Missing Moldovan MP found There is another sensation in Chisinau - member of the Moldovan parliament and member of the Moldovan delegation to PACE, Vlad Cubryakov, who disappeared on March 21, whose disappearance provoked a new surge of opposition protests in the spring, has been found. True, besides the fact that one of the leaders of the opposition Christian Democratic People's Party (CDPP) is alive and well, journalists cannot tell readers and viewers anything specific. Where Mr.

Vladimir Putin is in no hurry to protect Finnish investments President of Finland Tarja Halonen is going on a tour of the Leningrad region today. Before visiting the unique rocky landscape park of Mon Repos, the castle and the Aalto library in the once Finnish city of Vyborg, she, accompanied by the regional governor Valery Serdyukov, will visit the oil loading port of Primorsk. This newly built terminal, put into operation in December 2001, is one of the Russian-Finnish stumbling blocks.

Paris has never seen anything like this: an entire block in the Champs-Elysees area is cordoned off by police and gendarmerie - no fly can miss it! Seventeen specially trained police and mobile gendarmerie units are deployed around the US Embassy. During the visit of President George W. Bush, the authorities of the Fifth Republic are more afraid of actions by anti-globalists and leftists than of terrorist attacks.

The Ministry of Property does not want to manage real estate jointly with Moscow The Ministry of Property Relations actually refused the proposal of its Moscow colleagues for the joint management of real estate properties that are of particular historical value and are “dying” before our eyes. Moreover, the federal authorities intend through the court to regain ownership of 500 real estate properties, in their opinion, illegally appropriated by Moscow.

For the first time this season, it was not the Schumacher brothers who set the tone for the race The Formula 1 World Championship continues to attract attention with the only intrigue: how many times will Michael Schumacher fail to win. The 100th race of the four-time world champion driving a Ferrari was a triumph for... McLaren. David Coulthard brilliantly demonstrated the forgotten potential of the Silver Arrows.

“Why do you actually need to go to Canada?” - the question of the immigration officer, an impressively sized African-American woman, immediately put her in a serious mood. I swallowed convulsively. “It’s all written there, to a friend’s wedding.” The lady rustled my case.

India and Pakistan scare each other with composure Last weekend, Pakistan carried out two missile tests that drew unanimous condemnation from leading countries. They considered that carrying out such an action in the context of an acute confrontation between Delhi and Islamabad was untimely and provocative. This may seem surprising, but Delhi reacted calmly to the Pakistani demarche: the Indian leadership persistently demonstrated its composure to the nation and the outside world.

The Itera holding, which became famous thanks to the scandal surrounding its relationship with Gazprom, announced on Friday the transfer of all its oil and gas assets to the authorized capital of the new company. Itera shareholders will own 50% of it, and the other half will go to shareholders of the Novafininvest group from the Samara region.

A monument to the three-time Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling was unveiled today in the city on the Neva. From now on, his permanent place of residence will be the future Walk of Fame of the St. Petersburg children's sports school ShVSM.

Evgeniy Kiselev was left without equipment “Media-socium”, which received a license for the right to broadcast on the sixth meter frequency, and its member JSC “Sixth Channel” signed an agreement on further joint activities. The agreement, concluded for five years - the validity period of the broadcasting license - regulates the relationship between the license holder and the exclusive producer of programs for the “sixth button”.

The communists cleared the ranks There are three fewer communists in the country. The plenum of the party's Central Committee last weekend by a majority vote expelled Gennady Seleznev, Svetlana Goryacheva and Nikolai Gubenko from the organization, despite all their services to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The benefit of the decision, judging by the words of Gennady Zyuganov, is one: the party confirmed the unity of will and unity of action.

Moscow gets in touch with the North Atlantic Alliance On Sunday, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Guido Venturioni, arrived in the Russian capital. Today he will take part in the opening ceremony of the North Atlantic Alliance military communications mission in Moscow.

More than 12 million euros will be played on the courts of Roland Garros The French Open starts today in Paris on the courts of Roland Garros. 14 Russian tennis players will compete in the main singles draw, and nine of our athletes will compete in the first round matches in the women's tournament. Such an extensive representation repeats our record set at the Australian Open a year and a half ago. The competition in Paris began with qualifying matches in the middle of the week.

The capital's police have begun a search for Valery Goryushev, a player of the Russian national volleyball team. As it turned out, he disappeared on May 17. According to the athlete’s relatives, Valery left on business that day in his Mercedes 500, but did not return home either in the evening or later. Investigators do not rule out that the volleyball player could have become a victim of robbers who were attracted by his expensive car. Vladimir KUZNETSOV

Walk along the river impressed the American leader The Saturday walk along the Neva by the presidents of Russia and the United States, admiring the classic St. Petersburg views on a bright Baltic evening, turned the city center into a trap for tens of thousands of citizens. Those who came to Nevsky Prospekt and Palace Square for the carnival fun dedicated to the 299th birthday of St. Petersburg were unable to return home.