On Friday, at a meeting with the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fradkov, it is planned to clarify the question of who will manage the Sheremetyevo International Airport. This was announced by Mikhail Poloboyarinov, Deputy General Director for Finance and Planning of Aeroflot-Russian Airlines OJSC, Monitor reports.

Venezuela’s opposition has collected the required number of signatures for holding a referendum in the country on the issue of trust in the country's President Hugo Chavez. According to Reuters , representatives of the Venezuela’s election commission reported. According to them, a total of 2.57 million signatures were recognized as valid with a required minimum of 2.44 million, writes Gazeta.ru .

Today, US President George Bush arrives in the Italian capital as part of a brief European tour . Officially, the head of the White House was invited to celebrations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Rome from the German occupation. Together with Bush, US Secretary of State Colin Powell and a national security adviser to Kondoliza Rice will arrive in Italy.

The Deputy Director of the CIA for operational issues, James Pavitt resigned after his boss George Tenet . James Pavitt worked in the CIA for 31 years, for the last 5 years he served as deputy director. Until recently, his personality remained classified and few in the United States had an idea of ​​who leads the functioning of the American intelligence service. In April, he unexpectedly agreed to testify the commission to investigate the events of September 11, 2001.

Small enterprises spend on forced illegal payments to officials up to 10 thousand rubles a year per employee. Such data were given by the President of the Rossiya Russian organization Sergey Borisov, the Monitor reports. According to him, up to 7% of working time is leaving the heads of small enterprises to interact with various controlling and regulating state bodies. The organization, the most “interfering with entrepreneurs”, S. Borisov called the police. As S.

During the negotiations of Vladimir Putin with Emomali Rakhmonov in Sochi, the key was found to solve the problem of the debt of Tajikistan to Russia, a source in the Russian government told RIA Novosti. "The part of the debt, which is today $ 299 million, will be invested in projects in the energy sector of Tajikistan, in particular in the construction of the Sangtudin Hydroelectric Power Station," the source noted.

RAO UES of Russia spread the agenda of the next meeting of the board of directors of the company, which will be held on June 25. According to the document, the leadership of the energy holding expects to consider issues of the formation and isolation of OGK (wholesale generating companies), as well as an accelerated version of the creation of TGK (territorial generating companies), which involves the transfer of energy facilities for rent.

On June 4, the St. Petersburg Jewish Theater opens. As the theater executive director Eduard Milrud announced, the new theater will begin its work by the premiere of the play of the Israeli playwright and director Zeev Ben Eliezer (Vladimir Vorobyov) “Brutus, or the scene from dog life”. The performance will take place in the premises of the St. Petersburg Drama Theater "Island". The organizer of the St. Petersburg Jewish Theater is the revival of the Jewish community of St.

The decision of the Beirut Conference of the Organization of Exporting countries of oil (OPEC) to increase quotas for production and export of oil in world energy markets led to a significant drop in the price of oil-raw from the "basket" OPEC. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the General Secretariat of the World Oil Cartel in Vienna.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, in an interview with the chairman of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, promised to remove all restrictions on the import of meat from the European Union. This was reported by the Finmarket agency. As explained by the representative of the European Commission Reih Kempinen, the Russian prime minister “expressed understanding” of the EU position on the import of European meat.

On Friday, June 4, the State Duma will be visited by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II, the chairman of the lower house Boris Gryzlov told reporters on Thursday. According to him, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church intends to get acquainted with the work of deputies, as well as meet with the leadership of the State Duma. According to RIA Novosti, for the Holy Patriarch, an excursion will be organized in the walls of the lower house.

Another suspect in the murder of a Tajik girl in St. Petersburg was detained, reports Echo of Moscow . This was announced on Friday by reporters by the prosecutor of the Northern capital Nikolai Vinnichenko. He said that the question of the detainee of the prosecution and choosing a preventive measure will be resolved in the near future. Recall that the accusation of the murder was brought by five participants in the attack. The main version of the crime is hooliganism.

The management of Credittrast Bank on Thursday evening decided to self -destruction. This was announced by the representative of the bank, reports Gazeta.ru . The official statement about this, according to the source, will follow today during the day. On Thursday, the bank finally stopped payments. This is due to the fact that all bank depositors immediately began to remove their deposits.

In the center of the capital of Venezuela Karakasa, near the Palace of the Government of the world of the world, on the eve of the decision to conduct plebiscite in relation to the President of Hugo Chavez, mass manifestations were held. According to RIA Novosti, in the course of riots, which, according to unconfirmed reports, were organized by supporters of the current president, three buses were burned. In addition, several shots from the machine gun were fired at the city hall building.

The head of RAO "UES" Anatoly Chubais openly accused his minority shareholder - the detrusted O. Deripaska Holding Rusal - in constant attacks on the assets of the energy holding. The words “main energy” of the country are given by Gazeta.ru . “Recently, we have been faced with new problems - the UES RAO conflict with one of the minority shareholders - the Russian aluminum company. It is our shareholder and our largest consumer.