The European Conference of Ministers of Transport offers Russia to reduce the speeds of vehicles in urban areas up to 50 km/h, while introducing zones with a speed limit of 30 km/h in the scale of residential areas. According to ministers, this is necessary to increase safety.

The organizers of the Moscow gay parade intend to hold it at the end of May even if the capital's authorities refuse to authorize this action. “We intend to hold our procession on May 27, on Saturday, approximately at 15:00 - immediately after the end of the conference on the occasion of the International Day of the confrontation between the homophobia, which will be held in the Moscow Swiss -Hotel,” Interfax told the project manager of the Gayrussia.ru project Nikolai Alekseev.

Gazprom top managers do not want to work in one salary. They evaluate their work and responsibility for managing the largest gas company in the world. On Thursday, the Board of Directors of Gazprom will consider the option of an additional incentive plan for 76 top managers of the company. It includes a system of annual bonuses that can reach the size of an annual salary, as well as the right to buy a company for a total of $ 55 million.

Angel Merkel during a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Tomsk will have to solve a difficult task: the federal chancellor should indicate the contours of further cooperation between Russia and Germany, and in this matter the line between imposition of friendship and keeping the distance is too thin, the Handelsblatt newspaper writes on Wednesday. This task is also a difficult task because Russia has changed a lot in recent years.

In the Shcherbin cemetery on Tuesday, the funeral of a student of Vigen Abramanz, stabbed on April 22 in the Moscow metro, took place. Before the funeral, about 300 Armenians living in Moscow, blocking the movement on the New Arbat, demanded an objective investigation of the murder of their fellow countryman. After the rally, the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office unexpectedly stated that the household version of the murder is not the main one.

Explosions in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab were carried out by three suicide bombers. This was stated by representatives of law enforcement agencies of the country, writes on Wednesday the Al-Ahram newspaper.

The Moscow City Duma is preparing amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses, extending the term for the consideration of cases of violations of the Rules of the road from the current 2 months to a year. Deputies believe that citizens deliberately delay the consideration of cases in order to evade responsibility. According to experts, there is such a problem, but it can be solved without an increase in the statute of limitations, the new Izvestia newspaper writes on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to work out the possibility of transferring the eastern pipeline on the site near North Baikal beyond the Baikal Range - that is, more than 40 km to the north, beyond the water intake zone.

The crown and jewelry for the winners of the Mrs. World-2006 contest, which will be held on April 29 in St. Petersburg, were detained at Pulkovo customs and can be sent back to the United States.

The ceremony dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust took place in Moscow on April 25 (27 Nisan according to the Jewish calendar) at the initiative of the Congress of Jewish religious organizations and associations of Russia (Keror). For the first time, such a ceremony was held in a restored large hall of the Moscow Choral Synagogue, which is actively restored and updated by its 100th anniversary. Previously, various Moscow halls were rented for a memorable ceremony.

It is for the sake of participating in the sports show of the Olympic champion of Alexei Nemov “The Legend of Sports”, which will be held on May 17 at the Sports Palace in Luzhniki, the Olympic champion of Athens in rhythmic gymnastics Alina Kabaeva resumed training and returned to great sport. This was announced by Alina Kabaeva herself about this to the Sports Information Agency.

Visili Aleksanyan, vice-president of the NK Yukos, contained in custody in the investigative insulator, is deprived of a lawyer status. According to sources in lawyer circles on Wednesday, the Law Chamber of Moscow made the corresponding decision. According to sources, earlier the Office of Moscow also excluded Aleksanyan from the register of lawyers of the capital.

The head coach of the Moscow football club Spartak Alexander Starkov resigned from his post on Wednesday. Sports director Vladimir Fedotov was appointed acting head coach, and the double coach Sergei Rodionov will help him. Fedotov also temporarily acted as the mentor of Spartak after the resignation of the Italian specialist Nevio Skala and after the departure of Andrei Chernyshov.

The famous Japanese writer Kharuki Murakami decided to take a kangaroo from the Moscow zoo under his guardianship. This idea appeared in the writer in preparation for the publication of the collection of stories "Good day for kangaroo" in Russia. One of the acquaintances Murakami told him about the Moscow Zoo, which contains representatives of the fauna from almost all corners of the globe.

The average price of a square meter of metropolitan real estate overcame a psychological mark of 3 thousand dollars. And this is with sparing arithmetic, which does not take into account elite and super -expensive apartments. The price is not so much as a pace: the previous line - 2 thousand - was taken only six months ago. However, do not succumb to the magical effect of round numbers, in fact, Moscow apartments are not expensive as quickly as it seems.