The new board of directors of RAO UES was elected. It included: Alexander Voloshin, Alexey Kudrin, Anatoly Chubais, the head of MAP Ilya Yuzhanov, the deputy minister of property relations Sergey Kosarev, the chairman of the Federal Energy Commission Georgy Kutova, the Deputy Minister of Energy Victor Kudryvy, the Governor of the Tomsk Region Viktor Korus, the Governor of the Vologda region Vyacheslav Pozgalev, the governor of the Novgorod region Mikhail Prusak.

Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov signed a protocol with his Chinese colleague on a draft agreement on good neighborliness, friendship and cooperation between the two countries. The contract itself will probably be signed during a visit to Moscow by the Chairman of the PRC Jiang Zemin in mid -July.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn insists on the need to execute death sentences. Only in this way, in his opinion, you can get rid of the problem of terrorism. "There are times when the death penalty is needed to save society, the state. And in Russia now the question is just like that," the writer says. He regrets that those of the Chechen terrorists who manage to seize are “laughing at the Russian court” because they know: there will be no death penalty.

Mikhail Gorbachev in the United States tried to protect the good name of Vladimir Putin. According to the former president, the Americans' fears about the freedom of speech and other freedoms in Russia are associated with the misunderstanding of the processes taking place in our country. “They present to the actions of our president such requirements that could be understood if it was a country that was long stable, and where the next democratic change of head of state was simply taking place.

Putin will visit China twice this year. This was announced at a meeting with his Chinese colleague Tan Ziyanuyan by Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. In Russia, they are waiting on the visit of the Chairman of the PRC and the Prime Minister of China.

The unexpected rebellion of the Prosecutor General Ustinov against the law enforcement system proposed by the President of the President of the President of the President, struck observers.

Yesterday, at the end of the board of directors of RAO UES Anatoly Chubais answered several questions of the Polit.ru correspondent Evgenia Natarova. According to Chubais, supporters of different views on the energy reform reached a compromise: there should be no ban on the existence of wikes. The main thing is to start, ”says Anatoly Chubais. The question that now seems to be a stumbling block will be resolved in the future.

While the first cosmonaut-tour of Dennis Tito is circling around the International Space Station in anticipation of the docking (toned Truttle Endevor), Rosaviacosmos is already negotiating about the next candidate of a space tourist (the desire to fly to the station was already expressed by James Cameron).

The FSB continues to look for the traitors of the homeland. Siberian scientist Valentin Danilov is accused of transferring documents with a secret “secret” stamp. On behalf of his university, he signed a contract with an all-Chinese export-import company of accurate engineering for the manufacture of a testing stand for studying the processes of electrification of a satellite in space.