, for consultations in Moscow The Russian Foreign Ministry is recalling the Russian Ambassador to Tbilisi, Vyacheslav Kovalenko , and is also evacuating employees of Russian institutions in Georgia and members of their families. The corresponding message was published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

28.09.2006, 19:53:02 version Print | PDA/PDA Emily Watson and Gabriel Byrne in the movie "Wah-wah." Shot from outnow.ch Pictures and pictures Cultural events September 29 - October 6 This week the festival of new British cinema starts in the capital, the Silver Camera photo competition and exhibitions of artists Alexander Dzhikia, Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova open.

28.09.2006, 19:12:36 version Print | PDA/PDA Cover of the October issue of Forbes Underwater part of the iceberg Forbes published a rating of private companies in Russia The October issue of the Russian version of Forbes magazine published the third annual ranking of the country's 200 largest private companies. The total annual turnover of the ranking participants was $140 billion in 2006, and the minimum turnover required to be included in the list was $210 million.

The Russian Consulate in Georgia denied reports by the Georgian television company Rustavi-2, according to which Russian Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Pichugin is in the building of the Russian diplomatic mission.

The Directorate of the Prosecutor General's Office for the investigation of particularly important cases is headed by Sergei Ivanov, who formerly headed the investigative department of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office, writes the Kommersant newspaper . The day before, the order for his appointment was signed by acting Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman, since Yuri Chaika went on vacation last Monday.

For the first time in the history of the parliament of the self-proclaimed republic, a faction has been created in the Supreme Council of Transnistria.

The girl, wounded on Wednesday during a hostage crisis at a school in the city of Bailey in the US state of Colorado, died in hospital, AFP reports . A 16-year-old Platte Canyon School student who was shot in the head was flown by helicopter to St. Anthony's General Hospital in Denver in critical condition, but doctors were unable to save her life. “I can confirm that the girl has died,” hospital spokesman Bev Lilly told the agency, declining to provide any details about the deceased.

The Latvian Parliament rejected the draft law on citizenship, which proposed to make the procedure for obtaining Latvian citizenship as difficult as possible by refusing to obtain a “blue passport” for several categories of citizens at once, writes the online publication Nowonews / Thus, the bill provided for the termination of the naturalization process in relation to persons “who arrived in Latvia during the period of occupation.” With the exception of rare cases when citizenship will be

Two significant anthropological discoveries, which became known almost simultaneously, change scientists’ ideas about the reasons that forced the Neanderthals to cede control over Europe, and therefore world domination, to our ancestors. In this fight, Homo sapiens found a way to win without a single attack on the enemy.

Residents of only 6 thousand (20 percent) of the capital's 33 thousand residential buildings chose a management company. The remaining 80 percent still trust the Directorates of the Single Customer (DEC). This was stated by the First Deputy Mayor of Moscow Pyotr Aksenov, reports the PRIME-TASS agency . According to the Housing Code, Muscovites until 2007 must choose a company under an agreement with which they can receive additional services.

Specialists from Asustek Computer demonstrated a laptop with two displays at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) conference in San Francisco. In addition to the main screen, the machine is equipped with a second, auxiliary one. When closed, the compact display allows you to work with e-mail and use the laptop as a digital player. In addition to Asustek, companies such as Acer and Mitac are interested in creating laptops with dual displays.

A collection of stamps collected by the famous “Nazi hunter” Simon Wiesenthal was sold at an auction in Wiesbaden for a million dollars (791 thousand euros). The results of the auction, as reported by France Presse, doubled the expectations of experts. The most expensive lot from the Wiesenthal collection was a letter from China, sold for 41 thousand euros. One of the earliest and rarest German stamps - "Schwarze Einser" ("black unit") - went for 5,200 euros.

At a Christie's London auction, three items that once belonged to the famous British spy, archaeologist and writer Lawrence of Arabia were sold for 264 thousand pounds (just over half a million dollars). The compass, cigarette case and watch were given by Lawrence to his driver Corporal Evans in 1919, and have been kept in the latter's family ever since, The Guardian newspaper reports.

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani defended Bill Clinton's efforts to combat terrorism while he was president. According to the AP, Giuliani believes that recent criticism has no basis. "Attempting to place some of the blame for what happened on September 11, 2001, on President Clinton makes no sense for many reasons. We must remember that the real culprits are the terrorists who came here once to kill us and intend to come back again," Giuliani said.

28.09.2006, 19:47:39 version Print | PDA/PDA Photo from berkeley.edu TV calls for help TV bosses admitted that they are unable to overcome the crisis on their own Russian television is experiencing a crisis, socially significant genres are in decline, at least one federal television channel is being marginalized, and television bosses are unable to correct the situation on their own.