Condoleezza Rice hopes to leave Moscow geopolitics Today, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is leaving for a foreign tour, the final point of which will be Moscow, where a meeting of the foreign ministers of the G8 member countries will take place. On the eve of the meeting finalizing preparations for the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, the Bush administration held a crucial brainstorming session to determine what position the White House would take at the summit.

Natalia Kommersant-Gevorgyan special correspondent This is not a routine meeting of G8 foreign ministers. Needless to say, the St. Petersburg summit is, first and foremost, a Putin-Bush summit. And it is Condoleezza Rice who will have to finally edit her president's position on Thursday in Moscow. It is with this position that Mr. Bush will go to a meeting with Mr. Putin.

As Kommersant was told today by the press service of the State Property Fund, on July 4 the Economic Court of the Ivano-Frankivsk Region will consider the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office and the State Property Fund against the Russian company LUKOIL-Neftekhim.

78 6 min. ... If your stock of ideas is exhausted, you can turn to consumers, as global companies are already doing. In Russia the technique is especially effective: our people are prolific and selfless. “It's such a crazy race. Company marketers are constantly being forced to come up with innovations, but where do they get so many ideas? – says Sergey Kanin, director of strategic planning at the advertising agency Art-Com / Worldwide Partners.

Since July 1, communication subscribers will have to be responsible for those to whom they called From July 1, Russian subscribers of telephone companies will begin to live on the principle of "a calling person": all incoming calls become free. The losses of cellular companies from the innovation are inevitable, which means that operators will increase the prices of outgoing calls.

Russia's unemployed cannot meet the economy's labor needs TOPIC OF THE DAY UNEMPLOYMENT Attracting labor migrants and repatriates from neighboring countries to cover the shortage of labor resources is one of the most discussed issues today. Opponents of labor migration object: the level of unemployment in the country is estimated at 5.4 million people. Their share, according to Rosstat, this May amounted to 7.2% of the country’s economically active population (according to ILO methods).

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On June 26, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow rejected a new application from Princess Romanova’s lawyers in the case of the rehabilitation of the royal family, ITAR-TASS reports. As stated by the lawyer representing the Romanov house, German Lukyanov, the refusal to rehabilitate members of the royal family is a violation of the constitutional rights of Princess Maria Romanova. Mr. Lukyanov said that he would appeal this decision to the cassation court.

Demonopolization of the long-distance communication market forced Rostelecom, which can no longer boast of its privileged position, to play by new rules. In order not to give in to new competitors, the company, which is far from advanced in terms of service, is trying to become closer to the consumer. CAN A FORMER MONOPOLY CHANGE? Roman Monin, head of the Logitech representative office in Russia: – It all depends on how ready Rostelecom itself is for changes and accepts the rules of competition.

Vadim Pudzyrei was fired from MBK "Odessa" Vadim Pudzyrei was fired from MBK "Odessa" The management of the municipal basketball club "Odessa" decided to refuse the services of the team's head coach Vadim Pudzyrey. The reason is the club’s record weak performance at the last national championship, where Odessa took 10th place. Vladimir Bryukhovetsky, who is currently working with IC Mariupol, is named as a possible successor to Vadim Pudzyrey. DMITRY KARDASH

Trying to stop its IPO on the London Stock Exchange initiative The Board of Directors of Rosneftegaz has determined the parameters for the IPO of its subsidiary, NK Rosneft. The results of Friday's council meeting were not disclosed. Meanwhile, Rosneft's foreign IPO may be influenced by the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA), which, at the request of YUKOS, will study the circumstances of Rosneft's acquisition of Yuganskneftegaz OJSC.

892 5 minutes. ... June 26 Monday A good day for health. You can engage in all types of activities. The moon is in the sign of Cancer, so medical interventions in the area of ​​the stomach, chest, and female organs are undesirable. But in ordinary life, even these organs will not suffer from special vulnerability. A harmonious day, the newly born Moon forms favorable aspects with Jupiter and Uranus. On such a day you can start or continue any important business.

The economic principles of relations between Russia and Belarus lead to a crisis, not to integration opinion of politicians Inglorious results On the eve of the March presidential elections in Belarus, one could hear more than once from Russian officials that the union of our states is not so much a matter of politics as of economics, that it is economically beneficial for Russia to be friends with Alexander Lukashenko.

915 7 min. ... The topic of energy security is a priority on the agenda of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg in July 2006. The answer to the question of what to do to ensure global energy security* depends on how the G8 leaders define the meaning of this term.

Today, during the seventh auction for the sale of non-agricultural land, the Odessa city budget was replenished by more than 816 thousand hryvnia. As Kommersant was told by the land resources department of the Odessa City Council, out of 8 plots offered for sale, buyers chose only two. In particular, a plot of land with an area of ​​0.4917 hectares on 4th Lokomotivny Lane, put up for sale 7 times in a row, was sold for 354 thousand hryvnia, with a starting price of 295 thousand hryvnia.