of the Orenburg region and former first deputy became the minister. Chairman of the State Construction Committee Vladimir Elagin.

Alexander Kan In the homeland of the legendary group, “every stone knows the Beatles” (Photo: Aleksnadr Kan ) It was in Liverpool, there were no coins, Three guitars and a drummer formed a quartet. These simple, quite chastushka poems reflected the process of the emergence of the “magnificent four” in the folklore consciousness of the Soviet people. The poems were sung to the tune of Can't Buy Me Love, which was incredibly popular in our country in the mid-60s.

Dmitry Prince (Photo: Alexander Makarov ) Fifty-five years ago, English writer George Orwell remarked in his story Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Last week, Russian parliamentarians decided to make the fairy tale come true.

Dmitry Pinsker, Alexander Kliner People from the KGB are trying to fill the entire power space with themselves, displacing some competitors and subjugating others. The Moscow political elite was overwhelmed by another wave of rumors about an imminent change of prime minister, as well as possible reshuffles in the presidential administration. According to reliable sources in the Kremlin, a large-scale shake-up should occur no later than February.

Compiled by Save As Previously, in the good old days, no one asked decent citizens to “tell them the password.” In the era of the developed Internet, millions of people own and use passwords. The problem is that many sites that you use while working (or playing) on ​​the Internet resort to user registration. No one is able to remember all the passwords they give out.

Nikolay Morozov A party dissident under Ceausescu, a leisurely reformer after his fall, today Ion Iliescu personifies nomenklatura revenge and nostalgia for socialist equalization (Photo: AP ) So, Ion Iliescu returns to big politics. This became clear after on November 26, in the first round of the presidential elections (in Romania they are held simultaneously with the parliamentary elections), the leader of the left opposition received the votes of almost 37 percent of voters.

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with the site www.anekdot.ru Last week, we missed the publication of the next portion of jokes from the Anekdot.Ru website not at all for technical reasons, as one could well claim, but only because during the week, sadly enough, not a single worthy contender was found. This week the assortment was richer, and we present you with two anecdotes: the first was chosen by the editors, and the second - by site visitors. 1.

Mikhail Margolis Over two seasons, Andrei Markov and Alexander Khavanov perfectly prepared each other for their NHL debut Andrei Markov did not change his style and wore a sweater with the Canadiens emblem.