Venezuela President Colonel Hugo Chavez for the fifth time comes to Russia on a visit. The most important part of these trips to him is the weapons and energy contracts of Russian state -owned companies with Venezuela. According to the results of last year, the turnover between Russia and Venezuela amounted to $ 90 million, mainly due to work in Venezuela Gazprom, Lukoil, Zarubezhneftegaz, and Rosoboronexport.

Moldova President Vladimir Voronin refused to sign the "Law on Religious cults and their components of structures" and returned it to finalize to parliament, the Interfax agency in the Parliament of the Republic told today. According to the source of the agency, "the main objection of the head of state boils down to the fact that the law does not say anything about Orthodoxy as the traditional religion of the country's people." In addition, the interlocutor of the agency noted, V.

The command of the Far Eastern Military District (DVA) considers the incident that occurred at the end of December 2006 in one of the military units in the Kuril Islands, when military personnel, drafted from the regions of the North Caucasus, arranged riots . Recall that the reason for the unrest was a household conflict, which adopted an ethnic coloring. According to the military, on December 21, 2006, a former soldier came to the barracks.

Russian journalist from Nalchik Fatima Tlisov, who worked for the Associated Press in the North Caucasus, fearing, according to her, persecutions, moved to the United States and continues to inform information about arrests, abductions and torture in the region from law enforcement agencies. According to The New York Times , on Thursday Tlisov should be performed at a round table meeting in the US Congress, dedicated to human rights in the Caucasus.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved a report on Wednesday, prepared by the Swiss deputy, Wild Marty, on the illegal activity of the CIA in a number of European countries. From the United States, compensation for prisoners of secret CIA prisons demanded, but they were not deprived of the status of observers in the Council of Europe. The rights of voting in PACE and delegations of Romania and Poland were not deprived, secret prisons were operating on the territory.

A fifth of Russian companies are unprofitable, Tatyana Shevtsova, Deputy Head of the Federal Tax Service, said on Thursday in an interview on Thursday. And according to the statistics of the Moscow City Hall, 30% of large and medium -sized companies are unprofitable. “At present, despite the outlined trend towards reducing the number of unprofitable enterprises, their share in the total number of legal entities is large enough. According to our data, this is 21%,” she said.

During the campaign in front of the Duma elections, Russian President Vladimir Putin or his successor may join “one of the political parties”, which will subsequently gain the constitutional majority in the State Duma and will receive the right to apply a veto to decisions of the next head of state.

A group of Japanese officials will visit Russia in early July to lobby for possible supplies of high -speed trains, famous Sinkansen, developing a speed of 250 km/h and above, Russian railways. Japanese officials and industrialists will meet with the president of Russian Railways OJSC Vladimir Yakunin and representatives of the Russian government, Interfax reports.

The Yukos minority shareholders in the United States are going to file a lawsuit against PwC after the PriceWaterhousecoopers (PWC) auditors were deprived of audit reporting, withdrawing their conclusions in 1995-2004. As it became known to the Gzt.ru newspaper , the main subject for a judicial discussion will be the fullness of the informators' awareness of the activities of Yukos.

The new rival of the Russian Dmitry Kirillov in battle for the vacant world champion according to the International Boxing Federation (IBF) in weight 52.16 kg - Tanzanitsets MBvan Matumla was determined. This was reported to ITAR-TASS was reported by the matchmaker Stepan Landel and boxer manager Kenyz Franklin Imbenzi. Recall that the duel, which was supposed to be the main event of the Boxing Show-2 in the Olympic SK, was threatened with a breakdown.

The chairman of the Central Military District Commission of the Ministry of Defense, Major General, Major General Valery Kulikov, said that in 2006, due to health problems, more than 600 thousand conscripts were released from the military service. “Despite our efforts, the suitability of citizens for military service has not yet improved significantly.

Players of the popular Argentinean football team "Boka Huniors" will become the heroes of the cartoon. The animated series with the participation of football stars already exists in Spain. Its main characters are the players of the Barcelona club. But if in the Spanish cartoon Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi are presented in the form of caricatures, then in the Argentine version Carlos Teves, Palermo and Juan Ricelme will be depicted using three -dimensional graphics.

At a meeting with deputies of United Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged them to timely decide on the legislative support of the key issues of the message to the Federal Assembly.

Until the end of 2007, it is planned to complete the construction of the female and children's colonies in Grozny. Both penitentiary institutions will be located on the site of the former strict regime prison in the factory district of the city. The decision on the construction of two colonies was made shortly after the discussion of the issue of returning to the small homeland of convicted residents of Chechnya contained in other regions of the country.

Lithuania will build a new nuclear power plant (nuclear power plant) instead of the emission of the Ignaly nuclear power plant (IAEU). Such a decision was made on Thursday by the Latvian parliament, taking 105 votes against four law "On the nuclear power plant". 9 members of the Sejm abstained. To implement the project, a national investment company will be established and conditions for participation in the project of strategic partners will be established.