Nikolai Aksenenko’s global plans have found understanding in the White House The government appreciated the strategic thinking of the Ministry of Railways, approving the project for the construction of a railway crossing between the mainland and Sakhalin Island.

Palestinians and Israelis are left alone At the negotiations in the Egyptian resort of Taba, Israelis and Palestinians for the first time in a long time were left without the caring tutelage of the main Middle East peacemaker - Bill Clinton left the White House, having failed to advance a settlement plan.

YUKOS may receive an option to buy out the American Williams' share in the Lithuanian oil concern Mazeikiu Nafta. The draft agreement on the purchase of 26.85% of the concern's shares by YUKOS, which is expected to be signed by the end of October, contains the right of YUKOS and Williams to fully buy out the partner's share in the event of his refusal to further invest in the enterprise.

The government has finally approved the development program for the Kaliningrad region for the period until 2010. As stated by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, German Gref, whose department created the document, “the program has raised virtually no objections.” The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade has divided the nine-year path of revival into two stages.

The new head of the Butyrsky detention center was appointed yesterday by the leadership of the Main Directorate for the Execution of Punishments (GUIN) of the Ministry of Justice. The owner of Butyrka was Colonel Vladimir Stupin, who had previously worked for seven years in the Saratov region as the head of the Balashov prison, considered one of the best in Russia.

Marat Safin, seeded number two, reached the second round of the Kremlin Cup, having won a very important victory over the Belarusian Maxim Mirny. However, after the match he expressed everything he thought about this game. “During the match, Max did not behave very correctly, which especially angered me,” Safin recalled. - We have known him for a long time, we even played together as a pair, and I, frankly, did not expect such behavior from him.

It will be extremely difficult to get criminals from Italy While the EU is taking measures to simplify the extradition of criminals in light of the fight against terrorism, the Italian Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that significantly complicates the procedure for extraditing criminals to other states. It will be much more difficult for Italian investigative authorities to obtain information from their foreign colleagues, since this now requires a large number of additional permits.

The department of Vladimir Ustinov is preparing for a regular “shake-up” The reform of the prosecutor's office system, which began at the beginning of the year with the liquidation of several divisions of this department and the creation of departments in federal districts, can be continued by the abolition of a significant part of prosecutor's offices in Russian cities.

The Supreme Court of Mordovia recently issued a verdict in the case of the contract killing of the chairman of the Association of Law Enforcement Officials under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Mordovia, retired police colonel Viktor Lavrov. The process, which lasted more than a year, received wide resonance.

Representatives of “All Russia” want to remove Gennady Seleznev The creation of a large party from Unity, All Russia and Fatherland (EURO) could backfire on State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev. The leadership of the All Russia movement yesterday reflected on the near future of the “tripartite party” and even came up with its first party task: to re-elect the speaker of the Duma.

The Guggenheim Foundation is conquering the Internet Art is difficult to consider as a whole. Scattered throughout the world, it coexists with non-art and anti-art. The opportunity to completely and forever immerse yourself in this world and never again encounter anything beyond its boundaries, unless you get tired of it and ask to return, has been provided since the beginning of October by the Guggenheim.com website. This is one of the most ambitious projects of the director of the Solomon R.

The state may only have a blocking stake left The privatization plan for Rosgosstrakh is coming apart at the seams. The date for the auction for the sale of the second block of shares has not yet been announced, although the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI) should have announced it at the end of last month. It is possible that the sale will not be completed before the end of the year.

Vladimir Putin asks not to rush to conclusions about the causes of the disaster The reasons that led to the crash of the Tu-154M passenger airliner of the Russian airline Siberia, with 66 passengers and 12 crew members flying from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk, remain unknown. Within the first hours after the disaster, in addition to Russia itself, the authorities of Israel, Ukraine and the United States were involved in its investigation.

Gazprom and Rosneft now have five common fields Gazprom and Rosneft decided to jointly produce oil and gas at five fields in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and on the Barents Sea shelf. Yesterday, company directors Alexey Miller and Vladimir Bogdanchikov signed an agreement to create a joint venture on a parity basis, to which licenses for the use of the subsoil of these deposits will be transferred.

The first signals from the newborn American administration to Russia definitely show that the baby does not promise to be complacent. No, no, nothing unnatural is happening. Almost all positions - from plans to create a large-scale missile defense to dissatisfaction with corruption in our country - were stated in advance. Except that they are now served with deliberate harshness. It is equally designed, however, for internal use.