25.01.2007, 01:45:30 version Print | PDA/PDA Congressmen escort Bush after his address. Photo by AFP Senate committee votes against sending new troops to Iraq Comments Not a step back 01/24/2007In his address to Congress, Bush showed tenacity worthy of respect and impeachment The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, controlled by Democrats, on Wednesday voted against US President George W.

Ruben Vardanyan stopped negotiations on the sale of Troika Dialog. He turned down a $2.5-3 billion deal to create a world-class Russian investment bank with $1 billion in annual revenue. newspaper writes about this The Vedomosti . In an interview, Vardanyan said that he decided not to sell the company. “I wanted to prove to everyone that a Russian investment bank should be in Russia. This is such a challenge for myself and everyone,” said the businessman.

The Dagestan branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation appealed to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation two decisions of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, depriving the party of the right to participate in the elections of deputies of the People's Assembly (Parliament) of the republic scheduled for March 11. this on Thursday.

Israeli lawmakers approved Moshe Katsav's request to temporarily step down as president. He will resign for a period of three months due to allegations of sexual harassment against him, reports France Presse . During the voting, 13 members of the Knesset Committee on Parliamentary Affairs voted for Katsav's temporary resignation, while 11 deputies spoke against it. Formally, Katsav will remain president until the end of the hearings on his case.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia has brought the Dynamo Moscow hockey club to administrative responsibility for violating advertising legislation. The amount of the fine was 400 times the minimum wage (40 thousand rubles).

Human rights activists called on law enforcement agencies to monitor possible cases of incitement to national hatred within the framework of the all-Russian action “Russian March against Political Repression” scheduled for January 28. As the head of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights (MBHR) Alexander Brod told the Interfax agency on Thursday evening , a corresponding appeal will be sent to the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia in the near future.

The police of Orsk, Orenburg region, will check the mobile phones of all residents of the city, Interfax reports . “According to the Department of Internal Affairs, a difficult situation has developed in the city with crimes related to the theft of cell phones,” the press service of the city administration explained the situation.

The deadline for all manufacturers to join the Unified State Automated Information System for Alcohol Accounting (USAIS) has been postponed to November 1, 2007, according to an official government press release . Previously, it was assumed that manufacturers should have installed alcohol meters before February 1, 2007. If this happened, many factories would have to stop production.

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev published an article in the Kommersant newspaper on the first results of national projects. Dwelling on the significance of national projects, Medvedev pointed out that the very fact of their appearance means that Russia was able to become a different country.

Over the past few days, two Italian citizens have been robbed in the Kazakh city of Pavlodar. reports As Kazakhstan today , citing sources in the Pavlodar police, the last victim of the robbers was a 60-year-old Italian citizen. He contacted the police with a statement that three robbers attacked him near one of the cafes and took away two mobile phones, 300 dollars, 30 thousand tenge ($240), a Swiss watch and a wardrobe number.

25.01.2007, 12:42:57 version Print | PDA/PDA Yuriy Boyko. Photo from the site pl.ua Turkmenistan has forgiven Ukraine for its hospitality http://lenta.ru/articles/2007/01/24/visas/ The scandal with the arrival of representatives of the Turkmen opposition to Ukraine, in the organization of which the Minister of Transport and Communications Nikolai Rudkovsky was involved, will not entail the cessation of Turkmen gas supplies to Ukraine.

After selling off the remnants of cigarettes produced in 2006, tobacco sellers will have to reduce prices in accordance with the maximum retail prices (MRP) for cigarettes, the Kommersant newspaper wrote on Thursday . As previously reported, from January 1, the tobacco excise tax rate is tied to the MRP, which tobacco factories are required to indicate on packs.

Former WBC world heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko , who previously announced his return to the ring, will continue to work in the Kiev City Council, where he was elected in March last year. , he said this As reported by ProUA on Thursday at a briefing in Kiev. “I have always been socially active. No one noticed my training, which took place throughout the year, and this will not interfere with my work in the Kiev City Council,” Klitschko said.

The court rejected the petition of lawyers representing the interests of Sergei Mozgalev and Yuri Pliev, whom the investigation considers to be the instigators of the fight in the Kondopoga restaurant "Chaika". The defense of the accused demanded that a criminal case be opened against the two victims and considered together with the case of Mozgalev and Pliev, RIA Novosti reports .

The National Thermal Power Corporation of India, the Russian Zarubezhvodstroy and the Indian industrial group SSJV signed an agreement to agree on the technical and commercial terms of the contract for the construction of the Tapovon hydroelectric power station. reports this RIA Novosti . The hydraulic structure will be built in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The contract is valued at $250 million. Its implementation should take almost 2 years.