On July 21 (O.S.), 1698, the State Treasury of England issued an order to pay the bills presented to it on May 11 by the famous architect, builder of the London Cathedral of St. Paul, Sir Christopher Wren.

Vladimir Putin brought down shares of the Mechel metallurgical holding. The holding, according to Putin, uses some optimization schemes. Putin never does sharp statements never. What can this mean? It may be about the process of consolidation of ferrous metallurgy and the creation of a national champion in the industry. To do this, you need to “squeeze” the obstinate metallurgists and hint that it is time to sell the business to the rest.

The criminal case against the head of the Government of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic was instituted based on the materials of the audit on the unreasonable allocation of funds from the budget in 2006, which caused damage for 16 million rubles.

The cell operator Tele2-Russia, the daughter of the Swedish holding Tele2, plans an expansion to the CIS countries. The company has funds for this: in the first half of 2008, their revenue increased to $ 129 million against 91 million over the corresponding period in 2007. Today, Tele2 is the fourth major mobile operator in Russia, but significantly lags behind the "large three" and serves about 6% of all Russian users. The company intends to work in the CIS and expand its presence in Russia.

** Government of the Russian Federation ** Prime Minister V. Putin signed an order to make state-owned companies Samara, Krasnoyarsk Airlines and Domodedovo Airlines as a property contribution to the authorized capital of the Rostekhnology State Corporation.

** Country of fools? ** Last week, President Medvedev struck the journalistic community, and ordinary inhabitants with unexpected confessions. It turns out that the influx of professional personnel in the public sector is very weak, he said. “Each time we rack their heads on how to find personnel for replacing senior posts in the regions,” the head of state said. It turns out that positions in our country are provided by acquaintance and even ... for money (as if someone doubts it)!

The Federal Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision Service Rostekhnadzor, following an extraordinary comprehensive check of the mines of the Kemerovo region, suspended more than half of them, reports Newsru.com . When checking the implementation of industrial safety requirements at 72 mines of Kuzbass, it was revealed that work on 40 of them - or 56% of all Kemerovo mines - is unsafe for people's lives.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President D. Medvedev instructs the Federal Property Management Agency to clearly establish the volume of land allocated to a special land fund, which can be used for housing construction.

The mayor of Tver Oleg Lebedev on Friday was taken into custody in the building of the Tver Regional Court. This decision was made by the court after the preliminary hearings to consider the criminal case against the Tver mayor, accused of preventing the production of preliminary investigation and the use of violence against a representative of the authorities.

The deputy head of the Ministry of Economic Development Andrei Klepach does not consider the scandalous critic of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir to the Mechel Mining and Metallurgical Company. “I would not call this a scandal, the question is not who is sick,” said the deputy minister.

The first public reception leader of the United Russia party, Vladimir Putin, opened in Nizhny Novgorod. Mikhail Babich, who heads the commission for working with citizens' appeals to the chairman of the EP, said that the reception room would be addressed by the most difficult issues that the population is faced with.

Former Commander -in -Chief of the Army of the Bosnian Serbs, General Ratko Mladich, looking for the Hague tribunal, ordered two armed bodyguards to kill him in case of inevitable capture by Serbia’s security forces, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph writes, citing sources in the Serbian special services. We will fill the fact that recently there was a message in the press that it was Mladic who issued the whereabouts of the former president of the Republic of Serbian.

Rospotrebnadzor published its official position yesterday regarding the legality of compulsory life and health insurance of the borrower with mortgage lending. The official response of the department for a request from the Association of Russian Banks (ARB) states that personal insurance of borrowers should be voluntary - the generally accepted banking practice is publicly recognized as illegal.

“Peter in England seemed to be neither boring nor lonely. And yet, the defeat of Says-Court is a typical neurotic reaction, like an infantile protest, an ugly form of self-affirmation. Yes, by the time of arrival at the island of Peter, he had lived abroad for a year.

Italy and Libya almost agreed to pay Rome a major compensation for thirty years of colonial rule, reports Newsru.com with reference to ANSA. At a meeting with representatives of public organizations at Tripoli, the al-Islam, Gaddafi, said: “A few weeks later, Libya will sign an agreement on compensation with Italy that Italy will pay over the years of colonial rule. This is a billional agreement.