Former host of information programs on the Ren-TV channel Olga Romanova was appointed editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Business Week magazine, which is published by Rodionov's Publishing House. “Yesterday late in the evening I saw an order about my appointment, according to which I became the editor -in -chief from June 1,” Romanova told Interfax on Wednesday.

In the area of ​​Luzhnikov on Wednesday afternoon, the Lada Model car fell in the Moscow-River, Interfax reports. Around 12:30 at the exit from the third transport ring on The Zhiguli driver did not cope with the control of the Moscow River, and, despite the sharp braking, crashed into a cast-iron fence, after which the car turned over and fell into the river. The driver and passenger remained alive, they got ashore. The car swims in the river with wheels up.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Wednesday to Austria with an official two -day visit to the official and workers in content. His plane landed at the airport of Vienna "Schvehat". Today, the head of the Russian state will hold negotiations in a narrow and expanded composition with the President of Austria, after which the leaders of the two countries at a press conference will answer questions from journalists. “In the form, these will be official visits, but in fact, workers.

The ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, which confirmed the actual auction for the sale of shares of Yuganskneftegaz. Thus, the court rejected the appeal of the NK Yukos. The court also refused Yukos to compensate for losses incurred as a result of auction, which were estimated at more than 324 billion rubles.

The London football club Chelsea made the first acquisition of the current offseason, signing as a free agent a midfielder Steve Sidwell from Redinga. Sidwell began his career in the London Arsenal, but he could not break into the first team and in the middle of the 2002/03 season moved to Reding, according to UEFA.com . In a team from Berkshir, a 24-year-old player won a place in the main composition and helped the club for the first time in history to go to the first division in 2006.

The Rostov prosecutor's office promised to reveal the murder of two young sisters in Taganrog in the shortest possible time. The acting prosecutor of the Rostov region Nikolai Kostyuchenko expressed confidence in the disclosure of this monstrous crime. “This crime will be disclosed in the coming days,” he told reporters on Wednesday in Rostov-on-Don.

The First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov said that the introduction of paid roads in Russia is inevitable, but he advocates that they are duplicated by free tracks. “Inevitably, we want it or not, the construction and individual sections of paid roads,” he said on Wednesday “Interfax”. At the same time, he emphasized that the construction of such paid roads should be carried out in full accordance with the law.

The Israeli Air Force last night struck two spot strikes on targets in the gas sector. According to Palestinian sources, one of the missiles issued at the headquarters of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), located in the eastern part of Dzhebalia, deviated and hit the residential building. As a result of the rocket rocket, 9 people were injured: a 42-year-old man and eight children, the youngest of whom is 9 months. The victims were taken to the Kamal Oduang hospital.

The US Navy squadron entered Wednesday into the waters of the Persian Gulf, crossing the Strait of the Ormuzian Strait. It includes nine ships, including two aircraft carriers - USS John C. Stennis and USS Nimitz. According to Reuters, since the start of the war against Iraq in the spring of 2003, there was no such significant invasion of American military courts into the Persian Gulf.

President Viktor Yushchenko appointed one of the leaders of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BUT) Alexander Turchinov First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (National Security and Defense Council). This is stated in the relevant decree of Yushchenko, published on Wednesday on his official website , ITAR-TASS reports. Turchinov is the second person in the opposition block of Tymoshenko.

The official request for the issuance of Andrei Lugovo to the UK has not yet been transferred to the Russian authorities, since the materials collected by the British police testifying to his possible involvement in the death of a former employee of the Russian special services of Alexander Litvinenko are still translated into Russian, the Air Force reports. The requirements of the British authorities are based on the fact that Russia in 2001 joined the EU Convention on Extreme of 1957.

The Moscow City Court recognized the arrest of the suspects in the preparation of the terrorist attack on the May holidays in Moscow Ruslan Musaev and Umar Batukaev. Thus, the court refused to satisfy the cassation appeal of lawyers who asked to cancel the decision of the Lefortovo Court of Moscow on the arrest and release them from custody, Interfax reports.

The largest Russian transport company will replace branded colors from light blue to bright red and modifting logo: now it will be a red monogram based on Cyrillic, reports Daily RBC . The change of corporate identity will end in 2010. In 2007, logos will be updated, in 2008 the reptile replacement, the replacement of signs on the buildings of stations and stations, replacement of the logo on the property of passenger wagons will begin. After that, they will sew a new form for employees.

The situation in compliance with human rights in Russia in 2006 has deteriorated significantly, will announce on Wednesday day the human rights organization of Amnesty International in its annual report, says Echo of Moscow . In previous years, human rights activists were not delighted with the development of the situation in the Russian Federation, and last year, according to AFP, the situation with freedom of opinion and xenophobia has significantly worsened in Russia.

The primary Iurs of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad (ROCZ), Metropolitan Lavr, with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Alexy II, was awarded a high award for zealous works to reunite the ROCI and the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) - the Golden Order "For Sacrificial Service" in the name of the faithful princes of Russian Boris and Gleb "Russia Orthodox ", reports ITAR-TASS.